One of 2024’s best games and a new horror classic has been delisted on Itch.io amid the payment processor crackdown on NSFW games

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Mouthwashing was one of the best games of 2024, “a horror game whose narrative and aesthetics are going to be remembered, celebrated, and emulated” for years to come, as PC Gamer’s Ted Litchfield wrote in his glowing 87% review. And if you’d like to buy it on indie-focused digital marketplace Itch.io, you’re going to have … Read more

Roblox CEO horrifies every parent alive with his ambition that the platform become a dating hub, even if he promises age verification: ‘A virtual date to start, and then if they connect, move to the physical world’

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The tech industry specialises in a tone-deaf executives. The people who run these billion dollar companies are often so removed from the real world, the daily reality of all us peons, that they can seem like a different species. To take one recent example, imagine you got laid off by Microsoft, and then one executive … Read more

Valve CEO Gabe Newell says success isn’t about following your passion: ‘Sounds like a great idea, but lots of people follow their passions right into a crater, you know?’

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Valve co-founder and yacht-loving billionaire Gabe Newell has given a new interview to the YouTuber Zalkar Saliev (TikTok, IG). . It’s a wide-ranging chat that covers everything from Newell’s earliest jobs to his current daily routine (“get up, work, go scuba diving”) and at one point Newell, by any metric one of the most phenomenally … Read more

‘Costume designer, take notes’: The Fantastic Four: First Steps cast plays their first Marvel Rivals game and gets stunlocked by the Malice skin

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As part of the promotion for The Fantastic Four: First Steps, the cast sat down and met their Marvel Rivals counterparts, since new movie-themed costumes have been added to the game. It went as well as you’d expect, considering the cast only had a limited amount of time to learn the game, but some parts … Read more

Samsung’s US chip fab gets a much-needed lifeline in the form of a $16.5 billion deal to supply Tesla’s next generation of car processors

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Advanced chip manufacturing is a very costly but also very lucrative business, and for TSMC, business has been extremely good. However, that’s not been the case for Samsung, the world’s second-largest chip maker after TSMC, as it has been struggling to bring in new customers. There is some good news on that front, though, as … Read more

If you’ve ever wondered if Japanese blossom-scented thermal paste in a weeb-inspired applicator is worth using, we have at long last the scientific answer to the greatest quandary of our time

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Sometimes in the world of PCs, a new product gets launched that’s so niche, rare, or unusual that mere mortals never get a chance to see what the fuss is all about. One such example is from Japanese firm Clock Work Tea Party, which deems that what all PC gamers really want are scented thermal … Read more

Cronos: The New Dawn’s sci-fi survival horror channels RE4 and Dead Space, but it took Bloober awhile to realize it ‘subconsciously’ is also a game about Covid

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Jacek Zięba reflexively reaches for his temple as he recalls the moment he realized Bloober’s sci-fi horror game, set in alt-history Poland after a deadly outbreak, was about Covid. “We didn’t want to make a game about the pandemic,” the game director says. “When we started the story, it just worked for us. And at … Read more

‘We proved people wrong:’ After Silent Hill 2, Bloober Team’s survival horror developers are no longer ‘feeling like underdogs all the time’

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“Give us a chance,” horror studio Bloober Team asked Silent Hill fans last summer. Before Silent Hill 2’s remake racked up critical acclaim on release, the developers at Bloober Team spent two years working under the Sauron-like eye of a fandom that had weathered far too many disappointments, and a horror audience that saw Bloober’s … Read more