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Fair warning, chooms, the release of Cyberpunk 2077’s Phantom Liberty DLC means that CD Projekt’s deckheads have temporarily geeked your installed mods in order to prevent, uh, mushis. I can’t keep this up. Honestly, I’m just taking all these verbatim from a Cyberpunk slang wiki page. What am I even saying? In plainer terms, a…
PlatinumGames co-founder Hideki Kamiya has revealed that he’ll be parting ways with the studio next month. The news was originally announced on the developer’s Twitter, where a statement reads: “We regret to announce that Hideki Kamiya will be leaving PlatinumGames on October 12, 2023. We are truly grateful for his creative ideas, leadership, and contribution…
There are plenty of absurd weapons in Cyberpunk 2077’s Phantom Liberty expansion. You’ve got the combo of throwing Fang into someone’s leg before blowing it off with Bald Eagle, the unique burning mechanic on guns like Taigan, Laika, and Alabai, which you can only get from airdrops, and Crimestopper’s ability to disable cyberlimbs, stopping your…
Great news, VR fans. Valve has just released SteamVR 2.0 in beta. This is the software that powers the entire virtual reality experience on Steam, from hooking up to hardware to the interface you use to whizz around virtual worlds, and it just got a ton more features. “Today we are shipping SteamVR 2.0 in…
Tech Tales This article first appeared in PC Gamer magazine issue 386 in July 2023, as part of our Tech Tales series. Every month we talk about the ups and downs of PC hardware, with a look back on our own history with the hobby. Let me tell you why Apple’s £3,500 VR headset announcement…
Explore Dogtown with these Phantom Liberty guides (Image credit: CD Projekt Red) How to start Phantom Liberty: Enter Dogtown Cyberpunk 2077 Restricted Data Terminals: Get Relic Points Cyberpunk 2077 airdrops: Loot unique rewards Cyberpunk 2077 Iconic weapons: The best guns in Dogtown Cyberpunk 2077 1R-ONC-LAD photo locations: Help the robot Deciding whether to help Songbird…
Many people love to play around with ChatGPT. Whether you’re trying to get a Furby to take over the world, pass college entrance exams or check your code, it’s a tool useful for everything from mindless fun to the very serious. But the likes of Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa—though different—include voice support, whereas ChatGPT…
There’s some big news in the world of graphics cards today. Scott Herkelman, the head of AMD’s Radeon GPU business, has announced he will leave the company by the end of 2023. Herkelman has served as the senior VP and general manager of the Graphics Business Unit at AMD since 2016. Herkelman tweeted: “May you…
Get your daily game of NYT Connections in order in an instant with our help. There’s a clue for every colour in today’s puzzle just below if you’d like to give your game a quick lift, or the answers to the September 26 (#107) a scroll below that if you need saving. Today’s Connections seemed…
The humble data center is not so humble. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, data centers and data transmission networks consume between 2-3% of global power consumption, and as global internet traffic grows, and demand for things like AI explodes, 3% is a number that will surely increase in the years ahead. Microsoft knows…