Monthly Archives: May 2019

After yesterday’s revelation that many of Intel’s processors dating back to at least 2008 are affected by another series of security flaws somewhat similar to Spectre and Meltdown, you might be wondering what kind of performance impact the upcoming mitigations will have. The answer, according to Intel, maker of some of the best CPUs for […]

Take-Two Interactive announced today that Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey, the promising prehistoric survival game being developed by Patrice Désilets’ Panache Digital Games studio, will be available exclusively through the Epic Games Store for a year. Ancestors is being published by Take-Two’s Private Division label, as is The Outer Worlds, also a timed Epic exclusive (not […]

Are you sitting down? You wouldn’t have to if you owned Thermaltake’s Level 20 RGB Battlestation Gaming Desk, which in plain speak is a motorized desk for sitting or standing—it’s your choice. It’s also an extremely large mouse pad, making it a veritable bargain at $1,199.99 (plus shipping) to park the best gaming mouse on! […]

Multiplayer mod Skyrim Together reached a big milestone in January, hitting closed beta after years in development. Since then there have been considerable setbacks, starting with the use of code from the Skyrim Script Extender mod without attribution. After this came to light, the beta quickly ended and work started on removing it. That was […]

A Hat in Time’s latest DLC, out this week, adds a new underground level to explore as well as online party play, which lets you muck about in groups of up to 50 players. In the DLC, called Nyakuza Metro, you’ll join the Nyakuza in search of riches, exploring nine chapters and a new Time […]

Space exploration game Outer Wilds will launch on the Epic Games Store and not Steam, developer Mobius Digital has confirmed. We knew that the game would be on the Epic Games Store, but it wasn’t clear whether its Steam release would be simultaneous. Now we know it will be on Epic’s store first—Mobius Digital said […]

Sunless Skies’ Vagabond update, which adds a new officer, new locations, and a new chunk of story, will be out on June 12, Failbetter Games has announced. Your new officer is the Amiable Vagabond, who will take you to meet the skylarks,  a "community of ragged wanderers who rove the heavens". You’re trying to help […]

Pixabay via Alexas_Fotos. Click for original. (Image credit: Pixabay via Alexas_Fotos) Mozilla is exploring ways in which it can offer Firefox users an even more private browsing experience that goes above and beyond the current implementation. To do that, a new "Super Private Browsing" mode would tap into the Tor network to offer users a […]

Binding of Isaac creator Edmund McMillen says his next game, the turn-based, cardboard-themed dungeon crawler The Legend of Bum-bo, will be out this year, along with the final DLC for The Binding of Isaac itself. In a tweet about “general updates,” McMillen gave a typically pithy rundown of his plans for the rest of the […]

Thomas Was Alone is an endearing, emotionally complex puzzle platformer about a group of simple geometric shapes grappling with their place in a strange new world. John Wick is a movie about a guy who commits international mass murder because Theon Greyjoy offed his dog. What do they have in common? Bithell Games, which made […]