Author: Jacob Ridley
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Lethal Company is a viral hit in no small part thanks to all the intense shouting
Work for the Company, die for the Company. Rinse, repeat. Lethal Company is a game all about collecting scrap metal and trying not to die on the job. Sound fun? Sure it does, you just have to watch the gajillion clips on TikTok and other social media platforms to know that it’s the best set-up…
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PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best of the rest of 2023
The wildcard award category is our way of covering all our bases without having to hand out 30 awards for every perceivable product category out there. With such a wide open category for an award, it was difficult to narrow down the nominations to only three products. We’ve reviewed many excellent products this year that…
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PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best handheld gaming PC of 2023
As I see it there have been three epochs of PC handhelds. Firstly, the initial wave of prototype and underpowered devices testing the waters. I tried a good few of these early handhelds, and they all seemed fatally flawed in their own way. Not to worry, next came the big bang of the Steam Deck.…
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For years I believed Windows to be making up problems with my removable drives. Turns out I’m the problem
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This piece was originally published on October 19th this year and we are republishing it today in a series celebrating our favourite articles of the year. Most times I plug in a USB stick, external SSD, or camera, Windows pops up with a notice that nothing works, everything has gone to hell, and I must…
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My PC is a mess. Is anyone else finding it difficult to manage all their files nowadays?
Pick a drive on my machine, any drive, and you’ll find at least one Steam library folder, another for Epic Games, maybe even one more for GOG. Alongside a scattering of OBS recordings and a Plex media server. Now I don’t see myself as a terribly disorganised guy—I keep both my virtual and real-world desktop…
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I tried to melt AMD’s top GPU with Avatar: Frontier of Pandora’s unobtanium graphics mode
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When the developers of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora called its unobtanium graphics preset “extremely difficult to run on currently available hardware”, I could only see that as a challenge. But not so much a challenge for me, for my poor test bench’s AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX. I have the goods—a test bench with a…
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‘Still a slight risk of critical deformation’: Noctua isn’t happy with its next-gen 140mm fan so it’s pushed until Q2 2024 at the earliest
You’re going to have to wait a little longer for Noctua’s next-gen 140mm fan. Despite positive signs out at Computex this year that had suggested the fan would head to mass production by the tail-end of 2023, that plan has been scuppered by late issue. This means it has to go through a lengthy validation…
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The new Avatar game has a graphics preset so ‘extremely difficult to run’ you’re probably Na’vi gonna turn it on
I don’t remember much from the hit 2009 movie Avatar, but I do remember that the main reason they even bothered to create big blue boy suits to explore the moon of Pandora was to collect a rare mineral known as unobtanium. And you bet unobtanium is making a comeback for the new game set…
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Ducky ProjectD Outlaw65 review | PC Gamer
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If you’ve ever wanted to build your own keyboard then the Ducky ProjectD Outlaw65 is a simple and easy way to go about it. Included in this compact kit are most of the pieces required to build a mechanical keyboard from scratch and a guarantee that every piece will fit together—you need only provide switches…
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This kinetic PC case puts my RGB chassis to shame and I’m totally okay with that
Sometimes you come across a project that makes you wonder if you’re really handy at anything. This is one of those projects. A PC case with a simple yet stunning effect of gradually shifting in a never-ending loop, made by Ideal Idea; once you see all the work that goes into it, you’ll maybe start…