Metal Gear Solid Delta still lets you wait two weeks for a boss to die of old age⁠—or mess with your system clock to cheat him out of his final fight

PC Gamer senior editor Rich Stanton called Metal Gear Solid Delta a “safe, but excellent” remake in his review, but the extent to which Konami faithfully recreated even the most minute aspects of 2004’s Snake Eater has been tickling our lizard brain nostalgia centers. You can still wait until sniper boss The End dies of … Read more

I’ve played Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2’s DLC clans, Lasombra and Toreador, and they absolutely should have been in the base game

I’ve returned to Seattle for the first time since February. Not the real Seattle, of course. I’d probably get deported. But the ominous, permanently dark Seattle created by The Chinese Room for Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2. Earlier in the year, I was drinking blood and getting up to mischief as a Tremere vampire, … Read more

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