Counter-Strike 2 now has a lot fewer farmer bots Valve has confirmed that it has completed a new bot ban wave in Counter-Strike 2, banning 960,000 farmer bots. This was due to an internal Valve investigation that utilised data from user reports, highlighting the importance of community engagement. With many Counter-Strike 2 items holding significant […]

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AMD’s Ryzen 5 5500X3D is now available to pre-order in the UK AMD’s socket AM4 isn’t dead, it’s alive! For the first time, AMD’s Ryzen 5 5500X3D has become available to purchase in the UK. Pre-orders are now open at £179.99 on the retailer PC Tec UK, as spotted by Computerbase.de. This six-core Zen 3 […]

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How good is Intel’s “Big Battlemage” GPU at gaming? Level1Techs answers Wendell at Level1Techs has tested Intel’s newly released ARC Pro B70 graphics card in gaming workloads, showcasing what Intel’s “Big Battlemage” silicon can do. While this GPU isn’t a gaming product, it uses the same silicon as Intel’s long-rumoured ARC B770 graphics card. While […]

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Google may have saved everyone from the RAMpocalypse Finally, we have some good news from the AI space. Google has announced new tech that has sent the stock prices of memory companies lower. Why? Google’s new “TurboQuant” tech promises to reduce AI’s memory usage by 6x. This tech could cause the AI industry’s demand for […]

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PlayStation 5 console prices are rising, and Sony blames the “global economic landscape” Sony has officially confirmed that its PlayStation 5 consoles are set to receive a price hike. All PlayStation 5 console models are affected, including the PlayStation 5 Pro. Baseline consoles will see their prices increase by $100, while the Pro will see […]

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The Apple Mac Pro is dead, the Mac Studio is now king Apple has officially discontinued its Mac Pro lineup, removing the product from its webstore entirely. The product has not been updated since 2023, and that model has been removed from sale. This version of the Mac Pro had a starting price of $6,999 […]

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War Thunder proves that supporting the latest version of DLSS is a tricky proposition Update 2.55.0.35 has arrived for War Thunder, adding support for Nvidia DLSS 4.5. DLSS 4.5 is Nvidia’s newest AI upscaler, and it boasts improved image quality over all prior versions of DLSS. With this change, Nvidia users should be able to […]

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PC Patch 1.1 has landed for Death Stranding 2 Death Stranding 2: On the Beach has received PC patch 1.1, which adds new performance optimisations and fixes to the game. This includes a bug that prevented PC gamers from accessing Death Stranding 2’s VR Training Missions, and another that prevented Steam Friends from loading in […]

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It looks like Nvidia’s RTX 60 series doubles down on path tracing A new leak has unveiled alleged specifications for Nvidia’s RTX 60-series GPUs, along with performance targets. If these rumours are correct, Nvidia’s next-generation RTX graphics cards will use GR20x “Rubin” series silicon with TSMC 3nm silicon. According to Red Gaming Tech, Nvidia’s RTX […]

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Intel confirms that it’s never going to release its Core Ultra 9 290K PLUS CPU When Intel released its Core Ultra 5 250K PLUS and Core Ultra 7 270K PLUS CPUs (see our review here), a lot of people had a simple question: Where’s the Core Ultra 9 290K PLUS? The simple answer is that […]

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AMD officially unveils its Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition CPU AMD has today announced its Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition CPU, the company’s first-ever consumer-grade CPU featuring 3D V-Cache across all CPU chiplets. This CPU has 192MB of total L3 cache. This accelerates the performance of many workloads by keeping more data on chip, reducing […]

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ASUS is going large at DreamHack 2026 with its AMD-powered hardware ASUS ROG will be at DreamHack 2026 this weekend in Birmingham (March 27th-29th), where the company will host a massive “Free-to-Play Gaming Zone” with ASUS AMD/Radeon-powered systems and ROG OLED monitors. At DreamHack, ASUS will showcase its latest hardware. This includes ASUS’ first public […]

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Physical games are expensive, especially on Switch 2 Nintendo has announced that starting with Yoshi and the Mysterious Book, all future Switch 2 first-party games will have different prices for their physical and digital editions. Moving forward, the game’s physical edition will be more expensive. Nintendo states that this is due to the cost of […]

