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  1. jayres

    ARMA 3 is Free for the Weekend

    As the title says, ARMA 3 is free on steam until the end of the weekend. If you haven't played the ARMA series, I seriously suggest giving it a go, especially if first person shooters are your thing. For those who haven't heard of them before, the ARMA games bring a degree of realism and...
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    New BF4 Content all Free

    Dice have been working on night maps and a new community map. Along with a few new weapons, there is supposedly some unannounced content too. I was excited enough to play the new content. However, the best bit of all this is that Dice have announced that all this content will be free for both...
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    Zen: New AMD CPUs

    It is looking like AMD's new Zen CPU's might become viable contenders against Intel's Haswell chips. They are set to feature multithreading and instructions per clock that really do put them on the same field as Intel's best. I've also heard that these 8 core CPUs will have a 95W TDP. That...
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    Final Fantasy DirectX 12 Tech Demo

    Square Enix have released a tech demo utilising the inbound DirectX 12 and it looks incredible. Admitedly, they were running four GeForce Titan X cards. It is exciting to see Square Enix do their thing with a new Final Fantasy, ts exciting to see DirectX 12 in action and it is exciting to know...
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    Final Fantasy DirectX 12 Tech Demo

    Square Enix have released a tech demo utilising the inbound DirectX 12 and it looks incredible. Admitedly, they were running four GeForce Titan X cards. It is exciting to see Square Enix do their thing with a new Final Fantasy, ts exciting to see DirectX 12 in action and it is exciting to know...
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    Factorio

    Has anyone else played Factorio? https://www.factorio.com/ Id describe it as a hybrid between minecraft and sim city. It's definitely fun for a good 12 hours or so but expanding into end-game content seems to be a matter of time rather than skill or strategy. The mechanics are very clever...
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    Mini ITX Builds

    Has anyone built Mini ITX PC with a case that isn't approaching that of a mid tower? Im looking at the Silverstone cases for an i7, mid-range GPU build. Any ideas on how easy the assembly is and whether or not I should expect any serious overheating in such a small case?
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    Rise of the Triads

    Did anyone play Rise of the Triads way back in the day? Better still, does anyone know how I might go about obtaining and running it on a current machine? It was probably the first FPS I properly played through. I did play Wolfenstein 3D but not to the same extent.