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MSI Versa 300 Wireless 8K review

MSI might not be the first name you think of when it comes to gaming mice, but the brand has been quietly toiling away with its peripherals in recent times and has come up with the Versa 300 Wireless 8K as its latest entry. On the face of it, with a 26,000 DPI sensor, 8000 Hz wireless polling rate and a light 66g mass,...

3 weeks ago πŸ‘ 13
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Steam Week in Review: More than 300 games released on Steam last week, and 120 of them had AI disclosures

Android Who Dreams of Stars looks like the kind of visual novel that has appeared weekly on Steam for over a decade. Its trailer shows a series of static sci-fi anime images accompanied by simple plaintive music. It centres around "autonomous android" Eve Nova whose existence is cause for wonder and concern in a futuri...

3 weeks ago πŸ‘ 13
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After gaming on pro-level panels I can tell you now that 360 Hz is the sweet spot for gaming monitors

Jacob Fox, hardware writer(Image credit: Future)This week I've been: Latency testing a 320 Hz monitor, trying to climb up CS2 Premier ranks, and looking into information theory.If you've been on this planet as long as I have, you might remember the sentiment that your eyes can't see above 60 fps. At least, that's what...

3 weeks ago πŸ‘ 14
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This new South Park gaming gear from SteelSeries looks exactly as fun as you'd hope

South Park has teamed up with gaming gear maker SteelSeries to release a new line of South Park-themed mouse pads and a gaming headset, and they look utterly brilliant. The lineup's limited, with just two choices of mouse mat and one headset, but all three nail the brief. SteelSeries is no stranger to making themed per...

3 weeks ago πŸ‘ 13
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Alienware AW2525HM 320 Hz gaming monitor review

It's rare that I review something that I would actually buy right at this moment in time. Even if it's a good product that I recommend, it's usually out of my own budget or just not quite at the top of my PC priority list compared to other upgrades. But with the Alienware AW2525HM, I can say that I would 100%, for real...

3 weeks ago πŸ‘ 19
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Koorui 34E6UC review

When it comes to gaming monitors, it feels like 2026 has been all about lording it with a long list of OLED displays. So, it's nice to be back among the proletariat with a mere LCD panel. I give you the Koorui 34E6UC.Of course, this is a 34-inch ultrawide model, which is one of my favourite form factors and pretty gene...

3 weeks ago πŸ‘ 13
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N Plus Infinity Times Two is a multiplayer-focused follow-up to one of the best platformers on PC: 'we don't think anyone else on this planet is as crazy about 2D platformers as we are'

More than a decade after the release of one of the best action platformers ever made, N Plus Infinity Times Two is the next ninja parkour movement sim from Canada's Metanet Software. If you love N++ I know what you're probably thinking: decade old or not, that game has over 4,000 levels, and it got a massive free expan...

1 month ago πŸ‘ 17
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Crossfire was the most surprising game reveal I've attended in years

There's a good chance you haven't heard of That's No Moon. The Los Angeles-based studio is one of many that cropped up amidst the Covid-fueled videogames gold rush of the early 2020s, and up until now it's been working in total silence. The South Korean publisher backing the startup, Smilegate, is known for free-to-pla...

1 month ago πŸ‘ 16
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Best CS2 Settings for FPS and Competitive Play

When it comes to competitive games like Counter-Strike 2, the visual quality is not the top priority. If you're trying to become a pro, then you won't need to worry about shiny-looking textures or sharply rendered visuals. It's only frames (FPS) that matter the most in competitive games like this.

1 month ago πŸ‘ 18
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Which gaming clip just won $500? Check out the best videos of May, featuring nukes in Minecraft, eternal drifts in Forza Horizon 6, and a dragon-riding giant in Skyrim

We're on a mission to collect the internet's best gaming videosβ€”and frankly, you're making it easy for us. In May you sent in tons of great clips featuring frenetic battles in shooters like Counter-Strike 2, Marathon, and Battlefield 6. But you also sent us a motherload of comedy clips, showing off sandbox hijinks in g...

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This could be the competitive panel of my dreams: the 'world's first esport OLED monitor' looks to be a 540 Hz, 24.5-inch beast

Last year at Gamescom, I got to feast my greedy little eyes on a 540 Hz monitor from Asus ROG (pictured above) and was mighty impressed. That one is a 26.5-inch 1440p/720p dual-mode deal, though, so not necessarily for esports. As I've argued before, 720p is a bit low even for esports. And 26.5 inches and 1440p is too...

1 month ago πŸ‘ 16
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Steam Week in Review: 4 Backrooms games released on Steam last week, joining a list of over 500 cash-ins, parodies and legitimate contenders

With this week's theatrical release of A24's The Backrooms adaptation, I was expecting an avalanche of new Backrooms-themed videogames to appear on Steam. Surprisingly, the number is quite modest: a mere four!Surely you've noticed that Backrooms games have been releasing at a steady clip on Steam for years now. When I...

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