Arc Raiders players aren’t happy with the Flashpoint update’s direction as Embark drops a teaser showing the Shredder escape from Stella Montis: ‘Shredders are the new Arc aren’t they’

Arc Raiders’ upcoming Flashpoint update launches on March 31, less than a week from now. For this Embark has promised players a new map condition, arc threat, player project, and a Scrappy update. Despite being just days away we haven’t heard too much about the free update, with the latest detail drop teasing the migration…

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Intel launches the Arc Pro B70 graphics card based on the Big Battlemage GPU we’ve been waiting for forever but it’s for AI, not gaming

The rumours were right, after all. But it doesn’t actually matter. Intel has finally launched the fabled Big Battlemage GPU, the one with 32 Xe cores codenamed G31. But it’s not the cut-price Nvidia RTX 5070 we’ve been hoping for. Instead, the new GPU has been branded the Intel Arc Pro B70, hooked up with…

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Asus says it’s confident in its ‘strong product security’ after FCC foreign-made router ban, also *checks notes* fixes major security hole in its routers

After the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) put consumer-grade routers produced in foreign countries on its Covered List earlier this week, effectively banning the sale of new models in the country without special permission, Taiwanese manufacturer Asus has been quick to respond. An official statement released by the company yesterday says the following: “Asus has…

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Trump appoints Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, AMD’s Lisa Su, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, and more to science and technology advisory committee

President Trump has appointed members to a newly reestablished science and technology advisory council, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). And there are a fair few new faces in there—new kinds of faces, in fact, because the new board seems pretty business-heavy. In general, the members so far—which total just 13—seem…

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Horizon Chase Turbo, a great arcade racer with no online functionality or licensed vehicles, is being delisted in June

Horizon Chase Turbo and its mobile-only predecessor, Horizon Chase, will be delisted on June 1, according to the series’ official X account. That means neither will be available to purchase, but if you own them, they’ll still be downloadable. It’s a strange decision at face value. Horizon Chase Turbo is a pure arcade racer with…

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‘I’m not sure it was a rational decision’: Caves of Qud devs ported the roguelike to Nintendo Switch because they’re ‘interested in solving impossible problems’

Heavily systemic, decades-in-the-works roguelike RPG Caves of Qud belongs to a taxonomy of games that we, the experts at PC Gamer, professionally identify as “PC-ass PC games.” Other PC-ass PC games include Deus Ex, Dwarf Fortress, and EVE Online. Notably, none of those games can be played on the Nintendo Switch or Nintendo Switch 2…

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