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I’ve been testing Nvidia GeForce Now’s RTX 5080 upgrade against an actual RTX 5080 and the two feel eerily close—although 4K streaming invokes the occasional wobble

Nvidia’s GeForce Now game streaming service is due to receive a significant upgrade later this month, boosting the top tier subscription’s capabilities to what it describes as “RTX 5080 performance”, thanks to some upgraded SuperPods. Our Jacob briefly got his hands on the upgrade at an Nvidia event and came away fairly impressed, but I…

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Redditor claims that Monster Hunter Wilds runs better ‘the more DLC you own’, and it does—but not by much on my machine

Monster Hunter Wilds is somewhat infamous for its performance woes, leading its Steam user rating to drop to “Mixed” since release thanks to a host of reported technical issues. However, redditor de_Tylmarande recently posted a potential fix—a homebrewed mod that skips a DLC check, which is said to massively boost performance. They claim to have…

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You can nab Owlcat’s first Pathfinder CRPG for $45 or $4 right now, depending on whether you want a library’s worth of TTRPG books too

Good news for fans of amassing huge numbers of PDFs they’ll never read on an external hard drive (me): Humble Bundle has a load more to sell you at a relatively negotiable price. The Pathfinder Kingmaker Bundle contains 53—count ’em—separate bits of Pathfinder Kingmaker TTRPG stuff, mostly tabletop corebooks, sourcebooks, maps and knick-knacks, but also…

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LAN Parties Before Broadband: Playing Together in the Dial-Up Years

The era before always-on internet felt slower and louder. Gaming with others meant planning ahead, packing hardware, and hoping nothing went wrong once everyone arrived. Dial-up tones echoed through bedrooms, and connections dropped without warning. Yet those previous limits did shape how people played and how communities formed. LAN parties became social events, technical challenges,…

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