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YouTuber Dunkey now has an indie publishing label Not everyone’s convinced, though. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. After 11 years of making YouTube videos, Dunkey (aka videogamedunkey) is breaking into the indie publishing world, setting up BigMode with his wife Leah. He announced his new label in the five-minute video “My Indie Game Publishing Company,” in which he claims he’s “sick of waiting on the sidelines waiting for great games to appear,” instead wanting to get involved in making them happen....

‘Last man standing’ for floppy disks reckons it’s four years till bust But seriously, how are so many industries still using magnetic disks, even now? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Way back in ancient times, i.e. the ’70s and ’80s, the floppy disk was a major player in the world of digital storage. And you might be surprised to learn just how prominent the format still is in this age of lightning fastNVMe SSDs....

A 25-year-old MMO is finally getting sound Tibia players will be able to hear at last. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. In 1997, four German students put their hobby project online: 2D fantasy MMO Tibia. In the years that followed, millions of players in hundreds of countries would log onto Tibia (most of them in Brazil and Poland, where it was most popular), and its creators would found development studio CipSoft....

Beacon Pines is a cozy horror game that hides an emotional mystery beneath cute characters This spooky pre-teen mystery has great twists without being too tough. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Like a great mystery novel, my favorite moments in Beacon Pines are when Iknowwhat’s about to happen. Early on, main character Luka VanHorn attempts to thwart his best friend’s older sister from dragging him home for chores instead of exploring a creepy warehouse together by being “a little chill....

Devs show off how bad early game builds look after moans about GTA 6’s visuals Bring back Mass Effect 3’s headless Shepard, BioWare. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. GTA 6has had someleaks, and they have gotten a few souls in a tizzy about the in-development game’s graphical fidelity. Otherwise rational people look at leaked gameplay footage from a project that won’t be finished for years, see the placeholder barks and Ken-doll textures, and conclude that, well, clearly this is representative of the final product....

DIY laptop maker Framework is launching a modular Chromebook Swapping your notebook’s parts out is such a novelty, and Google is all over it. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. If you’ve an eye for modular technology, you may have been keeping up with Framework’s brilliant dive into the DIY laptop scene. Our Dave seems to think this is the"future of gaming laptops"and although he may well be onto something, Framework has decided to bring us a svelte, and highly customisable Chromebook, ahead of the modular gaming monster we were dreaming of....

Exclusive Magic: The Gathering Unfinity card reveal: Opening Ceremony Let the sanctioned buffoonery begin. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Unfinityis the next un-set—a collection of unusual and unbalanced cards designed for non-competitive play—coming to Magic: The Gathering. It’s themed around a retro sci-fi take on carnivals and circuses called Myra the Magnificent’s Intergalactic Astrotorium of Fun, a traveling amusement park made of interconnected spaceships....