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I had low expectations for this upcoming FMV ‘interactive horror’ game, but its hour-long demo turned out to be one of the most entertaining things I’ve played all year

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The first time I encountered the multi-tentacled specimen living in the guts of the anonymous, unconscious woman lying on the operating table, I was genuinely creeped out. It was gooey, pulsating slightly, and clearly on the cusp of doing something startling and very gross. A few minutes later, it did, and it was—and I died … Read more

Bongo Cat, still one of the biggest games on Steam, gets even bigger with multiplayer: You can now have up to 100 cats on your screen at once, all of them happily bapping away as their owners type

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Back in April we discovered Bongo Cat, a silly idle game about a cat with a hat who smacks your screen when you type. Silly, but also huge: Bongo Cat was one of the biggest games on Steam at the time, holding the number 12 spot on Steam’s most played chart. Four months later it’s … Read more

WoW players are losing their minds over a 19-quest long chain about bees, and while it is a bit much, I remember far worse

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World of Warcraft’s latest patch is in full swing now. The race to world-first Manaforge Omega is underway, Season 3 of the Delver’s Journey has begun, and you have to do 19 quests about bees. Sorry. In case you’re unfamiliar, this new questline is part of the Ecological Succession activity—K’aresh was blown up in a … Read more

AMD made major gains on Intel in the desktop CPU market over the last year, but still lags significantly behind in mobile, according to a Mercury Research report

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According to a report provided by Mercury Research, AMD has made some seriously impressive gains in the desktop CPU market over the previous year. The report shows AMD currently enjoying a 32.2% market share, up from 23% in the same quarter last year. That boots Intel down from its previous 77% share to 67.8%, a … Read more

HP announces an updated set of Omen Max 45L RTX 5090 rigs with Ryzen CPUs, but no word on price yet leaves me worried

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Image 1 of 2 (Image credit: HP) The 45L on the left and the Max 45L on the right(Image credit: HP) One thing I’ve noticed recently is that, with the price of RTX 5090 cards being so ludicrously high, even infamously overpriced gaming brands like Alienware have relatively reasonable prebuilts. This leaves a gap for … Read more

Marvel Rivals director says its ‘gooner game’ reputation really just reflects a commitment to authenticity: ‘These all come from classic comic designs’

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Marvel Rivals has a reputation for appealing to its players’ baser instincts: It had people saying ‘thick thighs save lives’ at one point, and Elie recently described the shooter as ‘digging its heels into the gooner dirt’ when it added a cache of new swimsuit skins. Despite my best efforts to escape this discourse, I’ve … Read more