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Nintendo Switch 2 specs: $ 450 price tag, bigger 1080p LCD screen, 4K support, 256 GB storage, 'mouse' functionality and more
The specs of the console's new Nvidia chip, however, remain mysterious. Nintendo Direct: Nintendo Switch 2 – 02.04.2025 - YouTube Watch On Nintendo has...
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gaming
The first Nvidia RTX 50-series GPU makes an appearance in the Steam hardware survey and it's the RTX 5080 that has the honour
AMD CPUs are up and Intel down, too. Yes, yes, Valve's Steam hardware surveys can be problematic and occasionally throw up anomalies that can't...
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gaming
Our favourite wireless soundbar just hit its lowest ever price in the latest Amazon deal, solving one of our biggest gripes
It's an all-rounder, and available in tons of colours. BlueAnt Soundblade | 120 W | 2x neodymium drivers, 80 mm neodymium subwoofer | USB Type-C,...
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gaming
Assassin's Creed Shadows didn't have yellow paint originally, but unfortunately players like me are stupid
My words, not Ubisoft's. Yellow paint: it's the scourge of our time . Or at least, that's what I've gathered from the approximately 4,000,000 online...
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gaming
Schedule 1 is my favourite co-op game of the year because it lets me bully my friends into doing the hard parts for me
This empire-builder lets everyone do the things they love. I didn't realise a criminal empire would lead to so many early mornings. Yet, here I...
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gaming
The Nintendo Switch 2 mouse controls are a great gimmick but they don't excite me at all
They don't spark Joy(Con). Nintendo Direct: Nintendo Switch 2 – 02.04.2025 - YouTube Watch On When I first saw that the Nintendo Switch 2 would be...
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gaming
A Minecraft Movie review
"It's harder to create than to destroy. That's why cowards tend to choose the deuce." You may be wondering where this quote is from. Could...
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gaming
The PC game releases we're most excited about in April
A much anticipated puzzle game, a big RPG with a strange premise, a return to the RTS golden age, and more. The PC game release...
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gaming
Nintendo is going to charge Switch 2 handheld console owners money for a glorified digital manual that doubles as a game
There's no actual price yet, but Switch 2 Welcome Tour is definitely a 'paid' game. Is it a game? Is it a manual? Maybe it's just...
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gaming
'We were at war with our customers': Unity's new CEO talks about arriving to the 'insane' post-run time fee dumpster fire
"I wanted to be sure they understood that we were going to do things differently." Unity's been having a rough few years—mostly due to...
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gaming
Atomfall surpasses 1.5 million players to become Rebellion's most successful game launch in 32 years
Not bad for a company that's been that long. Rebellion's been around for a long time , and it's put out a lot of videogames—some...
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gaming
You can get PC Gamer's longest-reigning Top 100 winner and enough branching narratives to keep you busy for the rest of the year for under $ 15
Thousands of hours of isometric point-and-click action for one ridiculously low price. Disco Elysium is a real special game at PC Gamer—we gave the...
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gaming
AMD says the problem with Ryzen 7 9800X3D chips failing to boot is down to memory compatibility issues and not actually dead CPUs
But AMD's statement doesn't quite square with Reddit reports... Day 97 (or something like that), the saga of the imploding AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs...
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gaming
The first Radeon was superior to Nvidia's GeForce2 in almost every way but it set the tone for how AMD would fair against the jolly green giant for the next 25 years
Futureproof features mean squat here and now. It only seems like yesterday when I got my hands on ATI Technologies' first and much-anticipated Radeon...
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gaming
Call of Duty will finally let console players turn off crossplay to dodge PC cheaters, which is potentially terrible news for all the legit PC players
Black Ops 6 Season 3 expands crossplay options to regular unranked multiplayer. In a win for console players fed up with Call of Duty's cheating...
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gaming
It's actually happening, everybody stay calm: Silksong properly confirmed for a 2025 release date at the Nintendo Direct with a whole 3 seconds of footage
Rattling the bars of my cage. Gnawing them, too. Dear reader, this is not a drill: Silksong's release year has officially been confirmed. While it's...
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gaming
Ambitious burrito-lover mods real-life Chipotle orders into Fallout 4, thrilling community who can 'Finally get the food poisoning perk!' in reality
"This is an extremely serious mod. Not for the faint of heart." Once upon a time , back when videogames were properly visionary, we had a...
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gaming
It took nearly 20 years but one of the best PSP games is finally coming to PC
Pata- pon. Pata-pon. Pata-pata-pata-pon. PON PON PATA-PON. PATAPON 1+2 Replay – Announcement Trailer - YouTube Watch On I didn't have a PSP when the...
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gaming
This nearly budget gaming PC build made me realise availability is just as important as affordability when building a cheap machine
A budget part is only as good as its price on the shelf. There have been some excellent budget PC parts released over the past...
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gaming
'I was surprised, because I loved the trailer': Jack Black didn't get all the hate for the first Minecraft movie teaser
The negative reaction to the trailer didn't just surprise Jack, it also apparently left him thoroughly shook. A Minecraft Movie | Teaser -...
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gaming
Schedule 1 cheats and console commands for infinite money and free ingredients
Every cheat and console command you need to change your wanted level, teleport, or stack up cash. Schedule 1 is all about slowly climbing your way...
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gaming
It's tough to find a good price on a gaming laptop right now but this $ 900 RTX 4070 HP Victus is a tall glass of water in a desert of deals
Good prices on budget gaming laptops are still possible, if you know where to look. HP Victus | RTX 4070 | Ryzen 7 8845HS | 16.1-inch | 1080p | 144 Hz...
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gaming
Screenshots have seemingly leaked of the new Star Wars game from a team of former XCOM developers, and surprise: it looks like a Star Wars XCOM game
Featuring Bo Katan and Ahsoka Tano. Developer BitReactor has been particularly coy about its upcoming Star Wars game. Though it was first announced in...
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gaming
Inzoi mods are here and unsurprisingly 'Remove Shower Blur' is ranking high
Back in my day there were cheat codes for this sort of thing. Given the popularity of the Wicked Whims mod for The Sims, and...
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gaming
Turns out Inzoi's inhabitants wear towels in the shower because pixelating them Sims-style was too saucy: 'We actually tested this ourselves during development, so you can trust us'
There are dozens of them. Inzoi has been in the hands of life sim sickos for a few days now, and while there are pockets...
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gaming
Inzoi players are giving classic Sims townies a big ol' ultra-realistic makeover and I'm floored how good they are
From Bella Goth to Eliza Pancakes, here are some top-tier Sims-to-Inzoi character creations. It's only been a few days since Inzoi launched, but I'm...
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gaming
Doom: The Dark Ages' melee-heavy, parry-focused gameplay was nothing like I expected, and now I'm more eager to play the full thing than ever
Doom Souls. Leave a videogame series in a covered, humid environment for long enough and it will, according to some inextricable and mysterious law of...
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gaming
Wizards of the Coast says it didn't mean to send a DMCA takedown notice to the Baldur's Gate 3 Stardew mod: 'We are in the process of fixing that now'
The mod has Swen Vincke's personal approval, and the legal threat didn't go over well with fans—now WotC says it was "issued mistakenly." Recent...
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gaming
Linus Torvalds admits 'pure incompetence' for missing the new Linux 6.14 kernel deadline but all is forgiven as the update is great news for non-Windows gaming
And it's all down to an improved NTsync driver. While Microsoft's Windows OS dominates the PC gaming market, the rampant success of the Steam Deck...
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gaming
Nordhold is out now, and one of the year's most interesting tower defense games
Send some bad monsters to Valhalla. Nordhold - Official Release Trailer - YouTube Watch On Any strategy fan likes to see a nice tower defense...
