PCs with Intel’s new warranty-backed ‘IPO’ overclocking feature reportedly go on sale in China with claimed 10% frame-rate uplifts but what about the rest of us?

No, Intel hasn’t gone all Gordon Gekko and got into the business of stock floatations and corporate finance. Intel Performance Optimization or IPO isn’t an Initial Public Offering of a new share, but a new warranty-backed tuning paradigm that’s designed to act as a middle ground between running CPUs like the Intel Core Ultra 9…

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‘Every single gamemode is completely broken’: Star Wars Battlefront 2 has been unplayable for days on PC as hackers prevent players from spawning on any server

Star Wars Battlefront 2 is currently undergoing its own Jedi purge—and Sith purge, and wookiee purge. Really, it’s a purge of any animate being in the galaxy, droid or otherwise. For the last few days, players have been reporting that Battlefront 2 has been left almost completely unplayable as hackers have managed to prevent any…

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Share of the Week: Heights

Share of the Week: Heights

Last week, we asked you to climb to great heights and share images from above in the game of your choice using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights: call_me_xavii shares Aloy taking a hot air balloon ride in Horizon Forbidden West PattyGnand shares the four girls sitting on a lookout ledge in Lost Records:…

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My favorite thing about Blue Prince’s intricate puzzles is that they’re optional—you don’t have to solve most of them to finish the game

I think the first co-op game I ever played was Myst back in 1993. It wasn’t technically co-op, but my friend and I treated it that way. We sat side-by-side at my PC, playing through the point-and-click adventure and working to solve its baffling puzzles together. Blue Prince, a game where you enter a strange,…

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