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Recent content by Merluz

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    Gearbox CEO Hints Borderlands 4 Discounts a Long Time Coming

    I've played for free Borderlands 3, don't really know why he thinks that a brutally stupid FOMO technique will make some difference on the game sell rate. FOMO of what btw, it's a single player game with coop, you can play today Boderlands 1 without missing anything after 10+ years.
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    XFX Radeon RX 9070 XT Mercury OC Magnetic Air

    The price increase is insane, nobody should ever buy this except for any absurd reason, like it's a buy or instant die. GPUs for gaming purpose nowadays are a complete joke of a product.
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    Potential RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 Pricing in China Leaks

    real question is what games people want to play with such ultra expensive hardware. a lot of years ago from a gamer perspective there was some kind of need to upgrade to play latest numerous very cool games released every year, but today? the cost of making multiple A games is skyrocketed...
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    Intel "Arrow Lake-S" Core Ultra 200S Sells Zero Units at German Retailer

    this is true, I still have an old htpc with a broadwell 5775C and the idea is to updgrade later this year or the next one, but if there are 14th gen intel gpu still in stock, I doubt that the new one will enter my radar. also, considering the only heavy task of this htpc is gaming, the x3d cpus...
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    Intel "Arrow Lake-S" Core Ultra 200S Sells Zero Units at German Retailer

    this is so true. the balance of cost and performance is often forgotten when we focus the talks of gaming. the price of the 7800x3d has fallen to inflation in those months.
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    Intel "Arrow Lake-S" Core Ultra 200S Sells Zero Units at German Retailer

    the real shocking news is that in US these cpu went sold out...
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    Sony Reverses Decision of Mandatory PSN Account for Helldivers 2 After Negative Feedback

    there are a lot of gamers that only cares about good games (or just games that they like) and doesn't follow any of the news about corporations making bad decisions and so on, expecially if those bad decisions are about a game that they don't even play. most of the times people will drop a...
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    TechPowerUp Hiring: Reviewers Wanted for Motherboards, Laptops, Gaming Handhelds and Prebuilt Desktops

    I've heard about the useless gaming laptop story in the last 15 years, but they still exist and getting better time to time... Maybe because there are people who buy them because they need them, instead of a desktop computer.
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    ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super Strix OC

    non sense GPU is non sense... you pay the same for a 4080S
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    Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer Released

    oh well here we go again with a trailer of a game that potentially is over 730 days away. optimistically speaking...
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    Corsair Xeneon 27QHD240 OLED

    honestly for that price I will buy a small Oled tv from LG, more value all together. if I lack space for an Oled tv, well, I will wait to have more space instead of buyin another overpriced 27" monitor... the text clarity issue is a very big no-no, except for the one that sit behind the desk...
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    Alan Wake II System Requirements Released, Steep RT Requirements Due to Path Tracing

    maybe those fans doesn't exsist and they actually are simple evangelists working for the businessman that cannot sell anymore the persistent increase of resolution or of fps/hz forever, so the new plan is to sell the old resolutions upscaled to became the new future effectively killing low to...
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    Alan Wake II System Requirements Released, Steep RT Requirements Due to Path Tracing

    never tought that in 2023 gpus will run games at 2003 resolution because of "business"
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    Apple Unveils iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max with USB-C Connectivity

    considering the heavy focus on the camera performance (no only for Apple and the iPhone), I'm really start thinking what would be the price of a phone without a camera (except one basic front camera for calling). The today market seems really turning around the "new camera" before anything else...
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