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If Gigabyte’s original X870E X3D Wood motherboard didn’t do it for you, how about this moody ‘Dark Wood’ respin?

Wood-pannelled PC cases? Yeah, yeah, seen ’em. Wood-trimmed motherboards? Novel, but not quite unique. But dark wood-trimmed motherboards? Now you’re talkin’. Gigabyte has updated its existing X870E Aero X3D Wood with revised and darker wood lashings. We give you the Gigabyte X870E Aero X3D Dark Wood, though without the manufacturer’s all-caps verily enabled. The Taiwanese…

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Silverstone FLP02 case review

This might be the most interesting case I’ve reviewed in the past 11 years. It’s not particularly revolutionary by modern standards, nor is it the most cost-effective chassis on the market, but what it does do is tap into this deep-seated nostalgia that I know a lot of us have for PC gaming and the…

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Two high-rated motherboard security vulnerabilities have been identified in Gigabyte Control Center, so come update your software along with me

As an owner of a Gigabyte motherboard, I am intimately familiar with the intricacies of the Gigabyte Control Center (GCC) app. We’ve had issues in the past, me and that particular program. Anyway, there’s an even better reason to update it now, as the company has posted two separate advisories relating to a pair of…

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‘Any update is a bonus not a right’: Peak devs snap back at ungrateful players demanding more updates, ‘Neither us or Aggro Crab are live service studios’

Peak was one of the surprise successes of last year. What was originally meant as just a simple game jam project turned into a huge hit as hundreds of thousands of players gathered around the foot of the mountain with their friends with the aspirations of scaling it and escaping the deserted island. Since then…

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It turns out Crimson Desert has even more mechanics under the hood—like this ‘fully-designed food consequence system’ that modders have unlocked

Crimson Desert is a game utterly stacked with systems—minigames, theft, horse stabling, farming, follower missions, you get the picture. It’s something that PCG’s own Mollie Taylor called out in her Crimson Desert review, describing it as “an infinite trail of gumdrops”. Turns out, however, that there were in fact more systems that developer Pearl Abyss…

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