ConnexionSpecs for Nvidia's new RTX 5050, 5060, and 5060 Ti GPUs leak out and that 5060 might actually be half decent. If it's priced right
And if you can actually buy the darned thing...
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Vue lecture
The AMD x Sony collab gave us FSR4 and a version will appear in PlayStation next year, too, having 'already started to implement the new neural network on PS5 Pro'
"It should take the same inputs and produce essentially the same outputs."
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Where to find sticks in Hello Kitty Island Adventure
An essential material.
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A BIOS update could be all that's stopping you or someone else from jailbreaking your old AMD CPU
We are once again asking everyone to update their stuff.
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Assassin's Creed: Shadows is just around the corner, so come and see the last 17 years of the series' PC graphics at max 4K settings
Bringing history to life and then killing it with a hidden blade. Or bugs.
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Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, March 11
Get all the help you need with today's Wordle.
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'Don't you know what he did?': The truth comes out in The Last of Us Season 2 trailer
There's also spores, stalkers, and Joey Pants.
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'Creepy,' 'ghastly,' 'rancid': Viewers react to leaked video of Sony's AI-powered Aloy
The video of Aloy hooked up to OpenAI and various other systems was not meant for public consumption, and you can see why.
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Split Fiction sells 1 million copies over 2 days
1 million over 2 days - ½. Split Fraction? Get it? No? OK.
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The original Verdansk map is returning to Call of Duty: Warzone, to celebrate which we get a soldier crying to Nat King Cole
Complete with a soldier crying with joy.
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More than 5 years after launch, Control gets a surprise patch that lets everyone play the Hideo Kojima mission
Today's update also adds some previously preorder-exclusive cosmetics, official HDR support, and more.
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Swen Vincke stamps seal of approval on Stardew Valley mod that yoinks the Baldur's Gate 3 cast out of D&D and into a cosy pastoral life
Astarion's farmin' on.
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Nvidia says it really has sorted RTX 50-series black screen issues this time around as yet another driver fix finds its way to release
It can't hurt to be sure, can it?
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Warner Bros says it will replace certain DVDs damaged by 'disc rot', but you might not get the same movie you sent in for replacement
Send in The Matrix, receive The Goonies. Or something like that.
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Screw waiting for GPU restocks, with an AMD RX 9070 gaming PC going for as cheap as this I'd hop on the pre-built bandwagon
You might want to upgrade that RAM and storage, though.
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This Amazon-bought fake AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D is actually a 14-year-old Bulldozer chip with a cheap sticker on it
Never mind the wrong chip, it's not even the right socket.
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Rebellion CEO says Evil Genius 3 could happen but wonders 'what else could we do with it other than a base-building game?'
"The idea of simulation games with emergent properties is very much part of what we do."
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Asus ROG Swift PG27UCDM review
Asus took its best 4K OLED gaming monitor and shrunk it to 27-inches. Yay, I guess?!
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Wanderstop review
A fallen warrior tries to take it easy in a cozy tea shop.
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All FragPunk codes and how to redeem them
Redeem these codes to bag some free loot before they expire.
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A recently launched and now terminally sideways Moon lander contains Imagine Dragon's Starfield song, which seems eerily fitting
'All my life's led to this and now I see what I've become.'
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A lot is going on for Cities: Skylines' 10th anniversary—from freebies to new creator packs—but there's still a big ol' elephant in the room
Celebrations and commiserations.
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Japanese game producer argues that thick thighs on anime girls are a natural byproduct of economic recession
The economy's in shambles.
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Hideo Kojima really just went 'screw it' and made Metal Gear Stranding
Snaaake?
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If you've captured them for a minute, monsters in Monster Hunter Wilds are legally allowed to leave
Union rules state I can only stay in your pit trap for 60 seconds.
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Razer Handheld Dock Chroma review
Definitely a more handsome docking solution, but with some major flaws.
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Overwatch 2 is launching another Le Sserafim collab with 'more transformative' skin designs, guided by Blizzard Korea Studio's keen eye for Korean trends and street style
Back for second helpings.
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At least it's not NFTs this time: The new Wizardry RPG is a gacha game
We've strayed from God's light.
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Today's Wordle answer for Monday, March 10
Get all the help you need with today's Wordle.
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Five new Steam games you probably missed (March 10, 2025)
Sorting through every new game on Steam so you don't have to.
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Death Stranding 2's PS5 release date is in June, let's hope it doesn't take 8 months to hit PC this time
Don't keep us waiting, huh?
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You can theoretically beat Doom: The Dark Ages without using a gun, but 'You'd have a hard time, that's for sure,' says the game's director
Ultra Nightmare melee and shield-only any%.
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Fallout-themed Doom mod Vault 666 has multiple endings, an OP Dogmeat companion, and a Ron Perlman-impersonating narrator so good, I was worried it was AI-generated at first
It's not AI, it's just a guy named Henry.
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Doom: The Dark Ages won't end with the Slayer in a coffin waiting for the start of Doom 2016: 'That would mean that we couldn't tell any more medieval stories'
It sounds like this prequel isn't a total bummer.
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Path of Exile 2 speedrunner dominates official race with the game's 'worst' class
Hey man, I thought Warrior was bad, too.
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Rust's crafting update gives the survival sim real-time food cooking and pies to rival Monster Hunter, but the tastiest treat is the ability to make and throw 'bee grenades'
A different kind of buzzkill.
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Battlefield: Bad Company 2's director had big plans for a third entry in the series, with your squad reuniting for an impossible mission amid a war between Russia and the US over Alaska
"I am freaked out by how much might actually have been accurate."
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One of the best city builders of the last decade is currently 90% off on Steam
Grab Anno 1800 for a fiver.
