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This week in PC games: an RTS inspired by Majesty, a flying city RPG from former Mass Effect writers, and one Metal Gear-affiliated octopus
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This week in PC games: an RTS inspired by Majesty, a flying city RPG from former Mass Effect writers, and one Metal Gear-affiliated octopus

Hello, new week of PC games! Hey, I thought you'd be taller. Ah, I see what's happened: the Maw has eaten Friday again, and swallowed next Monday for good measure. As ever, the normies are calling this a "bank holiday weekend". There are various festivities planned - apparently, some bunny has been running around laying chocolate eggs. Read more

MacBook Neo review
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MacBook Neo review

Apple's cheap laptop struggles to rise to the occasion, but remains an impressive little machine.

Epic's mass layoffs left a programmer with terminal brain cancer without life insurance, but Tim Sweeney says the company will "solve" the problem
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Epic's mass layoffs left a programmer with terminal brain cancer without life insurance, but Tim Sweeney says the company will "solve" the problem

Epic Games' mass layoffs led a programmer with terminal brain cancer to lose his life insurance, leaving him and his family struggling to find new coverage. Following news of the situation breaking, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney has said the company have reached out to the programmer - Mike Prinke - and that they "will solve the insurance". Read more

"It is meant to be lived in" - grand strategy game Riftborne offers "months" of galactic scheming and no actual graphics
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"It is meant to be lived in" - grand strategy game Riftborne offers "months" of galactic scheming and no actual graphics

Some people like to ease into the week, as though dipping toes into a frigid northern sea, and some people Monday Hard by wrapping their arms around an iceberg. Are you the latter kind of bather? Try this on for size, then: Riftborne is a real-time sci-fi grand strategy game that's controlled using an old-fashioned, "terminal-style" interface. Seize your silly computer mouse and feed it unto the dog. Where you're going, there shall be no drag-selects, cursor animations, right-click menus, and a

Crimson Desert's latest patch adds new mounts, makes slapping NPCs with trees a crime, and reportedly junks the infamous AI paintings
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Crimson Desert's latest patch adds new mounts, makes slapping NPCs with trees a crime, and reportedly junks the infamous AI paintings

Pearl Abyss' bashing of their massive open-world into a more palatable shape continues, with Crimson Desert's latest patch packing a bunch more tweaks to controls and adding some new animals to ride around on. It also looks to have begun swapping out those AI paintings the studio previously claimed were accidentally left in it on release, though the patch's wording around this change is fairly vague. Read more