AMD’s dual V-Cache uber CPU gets a (rumoured) name and a high-clocked single-die cousin: Give it up for the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 and Ryzen 7 9850X3D

That AMD is planning a dual-die Ryzen CPU with added 3D V-Cache goodness on not just one but both CPU core tiles has been rumoured for some time. But now we have apparent further details of the chip, including naming and claimed clockspeeds. Oh, and there’s an updated and higher-clocked single-die V-Cache Ryzen chip, too,…

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MSI MAG Z890 Tomahawk WiFi review

The MSI MAG Z890 Tomahawk WiFi has been on the market for 12 months, as it was one of the first motherboards to be released alongside Intel’s Core Ultra 200S range of desktop CPUs, aka Arrow Lake, in October 2024. At the time, there were few other models to choose from, but that’s considerably changed…

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Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2’s sidequests are terrible, but you can safely skip them all

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2‘s main quest is an elaborate, labyrinthine conundrum that spans a century, full of vibrant characters and evocative writing. Bloodlines 2’s sidequests, on the other hand, are pointless, one-note tasks that will send you into a torpor. Every night, the primogens of Seattle’s vampire clans sit around in their havens,…

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AdHoc and Critical Role’s superhero comedy Dispatch cuts right to the best bits of Telltale’s greatest games

Playing Dispatch, the super-powered workplace comedy from AdHoc Studio and Critical Role, I found myself thinking about 2012 a lot. And not just because I yearn for the days when I didn’t make weird noises getting up from my chair. See, that was the year Telltale reimagined the adventure game as a narrative-driven social conundrum…

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Congratulations to Victoria 3 players on causing 860,000,000,000,000,000 deaths by famine in a single year, enough to depopulate Earth 107,000,000 times

Every great leader knows it: you can’t make an omelette without breaking some eggs. Sometimes you have to do bad things in order to achieve good things. Sometimes you have to spill a little blood. Sometimes you have to, let’s see here, kill 806 quadrillion people via famine in the space of a single year….

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This new Humble Bundle has one of my favourite TTRPGs in it, alongside a bunch of expansions, for just $15—or $25 for a nest of great Magpie Games books worth $365

Superheroes are a difficult genre to pin down in TTRPGs—game balance is basically impossible when you’re talking comic books, since having a cast of seriously varying power levels is part of the whole appeal. However, Masks—one of my favourite systems—nails it completely, and it’s also in Humble’s new RPG Bundle. This (up to) 27-item bundle…

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This utterly mesmerising beehive PC desk build took six months of painstaking labour and hypnotically simulates the bittersweet rise and fall of bee colonies in real time

“I’ve always admired bees, so I thought I’d build something that not only looks like a hive, but actually simulates one.” So says YouTube channel Full Stack Woodworking, which set out to build a desk that simulates a bee hive. A simple enough concept, but let’s just say this one spiralled a bit. And then…

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