Cheese Rolling is the best free Steam game about the age-old English tradition of hurling yourself down a hillside in pursuit of tumbling dairy

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Every year since at least 1826, hundreds of questionably-hinged individuals from around the globe gather at Cooper’s Hill in Gloucestershire to enjoy the privilege of throwing themselves down a steep slope to chase a rolling wheel of Double Gloucester cheese. Competitors risk any number of bodily injuries, as the annually overtaxed emergency medical services of … Read more

To the dismay of sweaty ‘movement kids,’ Battlefield 6 is nerfing Call of Duty sliding and jumping to maintain a ‘traditional Battlefield experience’

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Duck, dive, and dodge: Following feedback from the Battlefield 6 beta that its movement was too squirrely and unpredictable, Battlefield Studios is planning significant changes for the full release. The announcement came in an “Open Beta Debrief” blog published on Battlefield’s official social channels, which, in addition to movement, touched on hot topics like map … Read more

Eric Barone says he doesn’t get paid for Stardew Valley collabs, and that’s the way he likes it: ‘I wouldn’t want to make money from a collaboration’

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We learned earlier today that Stardew Valley and Infinity Nikki are teaming up for a collaboration of some sort that’s set to land on September 1—a crossover that PC Gamer’s Infinity Nikki superfan Mollie Taylor as “surprising,” because “Stardew Valley doesn’t do this sort of thing very often.” A little while later, Stardew Valley creator … Read more

Bloodlines 2 developers try to justify the game’s DLC clans, but it’s not very convincing: ‘We have been expanding it from where we originally planned to land’

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It didn’t go over super-well when Paradox revealed yesterday that two of Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2’s six playable clans will be available via some rather pricey DLC. Especially after the game’s infamously rough development, you might think that Paradox and developer The Chinese Room would want to engender goodwill among existing and potential … Read more

Why did Team Cherry’s devs stay so quiet about Hollow Knight: Silksong? ‘All we could really say is, we’re still working on it’, so they stopped doing that

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Well, it’s official—in under one month, Silksanity will be over, with Silksong releasing September 4. It’s been one hell of a ride, marked with long periods of silence from Team Cherry. And when the studio did speak up, it was often like, via a Discord message or something. Showcase after showcase rolled by without so … Read more

It’s taken a long time to get here but you can now buy a non-Founders Edition GeForce RTX 5090 at Nvidia’s MSRP

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I’d fully understand if you were thinking right now that this couldn’t possibly be a deal because that price tag is essentially Nvidia’s MSRP for its GeForce RTX 5090. The thing is, up until very recently, finding a third-party AIB (add-in board) model anywhere near this level was just about impossible, but as supply has … Read more

MSI Stealth 18 HX AI review

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Today’s best MSI Stealth 18 HX AI deals Bigger is always better in computing. Just maybe don’t try and tell that to the SFF guys with their Fractal Terras and neat cable routing. But in these terms the 18-inch gaming laptop is a desktop replacement beast; it’s the largest form of laptop and a crazy … Read more