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Valve has just issued an update to its Steam Deck compatibility ratings for GTA 5 Enhanced and Rainbow Six Siege, declaring them both as Playable. That’s despite both games using the same BattlEye anti-cheat software that blocks Linux gamers, like those using Valve’s handheld gaming PC, from playing online with other gamers. While the Steam Deck continues to be the best handheld gaming PC for most gamers, consistency with the platform’s verification ratings has been a problem for some time. Whil...

Scientists and engineers of all kinds are equipped to solve tough problems a lot faster with NVIDIA CUDA-X libraries powered by NVIDIA GB200 and GH200 superchips. Announced today at the NVIDIA GTC global AI conference, developers can now take advantage of tighter automatic integration and coordination between CPU and GPU resources — enabled by CUDA-X Read Article

The Baldur’s Gate guru sends out a reminder that no revenue projection is as convincing as, well, a good game.

Every second, businesses worldwide are making critical decisions. A logistics company decides which trucks to send where. A retailer figures out how to stock its shelves. An airline scrambles to reroute flights after a storm. These aren’t just routing choices — they’re high-stakes puzzles with millions of variables, and getting them wrong costs money and, Read Article

Sometimes you want to customize a whole family lineage, from grandparents to grandchildren, telling a rags to riches story across generations. The Sims 4 will provide that for you in spades. But sometimes, you want something smaller, just a single person, making the lives of their neighbors better. Enter MySims, the franchise’s answer to Animal Crossing, which originally released way back in 2007 for the Nintendo Wii. If you ever wanted The Sims to have a cozier, cutesier vibe, look no further.

Right now, Paradox and Colossal Order are celebrating the tenth anniversary of Cities Skylines. The modern metropolitan take on the city building genre is one of the best you can play on PC today, even with CS2 still pulling itself up by its bootstraps. As someone with a love of history, though, I’ve had my eye on Pompeii: The Legacy for some time. This Ancient Roman take on the genre blends fact, fiction, and logistics into an all-new experience, and you can try it now ahead of launch.

If you've ever seen Dyson's Hot+Cool Jet Focus in a store and wished the ultra-sleek appliance was more affordable, today's your lucky day. Amazon has the product, which usually costs $470, on sale for $300. That's nearly a record low. As its name suggests, the Dyson Hot+Cool AM09 Jet Focus can heat your room in the winter and cool it off in the summer. Its fan mode includes Air Multiplier tech, which creates a smooth and uninterrupted airstream thanks to its lack of traditional fan blades. When...

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Wait, there's Switch 2 Direct happening? After landing a last-minute delay last year, Argonaut Games has today announced that the Croc: Legend of the Gobbos remaster will leap onto Switch on 2nd April... now why does that date ring a bell? Yep, when we've all finished revelling in the news of the Switch 2 Direct, we'll be able to turn our Switches on and get to some classic PS1 platforming, which will be just what the doctor ordered. Probably.

Samsung expanded its springtime deals this week with fresh discounts and offers across its website, including new sales on connected health products like the Galaxy Watch and Galaxy Ring. You'll also find savings on popular Samsung monitors and storage below. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Samsung. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us keep the site running. For the Galaxy products, Samsung is hosting deals on the new Galaxy S25 U...

So many deck-building challenges in Magic: The Gathering could be solved with one weird trick: Just add another color to your deck! Whether it’s a three-color Commander or some extra fetch lands to smooth out your mana base, extra colors can usher a little extra risk in exchange for a big reward. A decade ago,...

Two new PebbleOS smartwatches were announced today by original Pebble watch creator Eric Migicovsky, revitalizing a Kickstarter-launched brand that had three years of mega popularity before it folded in 2016. Called the Core 2 Duo and the Core Time 2, the two smartwatches run a PebbleOS, which is based on the source code for the software that ran on the original Pebble smartwatch. After Pebble shut down, assets were acquired by Fitbit, which was then acquired by Google. Google agreed to open sou...

