✦ Featured71% of you say you could never be convinced to turn on DLSS 5, with 37% saying it wouldn't matter how good it looked
Back to the drawing board, Jen-Hsun?
Hyke: Northern Light(s) is the latest addition to Apple Arcade in this pixel art RPG
Crimson Desert's endgame may be lacking, but there's a secret fix
Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite reviews are in, but these second-gen Windows-on-Arm chips still aren't grabbing me as a PC gamer
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2013 articles71% of you say you could never be convinced to turn on DLSS 5, with 37% saying it wouldn't matter how good it looked
Back to the drawing board, Jen-Hsun?
Hyke: Northern Light(s) is the latest addition to Apple Arcade in this pixel art RPG
Well, it's almost time for me to hand the bridge over to the rest of our staff for today on the news side of things. But before I wrap up, let's have a look at one of the more exciting launches today, with Apple Arcade's newest pixel-style RPG Hyke: Northern Light(s)! You'd be forgiven for expecting a typical turn-based RPG in the vein of, say, Sea of Stars (which also launched today) when looking at Hyke. But its real-time retro isometric action is a lot faster-paced and indeed, perhaps more challenging than that, channelling classics such as the Binding of Isaac as much as it does Chrono Trigger. ... MORE(https://www.pocketgamer.com/hyke-northern-lights/out-now-on-apple-arcade/)
Crimson Desert's endgame may be lacking, but there's a secret fix
Crimson Desert players are complaining there aren't enough enemies left on the map after killing all of the enemies on the map.
Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite reviews are in, but these second-gen Windows-on-Arm chips still aren't grabbing me as a PC gamer
Though I'm excited to actually test it out myself.
Numworlds goes ad-free and teases its third biome as the puzzler marks a year since launch
Ah, adverts, the bane of every mobile gamer's existence. Unfortunately, the business model that our humble platform relies on can often get in the way of a good time. But some choose to take a stand and ditch the intrusive pop-ups, such as Black Pug Studios' Numworlds. You may remember us covering NumWorlds last year, and since then, this dice-based puzzler has gone from strength to strength. Aside from ditching adverts and going 100% free-to-play as mentioned above, NumWorlds has also introduced a whole new biome since it first launched, with a third now well on the way. ... MORE(https://www.pocketgamer.com/numworlds/one-year-ad-free-and-new-biome-teased/)
Call Of Duty's Dave Chappelle Skin Shows Where Activision Really Stands On Inclusivity
It's almost that time of year again, when every corporate entity temporarily gives its logo a rainbow makeover and publicly reaffirms its commitment to inclusivity. But before we get to Pride Month, we have to get through 4/20, which Call of Duty(https://www.gamespot.com/games/call-of-duty/) is celebrating with a pair of skins depicting Thurgood Jenkins, the fictional character from 1998's Half Baked, played by comedian and noted transphobe Dave Chappelle. "There's something going on at Frankencense & Burr Pharmaceutical, and Thurgood Jenkins is right in the middle of it," reads a recent Activision blog post(https://www.callofduty.com/blog/2026/03/call-of-duty-black-ops-7-season-03-battle-pass-blackcell-store-bundles) announcing the upcoming collaboration. "The master of custodial arts takes his chance to have some fun and save a friend, memorialized in this Bundle inspired by the 1998 hit comedy, Half Baked." !No Caption Provided(https://www.gamespot.com/a/uploads/original/1752/17528202/4678803-thurgoodskins.jpg)(https://www.gamespot.com/a/uploads/original/1752/17528202/4678803-thurgoodskins.jpg) I'm old enough to remember the days when Chappelle was known for being funny rather than being a bigot. I grew up watching Chappelle's Show, and like many comedy fans, genuinely enjoyed the guy's work until he started making unfunny jokes about the LGBTQ+ community, with a large amount of vitriol aimed at the trans community and female sexual assault victims(https://www.salon.com/2021/10/09/dave-chappelle-terf-transphobia-joyce-carol-oates/) specifically. Continue Reading at GameSpot(https://www.gamespot.com/articles/call-of-dutys-dave-chappelle-skin-shows-where-activision-really-stands-on-inclusivity/1100-6539248/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f/)
Intel's new Nova Lake CPU claimed to have superior IPC performance to AMD's next-gen Zen 6 as rumour mill goes into overdrive with talk of higher core counts and an APU with a massive iGPU
IPC gains, more cores, a Strix Halo killer and more...
Crimson Desert players are visiting space and finding that Pearl Abyss modelled a really weird amount of it
One small step for Kliff, repeated several thousand times.
SteelSeries Aerox 3 Wireless Gen 2 review
A worthwhile update.
Elden Ring cutscene discovered 4 years later leaves fans awestruck
A dataminer proves that the map for Malenia's boss battle once played a cutscene involving Miquella with massive lore implications for the RPG
This Turn-Based RPG Musical Is Fun But Drags A Bit In Act 3 | People Of Note Review
People of Note(https://www.gamespot.com/games/people-of-note/) was clearly made with lots of love, but it is also a deeply silly game. Conflicts are resolved between musicians flinging music at each other, a simple country-wide road trip transforms into a battle to save all of reality, and somehow everyone is convinced that the power of friendship will somehow overcome an ancient eldritch-like power. If I didn't know any better, I'd think this game was an old-school role-playing game. And, to be fair, People of Note shares a lot of parallels with those games. While that means the strengths of those types of games are present in People of Note--notably the music and world design in its case--it also means that some of the shortcomings that can be found in the weaker installments of the genre are present in Iridium Studios' turn-based RPG too. People of Note sees would-be pop star Cadence striving to fulfill her dream of winning a singing competition and getting propelled into fame. Worried that the pop song she's prepared isn't strong enough to sway the judges, she sets out through the land of Note in search of people who can add to her song. Her journey takes her to a desert where everyone is all about different kinds of rock music, a futuristic metropolis blanketed in perpetual night and inhabited by EDM-obsessed disc jockeys, a block-shaped party city that's all about rap and hip hop, and so much more. And all the while, repeated references to an event known as the Harmonic Convergence steel you for what will eventually be a sharp tonal shift away from road-trip comedy to dramatic high fantasy. !No Caption Provided(https://www.gamespot.com/a/uploads/scalesuper/1587/15875866/4678846-2.jpg)(https://www.gamespot.com/a/uploads/original/1587/15875866/4678846-2.jpg) Your enjoyment of this story is really going to come down to how much you like puns and pop culture references--People of Note's humor is not unlike Borderlands 2 or Saints Row IV. The game rides the line between funny and corny well enough for me, save for one moment in the third act that made me cringe so hard, I contemplated simply not playing any more of the game that day. But I also enjoy games like Borderlands and Saints Row. If you're not a fan of the idea of a story that takes every single conceivable musical term and crafts a whole high-fantasy society and plotline with said terms, People of Note is probably going to grate. Continue Reading at GameSpot(https://www.gamespot.com/reviews/this-turn-based-rpg-musical-is-fun-but-drags-a-bit-in-act-3-people-of-note-review/1900-6418478/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f/)
A decade ago, Call of Duty sidelined its iconic progression system to dabble in gacha instead, and I was glad I'd forgotten
Welcome to the Supply Drop era.