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There's hope that GPU shipments will soon increase as ABF substrate shortages ease

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A positive GPU story? Yes, it is! There may be some light at the end of the tunnel, as reports indicate that supplies of a key material are set to improve, thanks to a slow ramping up of production. According…

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Nvidia and Facebook's Meta to build AI research supercomputer

2 days ago PC Gamer

Facebook’s rebranded parent company Meta is working with Nvidia to build a massive supercomputer for AI research that probably should terrify us all. According to an Nvidia Blogpost, the two companies will be working together on what’s been dubbed the…

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Intel's Arc Alchemist mobile GPU specs detailed in leaked slide

2 days ago PC Gamer

We’ve talked a lot about Intel’s upcoming Arc Alchemist series of discrete graphics cards, and now we have some details regarding Arc GPUs for notebooks too. The leak comes from @9550pro, a well known leaker (via Techspot). The release shows…

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eBay Australia has a huge discount on this Alienware RTX 3080 prebuilt

2 days ago PC Gamer

It's still ridiculously hard to get a standalone RTX 3080 GPU in Australia—at least for a reasonable price—which makes prebuilts and gaming laptops the easiest option at present. Specs and prices tend to vary a fair bit, of course, but…

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GPUs are already getting cheaper in 2022

2 days ago PC Gamer

The past few years have seen a massive rise in GPU prices thanks to market demand and chip shortages. Gamers have been especially hard hit thanks to crypto miners adding extra pressure on those hard working cards. However, perhaps January…

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Dying Light 2: Everything we know about the next zombie parkour game

2 days ago PC Gamer

Dying Light 2 looks even better than the original. And the original was pretty great—Techland's first zombie parkour game left a lasting impression, and received decent post-release support. In 2016 there was The Following DLC, which let you roam an…

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ESL and Dreamhack are now owned by Saudi Arabia

2 days ago PC Gamer

Pending regulatory approval, a holding company owned by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund has purchased esports event organizer ESL Gaming and tournament platform FACEIT. According to Sports Business Journal, the price for both companies was $1.5 billion. As part of…

Trailers

New Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin trailer combines fantasy violence with Frank Sinatra

2 days ago PC Gamer

Team Ninja's take on the Final Fantasy universe is less than two months away, and while the E3 2021 reveal trailer's use of the words “Kill chaos” elicited a lot of scoffing, there's reason to be optimistic. The prospect of…

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Here's everything that's happened since Microsoft acquired Activision Blizzard

2 days ago PC Gamer

Last week was a big one for the videogame industry. In a deal that dwarfed all others before it (in the game business, anyway), Microsoft surprised the world with the announcement that it will acquire Activision Blizzard for a whopping…

A '90% complete' fan-made PC port of Zelda: Ocarina of Time could be ready by April

2 days ago PC Gamer

A PC port of Super Mario 64 appeared essentially out of nowhere back in 2020 thanks to a herculean effort from fans who decompiled the game's code. A similar decompilation effort for Ocarina of Time was completed last year by…

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Outerverse developers say 'con artists' are using their game for an NFT scam

2 days ago PC Gamer

Outerverse publisher Freedom Games is warning of an NFT scam that's marketing a new cryptocurrency to videogame and NFT communities. The Outerverse Metaverse and Decentralized Platform is offering a token that it says will be earnable and usable in Outerverse—but…

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Elden Ring has officially gone gold

2 days ago PC Gamer

Elden Ring is no longer a meme nor a dream. It's really coming and, according to an interview with FromSoftware's Yasuhiro Kitao during the Taipei Game Show, will definitely launch on time. Elden Ring had a short delay from its…

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What to actually expect from NFTs in games this year

2 days ago PC Gamer

I'm confident that I'll know inner peace again one day, and that day will come when I can go at least a week without hearing about NFTs. Right now it's hard to go a single day without some NFT chatter…

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Epic's Easy Anti-Cheat system will work on Steam Deck, after all

2 days ago PC Gamer

As the Steam Deck launch date approaches, Valve and a number of game developers are making a push to smooth out compatibility issues arising from the handheld's Linux-based operating system, which uses software called Proton to run Steam games that…

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The State of Fortnite in 2022: Pretty Epic

3 days ago PC Gamer

The biggest problem with Fortnite is that, by some distance, it is the fastest-changing game in history. A game that began as a co-op tower defence game and was catapulted into stardom with a battle royale mode is still both…

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Battlefield 2042's 'Zombie Survival' mode pulled after it immediately turns into an XP farm

3 days ago PC Gamer

Just a day after featuring a Zombie Survival mode in Battlefield 2042, the developers removed it from the official playlist because players were using it to farm XP that can be used to unlock weapons, ribbons, and other in-game content…

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The best RGB lighting kit

3 days ago PC Gamer

The best RGB lighting will turn your gaming rig into a shining beacon, amid a sea of stock shortages and sad, bland builds. If that's what you're after, we have just the RGB strips and controllers for you, including some…

