Overwatch 2’s latest hero is an overdesigned mess
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The best Overwatch heroes are one-trick wonders. Mechanics and personality are all carefully crafted to push them into performing a single role with extreme confidence, whether that’s Reinhardt’s fortress protecting the team or the venomous push-and-pull of Moira’s vampiric healing.
The s
The Cycle: Frontier review
Our Verdict
The Cycle: Frontier is well-polished but undone by tedium and a lack of imagination.
Need to know
What is it? A PvPvE extraction shooter.
Expect to pay Free-to-play
Developer YAGER
Publisher YAGER
Reviewed on Nvidia GeForce GTX-970, Intel i7-4790K, 16GB RAM
Multiplayer? Yes
Link Official site (opens in new tab)
A sub-genre has been bre
Government developer leaves database credentials on an old blog post potentially causing the largest data hack in history
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The private data for 1 billion Chinese citizens was briefly put up for sale on a hacking forum, which would represent the largest leak of personal data in history. The post offering the database for sale seems to have been removed from the Breach Forum pages, which could either suggest that it was completely bogus or
Razer Key Light Chroma review
Our Verdict
The Razer Key Light Chroma absolutely nails what it sets out to, but it’s also very much a niche product with a high price tag.
For
RGB lighting effects are rad
Blazingly bright white LEDs
Solid stand with wide compatibility
Against
App control is rocky at times
You could buy multiple streaming lights for less
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The strange world of The Backrooms explained
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Jump to:
Origin
a e s t h e t i c
Context
Imagine an endless hallway. Fluorescent lighting flickers dimly against stained, yellowing walls. Doorways lead to empty rooms, or circle back on themselves. You are alone, forgotten in a purgatorial nightmare, and something’s watching you.
Welcome to The Backroo
Razer Key Light Chroma review
Our Verdict
The Razer Key Light Chroma absolutely nails what it sets out to, but it’s also very much a niche product with a high price tag.
For
RGB lighting effects are rad
Blazingly bright white LEDs
Solid stand with wide compatibility
Against
App control is rocky at times
You could buy multiple streaming lights for less
Ve
The strange world of The Backrooms explained
(Image credit: Kane Pixels)
Jump to:
Origin
a e s t h e t i c
Context
Imagine an endless hallway. Fluorescent lighting flickers dimly against stained, yellowing walls. Doorways lead to empty rooms, or circle back on themselves. You are alone, forgotten in a purgatorial nightmare, and something’s watching you.
Welcome to The Backroo
James Gunn and Suda51 ‘don’t know anything’ about the Lollipop Chainsaw remake
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Lollipop Chainsaw is getting a remake (opens in new tab) if you somehow haven’t heard my incessant yelling about its return for the past few weeks. The original is a bombastic, colourful zombie-sawing action game packed with witty dialogue co-written by James Gunn back when he was just “the Scooby-Doo guy
This Herman Miller gaming chair hasn’t let me down yet and is currently 15% off
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Herman Miller Embody gaming chair | Adjustable armrests | Polyester upholstery | Ergonomic design | $1,795 $1,525.75 at Herman Miller (save $269.25) (opens in new tab)
This is the comfiest gaming chair I’ve ever sat in, and I’d highly recommend it to anyone looking for a chair that goes
Pi-powered Cyberdecks are the retro futuristic PCs of our dreams
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We’ve officially been sucked into this new modding trend. Basically people are designing portable Raspberry Pi cases, expertly modded and complete with keyboards and other accessories, to look like sci-fi ‘Cyberdecks.’
When Twitter user Supership79 posted (opens in new tab) about these Cyberd
Forspoken has been delayed for ‘strategic’ reasons
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Square Enix and Luminous Productions have announced that the upcoming game Forspoken has been delayed all the way into 2023. The team made the announcement on Twitter but strangely didn’t chalk it up to the game being unready, instead it seems to be for “strategic” reasons—whatever that means.&nb
A new Witcher game releases Thursday
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Surprise: We’re getting an all new Witcher game this week. Obviously, it’s not The Witcher 4 (opens in new tab), which CD Projekt Red confirmed earlier this year (though not by that name). It’s actually a deckbuilding roguelike based on the card game Gwent.
As reported by IGN (opens in new tab
UK competition watchdog to investigate Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard
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The year’s biggest news so far has been Microsoft’s proposed takeover of Activision Blizzard, in a deal that could be worth $68.7 billion (opens in new tab). Activision Blizzard’s shareholders have approved the deal (opens in new tab), but due to its sheer size (this wo