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gaming
Lovecraftian horror detective game The Sinking City's grand redemption arc continues, with a shiny new remaster coming free to all existing owners
The move to Unreal Engine 5 will bring visual upgrades and a photo mode. Back in 2023, I had a blast with developer Frogwares' remake of Sherlock...
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technology
It still makes me uneasy that my hundreds of Steam games can't be passed on when I die, at least not without violating the EULA
(But can you really violate a EULA from beyond the grave?) As a teenager, I really enjoyed the game Shoot Many Robots. It wasn't amazing,...
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apps
How to get a job in Inzoi
Everybody has to at some point. Knowing how to get a job in Inzoi is a pretty important part of the experience, especially since your...
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fashion
Studio Ghibli AI image trend floods social media, cheered on by OpenAI and denounced by critics as an insult to Hayao Miyazaki
A heart's a heavy burden indeed. If you're on social media you've probably stumbled over some quote, clip, or screen grab from one of Studio...
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gaming
'Ok, so dragon builds are a thing now': galaxy-brained Helldivers 2 player incinerates a bile titan with a hover pack and a flamethrower
Free fire. As a weary veteran of Helldivers 2's galactic war, I thought I'd seen it all. I've seen helldivers choke to death on infinite...
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gaming
From pixels to pinot: The Windows XP 'Bliss' wallpaper hill was real and this is what it looks like now
Rolling grasses have given way to a vineyard in northern California. Windows XP was the most blissful iteration of Microsoft's ubiquitous operating...
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science
No Man’s Sky lets you unearth ancient, angry mechs in the astro-archaeology filled Relics update
Stone ghosts, skeletal companions and titanic boneworms. While October might have been a better time to introduce spooky scary skeletons to No Man’s...
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gaming
'World’s smallest LEDs' could lead to accurately lit screens with 127,000 pixels per inch and much more immersive VR
A stunning display. Some time s small is actually big—at least when it comes to advancements in LED technology. For a bright, clear picture,...
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how-to
How to upgrade weapons in Atomfall
Remove that ugly rust from your trusty guns and buff their stats. Want to upgrade weapons in Atomfall? Though there's no way to improve your...
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technology
7 things to find first in Atomfall
Get started on your countryside adventure by tracking down some good gear. Knowing what to find first in Atomfall can be a little tricky. Though...
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gaming
Don't panic! The 'Do Not Send Voice Recordings' option Amazon just removed was only used by 0.03% of customers and they can still have it
The small percentage of affected users will be automatically opted into the remaining "Don’t save recordings" option. Take a deep breath. While we are...
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technology
10 Atomfall tips to thrive in post-apocalyptic Cumbria
Brave the perils of Windscale's quarantine zone. If you're taking the plunge into the idyllic countryside of Cumbria and the post-apocalyptic Lake...
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gaming
I love the 8BitDo Retro C64 keyboard but I'd pick its cheaper NES-themed model near its lowest price ever during Amazon's Big Spring Sale
NES or C64. Which one are you picking? 8BitDo Retro Mechanical Keyboard (N Edition) | Hot swappable | 2.4 GHz, Bluetooth, and wired connection |...
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gaming / technology
CD Projekt says it's not using generative AI on The Witcher 4 because it's 'quite tricky when it comes to legal IP ownership'
The studio may look into gen AI if and when the legal landscape becomes clearer, but for now it's staying away. CD Projekt said in...
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gaming
By the time Bethesda was on Starfield, you'd 'basically get in trouble' for breaking schedule, says former dev: 'A lot of the great stuff within Skyrim came from having the freedom to do what you want'
Fus by numbers. Starfield sort of came and went, huh? With a lukewarm reception on release, a DLC that didn't quite summon that bygone Bethesda...
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how-to
How to unlock the blacksmith in The First Berserker: Khazan
Craft new weapons and armour using scrolls you find. Not sure how to unlock the blacksmith in The First Berserker: Khazan? If you're exploring each...
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how-to
How to claim The First Berserker: Khazan pre-order bonus and deluxe edition DLC
Collect your exclusive Fallen Star armour set for Khazan. You're likely looking to claim your pre-order bonus in The First Berserker: Khazan if you're...
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architecture
A unique aspect of Japanese architecture turned out to be a key reason the Like a Dragon games can reuse assets so effectively—and deliver more compact, memorable open worlds than western cities
It's all about the verticality. Spend enough time running errands and beating up thugs in the Like a Dragon (née Yakuza) series, and you'll...
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gaming
Old armor continues to fall victim to Final Fantasy 14's bizarre two-channel dye system, unless you're super into changing the colour of teeny-tiny eyelets: 'Why even bother at this point?'
Mourning alongside my fellow Gryphoskin Breastguard enjoyers. It only took a decade, but Final Fantasy 14 finally added an extra dye channel to a...
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technology
US pressures Malaysia to stop banned AI chips potentially entering China by monitoring 'every shipment that comes to Malaysia when it involves Nvidia chips'
The USA really doesn't want DeepSeek to have those chips. The United States has come into 2025 swinging when it comes to foreign imports around...
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business
Former Valve exec says the company struggled to sell Half-Life until coming up with the ultimate 'one simple trick' of marketing manoeuvres: slapping a 'Game of the Year' sticker on the box
"Okay, so you've done the game. Now what happens?" One of this year's GDC highlights was a talk by Monica Harrington, a founding member of...
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gaming
Ubisoft says don't compare Assassin's Creed Shadows' success to Valhalla: The latter launched in Covid's 'perfect storm' and feedback on platforms 'less affected by review bombing' is stellar
And let's be honest, the second-biggest launch in AC history is still a very big launch. Assassin's Creed Shadows is doing very well. Incredibly well....
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technology
'For too long, Apple has operated a walled garden around its products': The EU forces Apple to open its closed system to third parties
iOS connectivity is going to need to get cool with a lot of things very quickly. Apple is well known for its closed ecosystem of...
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technology
The 2012 source code for AlexNet, the precursor to modern AI, is now on Github thanks to Google and the Computer History Museum
One of the first modern neural networks makes its way to Github. Watch On AI is one of the biggest and most all-consuming zeitgeists I've...
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technology
Noctua's pumpless 'thermosiphon' liquid cooling unit is expected to be released in 2026 and has already given me a free lesson in basic thermodynamics
Turns out you don't need a pump after all. Noctua is perhaps best known for its brown fans and conventional air coolers, but it might...
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technology
MSI has gone so heavy with 12V-2x6 power sockets in its latest high-end PSUs that many AMD and Intel graphics cards have no way of being powered
A sign of change in the PSU market or just a one-off for a specific market? Nvidia's 12VHPWR power connector, later updated to the 12V-2...
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gaming
Microsoft announces DirectX Raytracing 1.2 claiming 'game changing' performance benefits but it looks like the important stuff is already in Nvidia's RTX GPUs, even the old ones
Is Microsoft tracing Nvidia's already-trodden path...? Microsoft has announced DirectX Raytracing 1.2 at the GDC conference with claims of "game...
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gaming
Assassin's Creed Shadows immersive mode explained
Immersive yourself in Shadows' sixteenth-century Japan. One of the first choices you'll make when booting up a new save in Assassin's Creed Shadows is...
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gaming
Valve CMO threatened the company would walk away from games if it didn't own the rights to Half-Life—'It wasn't an idle threat—we weren't going to take on all of the risk to make other people rich'
"Gabe had interesting ideas that had nothing to do with games." It's the 2025 Game Developer's Conference, and one of this year's most interesting...
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gaming
Acer Predator Z57 gaming monitor review
There is no single display technology that does everything well. That's an objective fact and something the stupendous, incredible and delightful new...
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celebrity / gaming / how-to
Ghoul players in Fallout 76 are starting to place their camps in the most radioactive areas of the map, and regular humans aren't happy: 'I had to inject 30+ radaway into my veins'
Only for the children of atoms. Ghouls made their way into Fallout 76 earlier this week, and since then it's mostly been positive. Regular players can...
