Arc Raiders continues in the Christmas spirit with $10 worth of free currency alongside the ongoing blueprint bonanza

Arc Raiders has been in the holiday spirit ever since its Cold Snap update, released earlier this week, saw players swimming in previously hard-to-obtain blueprints. Turns out that this was a minor miscalculation on developer Embark’s part, but only a minor one: the developer has now issued a hotfix that sees the blueprint drop rates…

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Battlefield liked to ‘take the p*ss’ out of Call of Duty, but it was a ‘very healthy rivalry’ that pushed DICE to do its own thing

As rivalries go, you don’t get much bigger than Call of Duty versus Battlefield. Two of the largest, most expensive series around, both of them covering wars both past, present and future—of course there’s going to be some competition. David Goldfarb, who served as lead designer at DICE for Battlefield 3 and Bad Company 2,…

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Asus tells owners of its Intel motherboards to update the BIOS because they ‘may allow unintended access to system memory’

Security warnings and updates for PCs, their components, and the software they run are everyday occurrences. So much so that we never really give them much attention: We just download the patch and carry on as normal. However, Asus has warned that many of its Intel motherboards are vulnerable and can allow access to system…

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Asus tells owners of its Intel motherboards to update the BIOS because they ‘may allow unintended access to system memory’

Security warnings and updates for PCs, their components, and the software they run are everyday occurrences. So much so that we never really give them much attention: We just download the patch and carry on as normal. However, Asus has warned that many of its Intel motherboards are vulnerable and can allow access to system…

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Game devs charged up to 50x more for fonts by Japanese typeface maker and yes, even this might be AI’s fault

Even with the hardware-hungry AI industry causing component shortages and sending memory prices soaring, there’s perhaps one thing I wouldn’t have thought to blame on the datacentres: massive font licensing fees for game developers. Let me hit the backspace for a spell. At the end of November, commercial font service Fontworks ended its most affordable…

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Dune: Awakening’s Chapter 3 update includes a ‘completely revamped Landsraad system,’ a new ‘specialization experience system,’ and eight new overland maps to visit

Funcom has begun revealing details of the Chapter 3 update coming soon to survival MMO Dune: Awakening, and it sounds like a pretty substantial one. Speaking with game director Joel Bylos last week, he told me the update is aimed at giving endgame players more to do, and will include a ‘completely revamped Landsraad system,’…

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Dune: Awakening’s Chapter 3 update includes a ‘completely revamped Landsraad system,’ a new ‘specialization experience system,’ and eight new overland maps to visit

Funcom has begun revealing details of the Chapter 3 update coming soon to survival MMO Dune: Awakening, and it sounds like a pretty substantial one. Speaking with game director Joel Bylos last week, he told me the update is aimed at giving endgame players more to do, and will include a ‘completely revamped Landsraad system,’…

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All I want to see in Dune: Awakening is a third-stage Guild Navigator, and according to game director Joel Bylos: ‘You’ll be a very happy man during the next year’

I like the new Dune movies. They’re good. I also like that Funcom’s survival MMO Dune: Awakening is based, stylistically and aesthetically, on the new Dune movies. That’s great. But I do miss some of the sheer weirdness of the original Dune film. Lynch’s Dune film. And if I had to narrow it down to…

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Corsair One i600 review

I will admit, I was expecting more from the Corsair One. More heat, more noise, more annoyance. After all, the original Corsair One, while admittedly smol, was a noisy ol’ chimney of a PC. But the current design—a bit taller, a bit deeper—is far more suited to the task of keeping both high-end CPU and…

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