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Roughly 192 Subnautica 2 players have drowned every minute since launch

Good job, team.

Microsoft filing shows total ZeniMax layoffs at 379, with over half coming from Elder Scrolls Online studio that's lost at least 60% of its staff in the past year

213 from ZeniMax Online Studios, 166 from ZeniMax Media (which includes the layoffs at Bethesda Game Studios).

"A densely-packed open world game about death anxiety": Bad Magpie's avian mischief channels a lot of heartache

Do they sing the song, where you are from? One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl, four for a boy… I wouldn't put it past magpies themselves to have learned this superstitious ditty. They've got a sharp ear for the human voice, after all, and studies indicate that they can count. Perhaps they're even using the rhyme to mess with us. According to folklore, if you see one magpie, you can trill "Hello Mr Magpie, how is your lady wife" to chase away the prophesied sorrow. Being a c

Samsung - In zwei Wochen zeigt Samsung neue Flaggschiff-Handys: Das ist schon jetzt bekannt

Schon in knapp zwei Wochen findet das nächste »Galaxy Unpacked«-Event statt, auf dem Samsung neue Handys vorstellen wird.

Persona 4 Revival's take on the controversial Yosuke will apparently be "more fitting for the world we live in now"

Considering how old Persona 4 actually is, including its revamped rerelease Golden, there's a non-zero chance that it's been a good long while that any of you have played it (and for the younger readers, a plenty good chance you've not played it at all). So you might have some rose tinted goggles on when reflecting upon it, particularly concerning certain characters like Yosuke, who was written quite insensitively back in the day. But it does seem like the remake will be modernising the charac

What will another Obsidian Fallout game even look like all these years on? Here's my attempt to read the radioactive tea leaves

I know. The right answer to the question in the headline is simple: whatever the developers working on it decide they want it to look like. Even though I’ve told myself that multiple times since last night’s report that the New Vegas studio have been redirected to the wasteland amid the horrible circumstances of Microsoft’s latest layoffs, I still think it’s something that’s worth any fan of Obsidian’s work pondering for themselves. Read more

Palworld PSA: you might want to uninstall your mods if you've not played in a while ahead of its 1.0 launch

Well, would you look at that. Palworld is launching into 1.0 tomorrow! Somehow an entire two years and then some passed to get to this point, but here we almost are, several updates and a notable lawsuit later. For some of you it might have been a while since you booted the game up, so its developer Pocketpair have a word of warning for you: be careful about those mods you've got installed. Read more

Rumour suggests Intel is cooking up a 12 Xe desktop Nova Lake CPU

'Decent discrete graphics? In my desktop processor?'

New IDC report claims worldwide PC shipments fell by 5% but revenue didn't, as 'vendors are pushing through price increases faster than demand is dropping'

Thanks, AI.

Masters at work: how Riot grew Valorant into its second global esport

PC ports of old console games are the new AI vibe coding battleground

With projects like Donkey Kong 64 Recompiled, human programmers stake a claim on the art and science of retro game recompilation.

"We were already running a tight ship": Elder Scrolls 6 devs are worried about Xbox's layoffs causing even more delays to the long-awaited RPG

Reports about the specific affects Microsoft's mass layoffs are having on studios like Obsidian and id Software keep rolling out. Elder Scrolls 6 makers Bethesda are no different, with staff saying that the cuts there have not just tanked morale, but let to worry about the fantasy RPG's development endinbg up a longer and more painful process as a result. Read more

Palworld won't raise its price for 1.0 as 'a small way of saying thank you'

One less thing to worry about ahead of the 1.0 release.

It looks like Samsung is taking a leaf out of Nvidia's book and making a proper PC processor

If 2026 is the year of Linux, could 2027 be the year of Windows on Arm?

Where to find the Ito region Treasure Hunt in Forza Horizon 6

Track down the one correct beach on the island.

After 16 years of exploring the final frontier, Star Trek Online devs are 'trying new things' and 'trying to push the boundaries' of what they can achieve

The frontier keeps moving.

This week's Epic Games Store free games has you exploring a 2D planet or setting up as a tattoo tycoon

Ubisoft has added a cash shop and weekly challenges to its 'faithful' remake of the 13-year-old Black Flag, because of course it has

Well I don't remember these from 13 years ago.

Taylor Swift needs to be a skin in Fortnite - rumor suggests it could happen soon

Total War Warhammer 3's new attempt at fixing its campaign AI woes promises a "more dynamic and interesting" late game

John Deere - Weil John Deere Reparaturen unmöglich machte, mussten Bauern die Traktoren bisher teilweise hacken – ein Gerichtsbeschluss soll das jetzt ändern

Die Geschäftspraktiken des Landmaschinenherstellers waren jahrelang Streitthema.

ASUS-Hardware - Grafikkarten, Mainboards, Monitore mit Boni und Rabatten [Anzeige]

Ihr braucht neue Hardware oder Peripherie? Dann ist jetzt die perfekte Gelegenheit, denn ASUS schenkt euch beim Kauf teilnehmender Produkte einige Gutscheine!

We're making some changes to the RPS Supporter Program, all of them good

Starting... uh, last week, we’re making a bunch of improvements to the RPS Supporter Program, the super-special subscription service through which impossibly cool RPS readers can support our writing and reporting directly. The catch? Ha ha! There isn’t one. Read more

4K-TV - Jetzt eins der besten Modelle im Angebot sichern [Anzeige]

Dieser Fernseher von LG zählt bereits ohne Angebot als Schnäppchen – doch gerade ist er sogar noch günstiger zu haben.