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Michael Mann’s Ferrari, out Dec. 25, is unsparing in its portrayal of the double life led by the famed race car driver and automotive entrepreneur.

As the biopic shows, Enzo Ferrari (Adam Driver) was married to Laura Garello (Penélope Cruz) for 54 years—until her death in 1978—but their marriage was far from a fairytale partnership. Set in 1957, as Ferrari is leading the motorsports industry, the movie traces how Enzo and Laura’s relationship deteriorates after the death of their 24-year-old son, Dino. The film also details Enzo’s affair with Lina Lardi (Shailene Woodley), with whom he had a son, Piero, who would become the next heir to the Ferrari fortune.

By ending Ferrari with the deadly crash at the 1957 Mille Miglia, the film suggests that Ferarri’s obsession with race car driving came at the expense of his drivers. Here’s the story behind the film.

Who was Enzo Ferrari?

The film takes…

Nvidia has just announced a new games publisher for its GeForce Now cloud streaming service: Bandai Namco, or more specifically Bandai Namco Europe. That’s probably why the first load of games to make it onto the streaming service appear to all be from European developers. Such as Little Nightmares, Little Nightmares II, 11-11 Memories Retold, and Get Even.

Little Nightmares II will also support RTX visuals, but only if you’re signed up to Ultimate and Priority GeForce Now tiers.

That’s another good haul for the game streaming service, which has been gradually winning back favour with major publishers after a few dismissed it early on. Though, I did get excited at the prospect of Elden Ring beamed to my many devices from the cloud only to realise shortly after that it’s not actually coming. Darn. Elden Ring would’ve been a great get for GeForce Now at the game’s launch, but even today I would be pretty keen to play it on my Samsung TV.

Speaking of TVs, there’s good…

Last month Path of Exile 2 was selected as the #9 Most Wanted game in PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted. The sequel to the long-running ARPG Path of Exile is coming soon, and with work on Path of Exile 2 now well underway, we flew to New Zealand to talk to developers at Grinding Gear Games about how they’re approaching a game that needs to be firmly rooted in the original while offering both new players and veterans something fresh and different.

“One of the things I’ve really enjoyed when designing Path of Exile 2 is just being able to surprise team members by the kind of changes we’re willing to do,” game director Jonathan Rogers said. When I suggested, ‘Hey, maybe we should have WASD controls for our characters as well as click-to-move,’ being willing to make those kind of changes to actually make the game better I think is something that’s going to really impress existing players, as well as new players coming to the game who maybe thought they weren’t interested in playing befo…

ว่าด้วยการเปิดตัวเกม Assassin’s Creed ภาค Mirage แล้ว ก็ถือว่าเป็นภาคที่เอาใจคอเกมสายคลาสสิกอย่างเต็มที่ด้วยการนำเสนอเกมเพลย์ที่อิงกับภาคดั้งเดิม แต่ผสมผสานด้วยความเปลี่ยนแปลงใหม่ๆ ให้ทันสมัยมากขึ้น ทั้งนี้สิ่งที่ทำให้ทุกคนต้องว้าวก็คงเป็นอะไรไปไม่ได้นอกจากการเลือกตัวละครเสริมจากเกมภาคหลักให้รับบทนำ นับเป็นครั้งแรกเลยครับที่หยิบตัวละครที่เคยปรา�…

แฟนเกม Final Fantasy VII ที่กำลังรอคอยกับการมาของเกม Final Fantasy VII Rebirth และกำลังหาอะไรสักอย่างมาสะสมหรือใช้งานก็มาติดตามข่าวนี้ได้เลยครับเมื่อล่าสุดทาง Square Enix ปล่อยวอลเปเปอร์ของเกมดังกล่าวให้โหลดไปใช้งานฟรีกันแล้ว

เนื่องในโอกาสครบรอบ 27 ปีของ Final Fantasy VII ทาง Square Enix ได้ประกาศเปิดให้ดาวน์โหลดวอลเปเปอร์ธีม Final Fantasy VII Rebirth ทั้งบนมือถือและเดสก์ท็อปอย่างเป็นทางการ โดยมี 2 แบบในหลายความ…

Counter-Strike recently celebrated its 25th anniversary, and is more popular than ever. The original Half-Life mod became a standalone title after Valve hired co-creators Minh “Gooseman” Le and Jesse “Cliffe” Cliffe, and since then has iterated and grown into the most popular competitive FPS on the planet, with over 30 million monthly players.

It’s an incredible feat of longevity, and the anniversary has brought forth a rare interview with Minh Le, who first began the project all those years ago when he was finishing up at university. Le has previously said it took him around a month and a half to program “beta one” of Counter-Strike, by which time Jesse Cliffe had joined the project to work on other elements including the maps.

