The rumour that Intel’s next-gen Nova Lake chips will consume up to 700 W of power is nothing to worry about—Core Ultra 400 gaming PCs aren’t going to be melting your house down

Intel’s past few series of desktop processors have somewhat of a bad reputation for being power-hungry beasts. Its current range of Arrow Lake chips has reversed this trend, fortunately, but with one top leaker claiming that the next generation, Nova Lake, will hit the 700 W mark, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Intel has…

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Yakuza Kiwami 3 is where ‘The Kiwami line will come to an end,’ which might be for the best given how badly it’s been handled

Yakuza Kiwami 3 and its tie-in game, Dark Ties, release tomorrow, and that might be your lot, at least insofar as Kiwami games go. In a recent Japanese-language livestream spotted and translated by fans on Reddit (and verified by PCG’s crack international cadre), RGG studio boss Masayoshi Yokoyama declared that “I think Yakuza Kiwami 3…

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After 10 years No Man’s Sky still hasn’t run out of cool stuff to give you, so here’s a freakin’ gravity gun, too

Hey, Traveler! You’ve been exploring No Man’s Sky’s quintillions of planets for a while now (almost 10 years, if you can believe it). You’ve dug holes in those planets, exploited their resources, built bases and settlements on them, and spent hours either killing their lifeforms or taming and riding them. Did you ever think about,…

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All hail the Bro MegaOrb: A custom-built, water-cooled Threadripper, RTX Pro 6000 monster that costs $60,000 or roughly the same as 16 GB of DDR5-5200 at today’s prices

Despite the plethora of cases, coolers, fans, and lights that anyone can build and jam into their gaming PC, pretty much every rig out there looks the same. Even vendors and tech-tubers who make custom builds rarely produce something that really stands out. Well, say hello to what I’ve named the Bro MegaOrb: $60,000 worth…

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Cult of the Lamb’s devs reveal why they made the decision to not let Marchosias join your cult in Woolhaven: ‘I’m really, really glad that we did that’

I love the boss fights in Cult of the Lamb; they’re a welcome change of pace to what is otherwise a relatively peaceful dungeon-crawling experience. But I’d be lying if I didn’t admit that my absolute favourite part of fighting a boss is getting to indoctrinate them and welcome their cute follower form into my…

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