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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:

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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…

If you can cast your mind as far back as last month, you might recall the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) suggested that if Microsoft was truly serious about acquiring Activision Blizzard, it should consider breaking up Activision Blizzard. The market regulator was particularly concerned about Call of Duty, so much so that all of the ways it proposed Microsoft could satisfy it involved breaking off COD from the rest of Activision, one way or another.

Well, clear that from your mind. The CMA now says it’s received “a significant amount of new evidence” in response to its findings last month, and has now reached a new provisional conclusion that the Activision acquisition “will not result in a substantial lessening of competition in relation to console gaming i…

The intro cutscene from Thief: The Dark Project was a wonderful mood-setter, cutting between one of Garrett’s heists and creepy supernatural imagery, heavy on eyes to suggest he’s being watched. It’s also a neat “here’s how not to play the game” warning, with Garrett killing a guard, an act that summons three more and results in him having to beat feet. Now, thanks to the original game’s cutscene director Daniel Thron we’ve got another introduction to the world of the City: a fan film called Thief – Cutscene Zero.

It’s another of Garrett’s jobs gone messy, with Thron joking on Twitter, “I guarantee you he’s loading his last save right after this”. Cutscene Zero gets the fantasy-noir vibe down pat, from the unsuspecting guard seeing his reflection as he looks out the window i…

The sky-high cost of the best OLED gaming monitors versus OLED TVs is something of a conundrum, what with 27-inch 1440p OLED monitors being priced up with 48-inch 4K OLED TVs. But here’s the thing. LCD monitors are still very good and can be had a startlingly low prices.

For proof, consider this quartet of extremely affordable gaming panels for Amazon Prime Day. Pricing kicks off at just $90 and even the most expensive option is $250. They’re all high refresh with at least 144 Hz and you get a choice of resolutions and form factors from plain old 1080p up through 34-inch ultrawide.

Arguably the best all-round deal of the bunch is the Acer Nitro XV271U. It’s a 27-inch 1440p model, which remains something of a size, resolution and pixel density sweetspot for gaming, with a 1ms…

Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer can’t be too concerned about how the Activision acquisition is going, because he’s dedicated over ten days of his life to getting every single achievement in Vampire Survivors, including the ones in its Legacy of the Moonspell DLC. Spencer ticked off the Victory Sword achievement—held by a mere 4.74% of Xbox players at time of writing—last Sunday evening, thereby ascending to the pantheon of S-Rank Vampire Survivors players and finally proving himself better than me at playing videogames. Which was probably his intention.

Assuming we can take old Phil at his word, this also means he holds the coveted EXTRA: Chaos Malachite achievement, currently held by a mere 1.87% of players and the rarest one going (so far as I can tell). I…