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Our ‘best cheap PCIe 4.0 SSD’ pick is now £85 for 2TB at Amazon UK

Lexar's NM790 PCIe 4.0 SSD is our 'best cheap PCIe 4.0 SSD for gaming' pick, offering extremely rapid speeds. It maxes out at 7400MB/s reads and 6500MB/s writes, near the boundary of the PCIe 4.0 standard, and random read/write figures are impressive too despite lacking a DRAM cache, using HMB ...
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Armored Core 6: Fires Of Rubicon review: FromSoftware’s full spectrum mech experience mostly delivers

How do you like your missiles? Do you prefer ones that fire straight up and then swoop down like birds of prey, or the kind that jet off to the sides, trapping the target in a pincer formation? How about a single missile that splits into a swarm of smaller ...
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I Found Pokémon TCG Heaven and It’s at Creatures HQ in Japan

As a longtime Pokémon fan, visiting the place where they design the Pokémon Trading Card Game has long been a childhood dream of mine, and it finally came true when I visited Japan to cover the 2023 Pokémon World Championships. This is the first time Worlds has been hosted in ...
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Ace of the Belfry: How Stoic is Developing Towerborne to be an Epic Action-RPG with a Focus on Fun

Summary
  • We speak to Arnie Jorgensen, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer at Stoic, about Towerborne, and players getting to experience the game in person for the first time.
  • Towerborne is a brawler-style action role playing game (ARPG) that’s easy to learn, fun to master, and supports a single player and up to ...
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Denuvo’s ‘Switch Emulator Protection’ Is Now Available Via Nintendo’s Official Dev Portal

A DRM come true.Denuvo protection software is now available to game developers creating games for the Nintendo Switch via Nintendo's Developer Portal. Cybersecurity company Irdeto announced the news at Gamescom 2023, with the "authorised Nintendo Switch middleware" now available (via VGC).Denuvo says it is the first security partner available on ...
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Hands-on report – PlayStation Portal remote player, Pulse Explore wireless earbuds, and Pulse Elite wireless headset

Today PlayStation players received big updates on a trio of exciting upcoming devices: the PlayStation Portal remote player, the PlayStation Pulse Explore wireless earbuds, and the newly revealed PlayStation Pulse Elite wireless headset. In addition to a PS Blog article detailing the products, pricing, and more, I also had the ...
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Project Q Is Actually Called PlayStation Portal

After teasing the device at the last State of Play showcase, Sony officially announced its handheld device's new name, previously codenamed Project Q. The PlayStation Portal (yes, really) is a "remote player" with an 8-inch LCD screen with up to 1080p resolution at 60 frames per second and a 3.5mm ...
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Alan Wake 2: The First Preview | gamescom 2023

What’s it like to be trapped in a hell of your own making? For writer Alan Wake, that’s the story he’s trying to tell. And after watching a full 40-minute demo, played from the perspective of Wake himself, it certainly looks set to be a tale worth telling. Taking place ...
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Quantum Break and Max Payne aren’t in Remedy’s Connected Universe, despite the Easter eggs

Action-horror sequel Alan Wake 2 showed up to last night’s Gamescom festivities with a cryptic trailer (below) that showed the studio’s signature Lynchian mystery, an upside-down New York, and some interesting live-action scenes. But references to Remedy’s past games have been the big conversation driver, especially since the studio is ...
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Exclusive: The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria Gets Release Date for PS5 and PC

Indie developer Free Range Games and publisher North Beach Games will be releasing their co-op survival crafting title, The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria, on Oct. 24 on PlayStation 5 digitally and Windows PC via Epic Games Store, IGN can exclusively reveal today. For those disappointed by its ...
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