Roku has begun running video ads that automatically play before loading the home screen, as reported by Ars Technica. This is impacting owners of Roku-branded smart TVs and streaming sticks, so long as the device runs the company’s proprietary OS. It’s worth noting that Roku users already see commercials on the home screen itself, so folks have to suffer through an ad to get to the ads. Multiple users have reported seeing commercials for the movie Moana 2, though there does seem to be an option ...

If you are feeling overwhelmed by all the decks and cards in Pokémon TCG Pocket, a Charizard ex deck could be a great place to start. The developers of Pokémon TCG Pocket released Charizard ex as part of Genetic Apex booster packs when the game launched in the fall of last year. Since then, we’ve...

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Cities: Skylines 2 has a new patch that makes a raft of changes to the Paradox city builder's UI and systems such as traffic and garbage, while adding two new Easy and Normal difficulty modes and ten 'birthday parks' to celebrate the first game's 10 year anniversary. The developers have also made some "quality-of-life improvements related to homelessness". That's "quality-of-life" in the vacuum-sealed software development sense of the simulation being nicer to operate, rather than quality of lif...

What are the Assassin’s Creed Shadows skills? Whether you want to be a feather-footed shinobi or a one-man samurai army, AC Shadows includes multiple skill trees with various abilities you can unlock to improve your performance in combat. Our complete list of all skills can help you decide which to unlock first. With so many to choose from, the best AC Shadows skills can often mean the difference between life and death, especially against AC Shadows bosses. Aside from new abilities, Assassin’s C...

What are the best Assassin’s Creed Shadows builds for the early game? Your journey across feudal Japan will be fraught with dangers, from roaming ronin to the powerful bosses looking to give you a run for your Mon. Suffice it to say, you’re going to have to get creative to survive, which is where character-building comes in. Thanks to the interplay between the AC Shadows skill trees and your equipment (especially the best AC Shadows weapons and best AC Shadows armor), you can turn Naoe and Yasuk...

How do you transmog gear in AC Shadows? Early on in your AC Shadows journey, you’ll be picking up low-level gear left and right. Whether it be a new hat or a new sword, chances are it boasts better stats than what you currently have equipped. This is great from a power curve standpoint, but can lead to some pretty garish outfits, and if we’re honest, that just won’t do. Thankfully, Assassins Creed Shadows lets you transmog gear to resemble the coolest pieces in your inventory without sacrificing...

Where can you find AC Shadows resources? While Naoe can achieve a lot on her own, some undertakings are beyond even her capable hands. You need to build something special if you want to take down the murderous gang that plagues you, and for that, you’ll need plenty of resources. These can come in many forms and can be gathered in different ways. The AC Shadows Hideout serves as your home base, and while it may have a humble beginning, eventually you can build up an operation that would put the e...

Who can you romance in Assassin’s Creed Shadows? Naoe and Yasuke are more than proficient at stabbing their foes through the heart, and they can work on filling their own with love while venturing across Japan. Ubisoft is bringing back romance once more in Assassin’s Creed Shadows, offering our dual protagonists the opportunity to put the ‘game’ in ‘open-world game’ as they rizz up various AC Shadows allies. Spotting an opportunity to strike up an AC Shadows romance during the AC Shadows quests ...

What are the best Assassin's Creed Shadows settings for PC and Steam Deck? This latest Assassin's Creed adventure is absolutely stunning when cranked up to the max settings on PC, with great performance to match. The Assassin's Creed Shadows system requirements have already revealed that you would need one of the best graphics cards to run this latest Ubisoft RPG at its highest settings, but performance on older GPUs, including the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 on which we tested it, is still incredib...

What are the best Assassin’s Creed Shadows mods? At PCGamesN we firmly believe there are a few games that won’t benefit from a well-crafted mod or two. AC Shadows is no exception to this, and whether it’s something balance-breaking like increasing loot rates or something more implicit like minor texture tweaks, we expect AC’s modding scene to jump on Ubisoft's latest as soon as it lands. Assassin’s Creed Shadows is finally upon us, and from our AC Shadows review playthrough it’s clear there’s pl...

