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Battlefield 6 producer says Bad Company 2 was a ‘huge inspiration’ for the new game, and you can’t argue with his logic: ‘When you look for excellence in our legacy, that’s where you find it’

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Since we first started hearing about the game that would become Battlefield 6, EA has talked up its mission to recapture the “golden years” of Battlefields 3 and 4. While it’s definitely on track to do that after my four hours of playtime last week, what revved me up was how much BF6 reminds me … Read more

The ‘Compiling Shaders’ screen is the worst screen in gaming: here’s how to make it suck less

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I’m not sure exactly when it happened, but one fateful day in the recent past videogames collectively decided that instead of compiling shaders while we were playing a game, it’d compile them before we started playing the game. Gripes Week (Image credit: Future) We’re spending the week airing all our grievances with gaming and computing … Read more

Corsair Vengeance a7500 review | PC Gamer

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Today’s best Corsair Vengeance a7500 deals The slick fishtank system before you is the supremely effective sweet spot for a modern, high-end gaming PC. This Corsair Vengeance gaming PC isn’t packing in the absolute best hardware available right now, but it is rocking a CPU/GPU pairing that absolutely delivers on a bang-for-buck level. After all, … Read more

Intel’s new Core Ultra 120 will be DOA if stores sell them at anything like these prices

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I’m a big fan of little, cheap processors for gaming, so when Intel stealthily announced the specifications for its six-core, 12-thread Core Ultra 120/120F processors, I was really looking forward to seeing them on retailers’ shelves. Unfortunately, the first prices for them have just dropped, and Raptor Lake Regurgitated is anything but cheap, weighing in … Read more

ChatGPT removes the ability for conversations to be displayed by search engines as ‘nearly 4,500 conversations’ indexed by Google

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It’s no great shock that AI models scrape information from just about everywhere to train their data sets, but some users have been surprised to find their chats with ChatGPT turning up in Google searches. As Fast Company reports, “Nearly 4,500 conversations come up in results for the Google site search, though many don’t include … Read more

We deserve better than the boring carry capacity systems 90% of RPGs give us, but games like Death Stranding 2 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 show the way forward

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As with most RPG players who grew up around The Elder Scrolls and Fallout, I am positively rabid for loot. Take literally any item, put a big number next to it, and you can bet I’ll stuff an impossible quantity of them into my knapsack before hauling my burden back to the nearest settlement to … Read more