Connexion
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Upcoming NBN price increases are another great reason to change providers—I switched last week, doubling my speed and saving AU$15 a month
The trick to saving money on internet is to never stay still.
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Calling all cozy mystery fans: the follow-up to 2022's best puzzle game gives you even more ways to play detective
Strange Antiquities, the sequel to botany shop puzzler Strange Horticulture, gives you new ways to solve all its perplexing little mysteries.
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Spanish TV news uses Dark Souls 3 boss fight to illustrate, with 100% accuracy, how the conclave will elect a new Pope
This is truly the Dark Souls of old guys voting.
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EA thinks it got Battlefield right this time, projecting confidence to investors in advance of a summer reveal: 'When we get it right, Battlefield is a giant franchise and often the biggest shooter in the year'
The new Battlefield is being tested by thousands of players, and more will be let in soon.
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FTC loses bid to block Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard, which already happened in 2023
It's not technically over, but yeah, it's over.
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Confusion reigns as report of an A24 Elden Ring movie emerges, disappears, and emerges again
Is there anything here, or are we all tarnishing our reputations?
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Oblivion Remastered guide: Everything you need to return to Cyrodiil
Revisit the classic RPG with these handy guides.
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Props for the honesty: Tim Sweeney says the reason 'people characterize the Epic Games launcher as clunky' is—wait for it—'because the Epic Games launcher is clunky'
The Epic boss recently shared his thoughts in a lengthy interview with Lex Fridman.
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The latest GTA 6 trailer confirmed its most exciting feature: A bunch of logos for pretend companies
That's the stuff.
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Oblivion Remastered mod finally fixes the loot levelling, so no longer do you need to complete quests then wait forever to hand them in
"No more worrying about what level you should or shouldn't complete certain quests at!"
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Electronic Arts CEO feels 'very good' about the next Battlefield's launch now that Grand Theft Auto 6 is out of the way
"That window is clearer than it was before."
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I pride myself on keeping up with Steam's under-the-radar gems, but April was packed with enough new games to keep me busy for the rest of 2025
One of the busiest months in years meant that not every studio could be a winner.
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Just months after reportedly cancelling two live service games in development, Sony announces a new PlayStation studio with a live service game in development
TeamLFG is a new internal PlayStation studio that may be working on the former Bungie project codenamed Gummy Bears.
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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 players find a way to do 2,177,438,000 damage, which is enough to kill the hardest endgame superboss over 45.8 times
Simon says? No, Simon dies.
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As support for Windows 10 counts down, End of 10 asks 'why not Linux?'
What is the penguin hiding behind that enigmatic smile?
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Hazelight's Split Fiction sells over 4 million copies in 2 months
Josef Fares and team have certainly found a big niche.
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Intel slashes the price of its Core Ultra 265K CPU from $399 to $299, making it a killer deal for gamers despite all the early issues
Arrow Lake CPU, anyone?...Anyone?
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The best budget 4K gaming monitor has practically halved in price to just $330
It's hard to say no to 4K at this price.
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Check out this brilliant video breaking open a bricked Nintendo Switch 2 chip to see what makes it tick, and why we're looking at around Steam Deck GPU performance from the new console
Want to literally see inside the Switch 2's processor?
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On the prospect of an $80-$90 GTA 6, former PlayStation boss says 'it's an impossible equation' for big-budget studios to keep their prices down
"People expect games that are ever more ambitious and therefore expensive to develop to cost the same."
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How to complete the Calmer of Chaos Dreamlight Duty in Disney Dreamlight Valley
One of the Cheshire Cat's limited event duties.
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Fallout 76's spring limited-time event, The Big Bloom, has begun, which means pollen, allergies, and flower crowns
"Spring also means pollen", you're telling me.
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Leaked pics of a supposed Asus ROG Ally 2 show an Xbox-branded handheld gaming PC that is very peculiar to behold
It's like... one foot in the PlayStation Portal camp, the other in the normal one.
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GPUs and monitors from MSI: Collaborate to dominate at 4K and 240Hz
The latest graphics cards and QD-OLED screens from industry titan MSI have advanced features to enable the highest framerates
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The BioWare we loved is mostly gone, but '2017 is when EA finished digesting' it, says Dragon Age studio veteran
"EA buys studios, and then consumes them, and they start to lose their culture."
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How to complete the It's All Nonsense quest in Disney Dreamlight Valley
Cheshire wants to make amends with his fellow villagers.
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How to complete the Furniture Fluster quest in Disney Dreamlight Valley
Start to reverse the chaos of the Cheshire Cat.
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Gigabyte's thermal gel 'is crawling out' of place on some RTX 50-series cards
Not the worst thing you can clap eyes upon in your PC case, but not ideal.
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'We didn't have a serious plan': The hardest part of creating Go Wayback, according to Brendan Greene, was just figuring out if it could actually work
Creating a digital world isn't as easy as you might think.
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How to get New Land Beyond in Destiny 2
Let me give you a clue: it involves money.
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This is the first big discount I've found on RTX 50-series gaming laptops, and it's a version of one I've enjoyed testing myself
The MSI Vector 16 HX AI is a quality machine and this RTX 5070 Ti spec looks super solid for its $400 discount.
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Nvidia and MediaTek rumoured to announce new Windows on Arm laptop chips at Computex 2025
The show kicks off in a few weeks, so AMD APUs could have stiff competition very soon.
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Grand Theft Auto 6 dropped a whopping 84 brand-new screenshots and illustrations, and here's every single one
Leonida's people and places all in one spot.
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Forget megabucks Nvidia GPUs, apparently all you need to run an LLM is a Pentium II CPU from 1997
The catch? It's kinda slow, as in 20,000 times slower than a GPU.
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The US DOJ recommends Google break up its ad-tech platform in light of illegal monopoly claims. Google disagrees, unsurprisingly
This could majorly affect the operation of Google platforms.
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The Art of Warhammer Video Games is a 208-page book covering 30 years of Warhammer games
It'll look nice filed next to my copy of The Art of War.
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A dead Chinese Borderlands MMO is being revived
Borderlands Online was revealed just a year before it was shut down.
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Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, May 7
Today's Wordle: Help with the daily puzzle.
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