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OneXPlayer has built a reputation for making excellent handheld gaming PCs, such as the OneXFly, as well as experimenting with some odd designs that don’t quite hit the mark. This time it’s having a second bash at making an external GPU, called the OneXGPU 2, to give handhelds, tablets, and basic laptops a much-needed gaming boost.

The first iteration of the OneXGPU isn’t brilliant if I can be somewhat blunt. With a Radeon RX 7600M XT graphics processor and an M.2 2280 SSD socket, the $700 device is very pricey and tries a little too hard to be all things for all people. But even with a full-speed USB4 cable, there’s barely enough bandwidth for the GPU and SSD.

So when I read that OneXPlayer has launched a new Indiegogo project (via Videocardz) to fund the developme…

Right now it’s just a Computex tech demo, but the gaming focused Project G-Assist AI might just be the most interesting AI assistant I’ve seen yet. And I’ve seen a lot, and we’ll likely see a million more throughout the Taipei show this week and on through this ‘year of the AI PC’.

And, by the way, you can now add ‘RTX AI PC’ to the list of new ways we’re meant to be talking about our personal computers when they’ve got an Nvidia GPU inside them. Microsoft has ignored Nvidia when it’s talking Copilot+, but it’s not about to get left out of any ‘AI PC’ shizzle as the arguably the biggest hardware player in the entire field. 

I’m already rather fatigued by all this AI talk, but in a pre-show briefing it was the Project G-Assist demo that really caught my eye. If the name …

In Starfield, there’s a quest where you get to betray a major player. I’m going to keep the details vague to avoid spoilers, but in a lot of other RPGs this would be a massive story moment. If you walk down this path, you’ll never be able to interact with that faction again. You’re signing up for this life over that one.

Ultimately, bar losing access to said faction’s mission board, nothing really happens. You can still do quests for them, and only the chunk of the faction related to that questline really cares. Granted, this is borderline Bethesda tradition. In Oblivion for example you could be a master thief, head of the fighter’s guild, top of the mage’s guild, and a renowned assassin for the Dark Brotherhood, all at once.

That’s somethin…

I recently had the pleasure of playing a dash of Pyrene—and as someone with an upsetting amount of hours logged in games like Slay the Spire, I had a grand old time. Pyrene is a deckbuilding roguelike from developer team Two Tiny Dice, a studio headed up by Christophe Coyard—the mind behind the similarly-designed Escape the Fold.

Here’s the premise: your village gets attacked by monsters, and now you need to go gather materials to rebuild it. When you die, you black out and wake up back where you started—with all those handy little progression systems (like a tavern, a watchtower, and a marketplace) remaining static.

The meat and bones of Pyrene is all about movement and positioning. In “danger zones”, you can move your character’s card around with the WASD…

Good news for all the prey animals out there: Starfield’s latest dinky update will finally allow you to achieve a field of view roughly equivalent to your own. The 1.7.36 patch for Bethesda’s spacefaring RPG doesn’t make many changes—in fact, it makes barely any—but it does fulfil Bethesda’s promise of introducing a proper FOV slider to the game instead of forcing you to go rummaging around in .ini files to change the setting.

I rarely mess with FOV sliders in games, mostly because my inert and docile brain doesn’t suffer the same motion sickness that afflicts some people who find default FOVs too wide or too narrow, but I spent ten minutes noodling around with the new setting to see what was now possible. 

To my inexpert eye, it seems quite…

With millions of people around the world affected by the apparent bug in CrowdStrike’s Falcon software—bringing down IT systems in media, hospitals, and airports around the world—there’s a good chance it will go down in the annals of tech history as being the worst outage ever, putting it ahead of the likes of 2016 Dyn DDoS cyberattack, Facebook’s server woes in 2021, and Canada’s biggest IT failure ever in 2022.

While it’s not fully clear exactly how or why millions of PCs went into an endless BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) cycle overnight, the culprit appears to be a bug in a security update for a piece of software developed by CrowdStrike, called Falcon. Somewhat ironically designed to prevent malware and other cyberattacks, it’s a salient reminder that the modern worl…

As any good PC enthusiast will tell you, adding fans for optimal cooling can get pretty fiddly at times. So SilverStone has decided to do something about this with its new range of AIO coolers, that honestly look absolutely nuts.

Highlighted by PC Watch, SilverStone’s IceMyst closed-loop CPU coolers, first unveiled at Computex this year, are now on sale. Nothing special about that, you may think, but the IceMyst line has one stand-out feature. The integrated CPU plate and pump can be separated from the rest of the loop and additional fans, bought separately, can then be slotted in between.

The idea behind it is to provide additional cooling for the system RAM, motherboard VRMs, and other components. But just look at the example on the bottom right of this picture:

Igno…

Diablo 4 is almost upon us, and that means it’s time for a weird marketing campaign. Lilith & Co, named for the game’s demonic mum, is opening a chocolate shop in London where you can buy and snack on tasty treats like human skulls, femur bones and demon hearts. My belly is rumbling. Or maybe I just feel a little sick. 

This 18+ chocolate shop is apparently part anatomical museum and part art gallery, so you can feel very cultured while you stuff your face with expensive chocolate. The shop also features “large scale Diablo characters” created by Sarah Hardy, a sculptor and chocolatier from The Edible Museum. 

I have absolutely no idea what confectionery has to do with Diablo, unless there’s some deep lore that I’ve somehow missed, but trying to make sense of v…

Total War: Warhammer 3 has been in a weird place for a while, with 2023’s experimental Shadows of Change DLC being so poorly received that Creative Assembly ended up reworking the whole thing and giving out freebies in the form of new lords. Things have been steadily improving, though, and with the reveal of Thrones of Decay they’re poised to get even better—if CA sticks the landing. 

It’s hard not to be pumped after watching the Thrones of Decay trailer, which teases a helluva lot of Warhammer goodness. I confess I did shout “Yes!” when I spotted a group of dwarfs guzzling booze at a table on the thunderbarge. Flying into battle is the perfect time to get completely sauced. 

The DLC is focused on dwarfs, the Empire—about time—and Nurgle, introduc…