After several years of semi-public development, life simulation game Paralives is ready to nail down a release year. But it’s not this year. Though some of the other upcoming competition for The Sims is expected to arrive in 2024, Paralives has revealed in a new trailer that it’s targeting 2025 for its early access release.
Paralives has already done a lot to entice me with its building features like resizable windows and furniture and curved walls, but it’s now showing off what the life simulation side of the game will look like.
To start with, Paralives demonstrates parts of its Paramaker character creation with personality stats that you can level up as you play, talents, perks, and a “vibe” selection with choices like energetic, gloomy, or serious. Paras can also have customized sleeping habits and cleaning habits, which is interesting to see separated out from the personality types.
The new trailer spends a lot of time focused on group activities …
Just $10 separates these two great graphics cards, so which one is worth splashing out $500 on? Well, the good news is that no matter which one you go with, you’re getting the latest generation of GPU from AMD and Nvidia, both packed with all the features you expect in a modern graphics card.
The cheaper of the two is Gigabyte’s take on Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 4070. It has higher clocks than the reference design (2,565 vs 2,475 MHz) but a 4% overclock is barely going to be noticeable in games. It sports a pretty large heatsink and cooler, so you’ll need to make sure you’ve got plenty of room inside your PC case for it.
Rather than using the 12VHPWR power connector that many RTX 40-series cards sport, Gigabyte has fitted a standard 8-pin PCIe connector, which means you won’t need to use adapter cables if you’re upgrading from an older GPU. Ada Lovelace chips are also very power efficient, so you won’t need to buy a new power supply unit unless it’s a very old and basic one.<…
Whether or not action RPG Dungeons of Hinterberg can be considered a cozy game is definitional. The traditional cozy game is relaxing, pastel-hued, and likely centered around quaint, repetitive gameplay that reassures and calms the player. Stardew Valley for farming; A Short Hike for strolling; Dorfromantik for tile-laying.
Hinterberg’s dungeon delving and monster slaying do break the mold a bit, but you’ll be doing both with a gentle, cartoonish art style swaddling you. And with a significant amount of the game dedicated to solving puzzles in picturesque environments, the comparison inevitably presents itself.
There’s no gore in Dungeons of Hinterberg, and the violence is stylized, taking place against gooey, inhuman mobs that feel more like the creatures from Jeff Smith’s Bone than wild animals. Protagonist Luisa spends her evenings making friends, shopping, and wandering the village. It is many ways exactly what it says on the tin: a vacation sim, where Lu…
Windows 11’s 23H2 update has been out for a little while now, but some users have reported a noticeable drop in gaming performance since installation, which seems somewhat fitting for an update released on Halloween. If you’ve yet to install it, the good news is that Microsoft has currently placed the update on compatibility hold for a different issue which hopefully means both problems might be fixed by the time it becomes available again.
For those of you experiencing this issue and don’t want to rollback to a previous version however, there is a supposed fix. The bad news is, it’s a little complicated.
Via HotHardware, Reddit user BNSoul reported that their system slowed down in benchmarks by around 5-8% with the update installed, and their games were also affected by random stuttering that was fixed by rolling back to the previous update version, 22H2.
After contacting Microsoft they were given a set of instructions that supposedly fixed their curr…
Reveal the answer to today’s Wordle in a flash: just scroll or click straight to today’s winning word. Prefer to take the daily Wordle at your own pace? Then take some time browsing our tips and archives, or check out the clue for the February 8 (599) challenge below.
That was close. The pair of greens I found early on ended up throwing a bit of a spanner in the works, as the yellow I’d uncovered didn’t seem to fit anywhere it was supposed to. Luckily the greys guided the way, and I was able to find today’s answer with my penultimate guess.
Wordle hint
A Wordle hint for Wednesday, February 8
The word you’re looking for today means to swing something around—arms, for example—in a wild manner. It’s also the name of an old-fashioned threshing tool consisting of a wooden handle attached to a shorter stick.
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Is there a double letter in today’s Wordle?
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The best-laid plans of mice and men, per Robert Burns, can often go very wrong indeed, as the System Shock remake publisher Prime Matter has just learned. The company embarked on a little marketing stunt that probably seemed like a good idea at the time, which has been met with fierce pushback: It used the AI software Midjourney to create a picture of Shodan.
We’ll get to the pushback but this isn’t the worst idea in the world: As the post with the image says, it’s “designed by an immortal machine for an immortal machine” and, y’know, you’re not supposed to like Shodan or what she represents. You can even see why this felt like an appropriate experiment.
But us meaty fleshbags didn’t like it one bit, and the reaction was overwhelmingly negative. Partly this seems to be coming from the fact that System Shock is a remake of a much-loved game from decades ago that was very much made by meatbags, and partly it’s reflecting the wider social unease about just what exactl…