Cute games: they're cute. Sometimes they're extremely cute. Once in a while they even have the word "cute" in their title, like Gemporium: A Cute Mining Sim. With a name like that, I thought, it's probably just a breezy little game where you dig up gems.And it is. At first. As an industrious little mole in Gemporium, I've just inherited a cozy home and gemshop from my dearly departed grandmole,...

In Pacific Drive you develop a relationship with your car like the classic bad relationship you have with a person in your 20s: "I can fix them." Only you're right, because it's a car and not an unemployed stoner who is sort of in a band sometimes.At the end of every trip into the Zone I'd repair that rustbucket and upgrade it, but never fix that one weird thing it...

I found myself in need of new speakers for my PC a while back, and on the advice of PC Gamer I went out and picked up a set of Logitech Z407s. And they're good! Except for one minor thing that occasionally makes me want to smash them into small pieces with a hammer.See, the goddamn things will not stop going to sleep. It's not a defect or a user...

For my money, Metal Gear Solid 5 remains the watermark for open world action games thanks to its excellent espionage toybox, its mercenary company management systems, and the timeless satisfaction of abducting enemy combatants with a little balloon. 10 years after its launch, it just got even better thanks to Dynamite, a functioning two-player MGS5 co-op mod from modder unknown321.According to a lengthy "Making Of" memoir included in the Dynamite...

Indie horror game Vile: Exhumed launched today as a free donationware game under a Creative Commons license, following the cancellation of its planned release on Steam in July, reportedly over the presence of "sexual content with depictions of real people."Vile: Exhumed had been listed on Steam, and was slated for release on July 22—the page is gone now, but still visible via the Internet Archive. According to SteamDB, the page...

Ever played a Battlefield game and watched, haplessly, as some jerk with a sniper rifle makes a camp in a hard-to-reach building and turns it into a clown car? Well, that's not gonna be how Battlefield 6 does it anymore.That's according to an X post from the Battlefield Comms account ahead of the Battlefield 6 open beta. Namely, via changes made to the classes' various gadget pools. It reads:"We've renamed...

Last week, we reported on a claimed 18-month deadline for Intel to win customers for its next-next-gen 14A chip node, else the company would have to give up on cutting-edge chip manufacturing. This week, it's Intel's actual next-gen node that's in the news for the wrong reasons, as 18A is apparently in trouble.Reuters says sources inside Intel put the company's all-important 18A node (well, it used to be all-important before...

A single company firing staff over the suspicion of theft doesn't always make for headline news, but when the business in question is TSMC and its cutting-edge fabrication technology, it's not hard to see why Taiwan's Supreme Prosecutors Office has got involved in the matter.Details of the case were reported by Central News Agency, Taipei (via Dan Nystedt on X), stating that one former employee and one current (though now...

FromSoftware was initially pretty adamant about player caps for Elden Ring Nightreign. It started with just a single-player or trio option, as the director said that the game was built for squads of three, end of discussion. But that was never going to fly, especially as players complained that they didn't know an extra person to trio with—duos were soon confirmed and finally became playable in update 1.02.As the masses...

Remember Vine? If you were a young person eight years ago, there's a good chance you're a little nostalgic for this TikTok predecessor. As well as having the platform to thank for creators like Drew Gooden and Danny Gonzalez, it's also responsible for the Paul brothers. Good or bad, it seems like the Vine video archive could resurface in the future, if Elon Musk's word is anything to go by.In...