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Halo: Campaign Evolved’s ‘death barriers’ and ungenerous out-of-bounds restrictions are making the 42 skull grind a real bore

It’s something I mentioned in my review; Campaign Evolved is very much a remake, not a remaster. There is plenty of tweaking and changing, and nigh-on the entire back half of the campaign has been redesigned to offset how repetitive and brutal those Flood sections were in the 2001 original. But, it seems, not all

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Nvidia GPUs see yet another price hike of up to 30 percent, as the generative AI hardware crisis worsens

According to Taiwan’s Economic Daily, the company has increased the price by between 20 and 30 percent, as the extraordinary appetite for the hardware continues to build alongside the generative AI investment boom. This is the third price hike the company has implemented so far this year. It’s worth noting that the prior rise in

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Gleefully counting its billions, Samsung cries warning of a ‘severe’ memory supply crisis next year

Samsung Electronics, one of the big three memory makers, is making a lot of money. So much money that its cash flow is multiple times what it was making just a handful of years ago. And despite much of its memory being fed straight to AI data centers, it is noting that memory supply will

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PSA: Don’t execute PowerShell commands proffered by Steam forum randos, because it could infect your rig with a cryptominer

Steam discussions can be the best route to a quick fix or otherwise answering your most burning gaming questions. These forums can also be a hive of scum and villainy. Case in point, bad actors have been taking to the Steam forums with fake fixes that end up installing cryptominers on your gaming PC. An

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Square Enix can’t confirm a Final Fantasy 7 Revelation physical disc, but at least game director Hamaguchi is pushing for one

Publisher Square Enix has apparently not made a decision whether to ship the game on disc or not, according to new information. Game director Naoki Hamaguchi, however, is pushing for it. The veteran director told GamesRadar+ at Final Fantasy 14 Fan Festival in Berlin that he can’t confirm anything on that at the moment. “We’re

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Keychron’s gaming mouse firmware is going open-source, while the company critiques ‘firmware you can’t read, can’t audit, can’t change’

Keychron, the gaming peripheral creator, has developed a name for itself as a defender of open-source software over the last few years. It has an entire ‘Open Source Design Project’, where it posts access to files to customise its keyboards, and it even uses ZMK and QMK, which are open-source software for keyboards. Open-source mouse

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RAM prices be damned, SK hynix’s record-breaking $55.6 billion quarter still failed to meet investors’ wild AI expectations

SK hynix, one of the ‘big three’ memory manufacturers, just shared its 2026 second quarter financial results, and its record-breaking revenue of 79.3 trillion won (roughly $55.6 billion) isn’t all good news. Despite continuing strong demand for memory from the AI industry, SK hynix has found itself missing investor expectations. Poor lamb. SK hynix was

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One Redditor spent four months building a ‘Turkish kebab PC’ with working spinning components

Though I don’t know if I like the idea of getting a little hungry every time I see my PC, I can say I’m kind of in love with the Turkish kebab PC that user Zestyclose-Salad-290 has shown off over on the PCMR Subreddit. And that’s because it’s truly weird one-of-a-kind. For those unlucky enough

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Steam Machine reservation queue should be caught up by the end of 2026, Valve says

In a new update on Steam Machine sales, Valve says it’s “fulfilling orders on a daily basis,” and that it expects that everyone currently in the reservation queue will have an opportunity to purchase the machine they’ve been waiting for—by, uh, the end of the year. Announced in June, Valve’s system for determining who gets

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