‘I’m gonna crash out’: New climbing game Peak has sold 1 million copies in less than a week, outperforming its developer’s most popular game

Peak has well and truly broken containment, this little old climbing game from Aggro Crab and Landfall, known for games like A Crab’s Treasure and Content Warning, has risen to success in just six days. With over 10,000 very positive reviews on Steam, an all-time peak of 102,799 via SteamDB, and 1 million copies sold,…

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Goodbye 12VHPWR meltgate? Asus shows its cable-hiding BTF tech is capable of handling more power than an RTX 5090 will ever use

If you’re a regular browser of any social media relating to PC hardware, you’ll almost certainly come across a weekly occurrence, or three, of an Nvidia GeForce RTX with a melted 12VHPWR connector. Even though the design has been updated to help mitigate the problem, it’s still an issue for some people. However, Asus reckons…

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Modders plonk Executor into Elden Ring because if FromSoftware won’t give us Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice 2, we’ll do it ourselves

One of the most tantalising additions to Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree was the introduction of the Deflecting Hardtear, a buff that basically turns you into John Sekiro himself. The only problem? It’s locked behind a DLC that requires you to push over Mohg, and that boy isn’t exactly an early-game boss. Things looked…

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Researchers develop a new technique to bond GaN transistors to a silicon chip, with the ultimate goal of having more powerful and efficient wireless transmitters

As chip manufacturers edge ever closer to the limits of what can be achieved with silicon, researchers have been exploring ways of boosting performance and power efficiency by stacking other components. One such group from MIT has pushed the boundaries of what seemed impossible just a few years ago, though, by developing a technique to…

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