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The Sims 4 is giving NPC households the ability to make major decisions They’ll be able to adopt pets, children and move house on their own. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. The Sims 4has updated the Neighborhood Stories system to give your neighbours and other inactive sims more autonomy to make world-changing decisions. One of my biggest gripes with The Sims 4 is that any sim who isn’t part of your active household is utterly devoid of any personality or autonomy....

There’s an annoying catch with AMD’s cheapest Zen 3 CPU The Ryzen 5 5500 could have been a great budget chip, but it’s too limited. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. AMD announceda bevy of new chipsyesterday, topped off by the first outing of its 3D V-Cache technology in the form of theRyzen7 5800X3D. That chip is designed to take the fight to Intel’s top-endCore i9 12900K, and Intel appears set to counter with the 12900KS....

There’s no good way to play Game Pass games on the Steam Deck, for now There are some workarounds, but for now the Steam Deck isn’t a good Game Pass device. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. The Steam Deck is versatile. Valve designed SteamOS to make it as easy as possible to play games from your Steam library, but thanks to the Linux desktop it’s also easy to turn the Deck into anemulation deviceor eveninstall games from the Epic Games Store....

Todd Howard says Starfield is channelling ‘older hardcore RPGs’ Apparently you can play as ‘basically space cop.’ When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. A newStarfielddeveloper diary discusses some of the game’s main factions and describes elements of the experience—then, in a moment destined to be memed forever, Todd Howard says “why are we all here?” We’re here to watch another video of talking heads illustrated with concept art and clips of old games for a product that’s apparently launching in eight months, Todd....

Windows Insider gets shown ad in Explorer but Microsoft says it was a mistake People are upset, but hopefully this one is as mild as it seems When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Update:In a statement toThe Verge, senior Windows program manager Brandon LeBlanc said “This was an experimental banner that was not intended to be published externally and was turned off....

Wordle Archive taken down at New York Times' request Wordle Archive was forced to pack its bags. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Daily word puzzlerWordleseemed to barrel into the spotlight out of nowhere. Tiny coloured squares popped up all over social media and creator Josh Wardle found himself with a tidy payday afterselling the game to the New York Times....

XDefiant drops Tom Clancy branding as public testing signups open Ubisoft now says the free-to-play multiplayer shooter will feature factions from outside the Tom Clancy universe. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Tom Clancy’sXDefiantwas introduced in 2021 asUbisoft’s free-to-play answer to Call of Duty multiplayer: A 6v6 competitive military FPS featuring factions from Tom Clancy franchises Splinter Cell, Ghost Recon, and The Division....