'In 10 years of tracking retail CPU sales, I have never seen such a steep decline,' says one tech channel after staring at the grim figures
You don't need to be a data expert to know why CPU sales have tanked.
You don't need to be a data expert to know why CPU sales have tanked.
Liquid Swords continue to chip away at the biggest issues Samson, their bitesize tale of a small-time crim pulling jobs to gradually remove the debt albatross from his neck, has faced since it launched the other week in a state the ranged from harmlessly quirky to frustratingly broken. The second of these patches picks up the first's problem-eliminating baton, but also sees the devs start to make some more in-depth tweaks to mechanics that work fine, but leave a bit to be desired. Read more
Good gods.
When I finished my first playthrough of Atomfall for review last year, I felt like Rebellion’s pasty-littered survival game was just starting to properly get its hooks into me. I’ve dug plenty of short games over the years - Return of the Obra Dinn and The Red Strings Club are a couple of examples - but with that brevity comes the challenge of delivering on the promise of your premise in a briefer window than longer games are afforded. The base version of Atomfall instead reached it
A triple bill of fantastic gaming shows.
It is the superior way to game, after all.
Here's where to find the curio and chest for the Fifteen Men on a Dead Man's Chest quest and what rewards you get.
If you've found some buried treasure from curios or you're struggling to clear out points of interest, here's how to craft a shovel in Windrose.
The memory supply crisis will likely get worse before it gets better, though.
What looks like one of the most impressive games ever made with Godot Engine, the solo-developed hardcore Road to Vostok has entered Early Access.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
A punchy little performer, but 8 GB of VRAM comes with caveats.
Funky horror RPG Look Outside has just gotten a big update, with some fresh additions, enough balancing tweaks to kill any window-looking monsters, and some extra "nasty surprises" for its cursed mode. Seriously, these are some looooooooooooooooooong patch notes for the Devolver-published flick of spooky pixel artist Francis Coulombe. Read more
With up to a QHD resolution, this 27-inch display normally runs at 540Hz but it's dual-mode option unlocks an even higher refresh rate.
Yesterday, hacker group ShinyHunters made good on their threat to release data stolen from Grand Theft Auto VI developers Rockstar Games by way of a third-party service. Rockstar don't seem bothered by the leak, with one representative calling it "a limited amount of non-material company information", and the alleged secret titbits now in circulation certainly aren't on the same scale as the infamous 2022 leak of WIP footage from GTA 6. Still, there are some interesting gobbets in there. One is
With the classic Tomb Raider 1 and Tomb Raider 2 fully playable with the open source re-implementation TRX, the team makes impressive progress with the third.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
A lot can change in politics.
Team Green's claim rate shot up, too, reaching a figure 800% higher than that in 2024.
A reason to get back in the saddle.
At first glance, the Rockstar hack at the weekend should have been a colossal setback for the GTA 6 developer, but it's been anything but.
Hades 2 Dream Dives shuffle all the regions for a fresh take on the roguelike, but the mode skipped the patch notes for the new update.
Luanti (formerly Minetest) is the popular free and open source voxel game engine powering some really fun experiences and a critical update is out now.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
Mindustry is a free and open source open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements, with a major new update finally out.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
Book of Travels had an interesting idea as a slower, more exploration focused online RPG that didn't hold your hand but it never really took off.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
Earlier this year Nvidia announced DLSS 5, a new version of their DLSS technology: a layer of graphical magic that uses their GPUs to do improbable things to the resolution and framerate of your favourite PC games (unless your favourite PC game is Slay the Spire). Nvidia are in a strange space at the moment - now one of the most valuable companies to ever have existed, they're also one of the drivers of the AI boom and all of the horror and chaos that comes with it. PC gamers, once their core m