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gaming
Dive into Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium's exhilarating new update [Aphelion]
Recruit the ice-cold leader Klukai, engage in new game modes and more. Anime girls and post-apocalyptic military are like peanut butter and jelly: A...
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technology
Friendship ended with human race: Boffins declare the 'meme Turing test' has been passed, and AI is now making funnier captions on average than you useless lumps
But it might also be something to do with people enjoying 'bad' memes. A new study has made the curious finding that memes with AI-generated...
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gaming
Wizards of the Coast gaming head says Baldur's Gate 3 'certainly raised the bar' and changed how they think about big budget D&D, but they still want 'different entry points' including smaller games
Not every D&D videogame going forward will be trying to replicate Baldur's Gate 3's dizzying depth. Earlier this week, Wizards of the Coast...
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gaming
After Ubi came crawlin' back to Steam, Assassin's Creed Shadows blasts past a million players in under 24 hours and has already smashed Valhalla's player record
Hana wa sakuragi, hito wa bushi. Bad news for Nobunaga and his ambitions: Assassin's Creed Shadows has parkoured past 1,000,000 players in under 24...
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gaming
The first non-Steam Deck SteamOS handheld is now available for preorder, and Lenovo may be aiming for the ROG Ally X's throne
The SteamOS model takes a price cut on the recent Windows one. If you want a more powerful handheld gaming PC but don't want to...
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gaming
X- Com creator Julian Gollop unexpectedly takes over sequel to sprawling board game adaptation, and you can try out the closed beta next week
Flaming Fowl step aside to make way for Snapshot Games, but it still looks lovely. As much as I like getting friends sat down around...
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gaming
CEO Jensen Huang reveals that Nvidia is now making chips in the USA but will that help with gaming GPU supplies?
Not just test chips, but 'production silicon'. "We are now running production silicon in Arizona." So says none other than Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang....
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gaming
Marketing guy invents the concept of 'Real Steam' to explain why 'magic' games, AKA good games, end up selling: 'Don't tell Valve'
The return of the Ministry of the Bleeding Obvious. Charles Zukowski, a game marketing strategist, delivered a talk at Game Developers Conference 2025...
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learning / technology
ChatGPT faces legal complaint after a user inputted their own name and found it accused them of made-up crimes
When AI ‘hallucinations’ are far from harmless. AI ‘hallucinations’ are a well-documented phenomenon. As Large Language Models are only making their...
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photography
Monster Hunter Wilds' next set of event quests let you snag a snazzy earring, plus armor and weapon decorations
Getting an earful (of metal). Monster Hunter Wilds just released its next set of event quests—which'll give you a chance to snag some snazzy...
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pets
My favourite rapid trigger keyboard is back at its lowest price and comes with a cute OLED screen to show game info (or a cat)
It's pricey but still an excellent keeb. SteelSeries Apex Pro TKL Gen 3 | OmniPoint 3.0 HyperMagnetic Switches | Wired | rapid trigger | $ 219.99...
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gaming
Five new Steam games you probably missed (March 17, 2025)
Sorting through every new game on Steam so you don't have to. Best of the best 2025 games: Upcoming releases Best PC games: All- time favorites...
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gaming
REPO's first update will add a new map and a 'duck bucket' so we can finally give that pesky quacker a time out
Tired of dying to that duck in REPO? Its first update promises a fix, plus a new map and more. REPO is already getting its...
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gaming
92% of Nvidia users turn on DLSS... if they've been lucky enough to bag an RTX 50-series card at launch AND have the Nvidia App installed
60% of the time , it works, every time . The past few weeks have been pretty huge for PC gaming hardware releases, and seemingly for some rather...
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gaming
The Day Before studio reportedly sues Russian website for calling infamous disaster-game a 'scam'
Well, it certainly wasn't game of the year 2023. First reported by 80 Level, The Day Before studio Fntastic has reportedly sued Russian news site...
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gaming
My new most anticipated RPG let me be a kleptomaniac gourmand set loose in a noir city on a quest to make 'the perfect sandwich'
Moves of the Diamond Hand has the right stuff. When I first fired up the demo for Moves of the Diamond Hand, I rolled a...
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gaming
Grab the brilliant Doom 2016 for its lowest price ever
A mere $ 2 and it's yours. Doom 2016 is less than two dollars. Id's superb reboot of its own 1993 FPS is currently available at a 90% discount thanks...
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gaming
Dune Awakening's latest trailer offers a glimpse of its massive coriolis storms, which reshape swathes of the map each week for 'infinite exploration'
Shifting sands. Dune: Awakening | Exploring Arrakis — Secrets of the Desert - YouTube Watch On I felt like I knew a lot about Dune Awakening, having...
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gaming
Sony, which is making a Helldivers 2 movie, is also making a new Starship Troopers movie, but it's not based on the Starship Troopers movie we already have
This could be a little confusing—the new flick will apparently go back to the 1959 Robert Heinlein novel. Get ready to get confused, because Deadline...
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gaming
The hottest farming sim since Stardew Valley just got its second major update, adding lava caves and pets you unlock by having a 'pet dream'
Fields of Mistria is also 20% off until Thursday. Throwback farming sim Fields of Mistria proved pretty darn popular when it launched into Steam early...
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gaming
The best Battlefield game of the last decade is 95% off until Thursday
A discount so deep you could use it as a trench. Steam's spring sale has officially sprung, bringing an array of mighty discounts like Doom 2016...
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apps
The latest Windows 11 dev build gives you the ability to snap together commonly paired apps for access in a single click, and I'm already sold
Now I can open Solitaire and Spotify even quicker. If you have signed up for the dev build of the latest Windows update, you should...
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entrepreneurship
How to get disruptive customers to leave in The Sims 4 Businesses & Hobbies
When rude retail customers turn up, show them the door. The Sims 4 really does reflect the best and worst parts of life, including the reality...
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entrepreneurship
The best part of The Sims 4 Businesses & Hobbies expansion is just coming up with fun small business ideas
You can get as wild as your imagination allows—from grungy laundromats to drag show clubs. The Sims 4 Businesses & Hobbies expansion has opened its...
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gaming
It launched upside down and on fire, but busted and brilliant Stalker 2 has attracted 6 million players to the Zone in the last 3 months
Love wins. The process of reviewing Stalker 2 will live forever in my memory—spending a solid week doing almost nothing but play it in order...
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books
Split Fiction review
Need to know What is it? A world-hopping co-op adventure with a pair of aspiring authors. Release date March 6, 2025 Expect to pay $ 50/£40 Developer...
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gaming
The unofficial Civilization 7 manual: everything Civ 7 doesn't tell you about its rules and systems
Civilization 7 doesn't explain many of the things you need to know to play it well. Here's how it all works. Editor's note: I was surprised...
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how-to
How to unlock Jasmine and Aladdin in Disney Dreamlight Valley
Let's visit a whole new world. Disney Dreamlight Valley loves to make you work for new characters, and unlocking Jasmine and Aladdin is no exception...
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gaming
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT review (Asus Prime OC)
AMD has gone big with the new Radeon RX 9070 XT, and I don't just mean because it's an absolutely monstrously large GPU. This is the...
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gaming
Best Buy outs a load of non-MSRP RTX 5070 cards and many are priced above $ 700 and up near RTX 5070 Ti levels. Ouch!
Are these the cards that will really be available? Best Buy has had a quintet of MSRP-priced RTX 5070 graphics cards listed for a while. Will...
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gaming / learning
We need a better name for AI, or we risk talking past each other until actually intelligent AGI comes home mooing
A-I can't believe it's not actually intelligent. When I say 'AI', what do you think of? Large Language Models saying something outrageous? Vaguely...
