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Factorio’s player count is through the roof after the Space Age expansion, ripping thousands of engineers away from their day jobs

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Factorio’s Space Age expansion went live yesterday, and it managed to set a new all-time player count peak for the game, with 91,801 players flooding back in to check out the expansion. The Space Age expansion more than doubles the size of the original game, and continues the player’s journey after they launch rockets into … Read more

Caves of Qud, our favorite science fantasy roguelike where you can clone, befriend, and eat yourself, is leaving early access in December after 15 years of development

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Freehold Games, the developer duo who created Caves of Qud, is nearly ready for its deep future, science fantasy roguelike to molt its early access chitin and present itself, glistening and resplendent, to the world. After more than fifteen years in development, Caves of Qud will get its 1.0 release on December 5, 2024, culminating … Read more

Asus China’s general manager shows off the deep details of Intel’s Arrow Lake chips in new reveal

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We’re just a week or so away from the retail launch of Intel’s Arrow Lake chips and while Team Blue has already given us the full lowdown of what everything is like, there’s nothing cooler than seeing the actual chips in their full glory. Enter stage left, Tony Yu, Asus China’s general manager, and his … Read more

Tormenture takes the Inscryption meta-horror formula back to 8-bit gaming and the 1980s

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I forgot about just-launched horror game Tormenture when ravelling together this week’s round-up of potent PC releases, but thankfully, Maw disciple Fachewachewa was on my case in the comments. It’s one of your ‘cursed video game’ videogames in the spirit of Inscryption and Pony Island, and based on a quick blast with the demo, it seems lush.

It’s set in the 1980s, a premise I now automatically find horrible because I was born in the 1980s and that was, like, a million years ago. You’re a kid who’s playing a legendary 8-bit game that’s said to be possessed by evil spirits. The experience sees you alternating between the surprisingly labyrinthine space of the game, and the increasingly threatening environment of your bedroom, where terrible toys abound. Did you have one of those phones on wheels with eyes as a kid? Whoever invented that deserves a spell in Arkham Asylum.

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Helldivers 2 players have formed the ‘Freedom Alliance’ to organise their own community orders

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The secret sauce with Helldivers 2, outside of the excellent moment-to-moment blasting, is the game’s overarching galactic war. Controlled by developer Arrowhead and game master Joel, this sees the Helldivers marshalled to various spots across the galaxy to fight for key objectives, with success often resulting in some sort of in-game reward (like mech suits) … Read more

Intel and Samsung plan to join foundry forces to combat TSMC says a major Korean newspaper

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When it comes to manufacturing high-end processors and other chips, one company dominates the market and that’s TSMC. The second largest producer, Samsung, is well behind and Intel makes the merest of impressions in the sector. So it’s perhaps not a surprise to learn that a daily newspaper in Korea has said that the latter … Read more

Amazon’s Secret Level confirms its previously-leaked cast—which includes former governor of California and killer android Arnold Schwarzenegger

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In case you’ve been following the news about Amazon’s Secret Level—an anthology of animated videogame shorts put together by the same folks who made Love, Death + Robots—you might’ve seen a leak pop up, briefly, on the information highway. The leaked trailer, which reportedly saw an unfinished version of several of these shorts, also happened … Read more

Cult of the Lamb is releasing an EP where metal legends rework the game’s chiptunes, and the first track is a total banger

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Cutesy cult simulator meets roguelike Cult of the Lamb has announced its next project—a metal EP releasing next week called “Cult of the Lamb: Hymns of the Unholy”. Devolver Digital, Massive Monster, and Laced Records have come together to produce an EP that will consist of six tracks featuring appearances from While She Sleeps, Trivium, … Read more