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Deals from out-of-space.
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Nvidia denies 'tall tales' that chips are being smuggled in fake baby bumps and alongside live lobsters
This is just weeks before the implementation of the AI Diffusion Rule.
I feel like I can finally say we're at a point where buying new PC gaming gear doesn't mean settling for less
Poor quality products haven't disappeared, but gaming going mainstream has raised all boats.
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AMD has released the slightly underwhelming official specs of the RX 9070 GRE, y'know, the card you probably can't buy anyway
Still, it's a new GPU to ponder over at the very least.
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Parts for that high-performance Intel Battlemage gaming GPU have been spotted again and I still want it to teach Nvidia's RTX 5070 a $400 pricing lesson
Anything that might keep Nvidia honest would be incredibly welcome.
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If you HAVE to upgrade your GPU today, these are the five graphics cards I think are worth looking at
Just in case your old GPU randomly decided to set itself on fire, here are a few options to consider in this dire market.
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'I'd say chances are good': While the Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 team is still figuring out where to go next, DLC is likely
Sandfall's not out of paint just yet.
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Microsoft says it wants to completely ditch passwords as it makes passwordless login the default for all new accounts
Simpler, safer sign-ins. Allegedly…
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Marvel Rivals Season 2.5 release date, Ultron abilities, and more
Hellfire Gala's mid-season update finally invites Ultron to the party.
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Mod adds Dark Souls-style player messages to Oblivion Remastered so you can write 'Try finger but hole' in front of Patrick Stewart
Mod ahead therefore time for joy.
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There's another Pathfinder 2e bundle on Humble with nearly $700 of books for $57, including an adventure that'll let you go full Mortal Kombat with your friends
Test your might.
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Take-Two shares tank after GTA 6's delay, CEO Strauss Zelnick assures panicky investors it'll still make more money than god and it's 'steadfast in our commitment to excellence'
All to the lifeboats; women and children first.
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US federal judge on Meta's AI copyright fair use argument: 'You are dramatically changing, you might even say obliterating, the market for that person's work'
"I just don't understand how that can be fair use."
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How to join the Mages Guild in Oblivion
Begin your journey with the Mages Guild and walk the path to becoming a master magician.
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Meta's AI app wants to 'get to know you' and can warn you if you should be 'worried about bears'
Stop trying to make the Metaverse happen.
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Intel's all-important Panther Lake mobile chip rumoured to launch later this year with just one model and it won't be getting the exciting graphics option
Only four Celestial-spec GPU cores at launch, not the full-fat 12-core variant.
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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's publisher says Oblivion Remastered 'didn't seem to harm us at all', in fact, it may have helped: 'Everybody was thinking and talking about the genre'
Sometimes you get lucky, and players are just happy to have two cakes.
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Oblivion's one-room waterfront shack is the perfect player home
I have thousands of gold and live in a hovel that looks like it belongs to a skooma-sucker.
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Today's Wordle answer for Friday, May 2
Get all the help you need with today's Wordle.
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The best Oblivion Remastered mods
Improved performance, better visuals, and gameplay tweaks can be yours for the remastered classic RPG.
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The PC game releases we're most excited about in May
Go ahead start recruiting some friends for this one.
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DrLupo admits to cheating in $100,000 online chess tournament, faces brutal backlash from Reddit: 'Dude went from 'what's a horsey?' to 'I can see 15 moves ahead' in 2 minutes'
The popular streamer was kicked out of the PogChamps 6 tournament for a "fair play violation."
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Stadium's roadmap for Overwatch 2 is planned out for the next three seasons, with more heroes, maps, and custom games on the horizon
The next three heroes may make you cry.
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'Stadium is Overwatch 2's most-played mode': Blizzard confirms Stadium's success with 7.8 million hours played across 2.3 million matches in the launch week alone
So that's where all the players were.
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Oblivion is a lot better now that I can read
I was not equipped to enjoy this game in 2006, I'm learning.
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French President Emmanuel Macron gives a shout-out to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 on Instagram: 'You are a shining example of French audacity and creativity'
Macron congratulated Sandfall Interactive for making "one of the best-rated games in history."
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Gaming website Polygon sheds staff, editor-in-chief departs following sale to Game Rant owner Valnet
Vox Media has sold Polygon, the gaming site it founded in 2012 as "a new kind of website, built on new technology, backed by a new kind of media company."
