AVerMedia Live Gamer Ultra 2.1 review

HDMI 2.1, along with all the neat tricks that standard brings with it, has taken a while to arrive on a consumer capture card despite having been available on modern PC GPUs and consoles for some time. AverMedia’s Live Gamer Ultra 2.1 is the first to offer the ability to pass high and variable frame…

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Even Counter-Strike’s devs called this wonder-bug the ‘Smooth Criminal’ before they had to beat it

“Release notes for today are up” began the fairly typical message from the Counter-Strike 2 dev team, before things take a turn: “Shamone.” The world’s greatest competitive shooter has in recent days been delighting players with a bug that has been christened the “Smooth Criminal”, after Michael Jackson’s dance moves that accompany the song of…

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Starfield players uncover some of the best XP farms in the game through obliterating cosmic wildlife: ‘even in a video game this feels wrong’

Good news, my friends: Starfield players have entirely abandoned human morality in their quest to invent the most effective methods of XP grinding possible, turning the game’s rambling planetary plains into a kind of Victorian safari hunt. I’m discomfited, disturbed, and would quite like to unlock the manipulation ability, so might give this a try…

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Diablo 4 will be Steam Deck ready when it leaves its Battle.net exclusivity next week, confirms community director

Diablo 4’s leap to Steam—alongside other games like Overwatch 2—is welcome news to gamers wanting to keep their rigs launcher-slim. Adam Fletcher, the game’s Global Community Development Director, has fully confirmed on Twitter that the game will be coming Steam Deck verified next Tuesday. (Image credit: @PezRadar on Twitter/X) Regrettably, it looks like there won’t…

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Best OLED gaming monitors in 2023

Quick menu (Image credit: LG | Alienware) 1. The list in brief 2. Best overall 3. Best 1440p 4. Best ultrawide 5. Best big-screen 4K 6. Also tested 7. How we tested 8. Find the deals 9. FAQ 10. Jargon buster It’s been a long time coming, but OLED gaming monitors have now hit critical…

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Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty used AI to reproduce late Polish voice actor’s performance as Viktor Vektor, with the family’s blessing

As reported by Bloomberg, it’s been revealed that CD Projekt used AI to replicate the voice of the late Miłogost Reczek, who voiced Night City’s most reliable ripper doc, Viktor Vektor, in the base game’s Polish localisation back in 2020. Reczek built an extensive portfolio during his career, dubbing both games and movies in roles…

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