There are some many great PC games that you can play right now, so what better way to get stuck in by grabbing this bargain of a gaming laptop at $800. The Core i7 12650H processor has six P-cores and four E- cores, which is more than enough for most games and pretty much any school or office-level application. Anything more powerful would be wasted, when the rest of the laptop is better matched to this CPU.

The RTX 4060 Mobile graphics chip has 3,072 shaders, a boost clock of 1,890MHz, and 8GB of VRAM. It’s best suited for gaming at 1080p, which is ideal as that’s the resolution of the 15.6-inch screen. With a refresh rate of 144Hz, it will be very easy on the eyes and in games that support it, you’ll be able to use DLSS 3.5 features to improve the game’s performance to match tha…

Close-up images of AMD’s RX 7900 XT have revealed what appear to be connection points used with 3D chip stacking technologies. Engineer Tom Wassick has zoomed in on the memory chiplets within the Navi 31 GPU, known as MCDs, and what he’s found are tiny “spots” that appear similar to those on AMD’s V-Cache CPUs.

According to Wassick (via Tom’s Hardware), who has viewed AMD’s latest GPU with an infrared camera, these spots could show a latent ability in the RDNA 3 GPU that would allow AMD to stack another chip on top of the MCD.

It was rumoured back in the development process for the Navi 31 GPU that AMD would implement stacked MCDs, but reportedly decided against it, at least for the first chips. There have been rumours of a Navi 31 refresh later in the year, but equally cont…

Tell me an RPG developer used a tabletop roleplaying system to sketch out the design for their new videogame? I sleep. Tell me the creator of Kerbal Space Program used another sim—the most popular city builder of the past decade—to create the map for his model plane flight simulation? Real shit. I can’t think of a more PC gaming solution to indie game development.

I recently chatted with Felipe “HarvesteR” Falanghe about Kitbash Model Club, a relaunched version of a game he first released in early access in 2021. At the time it was called Balsa Model Flight Simulator, but Falanghe explained the new name, new publisher, and new scope (read about all that here). 

Then we started talking about the map. Kitbash Model Club is set in a bay with a pair of …

Get ready for cuteness overload: Stray, the game about a nice red cat doing cat stuff, is now doing a rad thing in the real world by raising money for various cat charities. America’s Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) spoke to some of the individuals involved during a news segment, which can be viewed here, where publisher Annapurna’s Jeff Legaspi says the idea of partnering with such organisations “was a bit of a no brainer for us”.

Brendan Gepson of the Nebraska Humane Society, an animal rescue organisation, says it was able to offer game codes on social media in exchange for $5 donations towards their work. “It was very successful,” says Gepson, “from the initial fundraiser we raised about $8,000”.

The segment shows some extremely cute IRL rescue cats, inclu…

Redditor Clashmains_2account decided that if Nvidia wasn’t ever going to make a mini-ITX version of the RTX 3060 Founders Edition, they would take it upon themselves to make an adorable pint-sized GPU of their own. 

The modified graphics card is a Gainward RTX 3060 Pegasus, which underwent alterations including a custom shroud and heatsink. These components were designed using CAD and then 3D printed to mimic the appearance of the metal casing found on an Nvidia Founders Edition GPU. Additionally, Clashmains incorporated a 92mm Noctua fan that closely resembles those seen on Founders Editions (and offers better cooling).

Sadly, this is a test build, so it’s more for show than overclocking. During testing, Clashmains discovered that the PLA filament used for printing the…

There’s a clue for today’s Wordle just a little further down this page, ready to point you in the right direction without spoiling your daily guessing fun. Keep going (or click straight to it) and you’ll soon find the March 4 (989) answer, waiting to save your game and your win streak.

If anyone asks, it wasn’t a fumble, it was an interesting scenic route to today’s Wordle answer, okay? A test. Of Wordle. To see if, um, to see how many times I could be almost right but still expertly dodge the correct word. On purpose. And definitely not because I missed it by being careless. Maybe tomorrow’s game will be more direct.

Wordle today: A hint

Wordle today: A hint for Monday, March 4

Not really a fire itself, but a visible part of it.…

Though Owlcat Games just released the Warhammer 40k CRPG Rogue Trader, it’s still been hard at work updating its previous game, Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous. The game’s just started a free weekend lasting until December 17th, while it will also be on sale for 75% off until the 21st.

WotR is a massive zero-to-hero fantasy campaign based on the Pathfinder tabletop module of the same name. If you’re looking for another RPG obsession after Baldur’s Gate 3, this one’s got a lot more of that old school crunch (it’s “crusty” as my girlfriend would say), but I like that kind of thing.

There’s a ton of fat that could have been trimmed. For example, until recently, the game’s poison-based Assassin prestige class was pretty screwed in a campaign where nearly everything’s…

A team of CD Projekt veterans including Witcher 3 co-director Mateusz Kanik, producer Jędrzej Mróz, and Cyberpunk 2077 senior producer Marcin Jefimow, have launched a new studio called Blank that is currently working on “a character-driven game set in an apocalypse, with a twist or two.”

(The studio name is technically Blank., with a period, but we won’t be using that.)

Kanik is serving as game director on Blank’s first project, while Mróz and Jefimow are onboard as executive producers. They’ll be joined at the new studio by Mikołaj Marchewka, formerly of Rookiez of Warsaw, in the managing director role, Witcher 3 game designer Michał Dobrowolski as design director, Witcher lead story designer Artur Ganszyniec as narrative director, and Gwent VFX…

Keep your Wordle win streak growing, and learn how to make the most of your crucial opening guesses with our helpful guides and tips. Get all the help you need with today’s Wordle, too: there’s a clue for the March 29 (648) puzzle just below, and a little past that, you’ll find the answer to today’s game ready and waiting for you.

I struggled far more than I should have with today’s puzzle. Not enough greens and too many greys started me off on the wrong foot, and two more goes with little to show for it had me worried that there was no coming back. Thankfully, a couple of well-placed greens finally showed up, and I guessed today’s Wordle answer on my next move.

Wordle hint

A Wordle hint for Wednesday, March 29

This term often refers to a steady …