I’ve spent the past month testing Keychron’s concrete keeb and it’s absolutely brilliant, with one small sticking point

Andy Edser, hardware writer (Image credit: Future) This month I’ve been: Testing an extremely heavy keyboard while benchmarking many, many graphics cards. Also, a spot of overclocking. Nothing caught fire. Victory! When I first learned of the Keychron K2 HE Concrete Edition, I was both intrigued and confused. On the one hand, I was aware…

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Marathon (1994) and Marathon (2026) are at opposite ends of FPS history, but playing them at the same time I’m finding they have a lot in common, despite their vast differences

Weird Weekend Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday feature where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history. Pop back every weekend to find out what Jeremy, Josh and Rick have become obsessed with this time, whether it’s the canon height of Thief’s Garrett or that time someone in the…

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Blizzard decides ‘Limitless Rage’ barbarian items should actually have a limit after watching them rampage through Diablo 4 dealing quadrillions of damage

The battle against Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred’s main villain Mephisto is finally over, but the battle against the villain that has haunted the game since it came out might never be over: Items that mysteriously break the game have reared their ugly heads again. In a hotfix earlier today, Blizzard disabled the Limitless Rage…

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Far Cry 4 director pushes back against Far Cry TV showrunner calling game stories ‘pointless’ and executes a drive-by on Alien: Earth ‘which turned into a kind of weird Peter Pan gets a dog story’

Earlier this week writer and director Noah Hawley, who’s previously been behind the Fargo series as well as Alien: Earth, spoke about his upcoming TV adaptation of Ubisoft’s Far Cry. Hawley made some comments that caused a bit of a stir while explaining why he wouldn’t be directly adapting any of the existing games. “I’m…

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Remember when OpenAI beat humans in Dota 2? Turns out that was partly thanks to when Elon Musk ‘personally called [Satya] Nadella’ to secure a load of discounted Microsoft computing power

OpenAI is now one of the world’s most talked-about companies, and the ongoing legal spat between co-founders Elon Musk and Sam Altman has resulted in some truly juicy revelations around exactly what was going on in the firm’s earliest years. One example: it turns out Gabe Newell gave the company over $20 million, and was…

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