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Digital Foundry | Beelink SER9 review: AMD's Strix Point is its most powerful PC APU to date - but how does it game?
The Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 versus the 7840U and the Steam Deck.
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Retrospective | Reflecting on Planescape Torment's legacy, 25 years later
The pains of existence.
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Review-in-progress | Path of Exile 2 early access review-in-progress - coming for Diablo 4's lunch in style
GGG.
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Sponsored | Free-to-play strategy RPG Girls Frontline 2: Exilium Launches on PC and mobile
Direct a team of characters in tactical turn-based combat.
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Film Interview | Grand Theft Hamlet is a luminous documentary about staging Shakespeare inside GTA Online that brings fresh nuance to the game and bard alike
Bearing all the fardels.
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Digital Foundry | Indiana Jones and the Great Circle tech review: an incredible achievement
The best Indy game ever made.
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How the PlayStation helped Square Enix achieve its cinematic ambitions for Final Fantasy 7 and beyond
Head in the Cloud.
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TV First Look | Four episodes of Amazon's Secret Level anthology hints at a rich, visual pick'n'mix, but is that enough?
Skip cutscene Y/N?
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Writing WipEout, one of gaming's most enduring, vivid worlds
"There was always that sense of: not a lot of people read this, you could kind of go to town with it."
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Digital Foundry | GTA Definitive Edition: Does Patch 6's classic lighting mode finally fix the look of the games?
Plus: what other bugs and oddities still remain after three years?
Interview
The big Dragon Age: The Veilguard post-release interview: "It was never going to match the Dragon Age 4 in people's minds"
The reaction, the making of, and what comes next.
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How Blockbuster and a mail order catalogue helped PlayStation defeat the Sega Saturn
One weekend changed the games industry forever, even if it was just in my bedroom.
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Digital Foundry | Intel announces Arc B580 and B570 "Battlemage" graphics cards with XeSS 2 frame generation
Welcome back player three.
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The future of Monument Valley is Netflix, whether we like it or not
"We could talk a little bit about the game industry and where it is nowadays..."
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The 10 PS1 games that mattered the most
To the console, to PlayStation, to us, and to the industry as a whole.
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What we've been playing - sequel prep, nostalgic horror, and birds
A few of the things that have us hooked this week.
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Now Playing | Brighter Shores feels an awful lot like RuneScape, but its promising start is still missing some key ingredients
Misty coast.
Opinion
The PS5 Pro's major missing feature and a ?5 copy of Forspoken has shown me a future I really don't want
I'm sorry, disc drives, I didn't realise how much I needed you until you were gone.
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The world is ending but here's a side quest - will RPGs ever solve their urgency problem?
It's about time.
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What we've been playing - music videos, gaudy zombies and camo grinds
A few of the things that have us hooked this week.