Valve’s New Steam Controller Screams When You Drop It
The peripheral has some neat easter eggs
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Laika’s Wildwood trailer looks like Spirited Away for Nightmare Before Christmas fans
Over the past two decades, Laika has made a name for itself as one of the best animation studios working in stop-motion movies. The Portland, Oregon-based outfit launched with 2009’s Coraline, and has since followed that up with ParaNorman (2012),…
Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced Has a Real-Life $500,000 Treasure Hunt You Can Pay $41 to Try and Solve
Ubisoft has announced a real-life Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced treasure hunt with a $500,000 prize, buried somewhere in the Caribbean. The hoard is made up of specially-minted solid gold coins (collectively worth $350,000) and a rock crystal skull adorned…
Immersive sim sickos rejoice: the makers of Void Bastards are creating their most choice-driven game to date in Godzone 6
“Out of all the games I’ve ever worked on, Godzone 6 does provide the most choices about how you achieve things,” says Jonathan Chey. It’s quite a statement from a man who’s worked on System Shock 2, BioShock, and two…
Inside The Boys’ Profane, Prophetic, Penultimate Musical Number
This article contains spoilers for The Boys Season 5, Episode 7, which is available on Prime Video now. Homelander (Antony Starr) is your god now… or at least, the newly established Democratic Church of America would very much like him…
“Unofficial builds of Subnautica 2 are currently circulating online,” Unknown Worlds confirm, just days before the ocean survival game’s early access release
With just a day or two to go till Subnautica 2‘s early access launch, “unofficial builds” of the ocean survival game have leaked onto the internet. Picture a punctured Cyclops submarine slowly filling with illicit video files and screenshots, while…
New Steam Controller Has a Hidden Easter Egg That Screams When Dropped
Now’s here a sentence I never thought I’d write: your new Steam Controller screams if you drop it. Rumors first began to swirl when a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it two-second video showed that an unexpected drop will trigger a Wilhelm scream, even if…
Maul: Shadow Lord proves some Star Wars fans still don’t understand Darth Vader
The magic of Star Wars is that, no matter what topic you choose to discuss, someone is bound to have a strong opinion about it. This is especially true of Darth Vader. To some, he’s a terrifying shell that hides…
Saros is off to a slower start than Returnal, with some analysts concerned Housemarque “will struggle to break even”
Saros‘ reviews are on the generally favourable side – Eurogamer awarded Saros four stars – and a smoother difficulty curve has made it more approachable than Returnal, yet its launch hasn’t been quite as successful as Housemarque’s previous game. Read…
‘We would need to shut off power for half the country’: Microsoft’s $1 billion Kenya data center project runs out of juice
Plans to build potentially the biggest, most expensive data centre in East Africa have stalled. Sources close to the matter say that talks between the Kenyan government and Microsoft have broken down due to disagreements over annual payments. Microsoft and…