If you’ve ever wanted to add a trackpad to your PC, a company named Ploopy has come out with a very retro-looking design, and it’s entirely open-source. This level of transparency means you can build your own from scratch, if you have the time and a 3D printer. If the Continue Reading
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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
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 Continue Reading
Victoria 3 is marking its 2nd birthday with DLC, ‘a new discrimination system’ and famine, and isn’t that nice?
Pivot of Empire | Update 1.8 | Victoria 3 – YouTube Watch On It has, somehow, been two years since Victoria 3 first landed on our shores, and to (kind of) mark the occasion Paradox is putting out a thoroughly subcontinental DLC and a hefty new update in the form Continue Reading
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
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 Continue Reading
Asus China’s general manager shows off the deep details of Intel’s Arrow Lake chips in new reveal
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 Continue Reading
Tormenture takes the Inscryption meta-horror formula back to 8-bit gaming and the 1980s
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 Continue Reading
Helldivers 2 players have formed the ‘Freedom Alliance’ to organise their own community orders
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 Continue Reading
Intel and Samsung plan to join foundry forces to combat TSMC says a major Korean newspaper
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 Continue Reading
Amazon’s Secret Level confirms its previously-leaked cast—which includes former governor of California and killer android Arnold Schwarzenegger
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 Continue Reading
Cult of the Lamb is releasing an EP where metal legends rework the game’s chiptunes, and the first track is a total banger
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 Continue Reading