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BenQ is joining an exclusive club with the release of its Zowie XL2586X gaming monitor. Built around a 'Fast-TN' panel with DyAc 2 technology, it's one of only two displays (that we're aware of) to jump over the 500Hz refresh rate mark and land at a blistering 540Hz. The only other one is the ASUS ROG Swift Pro...
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Console video games go through an extensive qualification process with the platform holder to make sure that they meet specific standards. This was even more true back in the day, when it wasn't so easy to simply patch a game that shipped with serious flaws. Despite that, the developers of Alien Resurrection, a cult...
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Earlier this month, ransomware group Rhysida announced that it had breached Sony’s Insomniac Games, taken files, and was purportedly demanding a ransom of $2 million. It has been a week since then, and thus the deadline has passed to pay the ransom, so Rhysida has elected to publish the 1.67 terabytes of data it...
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Give credit to Valve for popularizing handheld gaming in the PC space, a realm that was mostly concentrated on Nintendo's various portable consoles (Switch, Game Boy, etc) before the Steam Deck arrived. Almost overnight, PC gaming handhelds became a viable category. It's still early, with the Steam Deck and ASUS ROG...
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It's already been three years (just over) since Microsoft and Sony launched their respective modern-generation game consoles, the Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5, respectively—both debuted in November 2020. Notwithstanding a mid-gen refresh, it will still be a few years before we see another major iteration from...
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With the holidays upon us, a game could be a great gift for someone, or for yourself, looking to get away from it all for the holiday break. With this in mind, Gift of Games (GOG) has spun up its winter sale, netting up to 90% off on up to 6000 titles through January 4th. We have pulled out a few of these stellar...
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Naughty Dog has officially put a nail in the coffin of the highly-anticipated The Last of Us Online video game. In a press release, the studio commented, “There’s no easy way to say this: We’ve made the incredibly difficult decision to stop development on that game.”
The studio, established in 1994 and exclusive to...
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One-Netbook wasted absolutely no time revealing plans to offer a handheld PC gaming console built around Intel's newly minted Core Ultra processors based on Meteor Lake. Whether it can give established AMD-based consoles like Valve's Steam Deck and the ASUS ROG Ally remains to be seen, but it's a market that is...
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Over the past few years, if you have been paying any attention to Twitch, there has been a marked trend toward body-positivity or sexualized livestream content, depending on your worldview. Whether or not this is a good thing we will leave it as an exercise to the reader, but regardless, Twitch is leaning into the...
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It should go without saying but do not lick your Nintendo Switch cartridges, blow vape smoke into your Xbox consoles, or generally follow any internet trend. This is especially true for any trend that necessitates a company putting out a formal warning if and when it goes viral, even if there is no real scientific...
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Regular readers of this site who are gamers are very likely to be primarily PC gamers. That may have muted your enthusiasm for Rockstar's next Grand Theft Auto game, GTA VI, as it has been widely reported to skip the PC, at least at launch. Rockstar hasn't said anything of the sort, but the trailer only mentions the...
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If you've been using the internet for the last ten years, you've almost assuredly heard about some absurd exploit or other of "Florida Man". These stories are commonplace not because Floridians are insane, but because of Florida laws requiring the public reporting of criminal offenses. That's not to say that Florida...
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Last night, The Game Awards 2023 awarded 32 trophies to some of the best games that were released this year. Of course, the Game of the Year is not much of a surprise, but some of the other category winners might be. Take a look at who took away an award below…
Game of The Year
Alan Wake 2 (Remedy...
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User reports have unveiled gaming performance degradation problems in Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 23H2 update. The problem is reportedly related to a Windows Defender bug that is choking or blocking off system resources, causing gaming performance to slow. Thankfully Microsoft has provided a fix for the problem, but...
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Pardon us as we feign surprise, but a Sony exec involved with the PlayStation brand thinks that the PlayStation 5 is a better option than PC for gaming. Water is wet and the sky is blue, news at 11, right? While not the least bit surprising, it's interesting to hear Sony's reasoning for proclaiming the PS5 as the...
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Counter-Strike 2 has been out for a little while now, providing an updated and perhaps a more fun experience than the former Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. However, in the time since the game’s launch, some nefarious players have found way to cheats, which diminishes that experience in general. As such, Valve has...
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When Cyberpunk 2077 got its Phantom Liberty expansion and 2.0 update, CD Projekt Red said that was the end of the line for major content updates to the title. Well, the company appears to have done a little fibbing, because a new trailer just dropped for Update 2.1, and it's coming along with a whole pack of new...
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NVIDIA has reached a fairly impressive milestone with its RTX technologies—there are now over 500 games and applications that support RTX in some form or another. The achievement arrives five years after the introduction of the very first GeForce RTX graphics cards, the GeForce RTX 20 series based on Turing, which...
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Whether you are looking to upgrade your home theater for the holidays or find the perfect gift for someone, Amazon’s running deals that are hard to pass up. You can save up to 42% off the regular price on brands such as TCL, Amazon Fire, Hisense, and LG, netting you big savings on big TVs.
Leading us off today, we have the headliner Hisense
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As one might expect, ASUS's ROG Ally gaming handheld is improving over time with continued updates and support. It was already a solid handheld when it launched, as we noted in our ROG Ally review, but it could also benefit from key improvements. Some of those are included in a new update that is rolling out today...
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On paper, the Pimax Crystal is one of the best VR headsets currently available on the market, boasting rather impressive displays and overall capabilities. However, all of that comes at a cost and performance premium that many people may not quite be able to afford. Despite this, if you are looking for a solid VR...
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Whether it's a skin in League of Legends, keys for Counter-Strike lockboxes, or some energy to continue playing Candy Crush, it's extremely likely that you've bought a microtransaction at least once. Imagine if you paid out for some in-game currency and the game operator shut down the title a couple of months or even...
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