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Why one renowned games analyst isn’t playing Halo Infinite on PC for now

Enlarge / Get ready for choppy frame rates on this bad guy’s animations, even on your most powerful PC, thanks to certain missing optimizations on Halo Infinite ‘s upcoming PERSONAL COMPUTER version. (credit: Xbox Game Studios / 343 Industries) Ars Technica will eventually go hands-on with Halo Infinite ‘s campaign on COMPUTER, but as I […]

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New Linux laptop offers RTX 3080 and 144 Hz 17-inch screen

Enlarge (credit: Juno Computers ) Linux users like to game, too, and the Juno Neptune 17-inch V3 laptop announced this week ensures that people on Ubuntu can play their favorite titles on the go. Keeping up with the Alienwares, Asus ROGs, and other Windows-focused gaming brands, the new portable packs up to an RTX 3080 […]

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Research says the gaming monitor and PC trend isn’t over yet

Enlarge / Not even the GPU shortage can kill gaming. (credit: Getty) If you thought heightened interest in gaming-focused monitors, desktops, and laptops would falter as the pandemic eased, you might want to hold onto your RGB gaming chair: the International Data Corporation (IDC) is predicting four more years of increased demand, with each segment […]

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How Deep Rock Galactic’s dwarf miners have helped me survive the pandemic

Enlarge / Deep Rock Galactic is a bug-killing, gold-mining good time. (credit: Ghost Ship Games) I’ve never loved online multiplayer games. I’m always up for a few rounds of Smash Bros. or Towerfall on the couch with a couple beers and a couple buds, but when it comes to playing online, I never put in […]

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Amnesia and Soma Founder Thomas Grip Describes how he makes Matches Frightening

Video made by Justin Wolfson, edited by Patrick Biesemans. Click here to transcript. Welcome to”Scare Tactics,” a pilot for a movie series that intends to explore the different founders make terror games. We see terror as a distinctive genre–terror games are not necessarily played for exactly the very exact reasons as other matches. They are […]