On an Internet of Shit, a cool website feels newsworthy, and graphic designer Josh Worth has made a very cool website. If The Moon Were Only One Pixel is a "tediously accurate" recreation of our stellar neighborhood you can explore in your browser, and it's a meditative, thoughtful way to break up the monotony of being advertised to on the web.Like it says in the title, the page scales down...
Chinese game company Cognosphere is known for four things: Genshin Impact, Honkai: Star Rail, Zenless Zone Zero, and its aggressive pursuit of anyone who doesn't toe the line on its announcement and release schedules. In the latest example of how much it really, really does not like leakers, the company is now suing a guy who streamed Honkai: Star Rail gameplay on Discord that included a look at a new...
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a major hit on Steam: An "overwhelmingly positive" rating across more than 83,000 user reviews on Steam, and concurrent player numbers that keep it high on Steam's top 100 most-played list—not bad at all for a relatively brief narrative-based singleplayer RPG. And if you've played through it all and wish there was more, the good news is that there might be."We're currently exploring a wide...
Dune: Awakening is off to a great start: excellent Steam reviews, a growing playerbase, and few of the launch problems that regularly plague popular new multiplayer games.There is some trouble brewing, however, as players begin exploring Dune: Awakening's endgame, much of which revolves around PvP in the deep desert—a massive, uninhabitable zone only traversable by air where players can compete for precious resources like spice and titanium.But there's one more...
Stray, a rather neat little puzzle-platformer about a cat in a post-apocalyptic robo-world, was fairly well received back in 2022. We gave it a solid 82 in our review, which made publisher Annapura's collapse late last year all the more concerning for studio BlueTwelve. At the very least, however, Stray's former writer is going places.You see, after writing a science-fiction game about a cat in a gritty neon-coated world, Steve...
The Alphyn lineup is PowerColor's first foray into the gaming headset market, having only specced into graphics cards until now. With the Alphyn AH10, the company hops out of the proverbial frying pan, into the highly competitive fire of wireless gaming headsets. At the $100 mark, this headset will have to do something particularly swanky to get noticed, and yet its stripped-back nature has it clawing for attention all the...
Where anything to do with AI is often promoted as being a new paradigm for humanity, it makes a pleasant change to get an AI tool that's potentially very useful and, more importantly, is exactly what was promised. The fact that this has come from Microsoft is perhaps unexpected, but it really has given us a simple AI search tool.I was about to write that we knew that this was...
To anyone who's really into PCs and is happy to use beta software all the time, news that the latest version of Windows 11 Insider build has a wee bug in it will barely raise an eyebrow. I'm one such person, but my forehead went into all kinds of funny shapes after learning that the bug in question causes the Windows Vista start-up music to be played, instead of the...
Aside from cryptocurrency mining, GPU shortages, and Covid-19, what else does the year 2021 elicit from your memory? The launch of the RTX 3080 Ti, of course! This high-end card launched with nearly as many CUDA cores, RT cores, and Tensor cores as the RTX 3090 for a little less money, but it had one downside: less VRAM. Well, the RTX 3080 Ti that actually launched did anyways. For another...
Make sure your weekly Wordle gets off to a flying start with our fantastic collection of tips and tricks. Keep it simple with our general advice if you like, or treat yourself to a bit of direct help with the June 16 (1458) hint, happy to guide the way without spoiling the fun. Need more? We've got it. Today's answer is all written down and ready to go.Today's game took...