The two best wireless gaming headsets are on offer and fighting for your Prime Day dollar today-

If you’re looking to snag yourself a decent Amazon Prime Day wireless gaming headset deal then you’re in luck. Not one, but two of our favorites are currently on offer, meaning won’t need to be tethered to your PC if need to step away to grab those all-important snacks. Both the HyperX Cloud Alpha Wireless and the Razer BlackShark V2 Pro are on sale today and both happen to feature pro…

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Singapore detains teens under controversial act after they played on ISIS-themed Roblox servers-

Singapore has detained teenagers in two separate cases under the country’s Internal Security Act (ISA), a controversial law that allows the country’s home affairs minister to have people detained without trial for up to two years. The ISA has in recent years been used to target militants of various stripes and now authorities allege these two boys, one 15 and one 16 years old, had become radica…

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Baldur’s Gate 3 dev spills the secret sauce- Players love finding a place, then ‘ending up 2 hours and 3 puzzles later in a sacrificial chamber of a cult that murders giraffes’-

Baldur’s Gate 3 is a Larian Studios game, and boy howdy are those things dense—as CRPGs tend to be. A far cry from the open-world RPGs saturated with merry little tasks that succeeded them, most CRPGs put you in a large-ish area that’s utterly rammed with stuff. Dungeons, quests, dialogue, sewers—on average a CRPG’s world is smaller, but by Mystra is it full.

That’s a…

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Valve just unveiled ‘the definitive first generation Steam Deck’ with an OLED screen and new Sephiroth APU-

And just like that, a new Steam Deck is here. We’ve been expecting a refresh of Valve’s handheld gaming PC for a little while now, and it’s touting this Steam Deck OLED as “the definitive first generation Steam Deck, it’s the one that we would have shipped if we could have.”

The new Steam Deck OLED comes in a few flavours, most obviously the $549 512GB and $649 1TB trims. That’s largely t…

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Stellaris’ next DLC is gonna take you to another dimension-

Galactic tyranny sim Stellaris is officially getting weird. Paradox has announced the game’s next DLC—named Astral Planes—and it’s promising to let you venture into whole new dimensions, where everything is topsy-turvy and the laws of physics go out the window.

Announced yesterday and releasing alongside Stellaris’ upcoming 3.10 update, Astral Planes is a “narrative-focused ex…

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UK police bust a fast food worker turned £3 billion bitcoin scam member on a £7.5 million money laundering charge-

It’s not every day that you read that a five-year investigation to crack an illegal operation involving billions of pounds worth of bitcoin was solved thanks to the excessive spending habits of an ex-takeaway worker, but that’s exactly what’s recently happened. The person in question has been found guilty of laundering 150 bitcoins, worth a mere £7.5 million, but the UK’s Metropolitan Pol…

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Witcher actor Doug Cockle says the use of AI voices in games is ‘inevitable’ but potentially dangerous- ‘AI is not the problem. It’s the people using AI’-

In a new interview with IGN, voice actor Doug Cockle, famed as the voice behind The Witcher trilogy hero Geralt of Rivia, says it’s “inevitable” that AI will be increasingly used in the process of game development, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing—but it is potentially “dangerous” if voice actors don’t take steps to control how their voice is used.

“AI is inevitable and develo…

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We’ll finally learn who’s making Vampire- the Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 in a few months-

Like the dread Ur-Shulgi stirring from centuries of torpor to cast down the enemies of the Banu Haqim, Vampire: the Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 has returned from the dead to, uh, send a tweet. And make a news post. And tease further updates in September! The prophets told us this day would come.

Earlier today, the official Vampire: the Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 account tweeted, …

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Wordle hint and answer #623- Saturday, March 4-

Keep on winning Wordle, and do it in your own way with our handy range of helpful hints and tailored tips. If you’d like a clue created especially for the March 4 (623) Wordle, you’ll find it just below, and if you’re stuck or short of time, then don’t worry, because today’s answer is only a quick scroll or click away.

After a run of unproductive openers Wordle decided that today would be…

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World of Goo 2 drops globular trailer, soundtrack preview ahead of launch this week-

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World of Goo 2 will release later this week on August 2, and to celebrate the developers have released a new trailer showing off a bit more than we saw when they revealed it last fall. One of the early great digital distribution indies—and still fun today—World of Goo has players snatch up little weird goop balls and attach them into increasingly unwieldy constructio…

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