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This retro-styled programmable high-polling wireless mouse comes with a charging dock for under $60 USD

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Retro aesthetics are all the rage amongst many trying to recapture those warm feelings of their childhood through nostalgia tinted peripherals. We’re seeing an influx of Commodore 64 inspired wares, with dusty grey plastic housings and orange highlights, like this XTRFY K4V2 TKL keyboard from Cherry. 8BitDo is another brand dipping into retro stylings, with … Read more

Battlefield 6 players are crying out for a ‘real’ server browser, and it’s about time we demanded the basic FPS feature that Call of Duty killed

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MORGAN PARK, STAFF WRITER (Image credit: Future) This week: Got back to his 95-hour Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 playthrough and discovered there’s still a lot of main quest to go. Before the quick match button, before the party system, before skill-based matchmaking, we had the server browser: A literal list of all active matches, neatly … Read more

PlayerUnknown’s new survival game makes building a simple campfire feel like a real accomplishment, and that’s something a lot of survival games are lacking

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Building a fire in a survival game is an important early-game milestone: it lets you stay warm and toasty even when the temperature drops, and you can start cooking basic meals instead of just stuffing berries into your face. At night you can see a few feet around your fire without having to hold a … Read more

Arkane employees demand Microsoft sever ties with Israeli military: ‘We don’t want to be part of this sinister project for Gaza’

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Members of the French videogame union STJV at Arkane Lyon, currently developing Marvel’s Blade, have published an open letter calling on Microsoft to end its relationship with the Israeli military and conduct “a transparent, independent and public audit of Microsoft technologies, contracts, services and investments to make sure they are not used to violate the … Read more

Battlefield 6 lead producer says ‘large maps exist,’ confirming the full game will offer bigger battles than the beta’s cramped, chaotic firefights

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Aside from a few moments of conspicuously instantaneous death, I had a great time with the first Battlefield 6 beta weekend. The guns largely felt lovely, I got a 16-killstreak as a tank gunner, and I watched someone drive a jeep covered in C4 into an enemy anti-air gun. That all hits. My main complaint … Read more

Phoenix Labs website goes offline as Fae Farm announces the looming end of online play on Steam, and disappears entirely from Epic

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Fae Farm, the cozy co-op farming sim released in 2023 by Phoenix Labs, is going offline. A message posted to the game’s Steam page says the game will remain playable offline in singleplayer mode, but “will no longer be playable online and will not receive any future updates.” It also appears that developer Phoenix Labs, … Read more

Krafton fires back at Unknown Worlds lawsuit, says Subnautica 2 was at risk of causing ‘irreversible harm to the entire franchise’ like Kerbal Space Program 2

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Krafton has filed a response to the lawsuit brought against it by the former heads of Subnautica studio Unknown Worlds, accusing them of almost immediately abandoning their responsibilities following Krafton’s acquisition of the studio despite repeated efforts to keep them onboard. The publisher is requesting an outright dismissal of the lawsuit filed against it and … Read more