Speaking to Norwegian site Spillhistorie.no, Le says the original concept for the game came about the year before he began work on the mod. “I came up with the idea of Counter-Strike in 1998,” says Le. “I was inspired by many of t…

In the words of PCG’s Tyler Colp, Diablo 4 took “a leap in the right direction” with the start of its second season this month, and now it would very much like you to come back and give it a go. That’s why the game is running a free trial until Monday, October 30, giving you a chance to mess around with dang near all of the game on Battle.net during our upcoming spooky weekend.

When I say “dang near all,” I mean it. From what I can tell, the only real restriction on this Diablo 4 free weekend is that your character level will max out at level 20 (rather than the game’s usual max of 100). Aside from that, Blizzard says you’ll have “access to all Diablo 4 content” and that any progress you make will carry over into the proper game if you decide to buy it for real.

And oh, would you look at that? Diablo 4 happens to be 25% off for Halloween. Pretty serendipitous, if you ask me.

Like, I imagine, the vast majority of people reading this, I prefer to keep my games on Ste…

Samsung is upgrading its Freestyle projector into a portable cloud gaming device, offering up to 100 inches of high-definition screen space without the need to lug around an actual screen.

The Freestyle Gen 2 comes with Samsung’s Gaming Hub, which gives you access to numerous cloud gaming apps like Xbox Cloud Gaming, Nvidia’s Geforce Now, and Amazon Luna. It’s the same gaming hub we’ve seen on the newer Samsung Smart TVs. Connect a Bluetooth controller (and have a membership to one of these services), and you’re ready.  

The projector outputs at 1080p with a refresh rate of 60Hz, which is quite suitable for cloud gaming. The screen size can be adjusted from 30 to 100 inches, depending on the available projection surface. Aside from gaming, this projector has all the Samsung smart TV apps like Hulu and Netflix for watching movies, shows, and sports.

The Freestyle Gen 2 has a listed peak brightness of 230 ANSI Lumen, which is fine for a 1080p projector—yo…

After a surprise early access release yesterday, Hades 2 has already hit over 100,000 concurrent players on Steam, tripling the first game’s record on the platform.

Hades 2 hit 103,567 concurrent players earlier today and is hovering around 100,000, according to SteamDB. Hades 1 only reached 37,749 concurrents in 2020, a few days after its full launch on Steam.

The first Hades is one of our favorite roguelike action RPGs and has won several awards, including a few BAFTAs. But its 2019 early access release was exclusive to the Epic Games Store; it didn’t come to Steam until it was finished. Hades 2, however, is available on both from the start, which helps explain the larger turnout.

All the fans of Hades’ flirty Greek gods and goddesses and satisfying combat are probably showing up, too. And it helps that Hades 2’s early access release is far more complete than I think anyone expected it to be.

Supergiant Games has already spent three years working on it, and…

The next patch for Baldur’s Gate 3 is going to be “a big one” according to a recent tweet from Larian Studios, but sadly we’ll have to wait one whole day longer than we expected. The release of Patch 3 will be pushed from September 21st to September 22nd giving them time to “ensure thorough testing”.

Full Mac support is coming at last and we just learned that it’ll include an appearance-changing mirror, but otherwise it’s unknown what changes the patch will bring. The fact that it is going to be a pretty substantial patch has me holding my eyelids open in anticipation of what else is on the way.

Baldur’s Gate 3 has been a monumental success so far and the continued patches, fixes, and support from Larian are just fuelling the internal (engine) fire we all hold for this game. Despite still having so much to discover myself, the idea of even more to come is making my mouth water.

The consistent updates and mod support provides it with a strong founda…

Diablo general manager Rod Fergusson had some reassuring words for Diablo 4 players concerned that they won’t be able to respec their characters because the cost will be too high: It won’t be.

Respeccing is simply the act of reassigning your character’s skill or ability points because there’s a new meta, or you want to try something different, or you just got bored. In games like Diablo 4, where character builds are central to the experience, a lot of players enjoy being able to experiment: I, for instance, made a barbarian in the Diablo 4 beta who liked to bash heads with a huge hammer; in the second beta weekend, I switched him up to a sword-swinger. (I didn’t like that nearly as much, though, so I switched back.)

In Diablo 4’s early game, respeccing is free, but as your character’s level rises, so does the cost, paid with in-game gold. The Diablo 4 beta capped players at level 25 so it was impossible to see just how expensive it might get at high levels, but in a Nove…

A new trailer for Starbreeze’s long-awaited Payday threequel premiered at today’s Xbox Games Showcase, and we finally have a proper release date: September 21.

If you’d asked this heisting novice I might’ve guessed it was a trailer for a Payday 2 expansion, but I reckon that means Starbreeze is on the right track with Payday 3: it’s got AKs, riot shields, gun skins, and the returning cast of masked thieves from the first two games (Dallas, Chains, Hoxton and Wolf).

