The Fridge

Someone made a copper gaming PC Frankensteined out of an old blowtorch and other assorted parts and is ‘just going to let it tarnish over time’

Custom Copper 9070xt, 9800x3d Build from r/pcmasterrace There’s being into PC hardware and then there’s crafting a glorious custom loop. Every time I see the latter I’m hit with a pang of jealousy, and it’s no different here with Old-Mate-Fetus’ custom copper build on Reddit. We highlighted a similarly impressive different custom copper PC a few months…

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The RAMpocalypse support group

It’s rough out there, trust me, we know. And there are few signs that things are improving, in fact all the noise from across the globe, from almost every memory company and chip producer, is that it’s only getting worse. Yes, it seems like the RAMpocalypse is here to stay, which means buying new hardware…

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Redfall co-director Harvey Smith thinks Arkane ‘never should have been working on a games-as-a-service game’

“That was a game that did not come together, and we never should have been working on a games-as-a-service game, to be honest,” says Harvey Smith, former creative director at Arkane Austin, now CEO of Black Pony Immersive. He is, of course, talking to us about Redfall—a rare black mark on Arkane’s otherwise impressive record….

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“If A Computer Does All The Hard Work, What’s The Point?” – Dev Behind Sega Emulator BlastEm Blasts “AI Slop” Projects

“BlastEm today is made up of 100% artisanal AI-free code”. The arrival of GenAI coding tools has sparked an explosion of AI-assisted projects in the retro gaming space, including decomps, recomps, translations, and more. While the tools can drastically speed up development, there are questions surrounding the accuracy of such projects when compared to hand-made…

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World of Warcraft: Forever will get a hardcore mode by winter, say devs—which’ll be interesting, given all the new and undiscovered ways to die

World of Warcraft: Forever, in case you missed the wild news that came out of BlizzCon over the weekend, is essentially Classic+. A reimagining of vanilla WoW with updated talent trees, new raids and dungeons, more horizontal progression, and some shiny, glossic graphics thrown over the top of the whole thing. Given it’s aping a…

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