‘When the world ends, people just dance’: As another MMO comes to an end, players come together for a final farewell rave
Bandai Namco announced the end of the anime MMO Blue Protocol in August 2024, setting the date for its demise as January 18, 2025. Fans made their displeasure known, but when the sad day finally arrived they met it with grace and style, dancing and partying into their final oblivion. As reported by Automaton Media, […]
FF7 Rebirth Aerith romance guide: Side quests, dialogue choices, and dates
Oh, Aerith. Even after all this time, the kind-hearted flower merchant we first met in Midgar’s Sector 5 slums still has my heart. And though Cloud’s completely oblivious himbo personality is pretty charming, he can’t be trusted to always say the right thing, so I’m here to play the role of matchmaker with an FF7 […]
Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s latest update sure sounds like its last
Electronic Arts says thanks and farewell in a new patch for Dragon Age: The Veilguard that sounds very much like it will be the last. “Thank you all for playing Dragon Age: The Veilguard; we were so happy with the game’s stability at launch and hope you have enjoyed our Quality of Life patches since […]
The team behind one of 2024’s hidden gems is following it up with a stop-motion ‘relaxed digging and discovery’ game about a happy robot’s underground adventures beneath a lake of slime
One of last year’s biggest pleasant surprises was Judero, a surreal little adventure by a two-man team whose art consisted entirely of action figures and other handmade, physical objects digitized as sprites and textures or animated in stop-motion cutscenes. Developer Talha & Jack Co. is already working on what’s next: Mashina. “A little robot digs […]
Metadox Ombra soundproof mask impressions
My fellow gamer husband will always have me beat on two metrics: KDR, because I’m awful at shooters, and DPS—which I’m temporarily repurposing to mean Decibels Per Second. The man’s loud on an average night in the Discord call and louder still on Rainbow Six Siege nights. I’m accustomed to sleeping through the antics of […]
Dynasty Warriors: Origins goaded me into spending an hour trying to beat Lu Bu, then gave me nothing for winning—and I loved it
The last mainline Dynasty Warriors game I played is so old that it could buy me a drink, but I still remembered the five immortal words uttered by ardent fans when I booted up Dynasty Warriors: Origins: Do not pursue Lu Bu. When I first came face-to-face with the infamous warlord in Origins, the game […]
A European storefront listing suggests the RTX 5070 Ti may be launching on February 20 and there might actually be a good reason to believe it
With the Nvidia RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 launching next week, many potential buyers have been eyeing up the more budget-oriented (okay, they’re still going to be quite expensive) cards from the 50 series and we could potentially get them as soon as February 20. However, as always before the launch of a major card, […]
Adata SE880 1 TB external SSD review
It’s difficult to get excited about slightly older external SSDs, but sometimes they can surprise you—the Crucial X9, for instance, certainly surprised me with its consistent performance and low price tag. Unfortunately, the SE880 is not such a pleasant surprise. It’s fine for what it is, but “fine” is all, and there are better options […]
Scalpers are already trying to rip off gamers by flipping RTX 5090 graphics cards they don’t actually have for up to $7,000
Marginally less inevitable than the relentless march of cosmic entropy and ensuing heat death of the universe is the near-certainty that scalpers will try to make a quick buck on the latest high-end GPU from Nvidia. Enter the imminent RTX 5090 and eBay listings of up to $7,000. Of course, in theory, none of the […]
Coder creates an ‘infinite maze’ to snare AI bots in an act of ‘sheer unadulterated rage at how things are going’ on the content-scraped web
I’m getting a little tired of our deep-learning future, folks. While generative AI and deep learning technology isn’t inherently bad—it’s being used for folding proteins and advancing medical science, for example—the routine doling-out of slop has everyone paranoid, content trawlers are scraping through the web sucking up everything in sight, and an endless parade of […]
I love the look of this foldable ‘backpack class’ Mini-ITX case but it still looks like something I’d screw up at the last minute
For those who love the idea of a Mini-ITX PC but think it might be a pain to build (yours truly included), how about the Geometric Future Model O Flamingo? Aside from being charmingly named, Geometric Future says this is a ‘backpack class’ case design that doesn’t just look pretty on the outside but folds […]
Former BioWare vet says the studio is focused on a single game ‘for the first time maybe ever’ with Mass Effect 5—and whether that’s good or bad is anyone’s guess
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is one heck of a mixed bag—receiving a spread of good and bad praise from critics, some resentment from its fans, and apparently falling far from the mark financially. It’s also done now, with no plans for major DLC in the pipeline—sort of a first for the series, overall. That, according […]