Last year, a Prime Day deal on a monitor caught my eye, and I vowed to myself that if I ever had a little extra cash to burn (and if it went on sale again), I’d treat myself to it. The Aorus FO48U is a 48-inch 4K 120Hz beast of an OLED gaming monitor and exactly the last thing I needed to make my little office/gamer dad den complete. 

I’ve been in the market for something to put into my home office solely for gaming, as I currently do all my work and gaming on a really nice 32-inch ROG 4K gaming monitor. I wanted something larger to act as a TV as well to pull me away from my desk after hours to play games or stream movies to help wind me down from a day writing about smelling in VR. 

I’ve never owned an OLED gaming monitor before, but whenever on…

Hunt: Showdown is undergoing a major change next week as it transitions into Hunt: Showdown 1896, featuring an upgraded engine, overhauled UI, big changes to the meta, and an all-new map—the first in three years. That’s the good news. The bad news is that a big update means some big downtime, and Hunt: Showdown will be unavailable for two solid days beginning tomorrow.

“This is it, Hunters,” developer Crytek tweeted. “We are mere days from the launch of Hunt: Showdown 1896, and as noted in July, Hunt: Showdown servers are going dark for 48 hours starting Tuesday, August 13th from 7pm CEST (1 pm ET).

“This means the game will be unavailable on any platform as we ready Mammon’s Gulch for your much anticipated arrival. Thank you for your understanding…

If you’ve ever wondered “What plant is this?” or “Why does my dog look like that?”, you’ve probably thought about testing out ChatGPT. If you have tried it in the last week, you will have joined 1.9999 million others (give or take), according to recent information.

According to Axios (via TweakTown), ChatGPT owner OpenAI claims that its chatbot has grown from 100 million weekly active users in 2022 to 200 million in 2024. To put these astronomical figures into perspective, Reddit, one of the world’s biggest groupings of geeks, enthusiasts, and answers to all the nonsense questions you have throughout the day, is said to sit at around 260 million users a week.

This is not only a sign of how much the AI chatbot has grown but the internet as a whole. At its very peak, MySpace, …

The Saami Council, a non-governmental organization representing the Sámi people of Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Russia, are calling on Square Enix to remove the Far Northern Attire DLC from Final Fantasy 14. The council’s concern “is not about sensitivity or whether the depiction is appropriate,” it said in a statement, but rather that the items depicted in the DLC are “Sámi cultural property,” and are infringing upon its rights.

“Our cultural property rights are not theoretical,” Saami Council president Áslat Holmberg said in a statement. “They are protected and protectable under intellectual property laws, which are generally harmonised throughout the world. Square Enix, as a media company, is highly aware of intellectual property laws and has no excuse for …

Final Fantasy 14’s Fall Guys event is, uh, a crossover that exists in a game. I’ve already made my feelings clear on the disturbing bisected Fall Guys hat, but it’s also got some pretty weird netcode wonkiness.

I’ve done a spot of Savage raiding so I’m used to this kind of stuff, but for your average joe, the swap from mostly-forgiving dungeon telegraphs to barging into snowballs ’cause you know they’re not actually there anymore? That’s enough to give anyone whiplash.

That makes one of the game’s achievements, “It’s a Blunderful Life IV”, borderline unachievable without weeks of grinding. To get the achievement and its associated title “King/Queen Bean”, you need to win 100 games of Blunderville. Which, as mentioned, is really freakin’ hard. Which is why someone do…

Valorant’s Episode 7 release on June 27th will come with a bunch of changes to how you earn and unlock in-game rewards. Riot says they’re pretty simple stuff that you’ll figure out as you go, but if you like me want to understand things before you try them here’s the short story on what’s changing. 

Daily Missions have been reworked, and Agent Contracts are going out the window. So finish any outstanding Agent Contracts before June 27th. There’ll also be a new in-game currency called Kingdom Credits to earn and spend from playing games—but it has a cap, so you can’t hoard it.

The biggest changes are those tweaks to Agents and their cosmetics. Agents can now be unlocked during a 28-day Agent Recruitment pass that (automatically) happens after each one releases. The…

In case you missed it, Baldur’s Gate 3 is one of the all-timers. Not just a brilliant RPG, and a near-perfect return to a gaming touchstone, but a game that over-delivered while knowing exactly when to call it a day. Developer Larian was almost built to make this but, after a hugely successful launch followed by a bow-tying epilogue, it knew where to draw the line: CEO Swen Vincke announced at GDC earlier this year that it was done with Baldur’s Gate. No DLC, no sequel, just a dream project perfectly executed.

So it’s up to Wizards of the Coast, or Hasbro if you prefer, to work out what the future looks like for Baldur’s Gate. But that doesn’t mean Larian never thought about it, and in a new interview Baldur’s Gate 3 narrative director Adam Smith told Games…