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gaming
Nvidia RTX 5070 launch day live: heaps of non-MSRP cards and a handful of MSRP ones for release today
And a big salute for the MSI RTX 5070 Gaming Trio OC, which is still in stock at Newegg for $ 650. This Gainward card is in-stock for £650...
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gaming
Nvidia RTX 5070 Founders Edition review
There's a shadow hanging over the new Nvidia RTX 5070. It's a shadow that's dulling the glint off every one of the new RTX Blackwell card's...
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gaming
Directive 8020: A Dark Pictures Game launches John Carpenter's the Thing into space this October
Supermassive's latest horror adventure arrives later this year. Directive 8020 - Story Reveal Trailer | PS5 Games - YouTube Watch On I'll always be up...
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gaming
Capcom says Ōkami sold quite well, actually, and it's wanted to do a sequel for ages but was waiting for 'the stars to align'
Such stars including Hideki Kamiya. Capcom's announcement of a sequel to Ōkami came as a big surprise last year, not least because the original is...
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gaming
Viktor Antonov, the visionary artist who defined Half-Life 2 and Dishonored, has died
Antonov also consulted on Doom 2016 and Fallout 4. Viktor Antonov, the Bulgarian artist who served as art director on both Half-Life 2 and Dishonored,...
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gaming
LAN Party simulates LAN parties without the LAN
The experience of getting together to use a LAN, except it's on WAN. LAN Party Reveal Trailer - YouTube Watch On Have you ever wanted...
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gaming
Maybe I'll finally stop getting lost in Fallout: New Vegas' Bison Steve Hotel thanks to this new minimap mod
Look, it's kinda weird in there. Earlier this month, modder Stentorious on the New Vegas Nexus graced us with one of those "oh my god,...
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gaming
Saber Interactive's head honcho pulled a wild stunt to nab the Halo: Combat Evolved remaster, telling Microsoft he'd do the job for free before ultimately squeezing the publisher for millions
Strap in, folks. If you've ever wondered how Saber Interactive ended up handling the remaster of one of the biggest shooters of all time , well,...
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gaming
Controllers beware: The much-loved and much-hated Shinobi series is being revived
Streets of Rage 4 developer Lizardcube will release Shinobi: Art of Vengeance in August, bringing back a series that led to a lot of smashed...
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gaming
Diablo speedrun sleuths proved its 15-year world record was fake after reverse-engineering the game and failing to replicate the run in 2.2 billion possible randomized dungeons
They were thorough. First reported by Ars Technica, a team of Diablo speedrun enthusiasts have decisively proven that a three minute any% world record...
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gaming
We can't have Bloodborne on PC but we can have Mudborne, a thematically similar game about breeding frogs
And buying it will support real frogs. Mudbourne Release Date! - YouTube Watch On Awoken from a long hibernation, you find the pond abandoned and...
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gaming
Planet Coaster 2's latest update adds synchronised rides, customisable video billboards, and stops guests suffering from perpetual panic
Ride maintenance. Planet Coaster 2 has been quietly expanding its virtual theme parks since the sequel launched last November. Just before Christmas,...
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gaming
Keep Driving review
Need to know What is it? A turn-based road trip RPG set in the early 2000s Expect to pay: $ 17.99/£15.00 Developer: YCJY Games Publisher: YCJY...
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gaming
Kurt Vonnegut's lost board game is back in stores after 70 years of obscurity and one sold-out print run
GHQ is a wargame—of sorts. Board game enthusiast and NYU Game Center teacher Geoff Engelstein was stunned to find, while trawling the archives of...
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gaming
'Massive' Stalker 2 patch adds A-life updates and 1,700 other fixes to GSC's survival shooter, so many you'll need to go a little quest to read them all
"All aspects of the game" tweaked. Staggering onto Steam, veins bulging, sweat dripping from its elbows, GSC Game World has dropped a vast, humongous,...
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gaming
Former EA exec says the ailing mega-publisher missed a chance to snag Blizzard and other heavy hitters before Activision: 'EA saw all those first and passed on all of them'
I wonder how that would have gone. As reported by IGN, former EA chief creative officer Bing Gordon revealed on a recent Grit podcast appearance...
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gaming
Indie FPS developer targets content creators who take undisclosed payments from rival developers and then dunk on his game: 'You and I will have legal problems'
"I'm tired of watching you all get paid off to do hit pieces on games that don't fork cash over for you." The developer of...
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pets
Intel is reportedly in talks to spin off its chip factories into a partnership with arch rival TSMC and now I think I've seen everything
Next week, cats and dogs living together. I've seen pretty much everything in this industry over the years. And, yes, that does include a man...
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Sim racers rejoice, F1 champ Max Verstappen says you're getting a '90 to 95%' accurate experience even without that megabucks motion rig
If Verstappen doesn't bother with motion rigs, maybe you don't need to either. Q&A with Max Verstappen - YouTube Watch On It's not...
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gaming
This Minecraft creation blots out the sun for the villagers below, they surely praise it as God, but we know it really to be a functioning 32-bit computer with 2 kB of RAM
This computer, built fully within Minecraft, ran the Fibonacci Sequence. Building a computer is one thing. Designing a computer from scratch is...
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gaming
Midnight Society, the studio co-founded by Dr Disrespect, is closing its doors the same day the disgraced streamer says his YouTube channel is being remonetized
The studio sold a ton of NFTs when it first opened, but never managed to release a game. Just months after laying off a "significant"...
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gaming
'On a pirate ship, they’d toss the captain overboard': Larian head of publishing tears into EA after BioWare layoffs waste 'institutional knowledge'
A profit drop doesn't have to mean a closed shop. So, BioWare probably isn't going to be making a new Dragon Age game any time...
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gaming
Deep trouble: Infosec firm finds a DeepSeek database 'completely open and unauthenticated' exposing chat history, API keys, and operational details
Into the great wide open. DeepSeek has been the name on everyone's lips this week, as the release of its R1 AI model spooked the...
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gaming
eBay users are getting back at graphics card scalping bots by listing pictures of the RTX 5090 for $ 2000, occasionally framed
"I got the frame from Target." Another graphics card launch filled with bots, scalpers, and 300% markups. Nvidia's hotly anticipated GPUs, the RTX...
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gaming
The Nvidia RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 release saw 'an 8-10x increase' in traffic to Newegg with the retailer claiming the cards sold out 'in record time '
Anecdotally we saw the cards vanish in under 5 minutes across the net. Nvidia's latest graphics cards have been called many things: "The most powerful...
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gaming
Nvidia's latest 572.16 driver isn't just for the RTX 50-series, as 20, 30 and 40-series cards are also gifted with significant updates
Free frames? Don't mind if I do. What a couple of days. The build-up, the sleeping in tents, the stock and pricing anticipation, then the...
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gaming
Asus says its easy-peasy PCIe slot causes 'no damage that would affect functionality' following claims of excessive wear, but says it'll cover any damage
"...we have found no impact on the functionality of either the graphics card or the motherboard." Following last week's report of excessive wear on a...
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gaming
How towns and cities work in Civilization 7
The difference between towns and cities, where to put buildings, and how specializations work in Civ 7. Aside from Civilization 7's transformative...
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gaming
This fascinating Lovecraftian RPG has me determined to build an army of ghoul-slaying cats—and no I haven't been driven mad by forbidden knowledge, why do you ask?
Cyclopean: The Great Abyss is a monochrome nightmare. I am lost in a nightmarish limbo. Everywhere I turn, bizarre creatures stalk me, rending my...
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how-to
Hello Kitty Island Adventure multiplayer: how to play together with friends
All the details about how to unlock multiplayer and what you can do together with pals. The prophecy is fulfilled at last and Hello Kitty...
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gaming
The cyberpunk immersive sim I've been itching to play finally has a release date
Peripeteia will be out in early access next month. Peripeteia is an upcoming indie immersive sim where you're an out-of-work cyborg mercenary living...
