Be Quiet! Shadow Base 800 FX review

The Shadow Base 800 FX is great. It’s a generous size without taking up too much space. It’s colourful and covered in LEDs without being tacky. It comes with four reliable 140 mm fans for quieter operation and heaps of airflow. Most of all, it’s just easy to build into. For that reason alone, I’m…

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Ella Purnell and Walton Goggins sure are excited for everyone to see Fallout season 2: ‘No one’s going to be able to predict what happens. There’s some big twists this time around’.

Fallout’s debut TV season was one of 2024’s biggest surprises; a genuinely great adaptation of the games that told an exciting original story within the universe, while nailing the series’ vivid blend of post-apocalyptic horror and surreal humour. This means season 2 has considerably more expectation riding on it, but stars Ella Purnell and Walton…

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Palmer Luckey says he wants to ‘turn warfighters into technomancers’ as Anduril takes over production of the US Army’s IVAS AR headset from Microsoft

Microsoft has announced that it is getting out of the Kill-O-Vision headset business, more formally known as the US Army’s Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) program. While the company’s “advanced cloud infrastructure and AI capabilities will continue to provide a robust backbone for the program,” responsibility for actually making the headsets and the software that…

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To make its fantasy extraction game, this studio of ex-Blizzard devs had to teach itself the art of third-person combat design: ‘There’s a science to how those are built’

Late last year, I played in a closed alpha playtest of Legacy: Steel & Sorcery, an upcoming extraction game pairing World of Warcraft-style high fantasy with third-person action combat. Over a couple of hours, I got an early taste of stringing together longbow headshots on skeletons, smashing wolves with maces, and panicked escapes as a…

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