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Save up to $300 on these RTX 3060 Lenovo laptops right now

3 days ago PC Gamer

Lenovo has a couple of its more affordable gaming laptops on offer right now, making this a great time to pick up a decent gaming PC without having to remortgage your house. These two machines both feature Nvidia's RTX 3060…

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Elden Ring: Everything we know about FromSoftware's next game

3 days ago PC Gamer

2020 was a long, hard year, and it was a year without Elden Ring. After its E3 2019 reveal, we saw and heard virtually nothing, as FromSoftware toiled away in secret. For so long, we knew Elden Ring was still…

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Buying a house in Final Fantasy 14 left me a broken woman

3 days ago PC Gamer

I'm a millennial: I like my avocado on toast and I'm all too guilty of paying out my ass to get iced coffee delivered to my doorstep. As we all know, these are the two fundamental reasons I'll never be…

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Quitting live service games is like trying to dump a friend

3 days ago PC Gamer

I need to quit at least one live service game. In fact, I probably need to quit at least three. I seem to roll through life just picking up these massive time sinks, and I never seem to be able…

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How to unlock secret packs in Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel

3 days ago PC Gamer

Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel secret packs are an excellent way to add specific card types to your deck. They are booster card packs that are guaranteed to contain four of the eight cards featured in the preview. The other four are…

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Apex Legends' next hero is tooth-spitting freedom fighter Mad Maggie

3 days ago PC Gamer

It's that time in the Apex Legends calendar once more where teasers for the next season begin to drop—starting with a look at our rebellious next Legend, Mad Maggie. Introduced a whole year back, Mags was a lifelong bud with…

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Best mechanical keyboards in 2022

3 days ago PC Gamer

The best mechanical keyboard will deliver a prime typing feel, along with heaps of productivity and tactility, above fancy features. Unlike the flashy stuff our best gaming keyboard list promotes, these mechanical keyboards forgo unnecessary greebles, putting day-to-day keypresses at…

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US court permabans Roblox troll who made 'terrorist threats'

3 days ago PC Gamer

Last November we reported on the Roblox Corporation suing a longtime thorn in its side: one Benjamin Robert Simon, known online as Ruben Sim, who made controversial content on and about the platform for many years. The suit alleged Simon…

Reviews

Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB DDR5-5200 memory Review

3 days ago PC Gamer

The latest in our series of DDR5 memory reviews is here. Unlike our reviews of the G.Skill Trident Z5 DDR5-6000 and Teamgroup Delta DDR5-6400 kits, the Corsair Dominator Platinum DDR5-5200 features a more earthly spec and a price that won’t…

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Yakuza creator announces new studio where 'the scale of the game will be bigger'

3 days ago PC Gamer

Toshihiro Nagoshi, the veteran designer whose career began with Daytona USA before latterly focusing on the Yakuza series, left Sega in February 2021. Industry scuttlebutt at the time was that Nagoshi was joining the Chinese tech giant NetEase, news confirmed…

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Good news everybody: Nvidia's RTX 3050 appears to be rubbish at mining

3 days ago PC Gamer

It would appear that Nvidia's soon-to-be-released GeForce RTX 3050 features the company's Lite Hash Rate algorithm, or LHR for short. This is the same technology that Nvidia introduced with the RTX 3060, and has continued to use on cards to…

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Heck Deck asks: what if Superhot was a deck-building shmup?

3 days ago PC Gamer

Sometimes, while browsing indie storefront Itch.io, you come across a game that looks like someone threw a dartboard at a list of game design terms before shrugging, “Aye, that'll work”. At least, that's how I imagine developer Torcado conceived Heck…

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Teamgroup T-Force Delta RGB DDR5-6400 C40 memory review

3 days ago PC Gamer

Anyone who has been in the market for a high-quality set of DDR5 memory knows just how difficult it is to obtain. And if you do manage to find a kit in stock, it's going to be damned expensive. At…

The best gaming PC in 2022

3 days ago PC Gamer

Buying the best gaming PC not only relieves you of the hassle of putting one together yourself, but it can also be key to getting the latest graphics cards at a reasonable price. While it is satisfying to build your…

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Stardew Valley mod adds farming bots

3 days ago PC Gamer

When my daughter began playing Stardew Valley, she hit upon a brilliant wheeze. I'd been guiding her through the game's early stages and demonstrating some of the farming mechanics, but what she was interested in was the town stuff and…

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Intel begins outfitting its state of the art Irish production facility

3 days ago PC Gamer

As the global semiconductor shortage rolls on, chipmakers are taking steps to expand their production capabilities. Intel in particular is currently undertaking an ambitious expansion operation. The company's $7B Fab 34 construction project in Leixlip, Ireland has entered the tool…

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Musk's brain chips heading for human trials

3 days ago PC Gamer

Clinical trials are being prepared to insert chips into people’s brains that may give back movement to people with spinal cord injuries. According to The Guardian, Elon Musk’s co-founded neurotech company, Neuralink, is working towards some very cool sounding tech…

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Won't somebody think of the poor scalpers? Argues scalper service provider.