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gaming
That Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles roguelike I refuse to stop going on about is adding Casey Jones as a playable character and a junkyard full of frogs to goongala your way through
TMNT: Splintered Fate's first DLC arrives February 5th. One of my favourite surprises of 2024 was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate, a...
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gaming
52- year-old 'Super Mario' supermarket in Costa Rica wins unlikely victory against the Nintendo lawyers: 'He is Don Mario, he's my dad'
Nintendo —a company that's famously litigious when it comes to muscling down on fan projects, emulators, and some time s just straight-up other...
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gaming
Path of Exile's community is losing it over the news that the next expansion has been delayed because of Path of Exile 2: 'I need to make peace with myself and let go of this burden'
Like it shot Old Yeller. Hoo boy. Grinding Gear Games (GGG) has released a new update video, delivered by Path of Exile 2 director Jonathan Rogers,...
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gaming
Nvidia RTX 5080 Founders Edition review
The Nvidia RTX 5080 is like the difficult second album for the RTX Blackwell GPU band. It's a card that comes in at fully half the...
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gaming
Today I learned I can run my very own DeepSeek R1 chatbot on just $ 6,000 of PC hardware and no megabucks Nvidia GPUs required
The catch is that it's only really fast enough to serve one user with semi-useful gibberish at a time . Got the impression that a bazillion...
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gaming
For COD’s sake: One player’s 763-day legal quest to make Activision unban their account ends in total success: ‘Worth the effort’
Now that's some serious dedication. I've never been banned from a videogame or even got a single warning before. But some time s, simply playing...
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gaming
Celeste developer starts 2025 with a 'huge, heartbreaking, and yet relieving failure' as creative difficulties and internal conflict lead to the cancellation of Earthblade
"We gave it all we got, and life goes on". Celeste developer Extremely Ok Games has announced the "difficult decision" to cancel its follow-up project...
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gaming
The RTS genre might be in a bit of a state, but at least you can pick up these 10 classics for $ 30 in the Steam Real- time Strategy Fest before it ends soon
I can't think of a better way to spend the weekend. While the RTS genre is as busy as it's ever been, when it comes...
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gaming
'That's why they call me the Elden Ring sicko' proclaims streamer as he beats FromSoft's RPG at NG+1000 without taking a single hit
Skumnut's run is "first in the world" and "probably the last" of its kind. As someone who struggled to beat Elden Ring on its standard...
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gaming
While I'm trapped indoors by one of the UK's worst storms, I'm enjoying one of my favourite pas time s: trudging through gnarly weather in videogames
Bring a coat. Yesterday afternoon, my local medical centre sent me a text warning me that going outside the next day might prove to be...
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gaming
I missed this co-op open world base-builder when it first came out, but it's got over 10,000 positive Steam reviews and it's free to play all weekend
It felt Necesse-ary to tell you about this freebie you can check out with your buddies. I know base-builder fans are always on the lookout...
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gaming
'When the world ends, people just dance': As another MMO comes to an end, players come together for a final farewell rave
If you gotta go, go in style. Bandai Namco announced the end of the anime MMO Blue Protocol in August 2024, setting the date for its...
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learning
Coder creates an 'infinite maze' to snare AI bots in an act of 'sheer unadulterated rage at how things are going' on the content-scraped web
"Suck down as much bullsh*t as they have diskspace for, and choke on it." I'm getting a little tired of our deep-learning future, folks....
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gaming
Scalpers are already trying to rip off gamers by flipping RTX 5090 graphics cards they don't actually have for up to $ 7,000
Ummm, think I'll wait and try for one at MSRP, thanks. Marginally less inevitable than the relentless march of cosmic entropy and ensuing heat death...
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how-to
Ascend through 'ten thousand meters of concrete and decay' in this horrifying 'first-person roguelite speed-climbing game'
I played White Knuckle and I can tell you this: Everything you need to know about it is right there in the title. White Knuckle...
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gaming
By opting out of an open world for Avowed, Obsidian says it can give players more interesting choices to make: 'Pacing is really tough in open world games'
Constraints do foster creativity, after all. Earlier today, Xbox Wire published a lengthy interview with Obsidian, in which the studio laid out its...
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gaming
Doom: The Dark Ages system requirements have been revealed, and you'll need a ray tracing graphics card to run it on minimum
It's not the only recent game to do so. We're fast approaching five years since the launch of Doom Eternal, and while Doom: The Dark...
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gaming / technology
Film director clarifies that historical epic The Brutalist did use AI during production, but not how you think
Screaming from the rooftops. The Brutalist, the Adrien Brody-led historical fiction epic currently in theatres, has cinema sickos like me frothing at...
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gaming
I built the mullet of gaming PCs with MSI's Project Zero 'Back-Connect' parts
Business up front, party out back. I dream of a cable-free gaming PC—no more tangles, zip-ties, velcro, or fiddly connectors. Alas, a life without...
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gaming
Steam reviewers finally trolled me: I bought a game they called 'calm' and 'relaxing' before I noticed those were the 'funny' reviews
"Mini Motorways is a dystopian horror story disguised as a traffic sim," said a more helpful review that I didn't read. I've been looking for...
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gaming
If you thought PCIe Gen 5 SSDs were a little pointless, don't worry, here comes 32 GB's worth of Gen 6 technology
30 GB/s-plus of bandwidth, but for what? What with overheating issues and the reality that raw bandwidth only gets you so far, suffice to say...
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gaming
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth PC performance analysis: Runs well and looks good, but the tight system requirements and dearth of PC-centric options spoil the show
Limited graphics options, capped frame rates, and a mediocre upscaling system. Gee, thanks Square Enix. Released to critical acclaim almost one year...
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how-to
How to complete the Poison in the Roots quest in Diablo 4
Help the Tree of Whispers' coven perform the ritual. Completing the Poison in the Roots quest is one of the necessary steps in Diablo 4's...
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gaming
The Borderlands movie gets 6 'Razzie' nominations including Worst Picture, plus 2 separate nominations just for Jack Black's acting as Claptrap
2024's bomb continues to bomb. The annual Golden Raspberry Awards, probably better known as the Razzies, has announced its nominations for the worst...
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gaming
I'm enraptured by this Zelda maniac who worked out there are 1 quadrillion 83 trillion 414 billion and 90 million possible permutations for a dog race in Majora's Mask
The greatest underdog story in videogames. Yes it's a Zelda game, but bear with me because this is a story only possible on PC. The...
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gaming
Now Nvidia's hardware blocks have been AI'd out of existence all it will take for Frame Generation support on RTX 20- and 30-series GPUs is 'further optimization and testing'
The pros and cons of backporting Frame Gen to RTX 20- and 30-series graphics cards. A lot of things are going to change when Nvidia's...
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gaming
'You're not supposed to say this out loud!': Baldur's Gate 3 dev reacts to analyst who says some game makers 'hope' Grand Theft Auto 6 will cost up to $ 100 at launch
Michael Douse says the fact that game prices haven't risen with inflation is "an uncomfortable truth." Larian head of publishing Michael Douse warned...
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Update: Despite the TikTok ban's reversal, Marvel Snap is still blocked in the US
Marvel Snap developer Second Dinner and publisher Nuverse say they were surprised by the development. Article sources Update 1/19/25, 13:54 CST: Well...
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apps / gaming
Creator of horror game Poppy Play time sues Google for refusing to remove 'bait-and-switch scam' apps that pretend to be the real thing then charge users up to $ 95 for literally nothing
We aren't even talking like "Throne of Games: Click Here M'lord" stuff—these apps actually call themselves "Poppy Play time " and crib official...
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gaming
As the LA fires raged, Riot Games provided a generator to a fire station that lost power and donated meals from its employee cafeteria
The League of Legends studio's CEO promised last week to "stand up for Los Angeles" as deadly wildfires destroyed homes and displaced residents. The...
