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Apple Mac Studio M4 Max review

The feeling when you take a piece of new hardware out of the box is unsurpassed in the field of human experience. Whether it’s a motherboard or a USB SSD or a goddamn printer, unboxing is great fun. People even make videos about it. And however you feel about Apple, you have to admit that…

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How to defeat The Black Flame, Nu Udra

Monster Hunter Wilds’ Oilwell Basin is the game’s fire area, and after things go into disarray you’re faced with the terrifying explosive gorilla Ajarakan, which surely has to be the area’s Apex monster, right? Right? Once you manage to fend off two of the Ajarakan pack, another monster sneaks out from the shadows and instantly…

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Lead Diablo artists say the best way to design endless spiky armor sets is to go look at anything that isn’t Diablo: ‘You can come back with a fresh mind and create new things’

In April, I had a chance to ask lead Diablo 4 developers how tough it is for their dev teams to continue coming up with ominous names for gameplay activities when they’ve spent 30 years exhausting every thesaurus in the demonic lexicon. Their answer: Pretty tough. Last week, PC Gamer spoke to the lead artists…

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Payday 3’s first update is delayed to mid-October ‘to ensure its stability,’ more server maintenance is coming this weekend

It’s another bump in the road for beleaguered heist-shooter Payday 3 as Starbreeze Studios has delayed an update that was expected to go live today and says it also needs to do yet more server maintenance. “We’re extremely sorry for this, but we’ve chosen to delay today’s planned patch to ensure its stability,” Starbreeze tweeted….

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