How to complete Last Entry in Arc Raiders

Last Entry is one of the quickest new quests in Arc Raiders‘ Flashpoint update. While you’re sent into Stella Montis once again, it’s the polar opposite of Furtive Meetings or Fragmented Logs, which have you running all over the map. Last Entry is about the Seed Vault, which is also one of the sleepiest areas…

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Two high-rated motherboard security vulnerabilities have been identified in Gigabyte Control Center, so come update your software along with me

As an owner of a Gigabyte motherboard, I am intimately familiar with the intricacies of the Gigabyte Control Center (GCC) app. We’ve had issues in the past, me and that particular program. Anyway, there’s an even better reason to update it now, as the company has posted two separate advisories relating to a pair of…

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‘Any update is a bonus not a right’: Peak devs snap back at ungrateful players demanding more updates, ‘Neither us or Aggro Crab are live service studios’

Peak was one of the surprise successes of last year. What was originally meant as just a simple game jam project turned into a huge hit as hundreds of thousands of players gathered around the foot of the mountain with their friends with the aspirations of scaling it and escaping the deserted island. Since then…

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It turns out Crimson Desert has even more mechanics under the hood—like this ‘fully-designed food consequence system’ that modders have unlocked

Crimson Desert is a game utterly stacked with systems—minigames, theft, horse stabling, farming, follower missions, you get the picture. It’s something that PCG’s own Mollie Taylor called out in her Crimson Desert review, describing it as “an infinite trail of gumdrops”. Turns out, however, that there were in fact more systems that developer Pearl Abyss…

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Linux installs jump to over 5% of gamers on the latest Steam Hardware Survey while the RTX 5070 reverts to the norm

Steam Hardware Surveys come with copious caveats, including some courtesy of Valve itself. But the latest results for March are still intriguing, including a big jump in the proportions of gamers running Linux and a regression to the mean for the survey’s GPU stats. First up, that Linux result. According to March survey figures, the…

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Thermaltake TH360 V3 Ultra ARGB Sync review

Say it ain’t so, a product in the custom PC industry space right now that’s dare I say “cheap”, “affordable”, “coming down in price”. Unbelievably, yes, that is the case. This is Thermaltake’s TH360 V3 Ultra ARGB Sync all-in-one liquid cooler. And despite the ridiculously funky name, it’s surprisingly impressive all things considered. That’s mostly…

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‘What’s your salary? I told him, and he said no problem, we’ll double. And those days are gone:’ Listening to game dev legends reminiscing in 1989 about the ‘golden days of computer games’ already being over is a trip

Recently uncovered cassette tape recordings of the 1989 Computer Game Developers Conference reveal how much has changed in the games industry in the last 40 years, as well as how much has stayed the same. Decades ago, Origin Systems’ Robert Garriott was already worried about the PC gaming market being oversaturated, even when a mere…

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Blizzard is hiring for an ‘open-world shooter’ using Unreal Engine, which is more evidence that a new Starcraft game could be on its way

According to a recent job listing, Blizzard is cooking up a new game in an engine and a genre that none of its releases have used before. The studio is looking for a “Lead Designer, Innovation” to run development on a “AAA open-world shooter” without a name. Right now, every Blizzard game except Hearthstone (made…

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