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Former WoW designer tips hat to Marvel Rival’s shifting meta as an antidote to MMOs with stale class design ‘you have to change the meta continually’

MMOs—at least, the big boys that have endured from the massively multiplayer golden age—can sometimes be considered a smidge stale. Many design elements are, in a sense, solved. The Holy Trinity took over years ago, dungeon finders are a must, and heaven forbid if you’re running something suboptimal in a pick-up group of hypervigilant strangers,…

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High-end systems dominate booming gaming PC sales according to new report that also claims Arm chips are coming to the rescue of gamers on a budget

What with all the doom and gloom of late over memory and SSD prices, not to mention the longer-term escalation of the cost of a GPU, you might think gaming PC sales are pretty stuffed. But according to Jon Peddie Research, gaming PC sales are “surging.” The catch for mere mortal gamers is that all…

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The Nvidia App is damaging frame rates in some games, on some PCs, with Nvidia staffers recommending you nix the Game Filters overlay as a potential solution to the problem

Recent reports have surfaced suggesting the new Nvidia App, fresh out of beta, is harming the gaming performance of some PCs. We’ve conducted some of our own testing, with up to a 12% frame rate hit on one PC, and no performance issues on another. But if you do find yourself with an issue, there…

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