‘According to Steam, I have around 10,000 hours logged,’ says the modder who’s spent a decade turning GTA 5 into a photo realistic wonderland

When those first bars of Tom Petty’s Love Is a Long Road rang out against a sun-kissed cityscape in late December 2023, the world changed for GTA 6 anticipators. For those keen and waiting fans, the first trailer for the next long-awaited entry in Rockstar’s crime simulator series offered a glimpse of what lay ahead….

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Game of Thrones creator and Elden Ring loremaster George R.R. Martin has utterly had it with folks hounding him for his next book: ‘I care about them all. More than you can ever imagine’

George R.R. Martin is maybe one of the most recognisable faces of modern fantasy—a prolific writer who made a little something called Game of Thrones, he’s also worked on TV shows, movies, and even games, providing the overarching mythos for Elden Ring. A host of characters and stories which, naturally, were turned into a host…

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‘You’ve seen the number of releases from AAA publishers dwindle and dwindle and dwindle’: Clair Obscur’s runaway success was helped by staying smaller scale in a world of inflated budgets

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a tight, 30-hour RPG from a relatively small team that, since release, has sold over 3.3 million copies. In short, it’s been a resounding success—singular and distinct, it looks and feels like nothing else around. It’s a game that’s particularly interesting when compared to probably the most well-known turn-based RPG…

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GeForce Now finally gets a native app for the Steam Deck, solving what was our biggest complaint with the streaming service on Valve’s plucky handheld

GeForce Now is available on Steam Deck… uh, didn’t we know that already? Sure, the process is a bit fiddly, but at least Nvidia put together a script last year that somewhat streamlines the installation process—pretty handy considering not everyone has the cash to splash on a GeForce RTX 4080 GPU for their rig. But…

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The RX 9070 XT might not be the truly mid-range graphics card I’m still dreaming of but it turned my latest sci-fi PC build into a frame rate menace

Oh, please let it end. Please. I was so excited to start writing these features. The plan was simple enough. Every other month, I pitch a new and exciting PC build with the latest and greatest hardware available, do an in-depth guide, cover the part selection, take some lovely amateur photography, and everyone’s happy—at least…

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Nvidia’s Hopper GPUs are now dead to the Chinese market after export controls that made the company take a ‘multibillion-dollar write-off’

There was more than the usual swell of anticipation for Nvidia’s latest earnings call, primarily because the last quarter has been tumultuous in the wake of US tariffs and trade restrictions. On this front, and despite the fact that the AI chip giant still seems to be doing phenomenally well, Nvidia has admitted export controls…

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