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gaming
Call of Duty is getting a microtransaction nobody can get mad at: A unique premium skin whose proceeds will go to LA wildfire relief
In addition to 100% of the bundle's revenue, Activision is donating $ 1 million to the Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation and Direct...
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gaming
Wartorn is a top-down fantasy tactics game co-created by BioShock's lead designer, inspired by a forgotten Bungie title where you command dwarves to blow up zombies
Battle fantasy monsters with elemental powers in this spiritual successor to Myth: The Fallen Lords. When was the first time you noticed physics in a...
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gaming
This Path of Exile 2 build simply opts out of danger by keeping nearby enemies permanently frozen in time
Set movement to no. Path of Exile 2 can be punishing. Compared to PoE 1, player characters are more fragile. Monsters hit harder, and they've got...
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gaming
Sons of the Forest's first patch in 6 months is a doozy, adding buildable rafts, a procedural wall system, and fixing more than 100 bugs
Also improves weapon aiming and warms up the hell cave. Sons of The Forest's cannibal-infested woods have been quiet lately. After a wildly popular...
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gaming
Retired PlayStation exec reckons Bloodborne PC hasn't happened because Miyazaki 'cannot do it himself, but he doesn’t want anyone else to touch it'
"That’s my theory, and the PlayStation team respects his wish." What do we want? Bloodborne on PC! When do we want it? At some...
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gaming
A not-so-subtle tease suggests Games Workshop is finally bringing Total War: Warhammer 3's Grand Cathay army to the tabletop wargame
Big news for fans of very long, thin dragons. One of the interesting quirks of 2022's Total War: Warhammer 3 is that it featured two major...
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gaming
10 essential boomer shooters that every FPS fan should play
Welcome back to the realm of keycards, spinning powerups and gibs. Call them what you like: retro FPS games, your dad’s shooters, boomshoots, or 3...
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gaming
The Witcher 3's director explains why he had to leave CDPR to make his dream vampire RPG: 'We had crazy ideas'
The leader of Rebel Wolves speaks For PC Gamer magazine's upcoming The Blood of Dawnwalker issue, I flew out to Warsaw to visit developer Rebel...
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gaming
The FBI used self-destruct on malware infecting over 4,000 US computers, it's super effective
Expelliarmus! Wait, wrong franchise. Doctor, heal thyself. Or, in this case, malware, self-destruct. A joint press release from the US Justice...
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gaming
After the catastrophe of Concord, Sony is reportedly cancelling other projects including a God of War live service game
Two games in development at Bend Studio and Bluepoint have apparently been canned. There are flops, and then there was Concord. A first-party...
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gaming
The manufacturer of 90% of the world's consumer drones will no longer automatically stop its products flying over US airports, power plants and prisons
Instead, drone operators will receive a dismissible warning. If there's one sure sign we're living in some sort of cyberpunk future, it's the number...
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learning
Turns out there's 'a big supercomputer at Nvidia… running 24/7, 365 days a year improving DLSS. And it's been doing that for six years'
It's all part of the process. Of course Nvidia was going to have at least one supercomputer; I mean it's been making data centre GPUs...
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gaming
Chris Roberts sallies forth to declare 'we are closer than ever to realizing a dream many have said is impossible' with Star Citizen, but I'm sure I've heard this record before
"Star Citizen and Squadron 42 are two games that would never have been greenlit by any of the big publishers." It's been 12 years since the...
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gaming
After fabled RTX 4090 Ti was allegedly dug out of a bin last year, tech testing YouTuber puts Nvidia's prototype GPU through its paces
Dumpster diving remains no more compelling. NVIDIA's Unreleased TITAN/Ti Prototype Cooler & PCB | Thermals, Acoustics, Tear-Down - YouTube Watch On The...
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gaming
To the dismay of my colleagues, I paid $ 15 for this Hatsune Miku desktop pet so you don't have to
She's literally hiding in my WiFi. Hatsune Miku has been doing the rounds when it comes to collabs at the moment. We've seen her in...
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gaming
Even with a new generation of GPUs on the way this all-AMD Ryzen/Radeon 7900-series gaming PC is a great discounted machine
Another iBuyPower Y40, don't mind if I do. iBuyPower Y40 | Ryzen 9 7900X | Radeon RX 7900 XT | 32 GB DDR5-6000 | 2 TB SSD | $ 1,899.99 $ 1,649 at Walmart...
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gaming
Powerwash Simulator studio ends VR development, but at least there are no layoffs happening
FuturLab says the VR version of Powerwash Simulator costs more than it makes, so it's time to do something else. Powerwash Simulator was a surprise...
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gaming
Halls of Torment review
Halls of Torment's most obvious difference from its most obvious inspiration is that it expects you to click to attack. No sir, none of that...
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gaming
CD Projekt Red boss says 'around 100' Witcher 3 designers still work at the company, while the Witcher 4's story director is 'the same person since Witcher 1'
The main story director is also 'the same person since Witcher 1'. Much has happened to CD Projekt Red since the Witcher 3 released 10 years ago....
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gaming
Lords of the Fallen studio embraces fear of the DEI boogeyman, says it will not include 'any social or political agendas' in its games
CI Games apparently believes that inclusive games are at a high risk of failure. Lords of the Fallen studio CI Games says it will not...
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gaming
Piranha Games will lay off employees after Mechwarrior 5: Clans 'performed below projections'
Parent company Enad Global 7 has also announced that EvilVEvil developer Toadman will be closed. Enad Global 7 has announced that 38 employees at its...
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gaming
Palestinian developer raises more than $ 200,000 to make Dreams on a Pillow, a game about the horrors of the 1948 Nakba
The new game from Lilya and the Shadows of War maker Rasheed Abueideh promises to relate "often untold stories of Palestinian history." Dreams on a...
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gaming
My Summer Car, the absurdly detailed Finnish life sim about vehicle maintenance and drinking in your underpants, smashes into 1.0 after nearly a decade in Steam early access
Devs also confirm sequel is in "active development". My Summer Car Release Trailer - YouTube Watch On Oddball Finnish life-sim My Summer Car has...
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gaming
The 11 big FPS games of 2025
2025 could be a landmark year for the FPS. 2025 is going to be a hell of a year for first-person shooter fans. It's not just that...
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gaming
Assassin’s Creed Shadows takes a run at improving parkour, as Ubisoft strives to make the system less 'like a gas pedal'
New free-running abilities include ledge-flips, sprint-dodges, and grappling-hook wall-runs. Parkour has always been a distinguishing feature of...
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gaming
It's time for me to admit that AI-accelerated frame generation might actually be the way of the future and that's a good thing
It pains me to say it, but maybe we should focus less on traditional rendering. Jacob Fox, hardware writer This week: I've been trying to...
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gaming
If you're trying to convince me your 'companionship' robot is 'lifelike', maybe don't rip her face off in the demo video
The Uncanny Valley just got some startling new inhabitants. CES is an exciting event because it's always packed with weird, wild, and often dubious...
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gaming
The Last of Us season 2 trailer is a brief look at a story you should probably just play yourself in April
Season two starts in April, but you can also play the story yourself around the same time . The Last Of Us Season 2 | April 2025 | Max -...
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gaming
Thermaltake's new 2000 W PSU is too powerful to be sold in the USA and comes with four PCIe 5.0 GPU power connectors
We're going to need a bigger power outlet. Thermaltake has a handful of new Toughpower PSUs on display at its CES 2025, and I've been over...
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gaming
20 hours in, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is a mad, systems-driven sandbox that captures some of the best parts of games like Stalker
No one warned me my actions would have consequences. Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is an engine that spits out chaos and regret, but don't worry, I...
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gaming
MSI intros cheaper 'back connect' Project Zero Intel motherboards for super-clean PC builds you might actually be able to afford
Should help bring down the cost of that 'zero rat's nest' build... Want a super-clean desktop build? Get a motherboard with all the connectors on...
