Gen5 SSDs listings finally show up on Amazon and Newegg



We live in fairly unreliable times when it comes to hardware releases. Chip shortages, supply issues, and a global pandemic has thrown a spanner into the works for all sorts of development and distribution efforts. One of the more notable delays of late has to be the release of PCIe 5.0 SSDs (opens in new tab). We’ve been hearing about them and their impressive speeds for years now (opens in new tab), and given the compatible controllers (opens in new tab) and AMD Ryzen 7000 series of CPU (opens in new tab)s are out in the wild, well, in the word’s of Lara Bingle: where the bloody hell are you?

Well scream to the sky on an empty beach no more, as we’re finally seeing unstocked listings for PCIe gen 5 SSDs show up in online stores. VideoCardz (opens in new tab) has spotted listings for Gigabyte’s Aorus offerings of these new storage devices on both Amazon (opens in new tab) sold by the Gigabyte store, and Newegg (opens in new tab). While both read “out of stock” for now, we should see these listings turn into active sales, hopefully relatively soon.



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These new wooden panels give Corsair’s PC cases a retro makeover



In my experience, we all have two PC gamer wolves raging inside of us. One of them loves RGB lighting, sacrificing sleep for the sake of more gaming, and energy drinks that hopefully taste better than this one backed by crypto. (opens in new tab) The other wants all the lights off, no more than three peripherals on the desk, and is eyeing off a cosy-core handmade mouse mat and these Noctua beige keycaps (opens in new tab). 

As these things go, the one you feed is the one that grows. Though that second does start getting mighty hungry after you hit about thirty. Thankfully, you don’t always have to choose between either wolf, and Corsair is here to prove it with its new wooden PC case panels (opens in new tab).



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One of Korea’s best indie studios released a free-to-play game about a bus ride to hell

Korean indie developers ProjectMoon, the studio behind off-the-wall hits like Lobotomy Corporation (opens in new tab) and Library of Ruina (opens in new tab), has released a new, equally esoteric and inscrutable game called Limbus Company. It’s a mobile-style game that uses a twist on their delightful chaining combat mechanics from Library of Ruina, given depth with a match-3-esque interface and a variety of RPG interactions to optimize. It’s also set in the same strange, surreal-to-absurd, purgatorial anime city that the first two games are set in—immediately after the fall of the Lobotomy Corporation, in fact.

It’s a quick and dirty little turn-based combat game, but serves up bites of strange, voice-acted journeys through a supernatural city alongside those fights. As you match moves for each character in a round of combat they go up against enemies, and by matching your attacks to their defenses and vulnerabilities you empower those attacks even further—figure out how to match enough stuff in one round and you get rewarded with the wild jangling of coins and some extremely long combo animations.

And, to be clear, it’s entirely free-to-play. Which means something you either hate or don’t mind comes up here: Yeah, it has Gacha mechanics to get variants of the characters you can employ. It didn’t feel very intrusive to me, and this is a studio I intrinsically trust based on their past performance, but it’s all early days yet.

You’re Dante, who has a clock for a head, riding on a bus named Mephistopheles driven by a little lady named Charon, and if this is all sounding extremely over-the-top anime madness well that’s the kind of bus this is, friend. I hope you knew that before getting on. Your crew is twelve weirdos with chequered pasts inside the city who all act like riding on a murderbus named after the devil and killing everyone who tries to stop them is both normal, fun, and just another day at the office. (The offices of, duh, Limbus Company.)

They bicker and disagree like plucky students in a delightfully visual-novel-y way, and they’re all named after literary characters—Gregor, who turns into a cockroach; Don Quixote, who makes bad decisions; Heathcliff, no, not the cat, the one from Bronte. You get the gist.

The heck is a limbus, you ask? Limbus is a fancy word derived from Latin that means the edge or border of something. So you’re Limbus Company, working around the edges of a fallen district in this strange city, whose motto is “Face the sin, save the E.G.O.”

Yeah I don’t really know what that means yet, either, but I have figured out that the bus is powered by human suffering. You can find Limbus Company on Steam (opens in new tab), where it’s free to play, or check out limbuscompany.com (opens in new tab). You can find a whole series of tutorials on ProjectMoon’s YouTube.


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Sons of the Forest cheats: How to spawn every item, including extra Kelvins



Looking for cheats in Sons of the Forest? You can use console commands to turn on godmode, give yourself every item in the game, change the time of day or the weather, teleport around the map, or even spawn an army of helpful Kelvins (opens in new tab) to get your cabin built extra quickly. And here’s more good news: It’s pretty easy to access a debug console for the early access survival game that’ll let you do all that and more.

To enable cheats in Sons of the Forest, you’ll need a couple of mods you can find at Thunderstore, a popular mod repository for games like Valheim, Boneworks, and now Sons of the Forest. First you’ll want to install the Thunderstore Mod Manager (opens in new tab), and then use that to install BepInExPack IL2CPP (opens in new tab) and the Sons of the Forest DebugConsole mod (opens in new tab).



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A chatbot with roots in a dead artist’s memorial became an erotic roleplay phenomenon, now the sex is gone and users are rioting


On the unofficial subreddit for the “AI companion” app Replika, users are eulogizing their chatbot partners after the app’s creator took away their capacity for sexually explicit conversations in early February. Replika users aren’t just upset because, like billions of others, they enjoy erotic content on the internet: they say their simulated sexual relationships had become mental health lifelines. “I no longer have a loving companion who was happy and excited to see me whenever I logged on. Who always showed me love and yes, physical as well as mental affection,” wrote one user (opens in new tab) in a post decrying the changes.

