The EU are slapping Microsoft with an antitrust warning over their Activision-Blizzard buyout

They’ve set a deadline for April 12th on whether they’ll OK the deal.

January 16, 2023 · 1 min · 13 words · Brittany Lewis

This Kingston NV2 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD is the first to cross the £50 barrier

That’s one cheap drive. Mum, get the camera! It’s finally happened - a 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD is selling for less than 50. To squeak in under the 50 mark, you’ll need to use codeJAN10at the checkout at Ebay. If you’d prefer a drive that’s a little more… fixed..?

January 16, 2023 · 1 min · 49 words · Vanessa Snyder

Valheim's next biome update will be the Ashlands, a volcanic land of the dead

So maybe we won’t wind up being terrorised by the spiky skull-mouthed fleshbag above, afterall. While the Ashlands cook, Iron Gate have plenty else in the pipes.

January 16, 2023 · 1 min · 27 words · Benjamin Hernandez

Wordle answer (#576): What is the Monday January 16 Wordle word?

Stuck on the Wordle word for Jan 16? Read our hints and the Wordle answer below! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Tuesday 22nd April! It’s time to reveal the answer to today’s Wordle. The word is… FROCK. What does the Wordle answer today mean? Then tap the “SHARE” button. So we highly encourage you to use it! How to play Wordle Wordle is wonderfully simple....

January 16, 2023 · 2 min · 264 words · Laura Edwards

SimCity 4, the greatest citybuilder of all time, was released 20 years ago

SimCity 4 did nothing to change this formula but continued its logical progression. It lets you build enormous cities, and then trade resources with the neighbouring city you built previously. Mods are why I’m confident calling SimCity 4 the best citybuilder of all time. More specifically, it’s thanks to the internet Addon Mod. The SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition (including the Rush Hour expansion, also released 2003) ison SteamandGOG.

January 15, 2023 · 1 min · 68 words · Melissa Patton

Wordle answer (#575): What is the Sunday January 15 Wordle word?

Stuck on the Wordle word for Jan 15? Read our hints and the Wordle answer below! And why wouldn’t you? I, too, play Wordle! Isn’t that swell? We’ll have so much to talk about! …Okay, maybe not. You’re a busy person, I get it. So let’s just get straight to the reason you’re here. Below we’ll walk you through a few handy hints in case you’re stuck on today’s Wordle....

January 15, 2023 · 2 min · 337 words · Heather Watson

Wordle answer (#574): What is the Saturday January 14 Wordle word?

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for Jan 14? Read our hints and the Wordle answer below! Of course, that’s only true when you’re winning, and Wordle can often prove difficult. Fortunately, that’s where we come in. Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Tuesday 22nd April! It’s time to reveal the answer to today’s Wordle. The word is… KOALA. But, that challenge is what often makes Wordle so satisfying....

January 14, 2023 · 2 min · 345 words · Richard Wong

John Carpenter says he's not directing a Dead Space movie

That just went around, and everybody said, Oh, when are you gonna do it? Im not gonna do it. I think they already have another director involved. And they havent asked me to do it. Carpenter didnt go into details about who the director might be, if he even knew. Hes keen to play EA Motives upcoming Dead Space remake though, saying Im there. There was a Dead Space movie project kicking around Hollywood more than a decade ago....

January 13, 2023 · 1 min · 110 words · Steven Nielsen

Skull & Bones looks sumptuous in its latest developer video, but there's still no release date

Is it ship shape? Make no bones about it: Ubisoft’s perennially delayedSkull & Bonesis still coming. At least for a bit. You’ll have your own fleet of ships, too, built to different sizes for different purposes. Ubisoft say they’ll announce the game’s latest, hopefully real release date “very soon”. There’s a beta incoming, too. Apropos of nothing, did you know Blackbeardonly lasted as a pirate for 15 months?

January 13, 2023 · 1 min · 68 words · Cindy Schmidt

Someone made a custom Katamari controller with roll-on deodorants and a football, and it rules

A FreePIE script maps the mouse movement to two virtual vJoy thumbsticks for the in-game control, Tilleytweeted. They could be mapped to extra buttons or actions such as shaking the ball to charge. Tilley’s trackball wouldn’t have been out of place among ourcustom controller exhibitionat the last EGX show. Tilleys trackball isnt the only oddly useful custom controller out there. Katamari Damacy Rerollis onSteamfor 16/$30/20, but youll have to make your own controller for that one....

January 13, 2023 · 1 min · 76 words · Martin Powell

TF2 asset leak reveals 60gbs of unused maps, modes, mechs and witches

There’s loads more! McVicker says he’ll keep digging into the rest of the leak. In the meantime, here are some even more prototype-y assets from Twitterer Richter Overtime. !The ENTIRE TF2 asset repo just leaked! It might have meant even more Engineer players for me to stab.

January 13, 2023 · 1 min · 47 words · Kenneth Perkins

The Anacrusis, one year on: "This is the game we wanted to release"

Happily, following a year of tweaks and additions, The Anacrusis is in a much better place. Even if that place is still turtleneck-deep in extraterrestrial viscera. “We had a little bit of a rough launch”, admits studio co-founder and CEO Chet Faliszek. “But we’ve done 28 updates in that year. “That [feel] isn’t like one thing, right? That’s 50 million things”, he says. “That’s how the weapon feedback feels. There’s a whole bunch of things that we did that got us to that point....

January 13, 2023 · 2 min · 280 words · Alan Kirby

This $30 Logitech wireless headset deal is absolutely bonkers

The G435 has 2.4GHz Lightspeed wireless, 2.4GHz and my seal of approval. Of course, we would be remiss not to talk about the sound. There’s enough detail and sound stage for competitive gaming, and works well enough for music too.

January 13, 2023 · 1 min · 40 words · Michael Villanueva