Dawn of War 4 developer King Art knows what you all really want: ‘Overwhelmingly, it’s singleplayer content and the campaign’

One of the weird things about being a lover of RTS games—aside from the fact that it sometimes feels like the games industry has left us behind—is how often the people making these games, and certainly the ones financing them, seem to forget that the initial popularity of the genre was driven by high-quality singleplayer … Read more

A free Chrome VPN with over 100,000 installations has been accused of snapping unauthorised screenshots of websites and spying on its users location data

Here’s a useful piece of advice right up top—don’t use a free VPN. Many will have serious caveats, as demonstrated by the security researchers at Koi, who say they’ve discovered a particularly popular Chrome-based variant taking unauthorised screenshots and spying on its users. The accused Chrome extension is called FreeVPN.One, and it’s currently sat at … Read more

‘Silksong lol’: CloverPit devs delay the slot machine Balatro-like by 23 days to escape the blast radius of Silksong’s launch

You know what they say: The best laid plans of mice and men sometimes get abruptly derailed by a surprise launch announcement. Thanks to yesterday’s reveal that Silksong’s release date is only two weeks away, CloverPit developer Panik Arcade has decided to push back the launch of the slot machine roguelite to dodge the all-consuming … Read more

The first reported case of an AMD RX 9070 XT melting a 16-pin power connector is here, but I’m not sure we should prepare ourselves for another ‘meltgate’ just yet

Ah, I almost feel nostalgic. Remember ‘meltgate’, in which 16-pin 12VHPWR connectors were regularly in the headlines for, well, melting under heavy usage or incorrect installation? The problem appeared to be limited to certain Nvidia cards like the RTX 4090, as they were the ones making use of the connector standard at the time, before … Read more

After months of back and forth, Nvidia has reportedly paused making its H20 chip due to security concerns, this time from China

Nvidia’s H20, an AI and compute chip specifically modified for use in the Chinese market, has reportedly stopped production in the midst of security concerns from Chinese officials. As reported by the Information, and citing “two people with direct knowledge of the communications”, Nvidia has reportedly “told some of its component suppliers to suspend production … Read more

Microsoft’s CEO of artificial intelligence believes advocating for ‘rights, model welfare and even AI citizenship’ will become ‘a dangerous turn in AI progress’

If you are familiar with AI, there’s a good chance flickers of I, Robot, Blade Runner, or even Cyberpunk 2077 flash up in your mind. That’s because the philosophy and ethics of what AI could be are more interesting than the thing that makes AI overviews give you the wrong search results. In a recent … Read more

Photography puzzler Opus: Prism Peak might be the rare game to actually pull its Studio Ghibli vibes off

Everyone wants to be Ghibli and almost no one can pull it off. Hell, even Studio Ghibli sometimes struggles. So when I set eyes on Opus: Prism Peak—with its lush anime palette, verdant natural settings, and chatty animals—I confess I sucked air through my teeth. Sigono’s previous Opus games are much-beloved, but none of them … Read more

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater review

From the moment you load up Metal Gear Solid Delta to when the credits roll, Hideo Kojima hangs over the production like The Sorrow, a long-dead member of the villainous Cobra unit who somehow still turns up for a boss fight. The Sorrow’s emotion, the game takes pains to point out, is sadness. The melancholy … Read more

One of Elden Ring’s upcoming new starter classes is a freakishly strong jock with an intelligence score so low, they probably can’t read, but the hardcore PvP kiddies are going ga-ga for them

First spotted by weliveinasocietyboi on the Elden Ring subreddit, Bandai Namco has finally clued us in on the stats for one of Elden Ring’s upcoming new starter classes, an absolute unit of a knight who looks tailor-made for strength builds⁠—and whose knuckle dragger spellcasting stats may leave them a prime pick for PvP tryhards. Most … Read more