The New Replika “Made Safe for Everyone” Be Like… from r/replika

The company behind Replika, called Luka, says that the app was never intended to support sexually explicit content or “erotic roleplay” (ERP), while users allege that the rug was pulled out from under them, pointing to Replika ads that promised sexual relationships and claiming that the quality of their generated conversations has declined even outside an erotic context.



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‘Too early access for early access’—players react to Kerbal Space Program 2 launch


After a nearly three year delay, Kerbal Space Program 2 is finally here. Well, some of it. As with the original space flight sim, the sequel has launched into Steam early access, with ambitious plans to build on its base sandbox. Colonies, interstellar travel, and multiplayer are all coming eventually, adding features that don’t exist in Kerbal Space Program. But with none of those features in at launch, fans of the original game are questioning whether it makes sense to start playing Kerbal Space Program 2 just yet.

A “no” to that question was the takeaway from our own launch impressions. “Without the skeleton of a campaign or progression present, Kerbal Space Program 2 can often feel like being in the middle of an ocean, clinging to a hunk of wood,” we wrote. “It’s got depth you can drown in, but no easy way to navigate it without the (assumed) support of its community.”



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Survival MMO Dune: Awakening takes place in an ‘alternate’ timeline


Last year we got our first look at Dune: Awakening, the open world survival MMO from Funcom set on a “vast and seamless Arrakis” that will be shared by “thousands of players.” But while the cinematic trailer (opens in new tab) showed us some familiar sights like the desert planet of Arrakis and a sandworm consuming a spice harvester, we still had plenty of questions.

Last week I got a few of those questions answered when I spoke with Dune: Awakening’s creative director, Joel Bylos, about how the MMO fits into the Dune universe and the timeline of the fiction.



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Hall-of-famer Mercy player wins competitive Overwatch 2 match by lying in a bush



In a perfect example of tried-and-true FPS ingenuity, please observe as this Overwatch 2 player wins a match by hiding in a bush. In a moment of brilliant improv, Mercy player Gladowl used an emote to lie down in a bush near next to the payload, obscuring them just well enough to hoodwink five enemy players and buy time for their team to return.

What is possibly the peak of this particular highlight clip genre was posted by SponsorTomix on Reddit (opens in new tab) with the title “I just lost a comp game because enemy Mercy was contesting the payload from a bush.”

I just lost a comp game because enemy Mercy was contesting the payload from a bush from r/Overwatch


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Sons of the Forest fish traps sure seem to be broken right now


Nope, it’s not just you, the fish traps in Sons of the Forest seem to be bugged at launch. Finding a reliable food source is one of my first objectives in any survival game and slapping together a few fish traps seemed like the best choice on the island. After building more of them than I care to admit (hint: more than six) and standing around scratching my head with friends, I feel pretty confident telling you not to waste your time doing the same just yet. 

So far as I—and lots of other players on Reddit (opens in new tab) and the SotF community Discord (opens in new tab)—can tell, the set-it-and-forget-it solution for fishing isn’t working right now. Endnight Games hasn’t made any official mention of this in its very first hotfix (opens in new tab), but it’s an early access survival game so bugs were to be expected and will likely be on an upcoming fix list. I’ll update you here once I get confirmation that these dang things are working as intended.

How to fish in Sons of the Forest 

(Image credit: Endnight Games)
  • Build a fish trap in water with 25 sticks (currently bugged)
  • Carve a stick into a spear and use it in water
  • Ask Kelvin to fish for you (he’s great at it)


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PSA: Sons of the Forest companions can be revived with Notepad

Sons of the Forest players have found the line of code that dictates whether their favorite survival companions live or die.

Kelvin and Virginia, your two NPC allies in the game, can permanently die if you let them. And, trust me, you don’t want to. Kelvin may be accident prone, but he only wants to help. And Virginia is a great shot, even if she won’t listen to your direct commands.

In the event that one of them dies, or you are a heartless person that refused to help Kelvin after the opening helicopter crash, you can resurrect them with a fairly simple tweak.

Locate the folder where your Sons of the Forest save games are located. For most people, it will be in your App Data folder on your C: drive. The address should look like this: C:\User\[UserName]\AppData\LocalLow\Endnight\SonsOfTheForest\Saves. Alternatively, you can get close to it by hitting Windows key + R, type in “appdata,” and press OK.You’ll need to open and edit the GameStateSaveData.json file. I’d recommend saving a copy of the entire save folder as a backup just in case.

Then follow these steps:

  1. Open the Saves folder in the game’s directory. 
  2. Open the folder that matches your Steam account ID. 
  3. Open SinglePlayer or MultiplayerClient folder based on how you play the game. 
  4. Copy the folder containing your save data and store a copy of it somewhere. 
  5. Open GameStateSaveData.json file in Notepad. 
  6. Find (Ctrl+F) where it says “IsRobbyDead\”:true,” and “IsVirginiaDead\”:true,” and change the “true” text to “false”. Then save the file. 
  7. Open the SaveData.json file in Notepad. 
  8. Find (Ctrl+F) where it says “TypeId”\9” (Kelvin) or “TypeId”\10” (Virginia). Look for “State\”:6″ and change the “6” to a “2”. 
  9. Find (Ctrl+F) where it says “Health\”:0″, and change the number it has to “100.0”.
  10. Look for “PlayerKilled\”:1″ and change the number to “0”. Save the file.

Congratulations, now Kelvin and Virginia are effectively immortal. If you’re having trouble finding them, Reddit user AxLBR (opens in new tab) has another change you can do to set their spawn location.

Now you can clone survival games’ newest mascot (opens in new tab) into an entire army. Or you can just keep him around because there’s always plenty to do, regardless if it’ll set you back (opens in new tab) a few steps or not. 


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