Author: Katie Wickens
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Endgame Gear OP1 8K wired gaming mouse review
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When playing games with a wired gaming mouse, you expect to encounter a little drag from said wire. As much as light cables help reduce drag, it’s generally an inevitability. But there are mouse designers out there, such as those at Endgame Gear, working to ease our suffering with gaming mice like the new OP1…
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Dead Space meets Half-Life, only its a 3-way co-op horror Sci-Fi game
If Sci-Fi horror is your usual bag, and the dark corners of the cosmos are your preferred playground, boy does Pet Project Games have the first-person shooter for you. Ripout is a fast-paced co-op FPS full of intense interstellar action, and with a *checks notes* living Pet Gun. Yeah. That’s a thing. In Ripout, players…
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This Soulslike RPG from the makers of the Ori series is steeped in lore and intrigue
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If rich lore, grand high-fantasy, and backstories akin to that of the Game of Thrones series get you going when it comes to action RPGs, No Rest for the Wicked is sure to fill that void after your 20th Baldur’s Gate 3 playthrough is done. With it, the devs at Moon Studios—the same developer that…
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This mecha passion project refreshes the genre with technical innovations and a whole lotta’ sparks
Mech fans rejoice, there will soon be another mecha game joining the ranks. This multiplayer online, gundam-style PvP brawler, with a PvEvP mode incoming, is Mecha BREAK. A fresh look at the genre, previously known as Code B.R.E.A.K, Mecha BREAK is the brainchild of the developers over at Amazing Seasun Games, who’ve put a great…
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Craft yourself a Fae realm escape in base-building survival game Nightingale
Every survival game needs a good crafting system, and for us none have felt so much like a mystical version of a late 19th-century artisanal workshop than that of Nightingale, the upcoming base-builder by Inflexion Games. We’ve been checking out the game’s in-depth crafting mechanics as well as the kind of intricate architecture designs the…
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The 6 best Steam Deck games to get you through the holidays
Steam Deck the halls, it’s festive season once again. Thankfully, dragging yourself into social situations for the holidays has gotten a little easier over 2023 with the release of so many great gaming handhelds. This year, we got an update from Valve in the form of the Steam Deck OLED, so now’s a great time…
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Baldur’s Gate 3 mod lets un-partied characters participate in conversations
One of the most frustrating things about Baldur’s Gate 3 is getting to the end of a conversation, only to realise later that having a specific companion in your party would have completely changed the course of the game. Worse yet, the idea that you might be missing important plot points for your companions due…
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Skyrim player gathers all the food in every city, eats it all and instantly dies thanks to one killer snack
Today I witnessed someone’s Skyrim character die in one of the most Monty Pythonesque ways possible: by eating all the food in all the land and bursting like a stuck pig. User amelix34 took to the Skyrim subreddit just the other day to reveal a little experiment they’d been saving up for in the form…
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Baldur’s Gate 3 player uses ‘barrelmancy’ to explosively murder an Act 3 boss and avenge Karlach
Barrelmancy, they’re calling it. This is how one Reddit user discovered a way to get back at sweet, sweet Karlach’s mortal enemy in Baldur’s Gate 3. How terribly she was wronged, and how explosive her revenge will be. Here’s how they did it. In case it wasn’t clear, this article is going to talk about…
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Watching an actual civil engineer nerd out over Cities: Skylines 2 is some of the most wholesome city building content out there
You may remember Real Civil Engineer as the twisted mind behind the poop-powered city made in the original Cities: Skylines game. Well, he’s back again and turning his hand to Cities: Skylines 2. Aside from pulling a few vaguely sewage-related antics this time around, he’s been heartily nerding out over the road tools, assessing their…