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The Republic of Gamers (ROG) department at ASUS started to tease its lineup of official Evangelion tie-in products in late July, with a ROG Strix customized NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 card attracting some attention thanks to its very prominent red and black aesthetic. The marketing spiel revealed that:...

The latest retail batch of Noctua's NH-U12A single-tower CPU coolers has been photographed sporting updated packaging and containing a new set of mounting brackets. Japan's Akiba PC Watch reported on new stock of Noctua's popular (and well reviewed) NH-U12A cooler sitting on shelves at Tsukumo Compu...

Gamers wanting the ultimate experience will need strong hardware in all areas today we're going to be looking at a couple of things. Firstly, how does Starfield run on the minimum spec CPU for the game AMD's
Ryzen 5 2600x, and what sort of experience you can expect from that five-year-old processor. Then we're going to explore what in-game settings can be tweaked to improve performance in CPU limited scenarios and finally we'll wrap things up with a discussion on what can be done about the CPU limit.

Bogus Intel & AMD CPU incidents have been reported several times, with most of them involving tampering either with the branding on the IHS (Integrated Heat Spreader) or with the actual CPU packaging. We have highlighted such incidents several times, but an average consumer often becomes a victim of such scams, mainly due to knowledge disparity.

A Reddit user, “Much_Designer_8417,” reportedly ordered the Intel Core i9-13900K from Amazon in hopes of harnessing the power of Intel's flagship processor, but in return, he got Intel's Core i7-13700K. This was another incident of IHS tampering since the pictures shared by Redditor clearly show the Core i9-13900K. Still, upon further investigation through benchmarking software, it was revealed that he got a much inferior variant.

Hogwarts Legacy lovers, keep your eyes open as it is now being reported that a sequel is in development, which will take the franchise to new heights.

The news comes from the reputable movie insider MyTimeToShineHello, who has an excellent track record for unveiling content about the movie industry. While the leaker didn't disclose many specifics, it can be presumed that the leaker has sources within Warner Bros since he has leaked out several content from the studio in the past.

Sources confirmed that a Hogwarts Legacy sequel is in the works pic.twitter.com/LQEKFmUpO9
— MyTimeToShineHello (@MyTimeToShineH) September 2, 2023

Japanese gamers have continued to embrace the PC as a platform at staggering rates, jumping up 43% from 131.3 billion yen to 189.2 billion yen in 2022. That's a total size of about $1.3 billion US. The data comes from the latest report by Kadokawa ASCII Research Laboratories, an industry think tank which compiles yearly material about the performance of the gaming industry in Japan and abroad.

For comparison various analysts peg growth rates in the US PC Gaming market at between 1-2% in 2022, on a market of something like $9-10 billion, as growth stabilizes following a boom during the pandemic. The global gaming market as a whole actually shrunk in 2022—for the same reason.

A post-pandemic drop that, it should be noted, didn't slow down Japanese PC gaming much at all. It's another year of data proving that though conventional wisdom once said PC Gaming in Japan was niche, it ain't niche anymore. Japanese gamers are joining the rest of Asia demographically, where PC gaming is by far the largest segment of the hardcore or hobby gaming market. (Mobile gaming, of course, outstrips everything else everywhere.)

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 will release in late 2024 on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X.

The game – which tells "a vampire story set in modern Seattle reimagined for World of Darkness" – is in development with celebrated indie studio, The Chinese Room.

As it's still early days, we don't yet have a gameplay trailer – although the teaser above gives us a flavour of what's to come – but The Chinese Room says it'll have gameplay to reveal in January 2024, and the game is expected to release in the fall/autumn that same year (that's Q3 for our friends in the southern hemisphere).

While Baldur’s Gate 3 takes place in the land of Faerûn, Dungeons and Dragons is home to a whole multiverse of lands, characters, and history. This means that the Baldur’s Gate 3 races you can play as focus on the Sword Coast, but not anymore, as a colossal mod for the RPG game gives you over 50 races to choose from across the DnD multiverse, and it’s incredible. With many players coming to the end of their first Baldur’s Gate 3 playthrough, now’s the perfect time to emerge as a completely different character thanks to this mod.

One Baldur’s Gate 3 mod already lets you play as an honest-to-goodness skeleton in Larian’s excellent adventure, but this is next level. Fantastical Multiverse from modder ‘DungeonsAndSouls’ has seen a 1.0 update now that BG3 is out of early access, and it includes a staggering 54 races from across the DnD multiverse and beyond.