3 days ago PC Gamer

The current ongoing chip shortage is affecting tech from all walks of life. Electronics all over the world have become a bit harder to get, with gaming hardware hit especially hard when coupled with crypto mining demand. Getting a shiny…

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Intel Arc Alchemist GPU compared to the RTX 3070 Ti in new benchmark

3 days ago PC Gamer

The launch of Intel’s Arc Alchemist series of GPUs is drawing closer. As development nears its end, sleuths are on the hunt for leaks. Hardware leaker TUM_APISAK came across an entry at the SiSoftware website. The result shows that the…

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Watch Dogs: Legion will not receive any more updates

3 days ago PC Gamer

Ubisoft has announced that Watch Dogs: Legion's 5.6 update will be its last via a post on the game's official website. The announcement follows a year and three months of updates for Legion, including new multiplayer modes, characters, and the…

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Raven QA strike ends, at least for now

3 days ago PC Gamer

Following the formation of a new union by Raven Software QA workers last week, the established employee advocacy group at Activision-Blizzard, A Better ABK, has announced the end of Raven QA's nearly two month-long strike, at least for the time…

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You'll be able to earn Halo Infinite's premium currency in-game starting Season 2

4 days ago PC Gamer

343's head of design, Jerry Hook, outlined some big changes coming to Halo Infinite's cosmetics shop and premium currency, “credits,” in a post on the game's official forum. Halo Infinite's multiplayer has been a blast, but the progression and cosmetic…

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PSA: Don't play Dark Souls 3 until a new remote code execution vulnerability is patched

4 days ago PC Gamer

This new security vulnerability in Dark Souls 3, as outlined on Twitter by user @SkeleMann and in multiple threads, including one pinned by moderators, on the Dark Souls 3 subreddit, seems to operate on the level of full-on malware and…

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Rainbow Six Extraction tips: How to get them most out of every run

5 days ago PC Gamer

I wish I had these Rainbow Six Extraction tips when I started playing it. Extraction is a game with rules that don't apply to many other shooters, so it was very easy for me to trip up early trying to…

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League of Legends' Vi comes to Fortnite

5 days ago PC Gamer

If you're like me, you instantly fell in love with Netflix's Arcane series, based on Riot Games' League of Legends universe. Watching Jinx and Vi, two sisters torn apart by simple misunderstanding and intergenerational warfare, became a highlight of late…

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Biden calls Intel's plan to build $20B chip factories in Ohio 'a game changer'

5 days ago PC Gamer

Intel has announced that it will spend $20 billion on two new semiconductor factories in Ohio. The company says that the factories won't be ready to start making chips until 2025, so the news sadly won't relieve us of the…

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Will Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard go through? Games lawyer thinks it's likely

5 days ago PC Gamer

Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard is a very big deal. At a cost of $68.7 billion, Microsoft has added some of the biggest games in history to its roster, including Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and Overwatch, along with…

Reviews

Hitman 3 launches to 'mixed' Steam reviews because it's $60

5 days ago PC Gamer

After a year of exclusivity on the Epic Games Store, Hitman 3 is now out on the store that most of us launch our games from, Steam. It's an excellent game that you should definitely play, but the early reviews…

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Call of Duty QA workers form landmark game industry union

6 days ago PC Gamer

Raven Software QA workers, who have been on strike since early December, are unionizing. Supported by the Communications Workers of America and the ABK Workers Alliance, the employees have announced plans to launch the Game Workers Alliance, “a movement formed…

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Perfect password primer: upgrade your security

6 days ago PC Gamer

Most of us know security is important, but we still choose the lazy option when it comes to password security. Of course it's bad to use the same password for every website. But it’s not even good enough to use…

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Why your next gaming keyboard could be electro-capacitive

6 days ago PC Gamer

Go out and ask someone what their ideal gaming keyboard is. Try it. Odds on they’ll tell you to go and get something with light switches in it. What about RGB lights? Yeah, some of those. Additional software to program…

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Here's Grand Theft Auto 5 on an original Game Boy, somehow

6 days ago PC Gamer

Sebastian Staacks is a coder and good old-fashioned tinkerer, whose blog There Oughta Be is rammed with technical curiosities from LED cubes to an automated irrigation system for his lawn. Now Staacks has upped the nostalgia ante considerably with, first,…

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How do I apply thermal paste?

6 days ago PC Gamer

There are many ways to apply thermal paste, which is why it can be a touchy subject among some enthusiasts. Everyone has their own way of laying down paste to get the best results, but from my experience the best…

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The best Crusader Kings 3 mods

6 days ago PC Gamer

Win eternal glory with these CK3 guides (Image credit: Paradox Interactive) CK3 guide: Beginner tips to get you started CK3 console commands: All the cheats you need CK3 Intrigue: Become a master of the dark arts CK3 religion: Control your…

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