My favorite co-op game in years is on sale for $3 in the Steam Summer Sale-

One of the best co-op games, and one of oh-so-few stealth co-op joints around, Styx: Shards of Darkness, is 85% off (just $2.99) for another couple days. With the Steam Summer Sale not quite closed, it’s not too late to toss some pocket change at another couple games. Better yet, talk a friend into playing with you.

I routinely cycle back through my whingeing that co-op campaigns just don’t exist like they used to and Styx: Shard of Darkness was the answer to my grievances when I picked it up a couple years back. It’s a proper stealth romp with large levels to dissect by picking off guards and avoiding combat with darkness and crawl spaces. All you’ve got to suffer for it are some bottom-shelf scatological jokes from a snarky goblin. 

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More of the internet could disappear as load-bearing image host Imgur announces deletion of old content and NSFW images-

Image host Imgur announced a change to its terms of service on April 19 that will ban NSFW content, as well commence the deleting of an unspecified number of older images “not tied to a user account.” The announced changes are set to take effect on May 15. Imgur did not respond to a request for comment in time for publication.

Imgur was founded in 2009 as a way of hosting and sharing images intended for other social networks⁠—for a long time, it was the default way to attach images to Reddit posts, for example, but also saw extensive use on other sites and forums. Though the site declined in relevance following Reddit’s rollout of its own, internal image hosting service, Imgur is still widely used. The company itself boasts of 300 million unique visitors and “billions”…

Chrome beats all comers in web browser drag race, never mind the memory footprint and privacy problems-

All hail Google’s Chrome browser, the fastest browsing in the land. So says PC World, who just drag-raced Chrome against Firefox, Edge, Opera, Vivaldi, and Brave, with Google’s uber-popular browser crossing the line first. So, Chrome is quick. But is it sleek? Hold that thought, we’ll come back to it.

To assess browser performance, PC World used a trio of freely available benchmark tools, namely Speedometer 3.0, Jetstream2 and Motionmark 1.3. Speedometer tests web page rendering, Jetstream is more focused on assembly and Javascript, while Motionmark tests in-browser graphics.

PC World ran the tests on what they described as a mid-spec PC, sporting an AMD Ryzen 5 3600 CPU, Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti graphics, 16 GB of DDR4-3200 memory and a Samsung 970 Evo SSD. Slightly oddly, PC Wor…