“Playable races from Legacy, Grim Hollow, and my Homebrew have been adapted to be relevant for any class in any world in the multiverse,” DungeonsAndSouls writes. “All races are revised or made compatible with the new era of DnD if they are not officially updated to the One DnD format or Monster’s of Multiverse Fantastical Race already.

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1. Elf (Revised Unearthed Arcana 2024 PHB) 3 Subraces
2. Pallid Elf
3. Sea Elf
4. Shadar-kai
5. Avariel
6. Grugach
7. Tiefling(Revised Unearthed Arcana 2024 PHB) 9 Subraces
8. Githyanki (MoTM)
9. Dwarf (Revised Unearthed Arcana 2024 PHB)
10. Duergar (MoTM)
11. Half-Elf(Mark of Detection)
12. Half-Elf(Mark of the Storm)
13. Gnome(Revised Unearthed Arcana 2024 PHB)
14. Dragonborn(Revised Unearthed Arcana 2024 PHB)
15. Dragonborn (Gem Dragonborn (FIZBAN'S))
16. Half-Orc (Mark of Finding)
17. Goliath(Revised Unearthed Arcana 2024 PHB + MoTM)
18. Orc(Revised Unearthed Arcana 2024 PHB)
19. Aasimar(MoTM)
20. Genasi(Air, Earth, Fire, Water)(MoTM)
21. Bugbear(MoTM)
22. Changeling(MoTM)
23. Firbolg(MoTM)
24. Githzerai(MoTM)
25. Goblin(MoTM)
26. Kobold(VGTM + MoTM)
27. Minotaur(MoTM)
28. Shifter(MoTM)
29. Triton(MoTM)
30. Yuan-ti(Pureblood + MoTM)
31. Kender
32. Astral Elf
33. Lineages(Dhampir, Hexblood, Reborn)
34. Kalashtar
35. Verdan
36. Vedalken
37. Locathah
38. Laneshi(Grim Hollow)
39. Ogresh(Grim Hollow)
40. Downcast(Grim Hollow)
41. Dreamers(Grim Hollow)
42. The Disembodied(Grim Hollow)
43. Krsnik(D&S)
44. Moroi(D&S)
45. Mušḫuššu (D&S)
46. Tydelvian(D&S)
47. Lunari(Hemato-Kai + Crepusriel) (D&S)
48. Gwŷddpāla(D&S)
49. Nephilim(D&S)
50. Malformed(D&S)
51. Hyur(FFXIV x D&S)
52. Elezen(FFXIV x D&S)
53. Roegadyn(FFXIV x D&S)
54. Garlean(FFXIV x D&S)

Mortal Kombat 1 will be playable five days early for players who buy the fighting game's Premium Edition.

That's according to modder and reverse engineer Thethiny, who noticed that Steam has updated its Mortal Kombat 1 store listing to confirm that for those prepared to pay for the fancy edition, they'll get playable character Shang Tsung and five days early access, starting from 14th September.

"Smurfing is not welcome in Dota," say Valve, as they ban 90,000 alt accounts and say they've traced the main accounts …

During PAX West 2023's 'Voices from Valisthea' panel, Square Enix debuted a new message from Final Fantasy XVI producer Naoki Yoshida.

The main news shared by Yoshida-san is that, following the positive fan reaction to the PS5 launch in late June, the developers are now working on two paid DLCs and the PC version. Yoshida said he hopes to be able to provide more information on DLCs and the PC port before the end of the year.

The game may not land on PC exactly when the six-month PS5 exclusivity ends, then, but it could still be available on the platform before its first anniversary.

Yoshida also announced the launch of Final Fantasy XVI update 1.10. This patch adds the weapon transmogrification feature (you may change your weapon's skin to that of any in your possession while retaining the stats of the currently equipped weapon) and alternate outfits for Clive, Jill, Torgal, Ambrosia, and Joshua.

The latest benchmarks of Intel's next-gen Core i9-14900K Desktop CPU have leaked and show a nice performance boost over the 13900K.

The Intel Core i9-14900K Desktop CPU is going to be the fastest chip within the 14th Gen stack. It will feature similar specifications as the existing Core i9-13900K but will be tuned for higher clocks and power limits, allowing for a performance boost that is well within the expected range of any refreshed chip because that's what the 14th Gen Raptor Lake Refresh family is at the end of the day.