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Epic said its game launcher was faster than Steam on the same day Steam got a speed boost—so I’ve put both to the test

Catching a glimpse of my screen is often a stressful experience for my colleagues. Besides my mess of desktop icons and all the browser tabs I have open at any given time, you don’t want to know how many things I have set to launch on startup. Among these are, of course, the Steam and

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Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse review – inspired by great ideas, but doomed by questionable execution

Perhaps that’s why I love Metroidvanias so much. Really, the game is the map. Is there anything more intoxicating than pushing your palms up against the walls supposedly keeping you in and knowing that – somewhere – there’s a hidden path leading to the other side? Over the years, you develop an instinct for it;

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Xbox Ally X 20 vs Xbox Ally X: A wickedly bright OLED screen and frosty temps make for a begrudgingly attractive upgrade for the Asus handheld

So, you’ve seen the Asus ROG Xbox Ally X20 in all its black and gold glory and wondered if it’s worth paying $300 more for it. Well, the answer is ‘it really depends on what kind of device you are looking for’ and ‘how much is a fresh OLED screen worth to you?’ Unlike the

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DayZ creator Dean Hall says “our industry is rotting from its core” because of big-company “greed”, aiming shots at Epic’s Unreal and Unity

"Developers have surrendered an extraordinary amount of control." “Our industry is rotting from its core,” Hall wrote in an expansive post on Reddit, “outwards in every direction, and it has been for some time. Driven by greed, driven by a race to the bottom on price. It is my position that the games industry was

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OLED really is the gift that keeps on giving, with what should be cheaper 700 Hz panels planned by TCL for 2028

I’ve long been a proponent of high refresh rates for competitive FPS gaming, though there are diminishing returns the higher up you go. So it’s been an absolute joy to see the direction OLED panels have been heading of late, with high refresh rates and low prices. Now there’s even more good news, as TCL

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Riot Games has announced the end League of Legends Classic as an on-going mode, just three months after its release

"Most have gone back to other parts of League." First released in July this year, LoL Classic was implied to have potential as a permanent addition, though such aspirations seems to have swiftly ended. Instead, it’ll be taken offline next January, with a planned return likely as a limited-time mode in the future with ample

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Amazon’s Bee launches two new personal AI devices, starting at $75

Amazon’s personal AI wearable maker, Bee, is announcing its first new products since being acquired by the retail giant last year. The tech company on Thursday introduced the Bee Frontier, the next generation of its device that can be worn on the wrist or pinned to clothes, along with Bee Eclipse, a credit-card-sized device that

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Valve is toying with a Steam Frame OLED and some Reddit users are already wondering whether to wait an excruciatingly long time for it even though it may never happen

Only a month out from the launch of the Steam Frame, an OLED version is already the talk of the town. Moreover, us humans seem to have very short memories, as while this amounts to nothing more than a couple of lines in the Steam Frame source code—perhaps nothing more than someone at Valve messing

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How in the world are Intel GPUs still improving so much? The latest driver update claims up to a 31% fps improvement in Resident Evil Requiem

Intel graphics don’t get much screen time against the weight of AMD and Nvidia, but say what you want about Arc GPUs, they just keep on improving. This is clear enough from the latest driver, the release notes for which claim some significant performance improvements in certain games. The release notes for WHQL driver 32.0.101.9150

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