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When asked how it could justify an $80 price tag for upcoming RPG The Outer Worlds 2, developer Obsidian had a sympathetic response: Ask Microsoft. Ask we all did, and it seems the Xbox overlords eventually agreed with the public’s bafflement—or at least didn’t like the looks of The Outer Worlds 2’s pre-order numbers—because Obsidian … Read more

I played Final Fantasy 11 for the first time in 2024 after an episode of the Abnormal Mapping podcast poisoned me with brainworms hungry for an MMO that, since its launch in 2002, has been left largely untouched by the genre conventions World of Warcraft would formalize in the years that followed. It’s like an … Read more

Ah, you know how it is. Once you go on a GPU buying spree, it’s difficult to stop yourself from adding a few thousand more to the pile. I’d imagine, anyway. The Wall Street Journal reports that xAI is working with private equity firms to secure up to $12 billion in order to lease a … Read more

With 1440p monitors getting cheaper and cheaper over time, it’s easy to see why some gamer are upgrading their monitors, but I still use a 1080p panel as my second screen, and it’s for a specific reason: price. If you’re on a budget or looking for a cheap secondary monitor, you can get the Acer … Read more

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

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

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

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

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

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