Asus ROG Azoth X review

Asus ROG Azoth X review

Asus has been on a tear with its gaming keyboards lately. I’ve tried most of its recent gaming keyboards, from the ROG Strix Scope II 96 Wireless to the compact Falchion RX, and I’ve liked pretty much every single one. You’d expect me then to shower the ROG Azoth X with the same praise, but…

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Masters of the Remaster: Inside Bluepoint Games

Bluepoint Games is a studio known for their consistently excellent results in the realm of remastering, refurbishing, and remaking classic games. So, you’d expect their headquarters to be bit flashier than the outwardly unremarkable building they share in Austin, Texas. Their unassuming workspace doubles as an analogy for the studio itself: a group more passionate…

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Intel attempts to clarify whether the new Xe3 iGPU in Panther Lake is next-gen Celestial technology but I’m left confused and fearing for the future of Intel Arc graphics

For we mere PC gamers, unquestionably the most interesting aspect of Intel’s new Panther Lake CPU is its Xe3 integrated graphics. It looks like it could be killer, especially for handheld gaming PCs. But is the Xe3 iGPU in Panther Lake based on its much-discussed next-gen Celestial graphics tech? A mild tweak of Battlemage? Or…

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No one’s making a big-budget immersive sim any time soon, but you can catch up on the best ones ever made for less than the price of a single new game in the Steam Autumn Sale

Despite them being god’s own genre by any objective metric, barely anyone makes immersive sims these days. That is, aside from Raphael Colantonio—the imsim Hiroo Onoda—and the half of Arkane that Microsoft didn’t kill. Even then, the latter is making a game with Blade brand on it rather than something based in the original worlds…

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NuPhy Air60 HE review

I didn’t think there was much room for more ‘world’s firsts’ in the world of gaming keyboards, especially since we’ve seen some ridiculous innovations in just the last few years. Everything from an 8000 Hz polling rate to Hall effect key switches that have adjustable actuation points and rapid trigger have become the gold standard…

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