Game of Thrones actor and former World's Strongest Man Hafþór Björnsson has hoisted 996 lbs, 283 Petabytes, and about $32 million worth of next-gen SSDs in what has to be the most expensive deadlift in history

Game of Thrones actor and former World’s Strongest Man Hafþór Björnsson has hoisted 996 lbs, 283 Petabytes, and about $32 million worth of next-gen SSDs in what has to be the most expensive deadlift in history

First reported by Tom’s Hardware, Icelandic strongman Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson⁠—who won the 2019 World’s Strongest Man competition and played Gregor “The Mountain” Clegane in Game of Thrones⁠—has completed a 996 lbs “deadlift of data,” hoisting thousands of next-generation, 128 terabyte SSDs at the SD24 computing conference. With each drive likely to command north of $10,000…

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Persona 3 Reload review

Need to know What is it? A remake of the classic 2006 turn-based RPG. Release date February 1, 2024 Expect to pay $70/£60 Developer Atlus Publisher Sega Reviewed on Windows 10 Pro, Intel i9-10920X, 128 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Steam Deck Verified Link Official site Persona 3 Reload isn’t just a hi-res tune-up…

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History Reclaimed, Futures Reimagined: Celebrating Indigenous Storytelling Through Games

Category: Announcements August 8, 2025 History Reclaimed, Futures Reimagined: Celebrating Indigenous Storytelling Through Games Team Xbox Summary Indigenous creators are reshaping the gaming landscape by telling authentic stories that reclaim historical narratives and imagine empowered futures, rooted in tradition and lived experience. Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition spotlights this shift, with cultural expert Anthony…

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Techland boss says Dying Light 2 ‘forgot’ what made the series special, but Dying Light: The Beast gets back on track: ‘For us, this really is Dying Light 3’

My first surprise of Summer Game Fest came with the very first game I played. Dying Light: The Beast looked excellent in my hour-long demo, which I did not expect coming off Techland’s previous disappointing sequel, Dying Light 2: Stay Human. The Beast is leaving everything distinctly Dying Light 2 behind—its crowded city, characters, and…

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 (For Southeast Asia) PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for July: Cyberpunk 2077, Abiotic Factor, Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden and more

This month, carve your legend in the neon-soaked streets of Night City as the mercenary V in the dystopian open-world RPG Cyberpunk 2077, join up to five fellow scientists to repel inter-dimensional horrors deep within an underground research facility in the co-op survival and crafting adventure Abiotic Factor, or wrestle with love and duty as…

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Star Trucker is sluggish, frustrating and my favourite Steam Next Fest demo

I’ve always loved Euro and American Truck Simulator, at least conceptually. But I spent too much of my youth stuck in my parents’ car, driving across Europe, to find the series’ purposefully mundane road trips particularly novel. Space, though? That’s a more thrilling—and crucially dangerous—setting, and the source of Star Trucker’s more thrilling journeys.  While…

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China’s YMTC is reportedly aiming to more than double its wafer production, which could eventually help put cheap gaming SSDs back on the menu

One of China’s largest chip manufacturers has apparently made plans to build two additional new foundries to the one already under construction. Once all are operational, it’s claimed that the firm’s wafer output will more than double, which could potentially make it one of the world’s largest makers of NAND flash memory chips. The firm…

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