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Steam reviews letting you attach your PC specs is another Steam Machine prep play and you can't convince me otherwise
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Steam reviews letting you attach your PC specs is another Steam Machine prep play and you can't convince me otherwise

I wasn’t immediately sure who the latest Steam client beta update, which allows Steam review writers to optionally attach their hardware specs and anonymised framerate data, was for. The reviewers? Not unless they want to inadvertently reveal that the reason they aren’t getting 360fps in Space Marine 2 is because they’re trying to run it on a 3DFX Voodoo Banshee. Developers? Performance data could be useful but if I ran a QA department, I’d want that coming from observab

Despite being "a significant change", Legacy of Kain: Ascendance's devs insist it'll still appeal to clapped-out Soul Reaver enthusiasts
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Despite being "a significant change", Legacy of Kain: Ascendance's devs insist it'll still appeal to clapped-out Soul Reaver enthusiasts

Edwin, come look at this! Seriously, come look at this! It's that thing from your site bio. They're doing a new one. Edw-0h wait, he's on holiday today. Ah well, I guess I'll have to aim my distictly non-Soul Reaver enthusiast eyes at Legacy of Kain: Ascendance. Ooh, Edwin, this nice marketing person claims it'll appeal to veteran Kainers like you, despite being a bit of a new direction for the series. Read more

No AI tricks here - G-Sync Pulsar’s clarity boosting monitor tech looks like the real deal
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No AI tricks here - G-Sync Pulsar’s clarity boosting monitor tech looks like the real deal

Nvidia’s relationship with PC gaming doesn’t always feel like a loving one. Sometimes they’re gifting us a useful new version of DLSS, sometimes they’re helping drive RAM prices up to £300 a stick. Even so, it’s hard not to look at G-Sync Pulsar – a new bit of monitor cleverness that seeks to remove unwanted motion blur from its LCD panels – and see some goodness still inside that big, green eye. After trying it out at a demo event this week, I&rs