PSA- There’s an incredible XP and Medal farm in Helldivers 2 right now—all you’ve got to do is mortar some robots-

Looking for a quick way to level up your Helldivers 2 character and farm some Medals for your Warbond? Though we’ve vanquished the bugs and the construction of a containment area is underway, there’s now a new problem for Super Earth—murderous armies of Automatons are invading the fringe colonies, looking to kill all humans. Just another day for a Helldiver.…

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Casting spells with my voice in Hogwarts Legacy is very silly, kinda cool-

 Today I learned that I’d probably be a terrible wizard in the Harry Potter world. As appealing as flying brooms and getting wasted on butterbeer sounds, I’d unfortunately fail step one: say the spell correctly. I’ve been trying out a new Hogwarts Legacy mod that lets you cast spells with your voice, and it’s a real stickler for pronunciation.

Just like Hermoinie in that one part fro…

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Starfield mod lets you pilot your ship by remote control, even when you’re not on board-

The best part of Starfield is undeniably your spaceship, which can be customized or built from scratch to look like anything from a cute little ladybug to a massive Star Destroyer

So it’s kind of a shame you don’t have more control over your ship in Starfield. You can fight battles while hovering in orbit, but once you’re inside a planet’s atmosphere, all you can real…

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Silent Hill- Ascension’s proposed voting system makes it feel like a bizarre mass social experiment-

IGN shared an inside look at Silent Hill: Ascension, an experimental series that was announced last year. We’ve known you’ll be able to choose the fates of its unlucky protagonists for a while. However, the full scope of these interviews has me feeling like I’ve stumbled across one of those unethical social experiments conducted in the ’80s—and I can’t decide if that’s good or bad.

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MIT researchers create a super-fast, super-tough, super-slidey transistor and claim that in ’10 to 20 years from now could change the world’-

A small team of researchers at MIT’s Materials Research Laboratory have developed a transistor that’s just as good as those used to make flash memory chips, but with the added advantage of not wearing away with use. Instead of the usual silicon-based engineering, this one is made from a ferroelectric material.

Flash memory has revolutionized the storage industry and you can buy extremely …

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Did you catch the Quake 6 tease in the Indiana Jones reveal–

It’s only on screen for a couple seconds, and only partially, but there’s no mistaking it: The Quake logo is drawn on a whiteboard that appears in the Indiana Jones and the Great Circle reveal video from this week’s Xbox Developer Direct. Above it is a cut-off word: “-AKE 6.”

I’m guessing that MachineGames did not write “CAKE 6” on a whiteboard. 

MachineGames and id Software pa…

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Today’s Wordle answer for Saturday, June 8-

Get today’s Wordle off to the smoothest possible start with our general tips, here to give your daily guesses a quick refresh. There’s a clue for the June 8 (1085) game here too if you’d like something more specific, as well as today’s answer if you need a quick save. Enjoy your win.

Twelve grey letters in my first three goes? That’s got to be some sort of personal record. Thank goodness …

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Ultra niche Skyrim mod lets you become the most potent mage of all- the fist wizard-

Somewhere in a filing cabinet is a contract. On that contract is my name and the name of my employer—PC Gamer’s publisher Future PLC—and a job title: “news writer”. And look, if someone assassinates the JFK of videogames* I’ll be there to break it down for you, but personally? I think my true job is telling you about tiny, mini, minute, trifling little mods that I find very…

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Twitch adds mandatory content labels and clarifies ‘we consider kissing or licking a microphone to fall within Sexual Themes’-

Twitch has added mandatory content labels for all streamers so that viewers “can make informed choices”, and gone into some detail about what behaviours it wants labelled from now on. The labels replace the existing “Mature Content” toggle and can be applied or removed at any point during a broadcast.

The “Content Classification Labels” are:

Void Bastards dev announces space cowboy sequel Wild Bastards- an open-ended take on the BioShock-y roguelike-

In a move that seems to codify a sort of “Bastards” franchise, Blue Manchu is following up its 2019 roguelike FPS Void Bastards with Wild Bastards, a more open-ended, space western take on the concept. First announced at our PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted showcase, Wild Bastards is set to release some time next year.

“Roguelike FPS” gets part of the story with Void Bastards, but it’s really…

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