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PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best CPUs of 2023

Modern CPUs are all so good that we’re the winner here, not the hardware. No matter what budget you have, you’ll easily find a processor that will suit you just fine. It’s the same if you want something just for gaming, a chip that’s more versatile, or if you need a CPU to power through…

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Todd Howard says that Starfield’s ship AI sucks on purpose so players can actually hit stuff: ‘You have to make the AI really stupid’

Bethesda is known for making big, blockbuster RPGs—but Starfield‘s space combat was a totally new frontier for the team. I’ve personally found a decent bit of fun in zipping around and knocking pirates out of the sky, even if it’s clearly not the game’s main focus. I don’t envy the devs saddled with the task…

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How to get the Steel Pickaxe in Return to Moria

The Steel Pickaxe is the first gear upgrade in Return to Moria that might leave you a little stumped. While making your way through the Elven Quarter, you’ll find your progress barred by a barrier of Compacted Dirt. The way through? Crafting yourself a sturdy Steel Pickaxe to dig a passage into the main Mines…

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The Drop: New PlayStation Games for 5/5/2015

With new weapons, new enemies to fight, and a new mission, B.J. Blazkowicz returns to PlayStation this week in Wolfenstein: The Old Blood — a standalone expansion coming to PS4. The Old Blood, set largely before the events of Wolfenstein: The New Order, once again follows the hardened soldier Blazkowicz in the year 1946 as…

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Microsoft’s wacky Majorana 1 chip, powered by an ‘entirely new state of matter’, could have industrial quantum computing here ‘in years, not decades’

Yes, the scientists are doing weird stuff again, and this weird stuff is sure to lead to other weird stuff and plenty of even more peculiar technology in the future. At least, that’s usually my reading of anything quantum computing related, and that seems to be the general gist of Microsoft’s new quantum chip announcement….

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