Having built 500+ PCs in my time I can say this with confidence: Building is fun and rewarding but ironing out those inevitable BIOS, CPU, memory kinks is unbearable

Nick Evanson, Hardware writer (Image credit: Nicholas Evanson) This month I’ve been benchmarking: Endless benchmarking. Hours upon hours, run after run. All in the name of seeing exactly one game performs on a range of different PCs. And I’d do it all again in a flash, as I adore benchmarking. Yes, I am a little…

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‘Please publish this to the main game’: Arma Reforger players go wild for April Fools’ gag that purports to turn the military simulator into a battle between toy soldiers

April Fools’ day’s carousel of nonsense hasn’t been slowed by its head-on collision with Easter this year, with multiple spoof announcements from the games industry leaking through Monday’s chocolatey outer shell. One particularly elaborate gag has captured the imagination of the Arma Reforger community, with developer Bohemia Interactive surprise “announcing” a new game mode where…

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‘We don’t see a place for microtransactions in singleplayer games’, says CD Projekt Red following Dragon’s Dogma 2’s DLC fiasco

CD Projekt Red won’t be putting microtransactions in singleplayer games like The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 any time soon, according to comments recently made by the company’s Chief Financial Officer. During an interview with Stockwatch.pl(translated via Google) Piotr Nielubowicz was asked whether future games will have microtransactions added into them. To this, Nielubowicz replied…

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We keep arguing about great games like Helldivers 2 and Baldur’s Gate 3 because it’s always possible to love a good thing to death

The dust has settled on the first proper balance patch of Helldivers 2. That’s due to a combination of factors: mechs are in the game now, heavily-armoured units spawn less, and dedicated anti-tank weapons like the Recoilless Rifle are somewhat-filling the void the old Railgun left.  Still, it was fraught for a while, causing an…

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Intel’s future multi billion dollar mega-fab is set smack-bang on top of multiple neolithic burial sites

Right now, Intel’s Magdeburg mega-fab in Germany is little more than a field with a few holes in it. Though those holes are of significant historical importance. Within them, archaeologists from the State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology Saxony-Anhalt have discovered the remains of multiple burial mounds, including a chariot burial, which date back…

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Where to find the bookseller in Stardew Valley

If you’re trying to find the bookseller’s location in Stardew Valley, you might be coming up short. It’s not just a matter of how long you wait or how thoroughly you explore the town—if you’re searching on the wrong day, you’ll never find the elusive vendor. The books they sell are part of Stardew’s 1.6…

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