Corsair MP700 Elite 2 TB NVMe SSD review

Categorically, what is the biggest problem with PCIe 5.0 drives? It’s the heat. At launch, and even now, those early 5.0 units complete with the Phison E26 controller and Micron 232-layer TLC run seriously hot. To the point it was almost impossible to run one without some form of active cooling baked into it. Corsair…

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PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming laptop of 2024

A gaming laptop must be the complete package. The screen, GPU, CPU, memory, cooling, keyboard, and trackpad are all important. So, when we’re talking about the best gaming laptop in any given year, it has to be a device that offers an extraordinary package, done extraordinarily well. We’re not short of options for this prestigious…

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Riot’s co-founder says money isn’t everything: ‘People think we make things like Arcane to sell skins when in reality, we sell skins to make things like Arcane’

The League of Legends-inspired series Arcane may be the most expensive animated series ever produced, and unfortunately, despite the stellar reception, it didn’t manage to make much of the money spent back. But apparently, Riot doesn’t care too much about that part. Bloomberg reported that the amounts that Netflix and Tencent paid Riot less than…

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Final Fantasy 14’s battle designer admits they went a little overboard on streamlining fights, especially for melee: ‘Our policy of reducing gameplay-related frustrations was sometimes taken too far’

Anyone who endured Final Fantasy 14: Endwalker as a melee main will know the pain of that expansion’s raids and bosses—gigantic hitboxes, no positionals to hit, and virtually zero downtime to strategise around. Those things sound like a dream, sure, but in practice they kneecapped any semblance of challenge that makes those classes so fun…

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Warner Bros. is delisting games again: a half-dozen Cartoon Network releases have been removed from sale on digital storefronts

Cartoon Network, a division of Warner Bros. Discovery, has quietly removed a half-dozen of its games from sale on Steam and other digital platforms, including Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time, OK KO! Let’s Play Heroes, and Steven Universe: Unleash the Light. The delistings, which as seen on SteamDB came in a single batch earlier today,…

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This co-op survival horror masterpiece is just $2 in the Steam Winter Sale, which could explain why it just hit an all-time high player count of nearly 100k a decade after it launched

In 2014, survival horror game The Forest launched into early access on Steam. As part of Steam Greenlight (remember that?), the small team of developers Endnight Games delivered triple-A visuals, intricate building and crafting systems, and gut-wrenching horror as players struggled to survive on a remote island amidst terrifying cannibalistic tribes. So why, 10 years…

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