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Bethesda gives full-throated shout-out to Skyblivion fan remake after giving the whole dev team free Oblivion Remastered keys: 'I think what they're doing is very special'
It's all love, no hate on both sides.
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Original Oblivion developers gather to watch the 2006 documentary on the making of the game, and Todd Howard sums up the feeling: 'This is going to be really f**king awkward, watching this'
I think it actually holds up quite well.
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At 34 seconds, Jack Black's chicken song from A Minecraft Movie just became the shortest ever to crack the Billboard Hot 100
Black also made it onto the Hot 100 with The Super Mario Bros. Movie's Peaches.
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Borderlands 4 looks like more of the same yet again—and in 2025, that's not enough
When your big, headline features are just basic quality-of-life improvements, something's not right.
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League of Legends world champion Shushei dies at 36: 'One of the first greats of our game'
"We lost a legend."
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Silksong got a release date for an Australian museum exhibit before anything else, and I wish I was kidding
But hey, there's a new sprite sheet, at least.
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The RX 9060 XT rumour mill flip-flops again: we shall have an 8 GB version of AMD's card after all
Hopefully at a reasonable price point.
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Foundry VTT creator does what Hasbro won't with D&D, trashes the idea of AI in tabletop roleplaying game industry as a 'betrayal'
"A betrayal of the creative people who made the TTRPG industry what it is."
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Gigabyte MO34WQC2 OLED gaming monitor review
Gigabyte's first OLED ultrawide delivers the goods but we've seen it all before.
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Turtle Beach Recon 70 review
This ultra-cheap headset is an admirable attempt at a solid budget set of cans, but spending just a little more will make a big difference in terms of all-around quality.
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WoW's idea to clamp down on combat add-ons is misguided, especially since it could keep improving its base experience without, uh, doing that
Blizzard is playing with forces I'm not sure it fully comprehends.
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Modding turf war erupts as 'notoriously controversial' dev puts out an Unofficial Oblivion Remastered Patch one week after the game came out
The ghosts of Elder Scrolls' modding past are already rearing their heads.
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LG's new 'Hybrid Tandem' tech apparently solves the blue light problem which could mean near-flawless OLED gaming monitors
Here's hoping, anyway.
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This colour E-ink monitor is very pretty but the price means you may be better off strapping 7 Kindle Colorsofts together
Finally, something perfectly suited to battling my visual novel backlog.
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How to get black soul gems in Oblivion Remastered
Make your own black soul gems for enchanting and Vaermina's quest.
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Oblivion Remastered contains an incredibly neat easter egg to one of the nerdiest viral videos of the early 2010s
Potion Seller makes a small cameo in Oblivion Remastered.
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This Acer RTX 4050 notebook is just $600 and, with a cheap RAM upgrade, you'll have a brilliant budget gaming laptop
Plus, you can add a second SSD to host your bulging Steam library.
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'We as the developers do not feel like we are being robbed by anyone': Drug Dealer Simulator developer says it 'would not pursue any legal actions against Schedule 1 in any shape or form' if it had its way
The two games spent April entangled in drama.
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Nobody told me you could cheese the hell out of Oblivion Remastered's lockpicking minigame and I've only broken 3 lockpicks since discovering it
I'd almost given up on ObRem's painstaking lockpicking until recently.
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Turns out that the earliest versions of Windows 7 took longer to load depending on your choice of desktop wallpaper
It wasn't just you left staring at the Welcome screen for 30 seconds.
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PC gaming can't stop getting Ws, as Microsoft shares it's being weighed down by console and hardware revenue woes
We're having a sensible chuckle from our (ivory) gaming towers.
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'China is right behind us': Jensen Huang says we need to 'accelerate the diffusion of American AI technology around the world'
Is more exports or less exports in the American interest?
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How to complete the A Taste of Home quest in Disney Dreamlight Valley
Tick off another friendship quest for Mirabel.
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I spent the day using GameSir's new GameHub app, potentially corrupting my phone and gaming PC, so you don't have to
If you want to sideload a dodgy seeming Trombone Champ emulator, GameHub is pretty good.
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More Intellimouse than eXtreme gamer, Cherry's new wireless gaming mice give understated office chic in the best possible way
These gamer mice have that Microsoft Office aesthetic.
