After years of anonymity, gaming’s most famous but least recognisable voice has broken cover to chat PEGI 18, AI acting, and his €200 paycheque

If you’ve ever watched a game trailer in Europe, you’ve almost certainly heard Richard Wells’ voice. He is, in his own words, “the guy who says ‘PEGI 18’ on all of your video games,” which is to say he’s the smooth baritone that lets you know a game’s age rating right before its trailer plays;…

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Helldivers 2 rolls back a patch intended to fix servers and progression after it causes ‘significant degradation’ in performance

Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead Game Studios has quickly rolled back a small patch— intended to smooth out server issues—after it was causing a noticeable performance drop on PC. Patch 01.000.005 was pushed out on February 12, aiming to fix issues which were “mostly caused by having so many players in the game and server capacity…

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I created a highly personalised large language model with Nvidia’s entertaining Chat with RTX app but at 60GB+ I’m now beginning to wonder if it’s worth keeping around

Owners of RTX 40- and 30-series graphics cards can now setup their own personalised large language model (LLM) on their own PC. It’s one that’s eminently capable of sifting through old documents or distilling down the essence of YouTube videos. Chat with RTX is now available to download from Nvidia’s website for free from today,…

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The best ways to kill Chargers in Helldivers 2

Trying to kill Chargers is one of Helldivers 2‘s more significant challenges on higher levels. You need the right gear or Stratagems if you want to crack open these large armoured bugs, and if you don’t have them equipped, well, you’ve got to do things the hard way. It wouldn’t be so bad if your…

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The future is here whether you want it or not as AI briefly makes Nvidia the 4th most valuable corporation on Earth with a $1.83 trillion market cap

If AI’s good for anything, it’s for allowing tech companies to summit new, Mansa Musa-like heights in their various market caps. Last month, Microsoft rode the AI boom to a $2.9 trillion valuation, pipping Apple to the post as the most valuable corporation on Earth. And now Nvidia’s getting in on the fun, too. Bloomberg…

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SteelSeries Alias review

Audio gear, including some of the best microphones, can be bulky pieces of equipment to accommodate on your desk. As someone that’s become intimately familiar with the downsides of working within a limited amount of space, it can become tempting to think that it’s easier to use a (usually lesser) headset mic over a standalone…

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Logitech ERGO K860 review

Ergonomic keyboards are designed to minimise the stress on your shoulders, wrists, and fingers by helping to ensure that they’re all naturally positioned. If you spend all day working and all night gaming on the same PC, they can be mana from heaven. But they’re often quite expensive or come across as being somewhat on…

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