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Real-time tactics game Strategos is out now in early access with some clever communication and morale systems
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Real-time tactics game Strategos is out now in early access with some clever communication and morale systems

Historical real-time tactics game Strategos is out in early access today, boasting over 120 factions and 250 units based on “the major and minor powers of the ancient Mediterranean”, according to developers Strategos Games. If you are a brazen tomfool, you might summarise it as Total War without the sprawling campaign map element. If you are an excessively brazen tomfool – brazen to the point that a formation of Greek Hoplites would use you as cover while manouvering around so

Windows 11 verlangt zwei Extras, aber hast du sie schon aktiviert? Wie du es herausfindest und sie einschaltest
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Windows 11 verlangt zwei Extras, aber hast du sie schon aktiviert? Wie du es herausfindest und sie einschaltest

Die Systemvoraussetzungen für Windows 11 halten zwei potenzielle Hürden parat: Secure Boot und TPM 2.0. Secure Boot ist außerdem mittlerweile in manchen Multiplayer-Titeln zwingend erforderliche für das Spielen. Im besten Fall sind beide Funktionen auf deinem Rechner bereits aktiv. Falls nicht, stehen die Chancen aber gut, dass dein PC die entsprechenden Voraussetzungen zur Aktivierung mit sich bringt. Wie einfach du herausfindest, ob Secure Boot und TPM bei dir schon eing

You'll no longer earn Steam points from community awards, as Valve try to kill off clownface-farming
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You'll no longer earn Steam points from community awards, as Valve try to kill off clownface-farming

Valve have made changes to Steam’s community awards system to discourage people from posting daft and angry posts in order to farm Steam points. You will, in fact, no longer be able to receive Steam points from other users when they give you awards. Adding insult to injury, there's a new set of award designs that are explicitly designed to spread goodwill. Filth! Read more

Arknights Endfield pity system explained
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Arknights Endfield pity system explained

The Arknights Endfield pity system is unconventional by modern gacha game standards, but we're here to explain exactly how it all works.

Mochi-O's hamster warfare is a sweet, swift sugar rush
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Mochi-O's hamster warfare is a sweet, swift sugar rush

As seen in The Maw, fluffy defence shooter Mochi-O is out today, and – judging from the Steam demo I’ve played – is an at least passingly entertaining MIRV explosion of gleeful nonsense. Landing somewhere between tower defence, Vampire Survivors, and Tamagotchi, it has you holding up a genetically engineered hamster-like creature up to a window and blasting waves of attackers with the mounted weapons systems hidden in his fur. Then, setting him down and giving him a good long