“Ripped from their peaceful retirement to rejoin the criminal world by a new threat, one born from the chaos the Crew left in their wake,” reads the Steam page.

Someone with a sharper eye could identify more significant additions, but it seems to greatly improve moevement, with both sliding and vaulting being shown. You can also now hold guards and use them as a shield, with one scene showing the hostage being deposited outside (a trade-off for mor time perhaps?). Finally the close shows a bulldozer rush…

Computex 2024 was a pretty decent affair—despite AI products festooning every stand—thanks to AMD and Intel launching some new, tasty-looking CPU architectures. PC gamers, though, were hoping to see AMD announced 3D V-cache models alongside its Ryzen 9000 chips but to no avail. However, one rumour currently doing the rounds is that we won’t need to wait very long to see them, with 9000 X3D variants appearing as early as September.

The source of said rumour is Club386, who spoke with an unnamed person at Computex, claiming that AMD plans to launch 3D V-cache equipped versions of its new Ryzen 9000 processors in September. When we spoke to AMD at Computex, it didn’t say anything about release dates but it did confirm that it was “working actively on really cool differentiators to make it even better.”

Three months would be a bit of a record for AMD and its introduction of X3D variants after a new architecture announcement. For example, the time gap between the …

The 2024 Steam Summer Sale is over, and that clears the way for the next big seasonal event in Steam’s lineup: The Team Fortress 2 2024 summer update.

Just like last year’s TF2 summer update, this one is chock full o’ stuff made not by Valve, but by the community: 10 new community maps (Embargo, Odyssey, Megaton, Cachoeira, Overgrown, Hadal, Applejack, Atom Smash, Canaveral, and Burghausen), 23 new “community-contributed items” in the Summer 2024 Cosmetic Case, four new community-created taunts, and 38 new community-made Unusual effects: 18 for hats and 20 for taunts.

Valve contributed to the effort too, of course. Somebody had to collect all this stuff together, ensure it complies with all requisite rules and regulations, and that it doesn’t actually break the game in any meaningful way. Actually pushing the update live would be a job for someone at Valve, too.

And to give all credit where it’s due, the update makes an impressive pile of bug fixes, updates, and “s…

Electronic Arts has become the latest tech-related company to make significant cuts to its workforce, as it announced today that it is laying off roughly six percent of its workforce.

As usual, the layoffs come amidst what sounds like a pretty solid situation for the company. 

“Even amidst macro uncertainty, EA is operating from a position of strength,” Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson said. “Our business is gaining momentum as we continue to deliver high quality games and amazing content across some of the largest, most beloved franchises in the world.” 

Citing the continued success and growth of games including FIFA 23, Apex Legends, and The Sims, Wilson said Electronic Arts “are leaders in a dynamic industry with new audiences, new technology, and new media trends fundamentally reshaping the world around us.”

But success comes with a price, and in this case that price is the jobs of several hundred people who work at EA.

“As we drive great…

This graph seems so unbelievable it makes the thing a little hard to parse. But basically, cryptocurrency mining in the US sucked down more energy that every computer in the entire country. Every. Single. Computer. 

Yes, even Macs.

Hell, at 50 billion kWh, crypto mining in the US almost used more power than all the televisions. And there are quite a few TVs in the States, in case you’d forgotten.

I’ve seen all the stories about cryptocurrency mining using more power than [insert country here], and those stats are always pretty astounding. But they always relate to the entirety of the global crypto network, or just the bitcoin mining around the world. And it’s quite easy to insulate yourself against such broad terms.

But when it’s just about the output of a single country—albeit the single largest contributor to the bitcoin mining industry—to me it seems to hit home much harder.

This all comes from a White House report on the proposed Di…

And just like that, a new Steam Deck is here. We’ve been expecting a refresh of Valve’s handheld gaming PC for a little while now, and it’s touting this Steam Deck OLED as “the definitive first generation Steam Deck, it’s the one that we would have shipped if we could have.”

The new Steam Deck OLED comes in a few flavours, most obviously the $549 512GB and $649 1TB trims. That’s largely the same price the original 256GB and 512GB LCD versions retailed for just a few days ago, except now you’re getting an OLED screen and twice the storage capacity for your dollar. And with the 1TB version you get a funky new dual-use case with a Velcro-attached inner shell for those times you just want a thin case to drop in a bag.

Valve is going to keep selling (and supporting) the 256GB Steam Deck LCD version as the low-end option, cutting the price to $399, and discounting the 64GB and original 512GB Decks while dwindling stocks last.

We’ve had our hands on the new machine for a …

As noted by SteamDB creator Pavel Djundik, Valve has requested that all Dota 2 custom game makers cease real-money monetization in their creations by August 17. A number of popular modes for the juggernaut MOBA have already gone offline in response.

