The Latest Gaming News, Reviews & Hardware
The latest hardware news and reviews to help you make decisions about what to include in your gaming rig. In addition to all the latest about Intel, AMD, raytracing and peripherals you’ll also find a healthy dose of modern and retro gaming content.
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Pick Up and Play at Your Next Game Night With These 10 Accessible TTRPGs
From Elle Dwight, the co-founder and CEO of social gaming platform Role, comes this list of accessible tabletop roleplaying games that are easy to introduce to your family and friends over the holidays or even the weekend. With easy to adjust roles and intuitive character creation, you’re bound to find a game to suit every member…
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How a ‘Playboy’ Centerfold Became Part of the Creation of the JPEG
In her new book, How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex: An Unexpected History, Samantha Cole traces the twisting history of the “Lena Centerfold,” an image from Playboy that became an international standard for training computers to recognise images. The image, taken in 1972, persisted for decades in computer science, even inspiring…
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The Legacy of Pixar’s Wall-E, Now a Member of the Criterion Collection
It’s hard to even imagine. A world ravaged by climate change. People totally consumed by technology. Mega corporations in control of everything. Robots performing menial tasks. Wait, did we say “hard” to imagine? We meant we’re literally living it. The “it” being Wall-E, Pixar’s 2008 Oscar-winning masterpiece co-written and directed by Andrew Stanton.
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Here’s Your Guide to Intel Arc GPUs, Including What’s Available in Australia
Right now in Australia, you can buy two cards from the Intel Arc series of GPUs: the Arc A750 and the A770, both comparable to the RTX 3060.