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Nvidia addresses Arknight: Endfield stuttering with their newest GeForce Hotfix Nvidia has issued a new GeForce Hotfix driver, addressing stuttering issues within the company’s recently released GeForce 595.97 driver. This is the second GeForce Hotfix driver released this month, with the first Hotfix addressing overclocking bugs, issued in Resident Evil Requiem, and game crashes. Nvidia’s […]

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OpenAI’s AI video slop generator is dead – Will OpenAI soon follow? OpenAI has confirmed that it has discontinued its Sora AI video generation tool and has pivoted away from video generation tools entirely. Now, OpenAI appears to be focusing on other forms of AI. Presumably, this will be forms of AI that weren’t burning […]

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Forza Horizon 6’s system requirements are a breath of fresh air for PC gamers Playground Games has officially released its PC system requirements for Forza Horizon 6, and it’s great news for PC gamers. On PC, the newest Forza game will be highly scalable, supporting platforms as low-end as Valve’s Steam Deck and ASUS’ entry-level […]

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Big Battlemage arrives with Intel’s ARC Pro B70 and B65 graphics cards Intel has officially launched its first “Big Battlemage” graphics cards, new, higher-end Xe2 discrete GPUs that stand above Intel’s prior products. The Intel ARC Pro B70 will become available today, March 25th, with pricing starting at $949, while the ARC Pro B65 will […]

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Expect fewer upsells in the future from Windows 11 Big changes are coming to Windows 11, as Microsoft appears to be finally taking feedback seriously. Microsoft has confirmed that it plans to make Windows 11 more performant and reliable. Additionally, Microsoft appears to be looking into removing mandatory logins from the OS, freeing PC users […]

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G.Skill pushes its memory speeds past 10K with Intel’s latest CPUs G.Skill has confirmed that its DDR5 memory kits are ready for Intel’s new Core Ultra 200S PLUS CPUs (see our review here). This includes support for G.Skill’s standard DDR5 (DIMM) modules and their CU-DIMM XMP 3 memory kits. G.Skill has noted that many of […]

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Primate Labs call Geekbench results with Intel’s IBOT tool “invalid” Primate Labs, the company behind Geekbench, the popular cross-platform benchmarking tool, has responded to the release of Intel’s Core Ultra 200S PLUS series CPUs (see our review here). The company has stated that all Geekbench 6 results using Intel’s new CPU “may be invalid” due […]

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Windows 11 could soon be freed of mandatory Microsoft accounts Last week, Microsoft made it clear that it plans to significantly improve Windows 11 in 2026. While Microsoft’s list of planned improvements was impressive, it was missing one thing that would immediately be loved by Windows 11 users. That’s the removal of Microsoft accounts from […]

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Will STALKER 2’s first DLC be unveiled this week? On Thursday, March 26th, Microsoft will be hosting its 2026 Xbox Partner Preview, where GSC Game World plans to deliver an “update on STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobly. This event is likely to host the unveiling of the first story DLC for STALKER 2, and could […]

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PC updates have boosted Borderlands 4’s PC performance by 20% since launch Gearbox has confirmed that its upcoming March 26th (1.5) update for Borderlands 4 will deliver new performance optimisations to the looter-shooter. Since launch, Gearbox claims to have boosted Borderlands 4’s PC performance by 20% across a range of hardware configurations, and their work […]

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Nintendo’s Switch 2 is much more successful than its predecessor was According to the analyst Mat Piscatella, the Nintendo Switch 2 has had an incredibly strong year. With a strong first-party lineup, which includes upgraded Switch 1 and newly released exclusives, the Switch 2 has been hugely successful. In the US, the Switch 2 has […]

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LG Display claims up to 48% battery life increase with its Oxide LCD laptop displays LG Display has started mass-producing LCD laptop displays with its Oxide 1Hz technology, offering users refresh rates of 1-120Hz and up to a 48% increase in system battery life. This new laptop display tech can intelligently detect the system’s usage […]

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AMD launches its improved FSR SDK with FSR 4.1 upscaling and Ray Regeneration version 1.1 AMD has officially released its FSR SDK 2.2, adding support for its newest versions of FSR ML Upscaling and Ray Regeneration. With this update, FSR 4 is upgraded to FSR 4.1, and Ray Regeneration 1.0 is updated to 1.1, enabling […]

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