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Company of Heroes 3 is free to try and 50% off, so it's the best time to check out the beefy 2.0 overhaul
Also 50% off until Thursday.
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Rebellion CEO puts the studio's recent avoidance of layoffs down to control of scope and cost: 'Sometimes we say, guys, this game's too big'
"We don't want to hire and fire people all the time."
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Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, March 9
Help with solving Sunday's puzzle.
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The Baldur's Gate 3 mod for Stardew Valley is out, so here's another opportunity to romance Astarion
But can you grill rothe ribs?
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'I think only the shotguns are the same,' says Doom: The Dark Ages director, otherwise the guns are brand-new or significantly transformed
I really like the gun that pins enemies to walls.
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Silent Hill gets a soccer league in FEAR FA 98, and you can play the demo now
The beautiful game is about to get brutal.
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Parents are suing Epic over Fortnite item shop 'FOMO' timers they say are inaccurate and manipulative
They're hoping to have the case made into a class action.
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Doom: The Dark Ages already sneakily revealed its 'new Marauder,' and the devs hope he'll be just as challenging, but a little less frustrating
He's all about parrying instead of weapon switching.
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This brutalist life sim gave me a free tenement block to renovate, but my mushroom addiction kept getting in the way
Welcome to Obenseuer, and yes, that does mean "open sewer".
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Blood Typers is a budget-priced fusion of Typing of the Dead and co-op survival horror
The Resident Evil Outbreak successor I didn't know I needed to type about.
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Planet Coaster 2's spring roadmap splashes down, with 'round-bottomed flumes' coming in March and buildable restaurants arriving in April
But you can't take them home tonight.
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Bandai Namco will celebrate Pac-Man's 45th birthday with museum displays, live experiences, and an official cookbook featuring 'a maze of imaginative recipes'
"Ever wonder what a Ghost or Power Pellet tastes like?"
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Microsoft's Civilization 7 competitor escalates tensions with Firaxis' embattled 4X, announcing that nukes are coming with its impending diplomacy update
Ara: History Untold enters the atomic age.
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Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, March 8
Get all the help you need with today's Wordle.
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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.
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The sickest gun from Doom: The Dark Ages' trailer is called the 'Skullcrusher' and does such horrible things to demons, the game's lead dev boasts id has 'the best gore in the industry'
"It does exactly what you think it does."
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The next Monster Hunter Wilds update is set to launch on March 10 and will ensure that when you chop off monster parts, the right monster parts get chopped off
Capcom says it's "working away behind the scenes" to get Monster Hunter Wilds in proper shape.
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The official Balatro Timeline documents the history of 2024's biggest game as its developer went from 'obsessed' with making it to 'shocked' at the reception
LocalThunk's detailed account of the creation of Balatro is remarkably entertaining.
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How to get disruptive customers to leave in The Sims 4 Businesses & Hobbies
When rude retail customers turn up, show them the door.
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We all deserve better than this
Idiotic tariffs, indifferent retailers, depraved flippers and AI mania are making the simple act of buying a graphics card the defining misery of PC gaming in 2025.
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Battlefield playtest gameplay is leaking all over the internet, and fans seem cautiously but genuinely excited: 'Okay, we might be back'
Interestingly, Electronic Arts does not appear to be putting great effort into having the gameplay clips taken down.
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The Resident Evil movie reboot bidding war is over, and the winner is… Sony, who did every one of those other pretty terrible Resident Evil movies
Those stinky movies generated over $1.2 billion, though.
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Hearthstone card reveal: If it's wrong to love a magic blue owl, I don't want to be right
Hoo! We've got four Mage cards from the Into The Emerald Dream expansion.
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All the Avowed ending choices and epilogue-affecting decisions
Breaking down all the choices big and small.
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Half-a-dozen 2000AD games were in the works before fizzling out: 'The games you get to see are a tiny representative of the number that get started—sadly'
"The option is still open to people."
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REPO is my new favourite co-op horror game, which combines Lethal Company's looting loop with Content Warning's zany monsters
I'm the King of the Losers.
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Following a disastrous beta test, Killing Floor 3 is delayed less than three weeks before launch: 'We've realized we missed the mark'
Killing Floor 3 is now set to come out later in 2025.
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Intel is still using TSMC for 30% of its wafer demands: 'We were talking about trying to get that to zero as quickly as possible. That's no longer the strategy'
So, not much has changed then.
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I've never wanted a keyboard with cheese keycaps and a little mouse on it until I saw this one
A brieboard? Charcuterkey? Key(cheese)board? Okay, maybe not that last one.
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AMD clawed back 7% graphics market share from Nvidia at the end of 2024, but the outlook for the whole industry in 2025 looks iffy
The great unknown? Yup, you guessed it, tariffs.
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Capcom cooked up some extremely cursed Palico outfits in Monster Hunter Wilds
I think there's something wrong with my cat.
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Best Marvel Rivals crosshairs and reticle codes
Get the best reticles for every character using these crosshair codes and settings.
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Grand Theft Auto 5 Enhanced is a bitter-sweet return to Rockstar's money-making machine
A reminder of everything good and bad about the vast criminal caper.
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Starfield promises it still exists as silence drives fans to space-madness, but it mostly just annoys everyone: 'They are deliberately choosing not to communicate more'
In space, no one can hear you say nothing.
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Sniper Elite CEO reckons Swen Vincke is right to snarl at short-sighted publishers: 'You could argue that their business at senior level isn't making games… their business is managing their shareholders' perceptions'
"There are horror stories of people having external producers saying, 'Look, you just need to make fewer bugs'."
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Phasmophobia is getting a big rework for one of its oldest maps, turning the Bleasdale Farmhouse into a horrifying and confusing maze
60-minute makeover.
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