Rig of the Month: Watermod Ares III Desk

Rig of the Month: Watermod Ares III Desk

A fully loaded desk computer Mathieu “Sassanou Watermod” Heredia is back with another spectacular mod. This time, it’s the Watermod Ares III Desk and it’s exactly what its name implies. A custom-made desk houses an aggressively styled computer based on the Microcool Banchetto K test-bench case. Straight lines, sharp angles, and a clean color scheme…

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“Super Sidekicks 3 Or Ultimate 11?” – Plaion Wants To Know Which Neo Geo Games You’d Like To See Re-Released

“What game would you like to be the next one announced?”. Last week, Plaion announced it was re-releasing the classic Neo Geo AES console in collaboration with original creator SNK. Priced at $250, the Neo Geo+ will be compatible with all existing AES carts but offers modern improvements, such as HDMI output. Read the full…

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Dead by Daylight delays its existing update plans for a ‘substantial quality of life initiative’, which includes adding a surrender mode and cracking down on ‘extreme hiding’

In one of the more unusual Steam updates I’ve read lately, Dead by Daylight‘s developer Behaviour Interactive has announced it is suspending plans for numerous hotly anticipated features in favour of what it terms a ‘substantial quality of life initiative’ that will run throughout 2025. As the update explains, Behaviour’s focus this year was supposed…

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Arc Raiders devs just made the Stella Montis community event harder after players donated way more than expected: ‘We had no idea all of you would be so altruistic’

Arc Raiders’ latest test for the community is a Helldivers 2-style event, which aims to bring players together to unlock the new map that’s been waiting for us. To get to Stella Montis, the community first needs to bring heaps of resources to the table to help clear the tunnels and make a path. It’s…

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LG claims its new 1-120 Hz auto-refresh rate LCD display for laptops extends battery life by 48% and helps the new Dell XPS hit 31 hours

LG has announced a new LCD panel technology for laptops it claims is dramatically more efficient than existing panels. Known as “Oxide 1 Hz”, LG Display says it, “automatically switches the refresh rate down to 1 Hz when the screen is static and up to 120 Hz when needed.” The result is, “dramatically improved battery…

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Cyberpunk: Edgerunners was a depression-fest because its writer is ‘from Poland and people in Poland are sad. They are born sad, they die sad, so I just wanted to make the whole world sad’

I’m always very skeptical of attempts to tie particular themes in literature and film to some sort of ineffable national character. Surely nations are too strange, large and varied to be reduced to something quintessential and eternal. Surely they’re too much changeable beasts of history to possess any attribute that can endure and speak across…

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