I tried out GeForce Now’s expanded mod support for Baldur’s Gate 3, and it’s nothing but a good thing for the future of the game

GeForce Now, Nvidia’s cloud streaming gaming service, has just implemented support to add even more mods to your (probably already mod-ridden) Baldur’s Gate 3 save. Baldur’s Gate 3 on GeForce Now now supports “the same curated mods from Mod.io that are available for Xbox Series X/S consoles”. Unfortunately you do need the premium subscription plan…

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Air coolers are still cool

Jacob Ridley, Managing Editor (Image credit: Future) This week I’ve been: Purchasing and trying out a handheld air blower. Why oh why have I been fighting with compressed air cans all these years? This thing rocks. It’s even a tiny vacuum to help me clean up cat hairs from my keyboard. This month I’ve been:…

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The RTS genre might be in a bit of a state, but at least you can pick up these 10 classics for $30 in the Steam Real-Time Strategy Fest before it ends soon

While the RTS genre is as busy as it’s ever been, when it comes to big success stories, they have been few and far between. While there are smaller teams doing interesting things, the major launches of the last couple of years have largely been disappointing sequels and throwbacks. Even the RTS I’m most excited…

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The world’s fastest nuke-simulating supercomputer is now online, boasting peak performance of 2.79 quintillion calculations per second and other numbers my pea-sized brain can’t comprehend

All hail the new king. The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California has announced that the world’s fastest supercomputer, El Capitan, has been officially launched, which strikes me as a hell of a nervy first boot. You always hold your breath the first few times you fire up a freshly-built gaming PC, don’t you? However,…

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Hyte Y40 review

Hyte kinda blew up in early 2021; its Y60 chassis changed the game in the world of PC cases in a wild way. As soon as you could blink an eye, every media outlet, influencer, and PC enthusiast had one of those shiny fishbowls strapped to their Instagram page, complete with the latest hardware. And…

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Tim Sweeney says Epic is spending billions fighting Apple and Google because it can, jokes that ‘we might run into serious financial problems after a couple more decades’

Epic Games has for several years now been engaged in a legal war with Apple and Google, centered around the closed ecosystems of iOS and Android: Where developers have no choice but to pay a 30% store fee on all revenue. The massive success of Fortnite seems to have brought this into sharp relief for…

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Dataminers turn up potential details on WoW’s upcoming player housing feature—from the Cataclysm Classic PTR, of all places

The dataminers appear to have struck some hypothetical gold while panning for details in, bemusingly, Cataclysm Classic’s public test realm (PTR) of all places. In case you aren’t in the know, player housing—an oft-requested feature of the 20 year old MMO—is absolutely coming to World of Warcraft in the game’s next expansion, Midnight. The only…

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