One eager beaver PC builder has decided it can’t wait any longer and has spilt the beans on AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D mega chip, two weeks before all the reviews

If you’re someone who spends a lot of time gaming and using the same rig to grind through demanding content creation tasks, you might be holding off buying a PC upgrade until the reviews of AMD’s forthcoming Ryzen 9 9950X3D go online. But if you’re as impatient as one particular system builder, pretty much everything…

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So long and thanks for all the space junk: China-based Starlink competitor SpaceSail plans to have 15,000 satellites deployed by 2030, and it’s not the only one with its eyes on the skies

If I say to you “satellite-based internet provider”, your first thought is probably Starlink. A subsidiary of Elon Musk’s space technology company SpaceX, Starlink has launched a total of 8,000 internet-providing satellites as of February 22, with many more planned in the future. However, rival satellite companies are waiting in the wings, including the reportedly…

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Razer Barracuda X Chroma review

I know a tonne of people aren’t ready to hear this but RGB lighting is now a fashion accessory, and you should get ready to see more of it. For better or worse, PC gamers have had front row seats to the development of this technology, and in this time we’ve seen some real rubbish….

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“Untouched” Fighting Vipers Cabs Discovered In Warehouse 30 Years On, But With A Catch

“An incredible find”. Seven brand-new Fighting Vipers arcade cabinets have been discovered in a warehouse 30 years after the game launched. As highlighted by Gabe Fowlkes, the find was announced on Facebook, with the “completely NOS Sega Fighting Vipers arcade cabinets” being described as “completely untouched, still boxed, monitors never powered on.” Read the full…

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Monster Hunter Wilds review

Monster Hunter Wilds is both a return to meat-and-potatoes monster combat and a dramatic revision of the hunting format. It’s a more approachable lizard-slaying sandbox, and it’s a tangle of multiplayer quirks that still feels like something out of 2007. It’s the cleanest Monster Hunter has ever played, and it’s a temperamental piece of software…

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Fan remake of Oblivion in Skyrim has a new video, looks amazing, is set for release ‘this year,’ and I struggle to imagine the rumoured official Oblivion remake doing much better

Remaking an old game in a new engine is a venerable and usually doomed mainstay of the modding scene. Always has been, always will be. They either stay ‘in development’ forever, get cease-and-desisted, or shrivel up in their incubators. It’s the natural order of things. Unless, apparently, they’re Skyblivion, the remake of The Elder Scrolls…

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Lemokey L5 HE 8K keyboard review

Far be it for me to bore you with physics, but the Hall effect—the production of a potential difference across an electrical conductor that is transverse to an electric current in the conductor and to an applied magnetic field perpendicular to the current, as you well know—is brilliant. At least, it is when it’s applied…

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