ConnexionDucky One X review
The world's first induction keyboard fails to materialise into a must-have product.
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Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, February 18
Trouble solving today's Wordle? Here's the help you need.
If you're a fan of giant robots I urge you to watch the Mecharashi cinematic trailer
It's one minute of moody, high-definition mech glory.
© BlackJack Studio
Sure, why not, here's a guy beating Baldur's Gate 3 without a race or class at all
Do you have any unique features? No.
© MaybeAdam
Toby Fox is still working on more Deltarune, folks, game development is just complicated
Lots of quality assurance to do before Deltarune Chapter 3 and 4 get to you.
© Toby Fox
Behold! All the finalists in the 2025 Australian PC Awards
All the stuff we liked best for the past year.
© Future
Japanese patent attorney, burdened with a party pooper's knowledge, says Nintendo having 22 out of 23 Palworld-targeting claims 'rejected' in the US is business as usual
Most patent claims are as broad as possible, and filed down in an iterative process.
© Pocketpair
The new game from The Witcher 3's director revives the best tradition of Morrowind by letting you kill off 'really important NPCs'
I choose to persist in the doomed world I've created, thanks.
© Rebel Wolves
Ubisoft announces the 'biggest transformation in Rainbow Six Siege's history' for later this year, so big they're adding an 'X' to the name—But don't call it a sequel
I'm still just going to run around smashing through walls with the sledgehammer.
© Ubisoft
About darn time: Microsoft says it has fixed the annoying lag in Windows Explorer when working with cloud-based files
It's been my biggest bugbear with OneDrive for ruddy ages.
© Microsoft
My respec in Avowed turned the combat from Skyrim into Dishonored, and now I'm having a blast as an invisible parkour sword-mage
Finally, a game has broken me of my phobia of do-overs.
© Obsidian Entertainment
Remember those 'choose your own adventure' fantasy books? Well, now they're coming back in this delightfully chonky e-ink console
Poke ogre with a stick. Turn to page 23. You died.
© Ink Console | Singular 9 Ltd
The latest Steam Deck beta update can improve battery life with the frame limiter active by *checks notes* a whole six percent
Well, it's something, isn't it?
© Future
'I strive to be half the hater he is': Elden Ring Nightreign players have decided that Margit was the most annoying invader during the playtest
He should've stayed on his bridge.
© FromSoftware
Mass Effect 3 didn't have music like Vigil or Suicide Mission because composer Jack Wall had a spat with Casey Hudson: 'Casey was not particularly happy with me at the end'
All rise for the national anthem: Mass Effect 2—Normandy: Galaxy Map / Scanning Themes (1 Hour of Music).mp4.
© BioWare
5 characters I'm pretty sure will never make it into Marvel Rivals, ever
Only one of these characters is going to blow up in popularity, and not in a good way.
© Marvel - The Worst X-Man Ever #4
Asked point-blank if they're trolling dataminers with fake characters, Marvel Rivals dev scoffs and says they'd 'rather spend our time developing the game'
Go on, put Ben Reilly in there.
© NetEase
GPUs powering AI will probably be the end of us all but at least they're being used to find small city smashing asteroids before they do
Ten metres might not sound very big but just imagine dropping one on your toes.
© Ella Maru, Julien de Wit | MIT
You joke, but I still want one: AMD 'teases' the 320 GB 90700.05XTXT Max with a 96-pin power connector and a 1.21 gigawatt power requirement
Signs AMD is losing patience with RX 9070-series rumours, stage one.
© Future
'Not every story is told in that way': Phil Spencer says that live service games aren't the answer to every problem, and that smaller games play an important role
"Allow us to also support games that have a beginning, middle, and end."
© Microsoft
Viewers watch in horror, unable to help, as blindfolded Super Mario 64 speedrunner almost gets a world record that wouldn't have counted: 'I would've cried'
The 'he can't hear us, he's got airpods in' of speedrunning.
© Nintendo
YouTuber The Swedish Maker wears a Meta Quest 3 VR headset for his entire woodworking project and miraculously emerges with all fingers intact
This could have gone so much worse.
© The Swedish Maker
Claims about AMD moving to a 12-core chiplet design for Zen 6 have got me all kinds of excited for the next generation of X3D processors
I know, I know. Rumours. They're just rumours. BUT I WANT IT!
© AMD
Don't get rid of your starting horse in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2—there's a secret perk that makes her the best in the game
I can fix her (she is a horse).
© Deep Silver
If you've ever wished Phoenix Wright was a witcher then do I have the game for you
Shocking no one's done it before, really.
© Shueisha Games
Shovel Knight artist says throwback games need 'retro authenticity' but can't coast on nostalgia alone: 'Part of the appeal of the NES era of game making was that everything was a new idea'
Nick Wozniak cited UFO50 and Nightmare Kart as recent games that had both.
© Yacht Club
Today's Wordle answer for Monday, February 17
Help with solving Monday's puzzle.
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Layoffs at Funko Fusion developer 10:10 Games blamed on 'complete commercial and critical failure' of the game
Around 20 staff members were laid off as part of studio restructuring.
© 10:10 Games Ltd, Valve
Five new Steam games you probably missed (February 17, 2025)
Sorting through every new game on Steam so you don't have to.
© Hakababunko
Maybe I'll finally stop getting lost in Fallout: New Vegas' Bison Steve Hotel thanks to this new minimap mod
Look, it's kinda weird in there.
© null
Viktor Antonov, the visionary artist who defined Half-Life 2 and Dishonored, has died
Antonov also consulted on Doom 2016 and Fallout 4.
© Viktor Antonov, Arkane
Capcom says Ōkami sold quite well, actually, and it's wanted to do a sequel for ages but was waiting for 'the stars to align'
Such stars including Hideki Kamiya.
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LAN Party simulates LAN parties without the LAN
The experience of getting together to use a LAN, except it's on WAN.
© LAN Party Technologies
Dawnfolk is a satisfying city builder puzzle game that works great on Steam Deck
It's like someone smashed Loop Hero and Dorfromantik together.
© Darenn Keller
Directive 8020: A Dark Pictures Game launches John Carpenter's the Thing into space this October
Supermassive's latest horror adventure arrives later this year.
© Supermassive Games
Metal Eden is a movement-shooter that looks like cyberpunk Doom Eternal
From the studio that made Ruiner.
© Deep Silver