The custom game tools in Dota 2 gave rise to a vibrant modding scene, with the most notable example being autobattler genre progenitor Dota Auto Chess. Auto Chess was a straight-up phenomenon when it landed in 2019, and though a bit diminished these days, the genre it spawned is still chugging along.

Some custom games in the Dota 2 arcade possess real money monetization through third party platforms like Paypal or Patreon. Paying the developers outside the game earns you access to the usual microtransactions for cosmetics or, more contentiously, in-game advantages, as well as full-blown battle passes.

Dota 2 Arcade games fall under a non-commercial license, but the characteristically hands-off and laissez faire Valve di…

All the help you need to win today’s Wordle is right here. Keep on scrolling and you’ll discover everything from general tips and guides to a handcrafted clue for the November 21 (885) game. Need a little more? No problem. Today’s Wordle answer is never more than a click away.

My second guess practically handed me today’s Wordle on a plate—it’s a shame I couldn’t quite see it at the time, and ended up fumbling around for all sorts of odd words that perhaps only exist inside my own head. Still, a messy win in four is much better than no win at all.

Today’s Wordle hint

Wordle today: A hint for Tuesday, November 21

Today’s word is a type of instrument, one that produces sound using a combination of keys, hammers, and strings. Whether in grand or its smaller upright size, it’s not the sort of musical object someone could carry around with them. 

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Is there a double letter in Wordle today? 

No, there is …

After what could fairly be called a bumpy ride to the finish line, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 is now just a month away from release, and that puts it close enough that we can finally lay our eyes on the official system requirements.

The good news is that you won’t need a supercharged gaming rig to play Space Marine 2, as long as you don’t mind easing up a bit on the eye candy. Even the recommended spec isn’t excessively demanding, although it’s interesting that it targets just 60 fps at 1920×1080. For those who are packing supercharged PCs, a 4K specification hasn’t been posted, so on that front—for now, at least—you’ll just have to try your luck and see how it goes.

Minimum (1920×1080, 30 fps, low graphics preset)

• Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
• OS: Windows 10/11 64-bit
• Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 2600X / Intel Core i5-8600K
• Memory: 8 GB RAM
• Graphics: 6 GB VRAM, AMD Radeon RX 580 / Nvidia GeForce…
  

If you ask everyone in the room to describe their perfect vision for a Star Wars game, you’re gonna get a lot of answers. Many would, I wager, basically describe Star Wars Jedi: Survivor with its lightsaber power fantasy, memorable characters, cool force powers, and satisfying stormtrooper amputation.

My pitch would sound a lot closer to the game that Ubisoft announced yesterday at the Xbox Games Showcase, Star Wars Outlaws—a sandbox action game starring a Solo-like scoundrel-for-hire on the lawless planets of the Outer Rim. No, it’s not the Mandalorian game that I was quietly crossing my fingers for, but a completely new character instead: Kay Vess, a young outlaw getting her start in the criminal underworld.

Outlaws takes place in the gap between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. For those who haven’t kept up perfectly with the barrage of Star Wars stories lately, that places Outlaws something like a decade after Jedi: Survivor and a few years befor…

2022’s roguelike of the year and eternal sovereign of my heart, Poncle’s Vampire Survivors, has announced its next major patch. The 1.8 Adventures update is due to release in a few weeks, and brings with it barely explained additions like remixed content, a new “sort of mini campaign” mode for members of the Vampire Survivors cast, and most important of all: “a whole bunch of deep lore lmao.”

Those mini campaigns are the titular adventures, and the dev describes them as “self-contained miniature story modes that reset and remix the game’s content, following the Survivors cast on a series of wacky sidequests.” Perhaps some of that deep lore will strike during one of those stories, giving us a chance to finally unfurl the rich tapestry of Vampire Survivor’s fiction.

Or perhaps not. The new adventures are meant to give you an opportunity to start from scratch without losing all those unlocks you spent so long accruing, guiding the protagonists through “custom challenges wit…

There’s a lot to like about the HP Victus laptop, currently at a really low price for its power. Yes, the CPU is two generations old, but the Core i5 12500H still offers four P-cores, eight E-cores, and 16 threads in total.

It would be nicer to have a CPU that has fewer E-cores and more P-cores, but with a boost clock of 4.5GHz and a power limit of 95W, it’ll cope with most games just fine. You’ll even be able to throw in a bit of content creation.

To handle the graphics duties, there’s a GeForce RTX 4060, which is a decent 1080p budget-level GPU. There’s no indication as to what its power limit is, but hopefully it’s not one of the low-end versions. In other HP laptops, such as its RTX 4050 models, they’re typically towards the higher end of the power range.

But regardless of what its actual performance is like, it’s a perfect match for the 1080p IPS panel. The refresh rate is suitably high for gaming at 144Hz, and if the GPU struggles to hit that level in games, …