R-Type Dimensions III Blasts Its Way Onto Switch Consoles Next May

Path of Exile’s richest player and item trading kingpin gets banned and pleads with Grinding Gear Games to restore ‘more than 1,500 items, some of which can’t ever be recreated’: ‘This is the worst day of my life’

There’s a whole part of Path of Exile that goes unseen by anyone who has never played it. Alongside the monster smashing and loot collecting is a whole item economy that drives players to grind for hours, not for upgrades, but for the cash to buy the upgrades from other people. Until a recent update…

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Panther Lake is simply begging to be stuffed inside a benchmark-crushing gaming handheld, but the price tag is likely to be brutal

I’ve just wrapped up my benchmarking of the Intel Core Ultra X9 388H, or more commonly-known to most of you at this point, the top-end Intel Panther Lake mobile chip. It’s a feisty little beast, with iGPU performance that feels very close to what you might expect from an entry-level, discrete GPU-equipped gaming laptop—and that…

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Founder of bankrupt Samson studio mulls how to use AI for his next attempt: ‘Cutting corners in game development has a habit of coming back to bite you in the ass’

Christofer Sundberg, the founder of Samson developer Liquid Swords, has confirmed the studio’s closure, saying that while the console version of the game enjoyed “much greater success” than the PC release, it “wasn’t enough to get the company across the finish line.” Reports over the weekend revealed that Liquid Swords had gone bankrupt just six…

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How PC Power Supplies Work

A look at the gritty details of what gives your rig its juice The power supply unit (PSU) is one of the PC components that we tend to take for granted. It sits in the case with a bunch of wires sticking out of it, and maybe once in a while we blow some air…

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