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gaming
AMD is now reportedly making all-American Ryzen 9000 CPU dies at TSMC's Arizona fab
Made in the USA, mostly anyway... AMD is having some of its latest Ryzen 9000-series desktop CPUs made at TSMC's new fab in Arizona. So...
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gaming
Sorry everyone, Minecraft 2 is cancelled, and it might be our fault
After he "basically announced Minecraft 2" last week, Markus "Notch" Persson has changed his mind. Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson caused a...
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gaming
Alan Emrich, the game designer and writer who coined the term '4X,' has died
Emrich came up with the idea in a 1993 review of Master of Orion, and it stuck. Alan Emrich, a designer and writer of board games...
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gaming
Is the new RTX 5070 really as fast as Nvidia's previous flagship RTX 4090 GPU? Turns out the answer is yes. Kinda.
Saying 'Marvel Rivals' until the words lose all meaning. The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 was only fully revealed this week at CES 2025, but already the...
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gaming
WoW's finally upgrading its dreaded swirlies so players can actually tell where it's safe to stand
Only took a couple of decades. World of Warcraft's patch 11.1, which is currently available on the public test realm and will shortly be rolled-out to...
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gaming
'I created it, let me move on': Ex-Cloud 9 player, the Overwatch team whose blunder inspired the infamous 'C9' slang, watches in horror as the term moves onto Marvel Rivals
Some things are just unforgettable. Let me take you down memory lane, back to Overwatch Apex Season 2 in 2017. Specifically, to the match between AF...
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gaming
Tiny anime girl cyberprison shown at CES
It rotates, and it listens. At CES 2025, a company called Sybran Innovation showed off the Code27 Character Livehouse. It's an AI-powered digital...
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gaming
18 games the PC Gamer team can't wait to play in 2025
There's lots to look forward to this year. For all of the great games released in 2024, it was a year that felt somewhat bereft of...
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gaming
The TDP of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 and 5080 have been leaked, suggesting it's a little less power-hungry than we thought, though still massive
You might want to upgrade that PSU. Graphics cards are apparently just getting bigger and bigger, and the Nvidia RTX 5090 might just be the most...
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gaming
Marvel Rivals admits that it accidentally banned some players for trying to run the game in a different operating system, which isn't cheating
"We do not and will not ban players who are playing fairly." Marvel Rivals community manager announced this morning that it has accidentally flagged a...
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PC Gamer's Best City Builder of 2024 has sold over 2.5 million, but here's the big news: Now it has bridges
Plus "don't roll too fast" when a hit does happen. Publisher Hooded Horse has announced that Manor Lords has sold over 2.5 million copies, which makes...
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gaming
A German retailer reports the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has outsold the entire non-X3D 9000 line
3D V-Cache takes the win. Ryzen's X3D chips appear to be outselling all of its other chips, and Intel's latest aren't even coming close,...
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gaming
8 bold gaming predictions for 2025
What does the new year have in store for videogames? One one hand, it feels like gaming is speeding up. New genres can go out...
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Eternal Strands, the physics-heavy RPG being headed by Dragon Age veteran Mike Laidlaw, will roll out a playable demo a week ahead of its full release
Laidlaw said Eternal Strands is "a game that benefits from 'feeling' it." Eternal Strands, the new game from Dragon Age creative director Mike...
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This upcoming Micro-OLED VR headset has absolutely everything and weighs less than 200 grams but of course it costs nearly 4x the Quest 3
Chonky or super-expensive seems to be the main dilemma. Frontier: Hello Pimax Dream Air - YouTube Watch On Recent updates Update January 03: The original...
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apps / gaming
A debloating wizard has managed to get Windows 11 running on just 184 MB of RAM, and it looks like it can actually run apps
It can probably run Notepad, at least. Some time s less is more. That seems to be the guiding philosophy of NTDev, a developer that...
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gaming
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 hits peak lack of awareness with its Squid Game skins which, unfortunately, look rad as hell
time for the games to begin. I've only just finished the second season of Squid Game, but it looks like I won't have to wait...
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gaming
The PC game releases we're most excited about in January
It's a new year with new games... you did finish all the games you bought last year, right? And the year before? 2024 was full of...
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gaming
PUBG creator Brendan Greene swears his infinite, mega-ambitious digital universe isn't like all the others: 'I want to build a metaverse because I don't think anyone else is'
A billion, million worlds. PUBG's creator, Brendan Greene, has been tinkering away at his next next project for a while now with his homegrown studio,...
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gaming
After a year in its company, I’ve done a complete 180 on my Steam Deck
I'm sorry I ever doubted you, Valve. Two years ago, I wrote about the fact that I had major Steam Deck FOMO but still wouldn't...
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gaming
The 2024 Steam Awards give Game of the Year to Black Myth: Wukong
And two other awards, for more than any other in this year's Steam contest. Chinese-made action RPG Black Myth: Wukong has cleaned up at this...
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gaming
With the next Elder Scrolls and Fallout games still years away, here are 6 upcoming total conversion mods for Skyrim and Fallout 4 to get excited about
Getting creative with the most ambitious Skyrim and Fallout 4 mods. A "total conversion" is one of the most coveted and difficult modding projects one...
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gaming
HeroQuest: First Light turns the classic board game into something I could actually imagine kids playing today
This version of HeroQuest won't do five dice of damage to your wallet. Once upon a time , HeroQuest was the board game equivalent of a...
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gaming
PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2024: The winners in every category of PC gaming greatness from the past 12 months of tech
We've had our hands on all the best PC gaming hardware of 2024 and these are our absolute, solid gold favourites. The winners 1. Best laptop: Asus...
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gaming
WD Black SN850X 8 TB NVMe SSD review
That's eight terabytes of storage on a single PCIe SSD. Seriously. We've come a long way since the conception of M.2 solid state storage, haven't...
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movie & tv
Rule the talking movie industry in tycoon game Hollywood Animal
There's a nice little demo of this Old Hollywood business manager. Hollywood Animal - Official Early Access Release Date Trailer - YouTube Watch On I'm...
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gaming
Best City Builder 2024: Manor Lords
An early access medieval sim scratched our city builder itch this year. Break out the lute, because Manor Lords was our favourite city builder of...
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gaming
It's been a bumper year for PCs but my pick for the best new hardware in 2024 is a chassis, surprising even myself
Flippin' brilliant. Gear of the Year Check out more of the year's best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2024 coverage. I could reel off...
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gaming
This co-op survival horror masterpiece is just $ 2 in the Steam Winter Sale, which could explain why it just hit an all- time high player count of nearly 100k a decade after it launched
10 years after it debuted in early access, The Forest keeps finding new fans. In 2014, survival horror game The Forest launched into early access on...
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how-to
Depersonalization is an RPG out of China that feels like it never stops getting deeper, once you figure out how to set it to English
Just click options and hope for the best. The hidden gems of Game Pass We're checking out the hidden gems of Game Pass over the...
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gaming
2024 felt like the year gaming laptops finally started to grow up, so roll on 2025 and the mega-smart lappys to come
Slim, powerful, desirable. Here's hoping this is just the beginning. Andy Edser, hardware writer This month I've been testing: Gaming laptops,...
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gaming
PC Gamer's highest review scores of 2024
Two games received rare 95% scores, and another came in at 94% in what was a pretty fantastic year for new games. On the one hand, "score...
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gaming
Dredge, the horror-fishing game with immaculate vibes, is free on the Epic Game Store
It's another 24-hour giveaway, so get it while you can. Dredge is great. We called it "a fantastic fishing game with a sinister mystery lurking...
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how-to
How to get started with The Finals: 7 tips you need to know
How to get good at The Finals. If you want to climb through the ranks in this game show-themed shooter, you'll need these top The...
