Video Game Reviews

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

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