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Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, May 1
Help with today's Wordle if you need it.
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US court slams Apple for 'obvious cover-up' in major Epic victory that could see Fortnite return to iOS soon
Today's court order finds that Apple has violated a 2021 injunction, and that one Apple exec "outright lied under oath."
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Shotgun Cop Man review
The Flash game aesthetic lives on in this fast-paced action-platformer.
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Rusty Lake celebrates 10 years of strangeness with a free game, a new game announcement, a short film, and a big sale
Servant of the Lake will be "a classic single-player Rusty Lake point-and-click adventure."
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Gearbox is 'making rarity matter again' in Borderlands 4 after dropping too many legendaries in Borderlands 3
Borderlands 3 "devalued" legendary items, so in Borderlands 4 they'll "truly be special events."
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Todd Howard is hiding in Oblivion Remastered, and you can find him and make him fall in love with you
"Oh no! What do we do? I'm so scared!" 🥺👉👈
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Every house you can buy in Oblivion Remastered, including upgrades and freebies
Every house (or castle) in Cyrodiil is a fantasy fixer-upper.
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'Be more like Larian, less like Activision': Ex-Call of Duty producer takes his old employer to task for prioritizing FOMO over quality
The XDefiant producer and former face of Call of Duty has some thoughts on CoD's live service shift.
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New Baldur's Gate 3 hotfix patches a rare case of 'teeny tiny legs' syndrome and ensures Charisma gives polearm users the clout they deserve
God, I love patch day.
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EA says Codemasters won't be making any more rally games: 'We've reached the end of the road working on WRC'
The FIA says it's going in an "ambitious new direction" with future WRC game releases, but for Codemasters it's the end of an era.
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Evil Dead: The Game is being removed from sale just three years after it launched
Saber Interactive has confirmed the takedown is intentional, but won't say why.
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You can get 74 indie games for a scant $16 in this eSims for Gaza Itch.io bundle
Plus over 80 TTRPGs, 26 books, over a dozen comics, and a few soundtracks on the side.
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Blizzard's making a huge World of Warcraft change: combat add-ons will be eliminated, with new features coming to replace some of their functions
All the details on Blizzard's planned changes to World of Warcraft add-ons, which will end support for the MMO's most popular mods.
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Outraged Redditors discover they have been subject to a secret chatbot experiment that found AI posts were 'three to six times more persuasive' than humans
All your subreddits are belong to us.
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Randy Pitchford says Borderlands 4's new release date 'is literally 0% about any other product’s actual or theoretical launch date,' and you know he's talking about Grand Theft Auto 6
The Borderlands 4 release date was moved up by nearly two weeks, and we're all wondering why.
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A murder-mystery horse MMO baffled me so much that I spoke to gaming's resident horse expert—turns out they've been holding out for their Stardew Valley moment for years, and I'm on their side
"The genre didn't grow up with us," says consultant and prolific horse game appreciator Alice Ruppert.
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Ex-GTA dev says PC makes scads of cash now so hopefully GTA 6's 'PC version will be closer behind' consoles—that is if 'decision-day' at Rockstar doesn't give us a last-minute delay
Rockstar might have shut down his blog, but not even the Housers can stop Obbe Vermeij from posting.
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Turns out Janet Jackson's laptop-crashing cursed bassline was the scourge of notebook makers for at least half a decade
No struggle, no progress.
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Intel is trying out on-chip water cooling too and I'm just happy I'm not the one having to place liquids so close to expensive electronics
Leave it to the engineers. And the YouTube DIY'ers.
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'We were literally held hostage': Overwatch 2 players are finding the matchmaking in Stadium tough, but the devs say they're working on a couple of solutions
Sometimes there's just nothing you can do.
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Eric Barone's been playing lots of chess and reckons Elon Musk's 'tech tree' idea isn't awful: 'What if someone did a Balatro treatment… a chess roguelike?'
"I'm not like a huge chess guy, it's just always been something that I've wanted to be decent at."
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ChatGPT's latest build is such a pathological ass-kisser OpenAI decided to roll it back: GPT-4o is 'overly supportive but disingenuous'
Sam Altman puts it in different terms, saying GPT-4o "glazes" too much.
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