The AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 chip in the laptop I’ve been testing just scored over 1,000,000 in Cinebench, breaking space and time and sending me whirling around my room like a nut in a blender

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Remember the Black Mesa Incident? Well that just happened in my room, thanks to a very sprightly little chip in the RTX 5060 laptop that I’m testing. The Asus TUF A14 (2025) in front of me has an Nvidia RTX 5060 and an AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 APU inside of it. You might expect … Read more

EA CEO taps into the great machine spirit of corpo-speak, says Battlefield 6 isn’t ‘just a product’, it’s a ‘platform’, and that EA’s ‘all in’ on making it massive

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EA’s CEO, Andrew Wilson, has tapped masterfully into the greater machine spirit of corporate jargon to deliver news that’ll doubtlessly have you very excited about the future of Battlefield 6: “This isn’t just a product. We’re really building out Battlefield as a platform.” I’m salivating already. Alright, in fairness, Wilson was preaching the monetisation choir—delivering … Read more

Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar is shaping up to be one of my favourite farming sims since Stardew Valley, and frankly it could teach a thing or two to future games as well

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I want to preface this by saying I have played a lot—and I do mean a lot—of farming simulators in my time. I’ve pushed through the good, the bad, and the straight up tedious. However, Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar has been the most fun I’ve had with a farming simulator since I played Stardew … Read more

The New York Times thinks generative AI is like Pac-Man ghosts and also the Matrix, because nobody gets to be normal about this stuff anymore

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The New York Times is being hazed by game dev social media over what I can only describe as one of the most naive articles about AI I’ve ever seen. The pointing and laughing is happening on BlueSky, among other places, over a paragraph that claims generative AI is being embraced by the videogame industry, … Read more

Elden Ring Nightreign’s duo mode and other content have been delayed after an 8.8 magnitude earthquake sparks a tsunami warning across Japan

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Elden Ring Nightreign’s 1.02 patch was scheduled to go up tomorrow, on July 31, it included new content like the anticipated duos mode and other balance updates. But this has since been delayed by FromSoftware after a series of tsunami warnings. “Due to the tsunami warning following the earthquake near the Kamchatka Peninsula, we have … Read more

I’m a haunted Mad Max muscle car with 2 shotgun turrets in this early access vehicle combat game, and it’s just as rad as it sounds

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I enjoyed my share of Twisted Metal as a kid, but I never loved Twisted Metal—and I think it’s because the drivers were corny. I know a lot of people love Sweet Tooth, but I just wanted to experience cars shooting and exploding each other without any clown-related distractions. Fumes understands me. In the early … Read more

Wordle today: Answer and hint #1502 for July 30

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However you want to win your daily Wordle, we’ve got all the help you need to make it happen. Go straight for the answer to today’s Wordle if you like—it’s only a click away and ready whenever you need it. Or if you’d rather take the long way around, why not spend a while with … Read more

This futuristic keyboard from the past and some street stylin’ peripherals are the result of this latest gaming hardware collab

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We have a new gaming peripheral collaboration, so you know what that means. It’s time to see some gaming gear that’s not just black, white, pink, or maybe cammo. This time the collaboration is between the esports lifestyle brand 100 Thieves and HighGround peripheral makers. The ensuing Vantage collection features a collection of keyboards, mouse, … Read more