The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices

I’m not sure I love that we’ve started flippantly calling it ‘the memory apocalypse,’ but given just how much hardware this peaking pricing could affect, it does feel fitting. Motherboard sales are apparently just the latest victim, with some retailers apparently seeing a devastating year-on-year decline. According to Hong Kong hardware site, HKEPC, a number…

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“I Do Have Some Regrets” – How The Creator Of Counter-Strike Gave Up A Money-Making Behemoth

“We didn’t understand the value”. Counter-Strike may be a quarter of a century old, but it remains one of Valve’s biggest money-spinners on Steam. Counter-Strike 2 – the latest iteration of the free-to-play team-based shooter – makes its money from chests, which cost around $2.50 to open. Incredibly, some of the skins found inside said…

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Windows 11’s latest update includes a free File Explorer flashbang bug for dark mode users wanting to relive their early Counter-Strike days

In a move that no longer seems even remotely surprising, a recent update to Windows 11 has introduced a new bug. While this one is fairly innocuous compared to others in recent times, dark mode users might want to be a touch wary about opening up File Explorer. That’s because in some cases, the window…

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My idle vending-machine sim obsession has dropped a big new update, so don’t expect me to get any work done while I fixate on Oolong Tea

Vending Dokan!: Kozy Kiosk consumed a lot of my summer after it was released in June. I underestimated just how satisfying watching little avatars interact with my machines to buy drinks on their commute to work would be, let alone how pleasing it was to restock and clean my machines every now and then. But,…

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Feature: “I’m Too Old For All The Other Sh*t Now” – Steve Ellis And David Doak Talk ‘Beyond Words’ And Leaving FPS Games Behind Them

“A return to big shooters is probably unlikely”. Steve Ellis and David Doak made their names at companies like Rare and Free Radical Design, but their latest venture – MindFuel Games – is a decidedly lower-key affair. The small studio has just announced its first game, Beyond Words, which feels like a mix between Scrabble…

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