‘Give us the chip. Give us the RAM. Let us have our fun. Let us go nuts’: Sapphire’s PC gaming evangelist wants AMD ‘to get out of the way’ when it comes to designing graphics cards

Pick any third-party graphics card manufacturer and visit its website. If you browse through all the models it produces, you’ll notice something very quickly: they’re all very similar to each other. Some of the reasons behind this are all to do with saving manufacturing costs, but according to one company’s PR representative, it turns out…

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‘Give us the chip. Give us the RAM. Let us have our fun. Let us go nuts’: Sapphire’s PC gaming evangelist wants AMD ‘to get out of the way’ when it comes to designing graphics cards

Pick any third-party graphics card manufacturer and visit its website. If you browse through all the models it produces, you’ll notice something very quickly: they’re all very similar to each other. Some of the reasons behind this are all to do with saving manufacturing costs, but according to one company’s PR representative, it turns out…

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How to get Candleberries in Arc Raiders

Finding Candleberries in Arc Raiders is surprisingly tough considering they’re supposed to be a foragable fruit. Just like when we first had to find lemons and apricots for Scrappy’s upgrades, you’ll now spot a lot of Raiders running through the snowy wilderness frantically searching bushes. The only difference here is that staying out in the…

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Funcom may have closed down Metal: Hellsinger studio The Outsiders, but its co-founder and Battlefield vet David Goldfarb says it’s not over yet: ‘We’re working on the 2.0 version of The Outsiders, so we’re not dead’

From the outside looking in, Metal: Hellsinger looks like a success story. Developer The Outsiders released its diabolical rhythm FPS in 2022, and it immediately inspired a string of positive reviews. We gave it a respectable 78%, though other critics went a lot higher. On Steam, its overall user rating is Overwhelmingly Positive. A more…

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Merriam-Webster’s word of the year is ‘Slop,’ summing up 12 months that have been especially soggy with AI-generated content in only four letters

In a move likely unsurprising to regular readers of this fine publication, Merriam-Webster’s word of the year is ‘Slop’ (via The Associated Press). In a blog post, the dictionary and reference book company stresses the fact this word was in fact chosen by its “human editors.” Merriam-Webster defines ‘slop’ in the context of 2025 as…

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Goldman Sachs research seems to point towards DRAM and SSD prices spiking next year as memory supply lags behind demand

Another day, another reminder that the memory market is screwed, yippee. The storage market as well, actually, although the effects of the HBM and DRAM shortage have certainly been more visible than the effects of the NAND shortage so far. Now, new analyst commentary on Goldman Sachs research predicts—drumroll—a pretty bleak outlook on both memory…

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ZSA Voyager + Navigator review

It’s been nearly two years since I reviewed the ZSA Moonlander, and it’s still a keyboard that I rate very highly. Sure, it’s expensive and difficult to get used to, but if you can afford one and commit to its steep learning curve, I reckon it’s one of the very best ergonomic keyboards around. So…

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Swen Vincke says there’s ‘definitely more pressure’ to nail Divinity after the critical acclaim of Baldur’s Gate 3

If there’s a limit to Larian’s ambitions as an RPG studio, founder Swen Vincke hasn’t found them yet. In an interview with PC Gamer about the deeper consequences and “much higher” level of agency in upcoming RPG Divinity compared to Baldur’s Gate 3, Vincke didn’t hesitate for a moment when asked if they were feeling…

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