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'I'm a medieval otaku, after all': Legendary Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu says FF9's soundtrack is some of his best workâeven if it's more popular overseas
It's not a phase!
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HyperX gaming monitors are a thing now, and HP says this 34-inch QD-OLED model has next-gen V-Stripe tech to banish text fringing
Begone, foul fuzz.
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HP has smushed together the HyperX and Omen brands to create its new HyperX Omen range of gaming laptops, and I'm over here playing spot the difference
All in a name, as they say.
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Dell axed its most popular laptop brand last year, but now it's back and I think I need an upgrade
Following it's bizarre decision to scrap XPS in its big brand shake up last year, Dell is bringing XPS back with a new Dell XPS 14 and more.
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MSI just made 2-in-1 touchscreen laptops 10x better with a hole
With a convenient space to securely stow its stylus, the MSI Prestige 16 Flip AI+ means accurate writing convenience is always on hand.
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Through modding wizardry, a seemingly cut Ashley opening level has been found in Resident Evil 4 Remake
The funny thing about games is that while making them, if you put something in them, it's quite hard to take that thing back out again. Who knows what that might break! Which can of course lead to people finding things that were never meant to be seen, like cut parts of a game, which is pretty much exactly what has happened to Resident Evil 4 Remake through the discovery of a level all about Ashley. Read more
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The last 5 years have all kicked off with a huge co-op hit on Steam, and this sci-fi survival game from the makers of Green Hell might be 2026's ticket
Build a base with friends on an alien planet.
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A mystery that went unnoticed for 7 years has Red Dead Redemption 2 players working furiously to make the connection between spiderwebs, telegraph poles, guitars, and maybe even Grand Theft Auto 5
It's a full-on head-scratcher, alright.
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Gloomwood rings in the new year with a very vertical update filled with piggish cops and a useful new gun
Gloomwood opened the year not with a whimper, but with a town - a Hightown! Right on January 1st, a fresh update and new area (The Hightown District) arrived in the early access stealth game. This new district is very vaguely described as the game's "most vertical open area" yet, and it certainly looks as suitably gloomy as the rest of the game. Read more
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MSI's monstrous 1000 W watercooled RTX 5090 has been designed to 'completely ignore the concepts of balance in favour of extremes', apparently
Still, if you're going all in on an RTX 5090, why not turn everything up to 11?
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In a truly galaxy-brained rebrand, Microsoft Office is now the 'Microsoft 365 Copilot app,' but Copilot is also still the name of the AI assistant
Copilot is the app for launching the other apps, but it's also a chatbot inside the apps. Any questions?
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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's writer doesn't want to follow audience expectations despite being "a bit of a people pleaser"
When a game like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 rocks up, rakes in a bunch of success and critical acclaim, alongside the top game of the year prize at Geoffie's Lil Night of Ads, there will be certain expectations of what's next. It's always what's next! Because there has to be more. But whatever more ends up being for developer Sandfall Interactive, the team is trying to make sure they don't just bow down to what people want from them. Read more
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No new Deus Ex game this year, according to Adam Jensen actor Elias Toufexis, who says the owners are 'psychopaths' for not concluding the trilogy
Toufexis clarified that he's "just kidding" about the psychopathy thing, but also yeah, "they're crazy."
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Grab Dead Island 2, this underrated Fear-style FPS, and six other games for under $2 each
The latest Humble Bundle gives you carnage to unleash, ranging from great zombie-killing chaos in Dead Island 2 to the brilliant Trepang 2.
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League of Legends players worldwide couldn't login for hours because Riot forgot to renew the client's SSL certificateâjust like it did 10 years ago
Happy new year!
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Check out the new Games For Everyone podcast and have a listen
Games For Everyone is a new podcast series from Linux For Everyone, something that should be a monthly thing to talk about the world of Linux gaming..Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
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Baba is You gets one last big update leaving custom level makers with some foxy new toys
The best puzzle games are often the ones where the thing you actually do is dead simple, with the challenge coming from an intricately woven path of twists and turns on doing said thing. Like, for example, Baba is You. You (Baba) are a rabbity thing that pushes wordy blocks around, changing the very fabric of reality as you (Baba) do so. And here we are, with one last big update for the game. Read more
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Cherry may be down but it isn't out with two new 'more than magnetic' TMR gaming keyboards
Friendship ended with induction switches?
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Thermaltake's collaboration PC case with a French artist is so lovely it makes me want to finally start that mini PC build
It's a bit of a beaut.
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CES 2026: all the upcoming releases and announcements a PC gamer should know about
A taste of the year ahead.
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Sega's American co-founder David Rosen dies at 95 years of age
Rosen died on Christmas Day surrounded by family.
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Grand strategy game Terra Invicta is an alien invasion sim so vast and slow the aliens seem lost within it
The second alien fleet appears on the edge of our solar system around two hours into my first game of Terra Invicta, which leaves early access today, but I don’t have time to fret about them because I’m busy jockeying with the Protectorate for the keys to Mozambique. The Protectorate are a secret org who believe human beings are incapable of defeating the game’s extra-terrestrial creatures. As such, they feel we must aspire to become the very finest doormats, appeasing the in
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Hytale's devs hope to "redefine the block-game genre" with their world generation, and they've now explained how it works
Hytale blocks up in early access this month, having swiftly gone from thing in need of ressurection to thing that's coming out. As such, the team of devs led by original Hypixel co-founder Simon Collins-Laflamme are firmly in promo mode, with the world generation mechanics they've just posted a deep dive into clearly being an aspect of the game they think'll be key to its appeal. Read more