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Just a few days ago, purveyor of handheld and pocket PCs, Ayaneo announced it’s first SteamOS handheld, called the Next Lite. Two aspects of the launch made it stand out: Firstly, the price would be aimed firmly at the budget sector and secondly, it would be the first non-Steam Deck handheld to retail with Valve’s open-source operating system installed instead of Windows. We contacted Ayaneo for further details and it’s kindly spilled the beans.

Some aspects we already knew about, such as the 7-inch 800p IPS screen and the 47Wh battery, but now we know what’s powering the handheld device and it’s not quite what we were hoping for. There will be a choice of two AMD APUs inside: Ryzen 5 4500U and Ryzen 7 4800U.

These chips are four years old, in terms of when they were first l…

Baldur’s Gate 3 just keeps getting bigger. Larian Studios dropped a new community update today, revealing a new release date as well as a huge package of features that’ll be included with the full release. 

First off, the game’s level cap—initially slated to be level 10—has been raised to 12. For those unfamiliar with the TTRPG ruleset Baldur’s Gate 3 is built atop, that’s a big deal: Dungeons and Dragons fifth edition only has 20 levels in total, so a bump from 10 to 12 is a huge power spike, providing casting classes with 6th level spells.

“While we originally planned for Level 10 to be the highest character level in the game, too many rad high-level spells would have been left just out of reach had we done so. Instead, Baldur’s Gate 3 players will be able…

The great Dragon Age drip-feed of mid-2024 continues. Recent revelations have included the fact the long-awaited fourth game in the series will be entirely offline and won’t have microtransactions, will be mission-based rather than open world, and will have difficulty options granular enough you’ll be able to turn off death entirely.

The latest note via Game Informer explains that each recruitable companion will have a “Relationship Level” that can be leveled up, and each time you do they’ll earn a skill point. That level isn’t just for measuring the strength of romantic relationships either, and can be improved by helping characters overcome difficulties and solving their personal quests. 

As game director Corinne Busche put it, “relationships are key, not only romance…

Elden Ring just got a small update that adjusts PvP equipment, skills, and spells, fixes a couple of minor bugs, and changes one of the most annoying problems I encountered when trying to summon Torrent after he’d died. 

“Changed the default selection of the OK / CANCEL prompt that shows up when using the ‘Spectral Steed Whistle’ while the spectral steed is dead,” the patch notes says. “The default selection position is now OK.” Before this, if Torrent got hit too many times and died mid-battle, instead of quickly being able to trade a flask for his life, you’d have to go through what resembled the same process of ending any number of your subscriptions: Cancel the subscription? Yes. Do you want this? Yes. Are you sure? Yes!

Ok, it may not be quite that bad, but I’m not…

In addition to improvisational brawling and sneaking, there’s another pillar of the Indiana Jones experience MachineGames wants to lean into with the Great Circle: Puzzle solving. Giant stone gears turning improbable ancient machinery, assorted cups and whether a carpenter would be caught dead holding them, I would expect no less from an outing with Dr. Jones. 

In a conversation with PC Gamer global editor-in-chief Phil Savage at Gamescom, MachineGames creative director Jens Andersson explained how these puzzles will challenge us, but ideally not send us to our phones to Google the solution.

“We need these puzzles to be challenging,” Andersson explained. “We don’t want to dumb them down into this kind of cinematic set-piece: You pull the lever and the old mechanics rele…

During Microsoft’s Surface and AI event, the firm outlined the future of Windows, Surface AI PCs, and the new Microsoft Copilot AI features. They did this, of course, through the classy medium of a Minecraft Let’s Play. 

While you can’t watch any streams from the actual showcase itself, you can see a small clip that was posted by an attendee on Twitter, which shows a snippet from the Minecraft and Copilot demonstration. It’s only 20 seconds long, but it showed the Copilot software explaining to a player how to make a sword, discussing what items they’d need, and how it’s used. 

“You’ll need some materials,” Copilot says during the presentation. “Can you open your inventory, just press E on your keyboard.” After the player asks if they have what is needed to make a …

When Nintendo announced its lawsuit against Palworld developer Pocketpair last week, it kicked off immediate conversations about how well Pocketpair could hope to fare in court. Despite Nintendo’s last few years on the intellectual property warpath, IP lawyer and videogame patent expert Kirk Sigmon says its success in its Palworld lawsuit is far from guaranteed. In fact, Sigmon says that in suing Pocketpair, Nintendo risks losing its patent entirely.

In an interview with PC Gamer covering videogame patents and the Palworld lawsuit, Sigmon said that drafting a patent filing is a delicate balancing act, especially when it’s a patent on a videogame design concept.

“Your job, to some degree, is to weave the delicate balance between going overly narrow—allowing everyone t…

I’ve long since become inured to Mortal Kombat’s grossout action. There are only so many ways to slice up a virtual human before it becomes passé, after all. But NetherRealm’s latest DLC trailer for Mortal Kombat 1, which gives us our first look at The Boys’ deeply disturbed superhero Homelander fighting in the game, has found a whole new way to disgust me.

The trailer sees Homelander doing battle with Liu Kang while showing off a few fatalities, including one where he burns through Liu Kang’s skull with his laser vision, and another where Homelander uppercuts Kang into the path of a cruising jet liner. Frankly, though, nothing unsettled me more than the trailer’s first few seconds, during which Homelander takes a big slurp of delicious, edifying milk from a baby bottle.