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Valve has rewired Counter-Strike 2's bomb to make it more spectacular, but potentially less deadly

have huge ramifications. There aren't many games where the addition of volumetric smoke grenades would be a headline feature. But in CS2's hyper tense battles, true 3D smoke cover has game changing consequences.Now, with the advent of Season 5, Valve has made another tiny-yet-huge change. Put simply, it's changed how t...

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Valve just changed how CS2's bomb works, and it's terrifying

Counter-Strike 2 Season 5 is here, and Valve continues to show a willingness to shake up its beloved FPS. Along with all the usual skins, stickers, and armory adjustments you'd expect, and the official implementation of Cache, the most striking part of the new CS2 patch notes is a redesign of the way bombs detonate. [....

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Xbox's CEO wants its games to cater to 'more than a billion people each day', or 24 times more than the peak population of Steam, which is delusional

The time has finally come for Xbox's massive resetโ€”in a statement on the official Xbox site today, recently-minted CEO Asha Sharma revealed the fate of several studios. I won't be focusing on them in this article (although you can read the words of my fellow PCG writer Andy Chalk first, if you'd like). Instead I want t...

1 month ago ๐Ÿ‘ 54
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Crossfire is actually the second singleplayer shooter named after Koreaโ€™s Counter-Strikeโ€”and the last one was made by Remedy

Weird WeekendWeird Weekend is our regular Saturday column where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history. Pop back every weekend to find out what Jeremy, Josh and Rick have become obsessed with this time, whether it's the canon height of Thief's Garrett or that time som...

1 month ago ๐Ÿ‘ 50
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Turtle Beach Command Series KB7 TKL review

As we know, Turtle Beach loves to put a big ol' screen on its peripherals and this decadent Hall effect keyboard is probably the apotheosis of "big screen on otherwise screen-less thing" design. It's a big 4.3-inch color touchscreen affair that does little more than what can already be achieved on the monitor directly...

2 months ago ๐Ÿ‘ 47
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Logitech G316 X (tactile) gaming keyboard review

Logitech has expressed its desire to have its 'G3' products constitute its 'affordable'โ€”but not necessarily budgetโ€”range of PC gaming peripherals. Given the general state of the economy and the fact that the quality-but-affordable market is my usual stomping ground, I was naturally excited to get my hands on this G316...

2 months ago ๐Ÿ‘ 45
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Fan-favorite map returns to CS2 competitive play in Premier Season Five

Valve has confirmed that Cache is returning to the Active Duty pool in Counter-Strike 2, replacing Overpass when Premier Season Four ends on July 6. It's a major return for the map, which hasn't featured in competitive play for seven years, but after remaking the map and updating it for CS2, Valve has finally pulled th...

2 months ago ๐Ÿ‘ 50
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Steam Week in Review: spammy, AI-generated capsule art is a pox, and it makes browsing Steam less fun

Every Monday morning I scroll through the previous week's new games on Steam. I've always enjoyed doing this. It can surface niche gems I might otherwise not have found, and it's also useful for detecting new trends in their infancy. But if I'm perfectly honest, the reason I've always loved to browse through Steam's ra...

2 months ago ๐Ÿ‘ 49
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The greatest FPS mode of all time is endangered

FOV 90(Image credit: Future)Welcome to FOV 90, an FPS column from staff writer Morgan Park. Every other week, I cover topics relevant to first-person shooter enjoyers, spanning everything from multiplayer and singleplayer to the old and the new.FLAG STOLEN. FLAG DROPPED. FLAG STOLEN. FLAG DROPPED.So sang the anthem of...

2 months ago ๐Ÿ‘ 51
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Logitech G305 X Superlight review

For years, Logitech's egg-shaped G305 has been a budget beast, offering a comfortable feel, decent sensor, and solid shape at a reasonable price. It was so good, in fact, that it was our pick for the best budget wireless gaming mouse until the copycat Mchose G3 V2 Pro showed up. Incredibly, it claimed a spot on top of...

2 months ago ๐Ÿ‘ 53
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Melgeek Real81 review

I recently had the chance to test two different Melgeek keyboards at the same time. They are the space-themed Centauri 80 and the black and gold Real 81. Though they're made by the same company, they couldn't be more different in approach. The Centauri 80 is heavy, flashy, with a built-in OLED screen, and it costs $360...

2 months ago ๐Ÿ‘ 41
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Apparently some of the best gaming mice aren't staying at the right DPI when moved slowly

According to one PC peripheral YouTuber, some of the best gaming mice on the market that use the latest sensors aren't sticking at the DPI they're set to (via MouseCast). At least, not when moved at a very slow speed.An X user noted the problem a couple of years ago, pointing out the problematic feature in the firmware...

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