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Monster Hunter Wilds Flamefete event brings back five months-worth of time-gated event quest cosmetics for the next two weeks—including my favorite cursed giant cat head

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I feel a little stupid, reader. For the past five months, since Monster Hunter Wilds released, I’ve been keeping a weather eye on its event quests and grabbing up every unique time-gated cosmetic I could, including those from the Festival of Accord: Blossomdance. Altogether, it amounts to a whole heap of really good cosmetics, including … Read more

ESO devs at ZeniMax reel from Microsoft’s ‘hollow’ layoff emails, with some wondering how a ‘carcass of workers’ is ‘supposed to keep shipping award-winning games’

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It’s with precious little pleasure that I sit here and try to find a new way to say ‘the games industry has had a rough couple of years’ without cannibalising my own work—if you’ve been following along, you already know the score. Mass layoffs, studio closures, and (most recently) a whopping 9,000 layoffs at Microsoft, … Read more

This keyboard looks like it’s been plucked straight from Half-Life 1 with how well it replicates low-res classic game textures

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We’ve had it all with keyboards by now, really, haven’t we? From mechanical to Hall effect and optical, knobs and dials, touch panels, custom artisanal keycaps, and everything in between. So what else could we add? A blurry font, of course! That’s the whole idea behind the Higround Basecamp 75+ Blur, as its name subtly … Read more

Splitgate 2 is going back into beta: 1047 will keep the floundering FPS online and lay off more staff as it goes back to the drawing board

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I think this sufficiently checks all the boxes for a complete disaster: 1047 Games has announced that it will revert portal FPS Splitgate 2 back to beta, lay off an unspecified number of employees, and will shut down the Splitgate 1 servers next month. The sequel launched not even two months ago on June 6, … Read more

Dwarf Fortress just made it easier for modders to add their own procedural creatures, items, curses, and more: ‘All of these things have been hard-coded in Dwarf Fortress, inaccessible to modders. Now the algorithms and data are available’

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For years, Dwarf Fortress co-creator Tarn Adams has been planning a more mythical turn for the notoriously dense fantasy sim—which, by his own admission, has been a little lacking on the fantastical front. Today, thanks in large part to the efforts of programmer Putnam, who joined Bay 12 Games in 2022, Dwarf Fortress makes its … Read more

Razer raised my hopes with this Kanto starter based Pokemon collection then released some of the ugliest peripherals I’ve ever seen

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I love cool collaborations as it’s often the key to delivering some of the funkiest looking tech and peripherals around. Or sometimes the worst ones. Razer is one brand known to deliver a little of each with stylish and cute collabs like the Kuromi collection and bright gloriously ugly ones like the gear themed after … Read more

Wordle today: Answer and hint #1495 for July 23

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Take a look at our clue for today’s Wordle if the letters you’ve uncovered so far aren’t doing anything for you—don’t worry, it’s here to help get you back on track, not spoil all your fun. Although if you like the idea of someone handing over the July 23 (1495) answer without a fight, we … Read more

Wuchang: Fallen Feathers review | PC Gamer

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Wuchang: Fallen Feathers has almost nothing to add to the soulslike genre. For all of its 40-something hours of monster battles and weirdo NPCs, all it does is poorly imitate the best moments in FromSoftware’s list of much better action games. Need to Know What is it? An action-heavy soulslike set in a plague-stricken 14th … Read more