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If you’ve been eager to explore Mask of the Rose - the upcoming darkly romantic visual novel from Sunless Sea and Sunless Skies developer Failbetter Games - you now have the perfect opportunity to do so, courtesy of a newly released demo on Steam. Mask of the Rose takes place in 1862, around three decades prior to the events of Sunless Sea and Failbetter’s acclaimed browser game Fallen London, and focuses on events shortly after the city (an alternate-universe version of Victorian London) is stolen by bats and carried to a vast underground cavern system deep beneath the Earth’s surface....

Nintendo’s characters from the Mario franchise are simply iconic and memorable. Starting off with the plumber with the red hat, Mario is arguably the most popular video game icon to date. Along the way, he would get other friends such as his twin brother Luigi, a green dinosaur named Yoshi, and the beautiful Princess Peach. Princess Peach made a name for herself as gaming’s first lady. She is beautiful, kind, and one of Mario’s love interests (the first being Pauline from the original Donkey Kong)....

With the recently-announced Half Life: Alyx poised to reinvigorate both the long-dormant Half Life franchise and the slowly-languishing VR games market, it’s almost altruistic that Valve chose to make the game compatible with so many different VR headsets. However, as a multi-billion dollar corporation, Valve isn’t entirely blind to the monetary benefits of exclusivity, so they’ve offered some bonuses for anyone who has purchased their newest virtual-reality equipment, the Valve Index....

Hidetaka Suehiro’s The Good Life has smashed its Kickstarter goal following a major promotional push during its last few weeks on the crowdfunding website. Swery must have really pulled out all the stops to get the oddball title funded, as only last week The Good Life still had a considerable amount of cash to raise to meet its Kickstarter goal. Still, not only has the game reached its £456,000 target, it’s also attracted a little more on top to boot, with The Good Life currently standing at £485,052 at the time of writing....

For the last few years, Mario Kart 8 has been the undisputed champion of video game kart racing. It’s for good reason: the game is basically perfect, a showcase of everything the series has done right since it first appeared on the SNES. But that doesn’t mean there haven’t been other landmark karting games to give Mario a run for his money. Diddy Kong Racing and Crash Team Racing specifically come to mind, and now Sega’s latest Sonic endeavor, Team Sonic Racing, may be joining that list....

If there is any film franchise potentially in need of hitting the reset button, it’s the Terminator series. Launched back in 1984 with The Terminator, a low-budget cult classic sci-fi thriller, and continued in 1991 with Terminator 2: Judgment Day, one of the most spectacular and groundbreaking action blockbusters of all time, the franchise sent itself down several different and twisting narrative roads over the course of three more movies and an acclaimed but short-lived TV show....

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The Energy Storage Facility at Moss Landing is currently the world’s largest online grid-scale battery.The Graciosa Energy Storage system is the world’s first megawatt-scale energy storage facility that exclusively stores power from renewable energy sources.The United Kingdom’s largest battery is installed at a facility in Stocking Pelham near Bishops Stortford in Hertfordshire, England. It came online in July 2018. If you thought that a large battery was the one in your car, you need to think again!...

Google’s take on cloud-based gaming, Google Stadia, has been out for about three weeks, and in that time has produced a spread of reviews that overall seem pretty mixed, at best. The problem is, it was perhaps too ambitious a project. Or at least, it was too ambitious a decision to have launched it at this point. Many reviewers seem to agree that although it has lots of potential, Google Stadia simply isn’t ready for commercial use yet....

Key Points: Ford F-150 Lightning is an electric vehicle designed to haul heavy loads and perform in harsh environments. The treadwear rating (TWR) is a metric that describes how many kilometers you can drive on the same tire before it is worn out.The traction rating describes how well the tire sticks to the ground (or snow) when you’re going slowly or uphill. The higher the number, the better it will stick to the road in poor conditions....

