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In case you hadn’t noticed, the holiday run-up has officially begun, and it’s the time of year when every company begins its relentless assault on your newsfeed and email inboxes with as much whimsy and good cheer as it can muster. While for many this is something of an unwelcome barrage of forced bon-homie, there is the occasional bit of holiday marketing that elicits a genuine smile. 

As far as that goes, we’ve always been partial to the holiday tradition of the Windows ugly sweater, and the good news is the 2023 version has just dropped and by ugly sweater standards it’s virtually tasteful. 

Look at it. The majesty. The nostalgia. The wave of good will and sentiment that washes over you as you remember a simpler time, when taskbars were blue, Windows ha…

Which one is 7 Days to Die again? It’s the zombie survival game where every seven days a rampaging horde arrives to mess up everything you’ve made? Sounds like Brisbane on the weekend. 

I remember hearing 7 Days to Die is one of the good ones actually, but since it came out at the peak of my period of “being a bit sick of  all these zombie games, especially the early access ones” I never gave it a look-in. “I’ll wait until it leaves early access, then I’ll check it out,” I thought. And then I didn’t think about it again until now, when developers The Fun Pimps announced 7 Days to Die really is about to hit 1.0.

They won’t be moving on to another project, however, saying, “The Fun Pimps have and will continue to support 7 Days to Die development with a majority of t…

Diablo 4 is now in the wild, and Blizzard has announced it is the fastest-selling game in the company’s long and storied history. To give that some context, this thing has sold faster than the likes of Starcraft 2 and Overwatch (as well as its own predecessors) though what that actually means in terms of hard numbers remains a mystery for now, with Blizzard opting for vagueness amidst the celebrations. The press release says Diablo 4 “is Blizzard Entertainment’s fastest-selling game of all time, with Blizzard’s highest pre-launch unit sales ever on both console and PC”.

The game has been greeted with a bunch of perfect review scores (PCG’s review remains in-progress until we’ve had enough time with the launch game) and, while there are plenty of grumbles, a generally e…

If you’re bored of doing mundane things like “conquering settlements” in Total War: Warhammer 3, it sounds like the legendary lord being added to the Tzeentch roster in the upcoming Shadows of Change add-on might be for you. The Changeling is a shapeshifting daemon who, based on the latest Creative Assembly blog post, plays a totally different Total War.

We’ve seen other armies toy with infiltration mechanics before, particularly the skaven and Slaanesh, but it sounds like The Changeling leans in even further. After defeating a settlement, he’s got the option to insert a trickster cult, seemingly returning it to the owner as you would after sacking a town. Only not, because from then on the cult can either work to funnel money to The Changeling while spreading propaganda to influe…

Keep on scrolling and you’ll soon find yourself surrounded by all the Wordle help you could ever wish for. There’s a hint for the September 22 (825) game ready and waiting if you need it, and if you’re in danger of a complete wipe, today’s Wordle answer will soon set things right.

If Wordle gave out prizes for spectacularly missing today’s answer for far too long, I’m sure I’d be in the running for first place. Winning with just one guess left to go always feels like such a narrow escape, especially when those yellow letters refuse to flip to green for row after row.

Today’s Wordle hint

A Wordle hint for Friday, September 22

This common tool is used on people and animals to keep hair (or fur) neat and tidy, by artists to spread pigment on canvas,…

When Borderlands Science was announced back in 2020 I thought it all sounded a little silly. Science? In my Borderlands? It struck me as a lot less likely than Dr. Mayim Bialik seemed to think. But it turns out that I was the silly one all along, because McGill University, the institution leading the project, says the project was in fact a massive success that will “substantially advance our knowledge of the microbiome and improve on the AI programs that will be used to carry out this work in future.”

Science in Borderlands does not occur through the usual gameplay, but rather by way of the Borderlands Science minigame embedded in Borderlands 3. That’s what really drove my doubts about the whole thing. Borderlands is all about shooting endless truckloads of dudes—how many pl…

Nvidia’s latest RTX 40-series graphics card launches today, January 5. Announced during CES 2023, the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti is a $799 graphics card with some fairly lofty 1440p and 4K performance to offer. I just hope we’ll see prices actually sticking around that price tag for a decent amount of time today—early listings would suggest that $799 price tag will be hard to come by, however.

If you’ve been keeping up with the Nvidia 40-series launch, you’ll know that the RTX 4070 Ti is one and the same with the RTX 4080 12GB that was originally announced by Nvidia only to be pulled from the roster pre-launch. The RTX 4070 Ti is the exact same card, only now comes in at $100 cheaper.

We’ve already published our Gigabyte RTX 4070 Ti Gaming OC review, so take a look if you’re …

There are a lot of easter eggs and oddities in Baldur’s Gate 3 and it seems like there’s plenty left to uncover yet. For instance, one dataminer has just managed to trigger a dialogue scene in which bestest barbarian Karlach becomes aware she’s a character in a game and looks right through the screen into your soul.

It begins with Karlach suggesting she try something she learned from a cleric of Zariel, a technique for looking into someone’s eyes and determining whether they’re telling the truth or not. Things go awry almost immediately when she stops looking at the character, and instead stares at the player.

If you play along with her questions, Karlach gets more than she bargained for, and has a glimpse of reality. “I see… a great web,” she says. “…