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You won’t be able to play Valorant until you update your motherboard BIOS: ‘this is a necessary step in our arms race against hardware cheats’

If you have an Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, or ASRock motherboard, you need to update the BIOS if you want to continue playing Valorant. That’s because a critical flaw was recently found that allows cheaters to bypass hardware-based security checks and potentially inject code before Riot’s Vanguard anti-cheat can wake up. As laid out in the…

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Intel on its next-gen laptop chip: “Panther Lake will take everything you love about Lunar Lake to the next level”

Almost 14 months ago, Intel launched its first multi-tile processor, codenamed Meteor Lake, for laptop PCs. Just nine months later, it was joined by the much-improved Lunar Lake chip, for the ultra-low power market and at this year’s CES event, Intel briefly demonstrated its successor, Panther Lake. As this is the first processor to be…

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Atomfall hits 2 million players and 500K cups of tea drunk

Survival-action shooter Atomfall has lured more than two million players into its post-nuclear-disaster Britain, and they’ve apparently drunk 500,000 cups of tea while there. Which is not enough. Those are rookie numbers in the British tea drinking game. We need those numbers up to like three per person just to make average. That’s 6,000,000 cups…

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River Raid II Refueled the 2600

The name River Raid was- and still is- synonymous with high-energy shooting action. A classic on the Atari 2600 when originally released during the holiday season in 1982, Carol Shaw’s creation is regarded as one of the most enjoyable and original arcade dogfighters ever on the system and is an early staple in the Activision brand….

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