This review contains spoilers. “Hey Pot, I’m Kettle, nice to meet you.” The Affair has been touch and go as of late and while certain characters have perhaps been a let down, episode six heads in the right direction and it finds interesting ground to explore in terms of the ancillary relationships in people’s lives and how they can have drastic effects on how they treat others. For instance, the episode weighs in with Janelle and her ex-husband, Carl, and the baggage that then puts on both Anton and Noah....

The meta in Call of Duty: Warzone is always changing. This is mainly due to Infinity Ward nerfing various weapons that become too dominant in Verdansk. Now, shotguns are becoming an increasingly popular choice as a secondary weapon. Also, the Origin 12 is now available as ground loot, and even the default version is proving to be powerful. However, the Warzone R9-0 shotgun is particularly dominant as it can shred through enemy armor at close range....

The Need for Speed series, one of publisher EA’s best-selling franchises, has been around since the ’90s and is usually a blast to play, despite lacking some realistic driving in some sections. While the series hit a bit of a rough patch following the release of Need for Speed: Payback, things seem to be improving again when Need for Speed: Heat. The game has a car catalog that is worthy of some of the best games in the series....

Fresh marketing has been rolling out for Glen Schofield’s The Callisto Protocol lately, leading up to today’s gameplay trailer seen during Summer Game Fest 2022. As you may surmise, this Dead Space-like game from the creator of Dead Space certainly looks like Resident Evil. No, sorry. It looks like Dead Space. There’s even an ability to pick up and toss enemies, either into walls or fans. For those who wanted a Dead Space 4, The Callisto Protocol looks like it’ll fill in quite nicely....

The Culling 2 only came out recently, but developer Xaviant has confirmed that it’s now pulling the battle royale title offline and focusing its efforts in relaunching the original game. It’s fair to say that The Culling 2 pissed a lot of fans off. Apart from the fact Xaviant abandoned the first game to work on a sequel no one asked for, gamers weren’t happy with its reduced emphasis on melee combat, not to mention its low server populations....

The Cycle Frontier is a first-person shooter game created keeping a cross-genre PvPvE combination in mind. It involves elements of player versus player and player versus environment on the vast lands of Fortuna III. The game mechanics give the feeling of fun and a much cooler version of Escape From Tarkov. While playing, you will farm, loot, and accommodate a ton of resources and items, each valuable in Fortuna. Among these resources, you are going to use guns and will need to equip attachments to them in the Cycle Frontier....

Early this morning, Game Awards host Geoff Keighley held an AMA on Reddit to discuss some details about this year’s coming Game Awards event. Among some other details, the most notable thing Keighley revealed is that gamers can expect to see 10 new games get revealed during the show. When questioned about announcements and reveals, Keighley said that “around 10 new games/projects being revealed if you want to count the things that no one has heard about yet....

When Ben Kissel, Marcus Parks, and Henry Zebrowski first premiered their darkly comic true crime and paranormal podcast, The Last Podcast on the Left, in 2011, pop culture was in a much different, perhaps less murder-y place. Landmark true crime podcast series Serial was still three years away, Netflix’s whodunnit Making a Murderer was four years out, and Ted Bundy was still a monster and not a charming antihero played by Zac Efron....

Nine years ago, The Last of Us was first released for the PlayStation 3. Here, we met Joel, Ellie and a whole cast of characters making their way in a world riddled with danger and aggression. The game tells a sad story, but also a multi-faceted one. Back in 2013, The Last of Us left its players with a message that hope, humour and unconditional love could still exist, even in a world divided by fear....

It has always been clear that Naughty Dog put a lot of time and effort into The Last of Us Part 2. Everything from subtle character animations to the larger post-apocalyptic world has been meticulously thought through. However, YouTuber Speclizer has compiled a new video showing off even more of the details that have been tucked away into the game, which many may have missed. This includes a delightful clip of Alice’s ears blowing in the wind as she rides shotgun with the WLF and an homage to Disney Pixar’s Finding Nemo....