20 Sep, 2024

Dragon Age: The Veilguard to Launch on October 31

[UPDATE] The news is now official, and EA also opened Dragon Age: The Veilguard pre-orders. The game’s standard edition will be priced at $69.99 on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S|X and $59.99 on PC. The Deluxe Edition ($89.99 on consoles and $79.99 on PC) offers the following cosmetics: three Rook armor sets, six Rook weapons, […]

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New Windows SmartScreen bypass exploited as zero-day since March

Today, Microsoft revealed that a Mark of the Web security bypass vulnerability exploited by attackers as a zero-day to bypass SmartScreen protection was patched during the June 2024 Patch Tuesday. SmartScreen is a security feature introduced with Windows 8 that protects users against potentially malicious software when opening downloaded files tagged with a Mark of […]

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Black Myth: Wukong Shows Its Stunning Game World in Final Gameplay Trailer

This morning, Chinese developer Game Science shared the final gameplay trailer for the upcoming action RPG Black Myth: Wukong. The video shows the game’s stunning world that players will get to experience in just twelve days from today. Black Myth: Wukong was first unveiled to the world nearly four years ago, in August 2020. Right away, it […]

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Gaming mini-PC looks like a laptop without a screen — AtomMan G7 Ti packs Core i9-14900HX CPU, RTX 4070 Mobile GPU, and up to 96GB RAM

This week, Minisforum launched another AtomMan-branded mini-PC for pre-orders: the AtomMan G7 Ti and its G7 Ti SE counterpart. This mini-PC is so slim that it has also been compared to a laptop without a screen. Internally, the machine has the mobile versions of Intel’s 14th Generation Core i9-14900HX or Core i7-14650HX CPUs and an RTX 4070 […]

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Asus TUF Gaming A14 review: Understated endurance

I was impressed with Asus’ thin and light TUF Gaming A14 laptop when I first got hands-on with it ahead of Computex earlier this year. For a sub-brand that Asus has typically treated as a budget alternative to its Strix or Zephyrus lineups, the A14 looks and feels premium, with a metal lid and base. […]

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Gigabyte Z790 AORUS Master X Motherboard Review

Gigabyte’s updated Z790 Aorus Master X ($550) is a definite (though iterative) improvement over the original. You get Wi-Fi 7, 10GbE, EZ Latches all around, 14 USB ports on the rear IO, and some of the fastest memory support for the platform. But $550, it’s not cheap, and the price increase (for all new boards) […]

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Cloud gaming via GeForce NOW 50 percent cheaper for a short time

Playing the latest games on a simple laptop or even a smartphone? Cloud gaming services such as GeForce NOW make it possible. If you want to try it out, you can get a 50 percent discount for a short time. With Nvidia’s cloud gaming service GeForce NOW, gamers can stream games and play them on […]

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EndeavourOS 2024.06.25 rolls out with Plasma 6.1 and various fixes

As its fifth anniversary draws near, EndeavourOS gets a new update. Labeled 2024.06.25, this software refresh comes with Plasma 6.1 (both offline and live), Firefox 127.0.1-1, and Calamares 24.06.1.2-1, as well as a few fixes. Also, the r8168 legacy driver package has been removed in this update. In the second half of May 2019, the […]

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How to Cool Down Your Overheating Gaming Laptop: Tips and Solutions

Use these tips to cool down your laptop with minimal loss to gaming performance. What comes to mind when you think “powerful gaming setup”? Perhaps a monstrous PC tower in RGB-spiked glory. Or, if you’re like me, a top-of-the-line gaming laptop with absolute frame-crunching performance. But when you confine such power into the tight constraints […]

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Top RTX 40-Series GPU on Steam: Found in Gaming Laptops, Not Desktops

June’s Steam hardware survey shows ever more RTX 4060 laptop gamers. The latest Steam hardware survey has been released, revealing some intriguing shifts. The standout change is the rising popularity of RTX 4060 laptops among gamers, with a noticeable increase in usage from May to June 2024. Specifically, the survey indicates a 0.74% uptick in […]

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