Of all the things I saw behind the curtain at Logitech HQ, it was this slab of fake wood that surprised me the most: ‘It’s kind of old school, it’s analogue, which we like’

Last week I not only got my grubby mitts on the most exciting mouse of the past few years, courtesy of Logitech, but I also got a peek behind the curtain of gaming mouse design and testing. There were tons of things that surprised me about what goes into making a good peripheral, from giant…

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G.Skill to pay out $2.4 million in class action settlement over ‘deceptive’ RAM specifications but denies all wrongdoing

PC memory specialist G.Skill has agreed to pay out 2.4 million dollars to settle a class action lawsuit. The suit claimed that G.Skill advertised the operating speeds of various DDR4 and DDR5 RAM kits “deceptively” over a period from January 2018 to January 2026. Rather than fight the case in court, G.Skill has settled with…

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Hidden PCIe slots, a magnetic RAM fan, and a new AIO cooler connector: Asus tries everything under the sun to make its new AM5 Crosshair mobo stand out

With so many different motherboards on the market, it’s hard for vendors to make something that makes you really pay attention to it. And in the case of the new Asus ROG Crosshair X870E Glacial, that’s exactly what happened when I first saw it, because the only thing I really noticed was that it has…

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How to beat Dybbuk in Mewgenics

There are heaps of creative bosses in Mewgenics, and most of them aren’t too complicated. The Boneyard’s Dybbuk is the first real roadblock I ran into, a troublesome cat that rolls to avoid all of your attacks. As you’d imagine, it’s hard to kill a boss that you can’t hit, especially one with 85 health…

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How to kill cyborgs in Helldivers 2

Stepping foot on Cyberstan for the first time in Helldivers 2, you’re likely pondering how to kill cyborgs, besides also wondering how to deal with those annoying Vox Engines. There are two cyborg units in the new Machinery of Oppression update, but the way you defeat them is relatively similar. Below, I’ll go through your…

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Engineers builds Arduino-led game console from a fidget clicker and I want to fidget with it so badly

If you’ve ever wished your fidget toy were a mini games console with an OLED display and six key switches, you can build one yourself with some electronics know-how. Well, more accurately, you need a lot of electrical know-how, as demonstrated by user wjddnjdnd’s project at Instructables (via Hackaday). Playfully titled the GameBox Clicker, this…

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