What are the best Assassin’s Creed Shadows weapons? AC Shadows scales item levels to your current character level, so the best gear is typically whatever you discover next. However, like most RPG gear systems, it also offers up loot of varying rarities - and unsurprisingly, the Legendary weapons are top-tier. These Legendary weapons are by far and away the best AC Shadows weapons thanks to their unique passives. These passives can completely define your playstyle in the RPG game, and we’ve featu...

What is the best Assassin’s Creed Shadows armor? Naoe and Yasuke will quite literally have to roll with the punches (and the katanas… and the kanabos) as they quest across feudal Japan. To say they’re going to need proper protective gear is an understatement. In Assassin’s Creed Shadows, you’ll want to track down armor pieces that not only look good, but also keep you alive in the RPG game. Unsurprisingly, the best AC Shadows armor pieces are Legendary tier due to the powerful unique passives th...

Games Workshop has announced Kill team: Blood and Zeal, a new expansion set for the Warhammer 40,000 skirmish game. The expansion includes new card mechanics.

What are the Assassin’s Creed Shadows quests? The latest installment in the iconic RPG series has plenty of content for you to sneak or slash through, and keeping track of every quest and side mission can quickly become overwhelming. This is especially true seeing as Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ quest structure isn’t entirely linear, and at points you’ll be able to pick and choose which of the AC Shadows bosses you want to prioritize hunting down in the RPG (obligatory spoiler warning). This doesn’...

Where do you get legendary gear in Assassin’s Creed Shadows? You can gain access to powerful passive abilities with certain pieces of legendary gear, capable of drastically changing the way you approach combat. Legendary gear can be found inside legendary chests scattered throughout Japan, or earned through clearing content like quests and Projects in the Animus Hub. If you want to find specific pieces of equipment, we’ve got you covered with our comprehensive Assassin’s Creed Shadows legendary ...

How do you make money in Assassin’s Creed Shadows? Heading up and expanding a shinobi league across Japan doesn’t come cheap, and you’re going to need plenty of coin to pay for it all. Whether you’re training your AC Shadows allies, buying up Kakuregas, or upgrading that sweet piece of AC Shadows Legendary gear you just found, Assassin’s Creed Shadows makes you work hard for it. Below, we lay out the main methods of making AC Shadows Mon - the open-world RPG game’s clipped currency - so you can ...

Who are the Assassin’s Creed Shadows allies? A journey wrought with deception, vengeance, and redemption can be a bit much for Shadows’ dual protagonists, Naoe and Yasuke. Fortunately, there are some friendly faces jotted about Japan who are rooting for their success, and join the shinobi league once certain requirements are met. Your allies do a lot more than just sit in your AC Shadows Hideout and look pretty. Some may assist you on the battlefield, while others serve as AC Shadows romance opt...

Assassin's Creed is back with epic vistas, pretty graphics, and so-so performance. Same old, same old.

Where is the cat island in Assassin’s Creed Shadows? There are few greater joys in life than petting a cat. The tiny paws. Feeling the reverberations of their purrs as you rub their bellies. They’re dopamine on legs, quite frankly. Fortunately for Naoe and Yasuke, they too can revel in these feline delights, and there’s an entire island dedicated to our favorite fur balls. Japan is renowned for its numerous cat islands. From Aoshima to Enoshima, Sangagishima to Muzukijima. The Assassin’s Creed S...

Assassin's Creed's new Animus Hub - the project formerly known as Assassin's Creed Infinity - is threadbare and relatively ignorable at launch, but that's fine.

It seems like no matter where you go, Mappa is right there, ready and waiting with an anime something-or-other you weren't expecting. This time, you'll find the studio behind Jujutsu Kaisen in Ark: Survival Ascended, of all places, specifically in its first expansion pack Lost Colony. Studio Wildcard revealed a teaser of the expansion yesterday, set to be released November this year, showing off one of "numerous" anime cutscenes that it will feature focusing on the character Mei Yin.