Zowie XL2586X+ 600 Hz review

The Zowie XL2586X+ is by far the product I’ve most wanted to keep hold of and have been the most reluctant to hand back. It’s also one I’m certain I won’t be buying any time soon. And that just about sums up this monitor, because it’s fantastic for competitive shooters but it’s very much only…

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Morrowind in Elden Ring mod makes mindblowing progress in video ‘dedicated to that one guy that commented this project was not going to come out’

The ongoing project to port The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind into Elden Ring—recognised by UNESCO as the eighth wonder of the world*—is one of the more Herculean projects currently bubbling away in the mod scene, and it just got a new update. Long story short: this thing is nuts (complimentary). In a new video, cheekily…

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Report says motherboard manufacturers are in crisis as builders aren’t building new rigs as much anymore

A new report suggests motherboard manufacturers are in a bad state right now, with the memory crisis and the Iran war affecting all kinds of PC hardware. As PC builders are disincentivised from, well, building PCs, the motherboards needed for them also get left behind. The report, from Digitimes, notes a “collapse” for many motherboard…

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Google isn’t scanning your Gmail to train Gemini, it’s letting Gemini scan your inbox to provide ‘personalized insights’ but I’m not sure that’s better

For the banishment of all doubt, no, Google isn’t scraping the contents of your email inbox in order to train its AI models. However, that doesn’t mean Gmail is free of Gemini, and sooner or later you’ll need to decide your own personal boundaries with AI. Google announced at the start of the year that…

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Atari just bought the rights to the big daddy of PC RPGs, and a reissue campaign is afoot

Released in 1981, Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord was the first grid-based first-person RPG—what we nowadays call blobbers—and it proved enormously influential. Its art was rudimentary: the monochrome dungeon halls were a series of white lines carefully placed to simulate the feeling of moving through a three-dimensional environment. Leaving the ruggedness of its…

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With a peak player count of 14.2 million, 99 Nights in the Forest has an audience other multiplayer games would kill for: ‘To find these behemoth playerbases you need to be on a platform like Roblox’

When I was a kid I might get a videogame for Christmas and another for my birthday, but in between it was free games that filled my time. First shareware, then Flash games. If you were a kid after 2006 though, the free games that defined your childhood probably involved Roblox. In 2025, players spent…

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