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Hollow Knight: Silksong player discovers Hornet’s taunt does damage, proceeds to spend hours trying to beat every boss with it: ‘This is like watching Sisyphus push the boulder and win’
Taunt Only Last Judge (Garama%) – YouTube Watch On I was about halfway through Hollow Knight: Silksong before I realized…
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This neat Windows registry trick boosts NVMe SSD performance up to 80% but it’s only officially available for enterprise users
Users have discovered a registry tweak that can improve NVMe SSD performance on Windows 11, namely those all-important random 4k…
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I played dozens of retro games this year, and these are the ones I still whole-heartedly recommend going into 2026
One of my favourite things about PCs is that “old” is relative, really. Generations don’t exist in any meaningful capacity.…
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Swen Vincke warns Divinity newcomers that they probably shouldn’t play the early games in the series: ‘They’re a bit outdated by now,’ which is putting it very mildly
Larian dropped a big bomb at The Game Awards earlier this month with the surprise reveal of Divinity, its “biggest…
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Blue Prince is ‘the result of 8 years of development, fuelled my imagination and creativity’ not AI says publisher
2025 has been a rather heated year for genAI and its ever-increasing use in videogames. Most recently, the year’s awards…
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Obsidian’s Josh Sawyer leads the charge of RPG fans playfully roasting Stranger Things for its D&D rule flubs: ‘The oldheads are going to catch all these things’
“Season ruined,” Obsidian studio design director Josh Sawyer (Pentiment, Fallout: New Vegas) declared on BlueSky alongside a clip from Stranger…
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Fallout: New Vegas lead writer worries Caesar’s argument for authoritarianism ‘was done a little too well,’ but still believes ‘you can’t just make your tyrants cardboard villains’
If you’ve played New Vegas, you’re familiar with Caesar’s Legion. Slavedriving, overtly fascistic, and wrapped in the aesthetics of the…
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Dishonored co-creator says it was ‘a shock’ when Microsoft closed Arkane Austin after Redfall’s release: ‘We were working on something really cool’
Arkane Austin is far from the only studio that Microsoft—in its push to post 30% profit margins year upon year—has…
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Darktide asked if we want to be scum, and I was the person who said, ‘actually, yes’
Like a lot of Darktide players I was expecting the second DLC class, following the badass arbitrator, to be something…
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One of the internet’s top experts on Skyrim minutiae hosted a $10,000 charity competition to guess how many trees there are in the Bethesda classic
YouTuber AnyAustin’s playful, yet exacting style of videogame investigation has really taken off in the past year, garnering well over…
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