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To call Goddess of Victory: Nikke a smash hit would be putting it lightly. Since its November 2022 launch, the game has already surpassed 25 million global downloads on Android and iOS.  To celebrate this milestone, publisher Level Infinite announced that the Nikke would be coming to PC — and that shortly after launch, it would also introduce some familiar faces  from the immensely popular Chainsaw Man. 

Set in a grim world where human fears become tangible entities known as devils, Chainsaw Man centers on the luckless Denji, a teenager saddled with a paternal debt to the Yakuza. Denji’s life takes a turn for the better when he crosses paths with the legendary chainsaw devil Pochita and becomes the titular human/devil hybrid Chainsaw Man. Denji will j…

Just over a year after Harry Potter: Magic Awakened launched internationally, publisher Warner Bros has announced that the game will be shut down in the Americas, Europe, and Oceania in October.

Harry Potter: Magic Awakened took a twisting path to get to PC. It launched in China and Taiwan in 2021 on mobile devices, and then went global in July 2023, including on Windows—although the servers for the PC version were limited to Southeast Asia. 

That doesn’t really seem like a deal-breaker—I downloaded the official PC client earlier today to see what it was like, and the game ran fine—except that NetEase and Warner run their own separate account systems: You cannot link a WB-operated mobile account (which is what you’re using if you’re located outside of …

There’s a change in Cyberpunk 2077 2.0 so small players might not have noticed it, simply swapping the model used for one background NPC in the corpo prologue. Players did notice it, however, because some of them believe the original model was intended to be an Elon Musk cameo.

According to a recent biography of the world’s wealthiest person by Walter Isaacson, Musk showed up to CD Projekt’s office while wielding a 200-year-old gun to demand a cameo in Cyberpunk 2077. That doesn’t mean they actually put him in there, though.

When one Twitter user posted before-and-after screenshots with the lament, “Oh my god they removed the Elon Musk cameo from the Corpo opening in Cyberpunk 2077”, senior quest designer Patrick K. Mills couldn’t help but comment. “That wasn’t Elon musk, it…

Although we don’t know the launch date for the next major Minecraft update, today’s Java version update 1.19.4 actually includes a toggle to activate all of the big Minecraft 1.20 features that have been announced so far. So you don’t need to go juggling snapshot versions anymore if you want to take a test drive with the new sniffer, cherry blossom biome, and archeology features.

Over in the patch notes for version 1.19.4, Mojang says that the game experiments toggle now includes the “first look” at the sniffer, archaeology, armor trims and cherry grove biome. The “first look” designation likely means that these features aren’t 100% complete the way they will be at launch. In snapshot builds so far, for instance, sniffers could only be seen by spawning them in creati…

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OneXPlayer has built a reputation for making excellent handheld gaming PCs, such as the OneXFly, as well as experimenting with some odd designs that don’t quite hit the mark. This time it’s having a second bash at making an external GPU, called the OneXGPU 2, to give handhelds, tablets, and basic laptops a much-needed gaming boost.

The first iteration of the OneXGPU isn’t brilliant if I can be somewhat blunt. With a Radeon RX 7600M XT graphics processor and an M.2 2280 SSD socket, the $700 device is very pricey and tries a little too hard to be all things for all people. But even with a full-speed USB4 cable, there’s barely enough bandwidth for the GPU and SSD.

So when I read that OneXPlayer has launched a new Indiegogo project (via Videocardz) to fund the developme…

Right now it’s just a Computex tech demo, but the gaming focused Project G-Assist AI might just be the most interesting AI assistant I’ve seen yet. And I’ve seen a lot, and we’ll likely see a million more throughout the Taipei show this week and on through this ‘year of the AI PC’.

And, by the way, you can now add ‘RTX AI PC’ to the list of new ways we’re meant to be talking about our personal computers when they’ve got an Nvidia GPU inside them. Microsoft has ignored Nvidia when it’s talking Copilot+, but it’s not about to get left out of any ‘AI PC’ shizzle as the arguably the biggest hardware player in the entire field. 

I’m already rather fatigued by all this AI talk, but in a pre-show briefing it was the Project G-Assist demo that really caught my eye. If the name …

In Starfield, there’s a quest where you get to betray a major player. I’m going to keep the details vague to avoid spoilers, but in a lot of other RPGs this would be a massive story moment. If you walk down this path, you’ll never be able to interact with that faction again. You’re signing up for this life over that one.

Ultimately, bar losing access to said faction’s mission board, nothing really happens. You can still do quests for them, and only the chunk of the faction related to that questline really cares. Granted, this is borderline Bethesda tradition. In Oblivion for example you could be a master thief, head of the fighter’s guild, top of the mage’s guild, and a renowned assassin for the Dark Brotherhood, all at once.

That’s somethin…

I recently had the pleasure of playing a dash of Pyrene—and as someone with an upsetting amount of hours logged in games like Slay the Spire, I had a grand old time. Pyrene is a deckbuilding roguelike from developer team Two Tiny Dice, a studio headed up by Christophe Coyard—the mind behind the similarly-designed Escape the Fold.

Here’s the premise: your village gets attacked by monsters, and now you need to go gather materials to rebuild it. When you die, you black out and wake up back where you started—with all those handy little progression systems (like a tavern, a watchtower, and a marketplace) remaining static.

The meat and bones of Pyrene is all about movement and positioning. In “danger zones”, you can move your character’s card around with the WASD…

Good news for all the prey animals out there: Starfield’s latest dinky update will finally allow you to achieve a field of view roughly equivalent to your own. The 1.7.36 patch for Bethesda’s spacefaring RPG doesn’t make many changes—in fact, it makes barely any—but it does fulfil Bethesda’s promise of introducing a proper FOV slider to the game instead of forcing you to go rummaging around in .ini files to change the setting.

I rarely mess with FOV sliders in games, mostly because my inert and docile brain doesn’t suffer the same motion sickness that afflicts some people who find default FOVs too wide or too narrow, but I spent ten minutes noodling around with the new setting to see what was now possible. 

To my inexpert eye, it seems quite…