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    A Fan in the UK Has Stumbled Onto What Looks Like the Elden Ring Movie Set

    We knew Alex Garland’s Elden Ring adaptation for A24 was somewhere in the pipeline. We did not know a Twitch streamer would be the one to find the set. Twitch streamer and Elden Ring fan Throxtv posted video on YouTube this week showing a large outdoor construction in an English field that is...
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    Fortnite Save the World Goes Free To Play on April 16, Launching on Switch 2 for the First Time

    Here’s one for the people who remember that Fortnite was originally a cooperative zombie survival game before Battle Royale ate the world. Epic Games has confirmed that Save the World, Fortnite’s PvE co-op mode where teams build forts, craft weapons, and hold back waves of monsters, goes...
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    Early Canadian Listings for AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Suggest It Could Fetch $1000 in the U.S.

    I have a hard time seeing more than a $100-150 premium over the standard X3D....
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    Skyblivion Lead Is “Pretty Optimistic” But Acknowledges Another Delay Is Possible

    Skyblivion, the fan-built total conversion that recreates The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion inside Skyrim’s engine, is getting close to the finish line. Or at least, that’s the most current read from project lead Rebelzize, who spoke to PC Gamer this week after the team put out a new call for...
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    State of Decay 3 Is Alive, and Alpha Playtests Start in May

    Six years after its reveal trailer and two years since anyone heard anything concrete about it, State of Decay 3 has resurfaced with actual news. Undead Labs announced this week that alpha playtests will begin in May, with signups now open at the official State of Decay website. Franchise...
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    NVIDIA Takes Aim at Shader Compilation Stutter with New Auto Shader Compilation Beta

    If you’ve ever updated your GPU driver, fired up a game, and been greeted by a minutes-long “Compiling Shaders” screen, NVIDIA has finally decided to do something about it. The company quietly shipped a beta version of Auto Shader Compilation (ASC) in the same NVIDIA App update that brought DLSS...
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    Heroes Of Might And Magic: Olden Era Sets April 30 Steam Early Access Date, Hits Game Pass Day One

    After years of rumors and a development cycle that had more than a few fans wondering whether a proper new entry in the series would ever materialize, Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era finally has a date. Hooded Horse, Unfrozen Studio, and Ubisoft confirmed the game will launch in Steam Early...
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    Geekbench Flags Intel iBOT Results as Potentially Invalid, Investigation Finds Vectorized Instructions Behind 30% Gains

    Do you remember the renaming of Quake to Quack benchmarking controversy? We do, but in case you don’t, here’s another one for the pile. Intel’s new Binary Optimization Tool, better known as iBOT, is now doing some benchmark optimization of its own, and Geekbench’s response is worth paying...
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    Diablo IV: Lord of Hatred Lands April 28 With Two New Classes and an Overhauled Endgame

    Mephisto is not waiting anymore. Diablo IV’s second major expansion, Lord of Hatred, arrives April 28 across PC (Battle.net and Steam), PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, and Xbox One. Blizzard announced the expansion at The Game Awards 2025 and has been rolling out pre-purchase details and class...
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    GeForce NOW April 2026 Lineup: PRAGMATA, Arknights: Endfield, and 20 More Games This Month

    April is shaping up to be a legitimately strong month for GeForce NOW subscribers. NVIDIA announced the full April lineup today, kicking things off with 12 games available immediately and confirming another 8 titles arriving throughout the month, including several day-one launches. Leading this...
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    Denuvo Has Been Broken: Hypervisor Bypasses Enable Day-Zero Cracks, Irdeto Promises a Fix

    After years of holding as the de facto gold standard for PC game anti-piracy, Denuvo has been functionally broken by a new class of exploit. Hypervisor-based bypasses, which operate beneath the Windows operating system at Ring -1, are now enabling pirated releases of major titles within hours of...
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    Has Memory Pricing Peaked or Is It Still Rocketing to the Moon?

    Sometimes schadenfreude has educational value. A video circulating on Chinese social media this week shows a memory vendor in Shenzhen’s Huaqiangbei electronics market standing in front of a warehouse stacked high with DDR5 modules, delivering a despairing monologue: “Brothers, memory prices...
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    Stormgate is Shutting Down Its Online Modes at the End of April

    It has been a rough road for Stormgate, and it just got a (probable) final destination of eternal singlle player mode. A few days back in the Stormgate Discord server, Frost Giant Studio confirmed that Stormgate’s online modes will be shut down at the end of April 2026, effectively ending the...
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    Trends from the March 2026 Steam Hardware Survey

    Valve’s monthly hardware survey data for March 2026 is in, and it contains a couple of numbers worth dwelling on. Linux has now crossed 5% market share among Steam users for the first time, and the 16 GB system RAM configuration is seeing a notable jump in adoption. Keep in mind that the data is...
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    Marvel Rivals Gets a Lower Manhattan Map Added to Season 7

    Marvel Rivals Season 7, titled “The Hunt Is On,” has gone launched, and it brings the expected pile of new content along with a meaningful technical upgrade for NVIDIA GPU owners. White Fox joins the roster as a Strategist hero, and the new Lower Manhattan convergence map launched alongside the...
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    Intel Pays 14.2 Billion to Buy Back Full Ownership of Ireland’s FAB 34 from Apollo

    On April 1, the Intel told no jokes while announcing an agreement to repurchase the 49% stake in its Fab 34 joint venture that it sold to Apollo Global Management in 2024, at a price tag of $14.2 billion. That original $11.2 billion deal was a sign of how badly Intel needed a cash infusion […]...
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    Fractal Design Announces “North XL” Case with Full-Size Wood Paneling and a Built-In Cutting Board

    But... are you a fan of a built-in cutting board? That's the key enhancement that was announced yesterday, April 1.....
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    Sony Raises PS5 Prices by Up To $150 Starting Today, Citing Memory Costs

    The PS5 Pro at $900. Marinate on that for a moment or three. Sony confirmed last Thursday that new prices for the entire PS5 hardware lineup take effect on April 2, meaning if you wanted the old price, the window essentially closed yesterday. The standard PS5 goes from $549.99 to $649.99, the...
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    GIGABYTE Enters the Dark Side of the Forest with X870E AERO X3D DARK WOOD Edition Motherboard

    We should be getting one of these in to review shortly.
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    Noctua X Asetek AIO Cooler Clears Validation; Q2 Launch Imminent

    After what feels like an eternity of waiting (Ed: Isn’t that how all Noctua product launches go?), Noctua and Asetek officially confirmed that their collaborative AIO liquid cooler has completed its Production Validation Test phase, clearing the final major hurdle before volume production. Q2...
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