Before we get into it, let’s clarify the moral of this story right up top: When another human being approaches you with a terrible idea, one that is certain to bring them suffering and regret, encourage them. It’ll probably be really funny. 

That’s all there is to take from the tale of DementedEnjoyer (spotted by GamesRadar), an Elden Ring challenge runner who amassed a fortune of 10 million runes over many days before losing it all to cruel fate (and fall damage). Why? Why not?

The player had originally spent “nearly an entire day” grinding 4 million runes at level 8 “for no specific reason” before asking the Elden Ring subreddit what they should do with their loot. The website had plenty of recommendations—including blowing it all on borderline-worthless glass shards from Patches—but DementedEnjoyer eventually settled on a combo of the two top-voted recommendations: A bow-only build and beating the rest of the game “without spending those runes or losi…

If you grew up in the 2000s like myself, you’ll have ploughed through countless Flash games during school hours. The Impossible Quiz, Henry Stickman, Line Rider—all games that kept me and my friends entertained instead of, y’know, doing school work. It’s any wonder that those computers didn’t start blocking Flash websites sooner.

But there was one series of Flash games that I’d play even outside of school hours. The Papa Louie games have a huge place in my heart and that of my friends. The time management sim asks you to juggle various orders from ever-more demanding customers and took me across all kinds of cuisines: Papa’s Burgeria, Papa’s Pizzeria, Papa’s Taco Mia, you get the gist. They sort of died on PC when Flash met its demise, migrating over to mobile. Until now. 

Papa’s Freezeria, the ice cream-themed game in Flipline Studio’s long-running series, now has a permanent home on Steam. Turns out Flipline was teasing its arrival for a few weeks, though I …

I like a game that chucks me into the thick of it with minimal preamble: Just beat me up! I’ll learn! Klei’s new co-op brawler is one of those: You can handwave the NPC welcoming committee who tries to explain the controls and just start swinging a hammer at forest monsters within seconds. My kind of game.

I’ve only played about an hour of Rotwood, which released on Steam in early access today, but for $11 (even less right now since it’s on sale), I’d already recommend it to my friends. They’ve invested as much in lesser games just to have something new to play in co-op, and I’ve even been enjoying Rotwood as a solo game.

Rotwood’s roguelite structure is typical of contemporary games: In the first biome, you hop between 2.5D forest glades, bashing away at the enemies in each before moving on to the next, which might contain more enemies, a shopkeeper, or a surprise. After clearing a room, you’re sometimes rewarded with a new power. These are minor bonuses at first—…

The launch of Nvidia’s next-generation graphics cards is a long way off, perhaps as much as two years away. There’s a lot of time for Nvidia to chop and change whatever GPU ends up powering the hypothetically named RTX 50-series. The rumor mill never stops, though.

The latest nugget of info to surface comes from Kopite7kimi, a usually reliable source of Nvidia information. They speculate that the flagship Nvidia RTX 50 card, presumably named the RTX 5090, will have a 512-bit memory bus. That’s something we can all appreciate given we had cards with 512-bit buses going back well over a decade.

Electrical complexities and manufacturing expenses are often cited as reasons to adopt a narrower bus, but if a card like the RTX 4090 at $1,599 doesn’t justify a 512-bit bus, what will? Following that line of thinking makes me shudder at the thought of what an RTX 5090 will cost.

In the case of modern GPUs, ever increasing GDDR6 and GDDR6X speeds have lessened the need for a …

Grinding Gear Games is warning followers to change their passwords after a post containing a phishing link appeared briefly on the Path of Exile page on Steam.

“Earlier today, a malicious news post containing a phishing link went up on the Path of Exile Steam page from a compromised account,” the studio wrote in a message posted to Steam and Twitter. “The post was taken down quickly, but if you followed the link or suspect your account may also be compromised, please take immediate action to secure your account.”

Phishing, simply put, is a type of scam that uses fake links in emails or websites to entice people to share personal or sensitive information, or install malware onto their PCs. It’s a very common form of “social engineering,” to use the polite term for it, and often easy to pick out: If you’ve ever received a poorly-spelled email warning that your mailbox is full and telling you to “click here to increase storage space,” you know what I’m talking about.

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It’s been a while since we last heard anything from Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League—it was April, in fact, when Warner Bros. announced that the planned 2023 release had been pushed to February 2, 2024. But if you check your calendar you’ll note that date is now less than three months away, and so it is that Warner and developer Rocksteady are cranking up the hype machine with the first “Suicide Squad Insider” video, which takes a closer look at the game’s story, “traversal mechanics,” and the new game world of Metropolis.

Metropolis is big, weighing in at twice the size of Gotham City in Rocksteady’s previous game, Batman: Arkham Knight. To get around, the members of the squad bust into the Hall of Justice and jack some super-hardware that enables them to swing, fly, or run at super-speeds, granting them different but essentially equivalent methods of movement: Deadshot gets a jetpack, for instance, while Harley Quinn makes use of Batman’s grapple and glider.

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