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Infocom classic A Mind Forever Voyaging was a game about predicting America’s collapse We’re rerunning Richard Cobbett’s classic Crapshoot column, in which he rolled the dice and took a chance on obscure games—both good and bad. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. From 2010 to 2014Richard Cobbettwrote Crapshoot, a column about rolling the dice to bring random games back into the light....

Intel responds to Alder Lake CPU bowing issue The company seems confident in its design, but concerns remain. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Intel’s latest generation Alder Lake chips are some impressive silicon, taking some of the top spots in our list of thebest CPUs for gaming. That said, it hasn’t been all good news for the latest-gen chipset: the Independent Loading Mechanism (ILM) which locks the processors into their LGA-1700 motherboard sockets has been shown to cause a degree of warping in the processors, with the middle bowing inward and the top and bottom edges coming up....

Pile up cards to build villages in Stacklands A timing-driven city builder that has you shuffling cards about like solitaire. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. The team of absolute game machines over atSokpop Collectivehave a new hit, at least to me, in Stacklands—it’s city building by way of cards. By stacking cards you build up a cute little village, cutting logs, quarrying stone, growing food, and building the houses and sheds (oh, so many sheds) to keep it all....

There’s a fix for Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga insisting on a 60 fps cap It feels like every time you’re not looking, the game turns the dial back down to 60. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Thanks toPCGamesN, we now have a fix for one of Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga’s few graphical hiccups: its stubborn insistence on defaulting to a 60 fps cap on launching the game or Alt+Tabbing out, no matter what you set in the in-game menus....

12.5 minute Elden Ring speedrun record skips all but one boss The new ‘zip’ glitch has transformed the entire run. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. As Elden Ring speedruns get faster, the runners aren’t only becoming more efficient, but also skipping more of the game on their way to the credits. In the latest world record run, which clocks in at12 minutes and 32 seconds, Mitchriz only has to fight one boss....

A new Subnautica game is in development Unknown Worlds is working on the new sci-fi adventure alongside an unannounced project that’s expected to hit Early Access later this year. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. The 2018 sci-fi survival gameSubnauticais brilliant, and the 2021 followup,Subnautica: Below Zero, is a worthy successor; both games were also significant commercial successes. In light of that, it should come as no surprise that developer Unknown Worlds has got a new Subnautica game in development....

Among Us makes it to Jeopardy I’ll take “It was Red” for 800, Alex. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. There are few things Canadians enjoy more than Jeopardy questions about our homeland: It gives us an opportunity to feel smart and smug while the American players on our television screens try to figure out who Don Harron was. Now gamers can get a taste of what that’s like too, thanks to the multiplayer murder gameAmong Us, which had the honor of being the subject of a question in a recent episode....