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Sniper rifles are one of my least favorite weapons in games– they require patience, confidence, and accuracy, none of which are my strongest skills. Recent game Sniper Dan doesn’t do away with those requirements, but in its childish aesthetic and twist on the usual sniper formula, it does make them a little less stressful.

Once upon a time, the Western was as ubiquitous as superhero movies are today. Across movies like “The Searchers,” “High Noon,” and “Rio Bravo,” and television series like “The Rifleman,” “Gunsmoke,” and “Wagon Train,” tales of the West dominated pop culture for decades.

Earlier this year, Xbox performed a massive wave of layoffs, eliminating 1,600 roles and sharing that more cuts would come soon. Today, those cuts have come: Xbox has announced it is laying off 268 roles across its first-party studios, XGS management, and central functions layer. Halo Studios in particular has been significantly impacted, and today’s…

Aftershock PC took a different approach to PC aesthetics: 70 handcrafted titanium-alloy blossoms, positioned inside a showcase chassis, that mechanically unfurl as the system heats up. Available sources describe the movement as passive and heat-driven, with no motors or software triggers involved, though the official product materials do not provide a full engineering breakdown of…

When the COVID-19 pandemic forced the world into lockdown, millions of people turned to video games to maintain social connections and escape the monotony of quarantine. Time spent gaming during the pandemic rose by double digits in all regions, and digital game purchases increased 21% a global statistics and market data platform