A year later and over six months since the last patch, Intel is STILL releasing updates to fix instability problems with its 13th and 14th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs

A couple of weeks ago I reported the surprising news that Intel’s elderly and bug-infested 13th and 14th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs are still selling in numbers. Now it turns out Intel is also still working at completely fixing all the problems those chips have had since launch. The results are a new microcode update…

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‘It was eye-opening’: How a WoW documentary inspired Muscular Dystrophy UK’s Liam Quinn to raise money and build community in the haven of videogames

I had the pleasure of attending a Netflix event around the WoW documentary The Remarkable Life of Ibelin last year—one that was attended by folks from Muscular Dystrophy UK, a charity that helps fund research into the kinds of muscle-wasting conditions that impact not just Ibelin’s late player, Mats Steen, but many disabled gamers the…

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How to play Dune: Awakening multiplayer

Surviving the harsh wastes of Arrakis is much less intimidating with friends, but Dune: Awakening multiplayer isn’t the easiest thing to set up thanks to some awkward menus. With a much more linear opening than most survival sandboxes, there are also a few kinks to iron out if you’re looking to play with others. Below,…

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Doom: The Dark Ages review

NEED TO KNOW What is it The latest FPS from the makers of Doom, Quake, and Wolfenstein.Release Date May 15, 2025Expect to Pay $70/£60Developer id SoftwarePublisher MicrosoftReviewed on RTX 2080 Super, Intel Core i9 9900KS, 32GB RAMMultiplayer NoSteam Deck UntestedLink Official site In a time when the FPS campaign is so vanishingly rare that the…

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Doom: The Dark Ages PC performance analysis: Always-on ray tracing isn’t a problem and even a cheap gaming laptop copes just fine

Doom has been around so long—32 years and counting—that you’d be forgiven for thinking that developers id Software must have produced hundreds of entries for the franchise on PC. The shocking truth is there have just been five, if one ignores all the third-party versions, expansion stuff and rejigged editions. And it’s been five years…

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