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gaming
For all you mayors managing your budgets, here are 5 city builders from 2024 with great discounts in the Steam Winter Sale
Steam has some nice deals on new city builders, just in time for the holidays. Got plans over the holidays? Hopefully they include getting a...
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gaming
Final Fantasy 14's battle designer admits they went a little overboard on streamlining fights, especially for melee: 'Our policy of reducing gameplay-related frustrations was some time s taken too far'
Interesting ideas were vetoed in place of making fights easier, Masaki Nakagawa says. Anyone who endured Final Fantasy 14: Endwalker as a melee main...
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gaming
Corsair MP700 Elite 2 TB NVMe SSD review
Categorically, what is the biggest problem with PCIe 5.0 drives? It's the heat. At launch, and even now, those early 5.0 units complete with the...
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gaming / how-to
Playing Path of Exile 2 with WASD makes it feel like a true action game, and I'll never be able to go back to my mouse
I implore you to give it a try. Path of Exile 2 is a game jammed to the gills with a nearly paralysing amount of choices...
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gaming
The OG creators pitched Dead Space 4 to EA this year, but the publisher gave a flat 'no' so 'we didn't take it any further'
"I’m just saying I would make a Dead Space 4." The key creatives behind Dead Space have revealed that earlier this year they tried to...
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gaming
2024 was the year gamers really started pushing back on the erosion of game ownership
Talk about getting owned. Ever since the advent of digital distribution (which despite what some may think, does pre-date Steam), gamers have worried...
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gaming
Halls of Torment feels like the brilliant lovechild of Vampire Survivors and Diablo, and the absolute pinnacle of autobattlers
Cow level presence: undetermined. Personal Pick In addition to our main Game of the Year Awards 2024, each member of the PC Gamer team is shining...
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gaming
Here's 22 good games that cost $ 1 or less in the 2024 winter game sales
Almost two dozen games for less than $ 25? In this economy? The winter sales are upon us once more: that yearly festival wherein we all unite...
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gaming
AMD's next-gen RDNA 4 graphics cards are now rumoured to be called the RX 9000-series, and we might have already had a sneak peek at what they look like
A holiday miracle. The world awaits the arrival of next-generation graphics cards, and all eyes are now turning towards CES 2025 where it's hoped that...
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gaming
Against the Storm looks charming and cosy, but it's actually the best and most fiendish city builder I've played in years
This devilishly deep city builder is the cleverest thing I played all year. Personal Pick In addition to our main Game of the Year Awards 2024,...
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gaming
OneXPlayer OneXFly F1 Pro review
I'm a smitten kitten. And it's nothing to do with the fetching red clothing of the version of the new OneXFly F1 Pro I've been...
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how-to
How to use the Golden Idol and others in Path of Exile 2
You'll also find the Grand Idol and Glorious Idol during your travels. Confused about what to do with the Golden Idol in Path of Exile 2?...
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Valve is fixin' to start some arguments over the holidays because 'All adult members in a Steam Family' can see your Steam Replay page
Hope you're not bashful about the data in your 2024 Steam Replay! Recent updates As some have said in the comments, you can set games in...
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gaming
The game director of Elden Ring: Nightreign has delivered an ultimatum to gaming couples everywhere: Find a third wheel or play by yourself
Only singles and polycules allowed. Learning about a new Elden Ring spin-off was my highlight of The Game Awards. Over the last few years, my...
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gaming
Project Zomboid's new Build 42 update, 3 years in the making, is the biggest game release of 2024 for me—here's why
The 11-year-old zombie survival sandbox keeps getting better, and this one is a doozy. Christmas came early for me yesterday. After previously...
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gaming
Stalker 2 revives A-Life with a mondo-huge 110 GB Christmas patch that marks the game's first major update
Weight limit exceeded. Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, and the Christmas gift he's delivering is "the first major patch for Stalker 2." Patch...
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gaming
'Gooner 9/11' averted as Zenless Zone Zero's butt-obfuscation technology is rolled back in the face of horny outrage
Let me explain. I'm really not sure where to begin with this one, so I'm just going to lay it out and then try to...
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gaming
PC Gamer's Game of the Year Awards 2024
From major releases to the games that perfectly captured their niche, these were the best games of the year. Welcome to PC Gamer's annual Game...
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gaming
Be happy, Black Myth: Wukong fans, because it is literally impossible for Astro Bot to win Game of the Year in the 2024 Steam Game Awards
The nominations are in, and Astro Bot is out. The 2024 Steam Winter Sale starts in just a couple days, meaning it will soon be time...
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gaming
Exodus, the new game being led by BioWare veteran James Ohlen, finally reveals some gameplay, and boy it sure looks like Mass Effect
I'm still intrigued by the setting, but the actual gameplay is awfully familiar. EXODUS Gameplay Trailer: 'The Traveler's Creed' - YouTube Watch...
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gaming
Path of Exile 2 makes buildcrafting more approachable than ever—but I'm glad I can still sleepwalk through screenfuls of skeletons in the original
PoE 2's the start of a great sequel, but it's not quite the sequel I'm looking for. Despite the 500 hours of play time I've accrued...
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gaming
One of Path of Exile 2’s toughest bosses gets patched to be less of a buzzkill
Challenge is fun, sketchy hitboxes are not. Do you ever find yourself in a gruelling boss encounter, usually several attempts in, only to be swatted...
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how-to
How to use the Sacrificial Heart in Path of Exile 2
Make an offering to get two passive skill points. The Sacrificial Heart is just one of the many random items you'll have to find a...
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gaming
CD Projekt knows why we're all really here: Gwent is coming back in The Witcher 4, and the devs 'don't think anyone will be disappointed'
I'm in the mood for some diversion. A game of Gwent would be best. As spotted by user CM_Escape on the Witcher subreddit, CD...
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gaming
'The guns weren't doing what it says on the box': Johan Pilestedt reflects on Helldivers 2 balance changes that disrupted the positive vibes
Arrowhead wants to better cater to both social players and those who play for "mastery." When I think about the first year of Helldivers 2, I...
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Fallout co-creator Tim Cain hasn't made sequels to his other cult classic RPGs because they didn't sell well: 'You should have bought it'
"Some time s gamers need to put their money where their mouth is." Tim Cain's storied career includes a bunch of what are likely some...
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gaming
This RTX 4070 gaming PC just swatted aside all 4060 Ti rigs by somehow costing less than $ 1,000
Great news for those of you who missed some of the best Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals. iBuyPower Y40 | Ryzen 7 7700 | RTX 4070 | 16 GB DDR5-5200...
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gaming
Zotac website leak seemingly confirms monstrous 32GB Nvidia RTX 5090 but we're still concerned about how stingy Nvidia might be further down its new GPU range
Nvidia going big at the top end, but what about the rest of the range? This is more in line with existing rumors and expectations...
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gaming
Putty, not pads: Thermal Grizzly's new thermal materials might be the best thing for your graphics card just don't ask for any numbers
Do you want moderate, good, or excellent? Reapplying a fresh layer of thermal paste to a graphics card's GPU is quite easy but dealing with...
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gaming
Path of Exile 2 passive skill respecs will no longer cost Scrooge McDuck levels of gold
Experiment away, Exiles! Grinding Gear Games continues to tinker away on Path of Exile 2, fixing some of the "key pain points" of the otherwise superb...
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gaming
Ahead of its January launch, one of the best city builders around is getting a free demo that 'allows you to play endlessly' with some of the new features coming next year
The release will feature entirely remade game modes and a visual overhaul. Foundation | Release Date Announcement and Demo Trailer - YouTube Watch...
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We're (probably) doomed: Experts think the Sun may produce gigantic, electronics-destroying superflares much more often than we previously thought
Thanks for all the fish, etc. I've always wanted to write "We're doomed" with reasonable justification, and well, here we are. A study published by...
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