Cyberpower begins selling desktop PCs with carbon nanotube CPU cooling, possibly spelling the end of thermal paste catastrophes

We’ve all been there, right? Thermal paste splattered all over the CPU socket? No? Just me and that guy from The Verge? Whatever, the prospect of replacing thermal paste with a neat, long-lasting pad is still intriguing. And that’s exactly what cooling specialist Carbice and PC maker Cyberpower claim to have delivered thanks to the…

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Former DayZ lead thinks survival games should let players tinker with every variable: ‘Here’s the keys. Have fun’

Brian Hicks, former DayZ creative director, co-creator of the whole battle royale genre, and current creative director of 775 Interactive, wants players to have more control over their games. Chatting to us about his long career in survival games—including the time DayZ’s creators got obsessed with a little educational game before becoming embroiled in a…

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Baldur’s Gate 3’s Neil Newbon wants to reprise his role, but when people say ‘this character’s just like Astarion, would you like to play them?’ he’s ‘like not really, no’

The actor behind Astarion, Neil Newbon, has gone on record as being keen to play Astarion again. Everyone’s favourite spawn from Baldur’s Gate 3 has stolen hearts (including mine), and you’d be forgiven for thinking Newbon would jump at the chance to play something similar—not so. In an interview with challenge runner Luality (who has…

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Round Up: The Reviews Are In For Drag x Drive

More drag than drive? Ahead of Drag x Drive‘s launch tomorrow, reviews for the wheelchair basketball game have dropped, and… they’re pretty mixed. Focusing on 3v3 matches and fully controlled using the Switch 2’s Mouse Mode controls, Drag x Drive is a relatively unique multiplayer experience. But, looking over most reviews of the game, that…

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I’ve been on a quest to find a gaming keyboard media key replacement, and like an incredibly nerdy anti-Goldilocks, I’ve found none of them are just right

James Bentley, hardware writer (Image credit: Future) This week: I’ve been finally testing out an RTX 50 series laptop, and have been thinking a little too much about upgrading my PC case. Okay, I know it’s strange to say that media keys have become an almost essential part of a gaming keyboard I’d use every…

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‘You’ve got basically one AI playing in the mind of another AI’: Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis explains how AI is coming full circle back to gaming

Google DeepMind’s Genie 3 model slipped right by me, as my time away and under my comfy rock last week saw me oblivious to the company’s new AI ‘world model’. So excuse me for the somewhat delayed reaction to this, but hoo boy, have we come far with generative AI. Though as Google DeepMind CEO…

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Things I have (sort of) learned: Audio fades are one of the most CPU-intensive tasks you can possibly do, and my maths is too awful to properly explain why

Alright, you’re going to have to bear with me, folks—maths has never been my strong point. Which is probably why I never understood quite why audio fades were so massively CPU-demanding, but thankfully, YouTuber LaurieWired has created an explainer video that I can almost follow. Almost. I mean, I can explain to you the rough…

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