ConnexionThe Nvidia Blackwell guide to DOOM: The Dark Ages best settings
How to tweak the settings just right, including Path Tracing
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I turn my back for one second and now Assassin's Creed Shadows has Critical Role in it
Those guys are everywhere.
The Switch 2's super sluggish LCD screen is 10 times slower than a typical gaming monitor and 100 times slower than an OLED panel according to independent testing
Switch 2's IPS display probably isn't using overdrive.
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DDoS attacks continue to grow ever bigger, with Cloudflare recently blocking the largest ever recorded at 37.5 TB over 45 seconds
That's a little over 260 copies of Baldur's Gate 3 in less than a minute.
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FromSoftware to make the most brutal boss in Elden Ring Nightreign even harder, as Fulghor gets picked to be the next Everdark Sovereign
Does this count as bullying?
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'The fans had no influence' on Karlach's improved Baldur's Gate 3 ending, says voice actor Samantha Béart—Larian had to dodge Starfield, but it was 'very much planned'
"People were still in the character creator when I got the call."
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How to remove ticks in Peak
Because of course you need to worry about ticks, why wouldn't you?
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Here are my personal, objectively correct picks from Fanatical's ongoing Red Hot summer sale
Backed by science (I'm science).
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Yeston's adorable single fan RTX 5060 adorned with tiny little bears is almost cute enough to make me want a mini gaming PC
It'd look good in a compact all white build.
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Can you save your progress in Peak?
A little checkpoint goes a long way.
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U.S. House of Representatives memo reveals WhatsApp has been banned from employee devices, citing "a high risk to users due to the lack of transparency in how it protects user data" and security concerns
I'm just horrified they were using WhatsApp in the first place.
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Amazon announces three-year $54 billion investment into warehouse facilities, infrastucture, and wages throughout Britain
The UK seems to be a prime location.
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McLaren and Logitech G sign multi-year partnership deal to develop pro-quality racing sim hardware
McLaren-tested gaming wheels, pedals, racing seats, and headsets.
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Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, June 25
Today's Wordle: Help with the daily puzzle.
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11 little Death Stranding 2 improvements that made me say 'hell yeah'
Death Stranding 2 is a sequel in the best way possible.
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It's been so long since I played a 30 fps console game, it took me a week to realize Death Stranding 2 was literally giving me headaches
Lessons learned after years of 60 fps or bust.
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Security researchers warn that old or expired Discord invites are being used in phishing attacks
A vulnerability in Discord invites can be leveraged as part of a "multi-stage payload delivery" system.
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Palworld studio changes its mind about releasing its co-op Hollow Knight-like in early access, will go straight to 1.0
Pocketpair is making "final adjustments" to Never Grave: The Witch and the Curse before the full release.
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Doing a victory lap, Dune: Awakening publisher reveals that 1 million players have already huffed 6 billion grams of spice
Dune: Awakening is now "Funcom's fastest selling game ever."
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Valve announces Team Fortress 2 is getting 'a much-needed update' focused on Mann vs. Machine: 'A chilling cautionary tale where an artificial consciousness tried to take all our jobs'
The king of ancient Greece also turns up at one point.
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In Crimson Desert, the true boss battle is wrangling its controls to unlock the cool combat within
Crimson Desert continues to look strong, but unwieldy.
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Peak developers react to selling 1M copies after suffering 'a lot of burnout' from making bigger games: 'The realization that smaller projects like this can work has set our studio in a new direction'
"We want to mostly make smaller projects moving forward, with clearer scopes and shorter development times."
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War Thunder players have done it again: Yet another restricted document is leaked to win a forum argument
"We all know the Harriers are terribly incorrect."
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Here's our very first look at the Rogue Trooper movie Warcraft director Duncan Jones said he was doing 7 years ago
The film was announced not long after Rebellion's 2017 shooter Rogue Trooper Redux fizzled out, and work has continued ever since.
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Who needs Bethesda? Oblivion Remastered modders have cooked up FO4-style settlement placing even without official support
If you build it, they will come.
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Biwin Black Opal X570 Pro 2 TB review
Taking the fight to Phison, the drive that may or may not exist.
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Tiny anime girl cyberprison billing itself as a 'customizable 3D digital soulmate' reaches its Kickstarter funding goal in minutes
Do androids dream of electric weebs?
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Overwatch 2 Season 17 is 'all about giving you more customisation' as 3 new heroes are added to Stadium with some pretty busted abilities
Lord help us all, here comes Junkrat.
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British regulator takes aim at Google's dominance with 'targeted measures to address specific aspects of how Google operates'
These include measures for data transparency around AI and 'fair ranking principles'.
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Security mitigations in Intel's GPUs rob up to 20% of their compute performance but it's unlikely to be a problem in games
If you're an OpenCL coder on Linux, though, you might want to consider disabling them.
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Peak devs say the hit comedy climber was pitched in a Swedish hot tub and developed in a frantic 4-week Korean game jam: 'We brought our computers to an Airbnb in Hongdae and locked tf in for a month'
"While it was pretty intense, it was also the most fun I’ve ever had working on a game."
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The 'Stop Killing Games' initiative is close to its final deadline, and after that, its leader is understandably done: 'Either the frog hops out of the pot, or it's dead'
"Companies just started taking away your purchases, nobody stopped them, and it slowly got normalised."
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New chip industry roadmap predicts true 10 nm silicon won't arrive until 2039 and yet Moore's Law is, actually, alive and kicking
Except, of course, it won't really be 0.2 nm or anything even close to that.
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This $1,199 Lenovo OLED gaming laptop is the cheapest RTX 50-series machine I've found to date
Downright reasonable, in every respect.
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16 of the best landing spots in Fortnite
Get a head start and glide your way to victory with some of the best drop spots on the map.
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Türkiye's answer to Disco Elysium just broke cover, featuring more lawyers, fewer cops, an indeterminate amount of communism and twin fistfuls of guilt and regret
Pera Coda swaps Revachol for Istanbul, but don't worry: there's still plenty of anguish.
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Nvidia surprise-launches the GeForce RTX 5050 graphics card, starting at $249 for what's basically a slower RTX 4060 with DLSS 4
The launch might have come out of nowhere, but there's nothing here that's really a surprise.
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Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 (2025) review
Still a great compact gaming laptop, but the grating fan noise and sharper Blade 14 relegate it into second place.
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Razer Blade 14 (2025) review
The 2025 update for Razer's micro machine has pretty much made it my ideal gaming laptop.
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System Shock 2's remaster is delayed for everyone but you and me
Call an ambulance. But not for me.
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