I enjoy games where enemies are a resource as much as a hazard. It’s not enough that you can farm them for XP by killing them while they… Continue reading
Day: November 11, 2023
Warcraft’s game director explains why Blizzard debuted three expansions at once: ‘Speaking it out loud makes it real’
Most Warcraft fans expected an expansion announcement for the massively multiplayer RPG at last weekend’s BlizzCon 2023. But to hear Warcraft game director Ion Hazzikostas tell it, Blizzard… Continue reading
Dungeon Keeper is a stone cold, never-bettered classic of the management genre, no matter how many other games try to mimic its devilish setting and moreish progression. The… Continue reading
It’s the Steam Deck’s fault. I picked up Valve’s handheld with the aim of using it to play anything and everything, but instead I’ve used it almost exclusively… Continue reading
After a surprise cyberattack, the world’s largest bank had to shuffle a USB stick around Manhattan to do business
First reported by Bloomberg (readers may encounter a paywall), the US unit of the Industrial and Commerce Bank of China—the world’s largest by total assets—was struck by a… Continue reading
It’s tiiiiiime! Mariah Carey reminds us once more. I didn’t mention this last week because Bonfire Night gives us an extra buffer between Halloween and Christmas, but it… Continue reading
SteamOS will be coming to other handhelds before you can install it on your PC ‘because right now, it’s very, very tuned for Steam Deck’
Where the hell is SteamOS? That was one of the key questions I wanted answered when I sat down with Valve’s Lawrence Yang and Yazan Aldehayyat, two of… Continue reading
‘The next thing we’re working on moving forward is Steam Deck 2,’ but Valve has yet to see silicon offering the leap it’s looking for
Valve has been adamant to talk up the new Steam Deck OLED as “the definitive first-generation Steam Deck” and definitely not anything like a sequel to its immensely… Continue reading
AMD owns about 20% of the desktop CPU market and nearly a quarter of servers according to new figures for the third quarter of 2023 from Mercury Research…. Continue reading
The answer to today’s Wordle is only a quick click away if you need a hand—go on, we promise we won’t tell. Prefer something a little less direct?… Continue reading