There’s a flood of cheap ex-mining GPUs, but you probably shouldn’t buy one

Miners are holding livestreamed auctions just to shift them An ongoing crash in cryptocurrency prices is causing some miners to abandon ship, selling off their racks ofgraphics cardsat discount prices in a bid to recoup some cash.Wccftechspotted that some erstwhile miners across China and South Asia, previously encouraged by low energy costs, are even hosting livestreamed auctions to get rid of their GPU ‘stock’ en masse. First off: ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha....

June 23, 2022 · 2 min · 352 words · Nicole Kennedy

This 850W ThermalTake power supply is down to £60 at AWD-IT

An awesome price for an 80+ Gold modular PSU. After a high-end PSU to accompany your new graphics card - or to get ready for the high-power next-gen GPUs rumoured to debut later this year? This is the deals post for you. British retailer and PC builder AWD-IT is offering a Thermaltake Toughpower GF 850W 80+ Gold modular power supply for £60, down from £90. To get this discounted price, use codeTT850Wat the checkout....

June 23, 2022 · 2 min · 325 words · Brandy Anderson

Wordle answer (Friday 24 June 2022): Wordle word of the day #370 and hints

Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word Below you can take a look at a few useful Wordle hints in case you need a bit of help figuring out the solution. And further below, we’ll reveal today’s Wordle answer itself, along with the word’s meaning for those who need it. Wrong day? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th Decemberinstead! Wordle June 24 hints If you feel like you need a little bit of help elucidating the Wordle answer today, then you’ve come to the right place....

June 23, 2022 · 2 min · 311 words · Kristina Crawford

World Of Warcraft: Dragonflight aiming to launch in 2022

It’s got dragons in As mentioned whenfirst revealed, Dragonflight lifts World Of Warcraft’s level cap to 70 and introduces four new zones of the Dragon Isles. It also adds the first ever race/class combo, the Dracthyr Evoker, and completely overhauls several ancient World Of Warcraf systems. That includes a new Talent system and a new profession system, including “player-driven work orders, new profession equipment”, and “an all-new specialization system.” You can read more about its additionson the World Of Warcraft blog- although as always, I recommend you wait until a game is out rather than pre-ordering it....

June 23, 2022 · 1 min · 182 words · Mark Martinez DDS

Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick is re-elected to the board for another year

Shareholders approve the proposed report into the company’s anti-harassment efforts too Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick was successfully re-elected to the board of directors for another year as a result of the company’s annual shareholder meeting yesterday. This was despite efforts by companyemployeesandshareholdersto oust Kotick, which began in November. You can read the outcomes of the meeting in fullhere. Activision Blizzardhave also said they will “carefully consider” whether to go ahead with a proposed report into their efforts to address alleged workplace harassment within the organisation after two-thirds of attending shareholders voted to approve the suggestion....

June 22, 2022 · 2 min · 286 words · Jill Hernandez

Oxenfree II is even more spooky if you're a tired millennial

Turn down that radio you crazy kids When Igot a hands off lookatOxenfree II: Lost Signals, my analysis was that it looked a lot likeOxenfreeand therefore if you liked Oxenfree you would like this. I have now played through a small bit of the game, a slightly extended version of the area I saw in the hands off preview, and my analysis is… largely the same. I know that’s very boring, but it’s also positive, isn’t it?...

June 22, 2022 · 5 min · 918 words · Joseph Smith

The Cycle Frontier weapon tier list: The best guns in the game, from early-game to late-game

The best weapons to unlock in The Cycle: Frontier Which are the best weapons in The Cycle: Frontier?It’s early days for Yager’s gorgeous and atmospheric alien world extraction shooter, and already there’s a rich arsenal of high-tech weapons to wield. You beginThe Cycle: Frontierwith just a few weapons available to purchase (though you can of course get lucky and loot better weapons from enemies), but by earning enough goodwill with the three different factions on Prospect Station, you’ll unlock ever-more exotic weapons to take into your drops....

June 22, 2022 · 7 min · 1313 words · Marie Hill

The Cycle: Frontier dead drop locations: All dead drops on both maps

Where to find every dead drop on Bright Sands and Crescent Falls Looking for a list of all dead drop locations in The Cycle: Frontier?Rather than battling it out until just one player is left standing like in traditional battle royales, inThe Cycle: Frontieryou drop in, loot, complete missions, and extract. Many of these missions involve delivering items to specific yellow crates dotted about the map, known as Dead Drop containers....

June 22, 2022 · 6 min · 1250 words · Peter Baxter

The Cycle: Frontier greets the launch of season one with a smile and a bullet today

Putting more loot into your shoot Today sees the arrival of season one of free-to-play sci-fi looter shooterThe Cycle: Frontierwith the 1.2.0 patch. The game soft-launched with apre-seasonon June 8th, so its transition into the first season seems to consist largely of the launch of its Fortuna battle pass. Here’s a trailer detailing what the pass entails, below. The Cycle: Frontier is an extraction shooter, which means running about a lot across the alien world of Fortuna III in search of loot while fragging extraterrestrials and other players alike....

June 22, 2022 · 2 min · 371 words · Jessica Miller

The Cycle: Frontier system requirements, PC performance and best settings to use

A prospector calls Now that all theunusually stressful benchmarkingis out the way, let’s talk how mineral-grubbing “quest shooter”The Cycle: Frontierperforms on PC. Short version: pretty well! It can make do with older and lower-end hardware at 1080p, and scales nicely all the way up to 4K and ultrawide resolutions, taking full advantage of thebest graphics cardsor thebest gaming monitorswith high refresh rates. If your rig is only just scraping past the system requirements, there are also some chunky performance improvements available via the right graphics settings tweaks....

June 22, 2022 · 6 min · 1142 words · Dawn Delgado

Valve update Team Fortress 2 in reaction to grassroots #saveTF2 campaign

Players are divided over the changes Team Fortress 2has been updated by Valve today in response to the player-led #saveTF2 campaign that’s seeking an answer to the classic multiplayer shooter’s bot epidemic. However, the automatically applied update is primarily intended to sort out a variety of daft-sounding exploits. These range from teleporting back to your spawn point by changing loadout or class while touching the other team’s No Entry gate, to Spies disguising themselves and creating an invisible shield at their feet to block incoming fire....

June 22, 2022 · 2 min · 283 words · Russell Sanchez

What's better: air control, or an AI-controlled friend just running about helping me fight?

A question of control as we continue the hunt for the best thing Last time, you decided thatundo is better than invert mouse. For many people, this result will turn the world on its head. And if those otherworldly beings with horrifying ideas about piloting meat puppets take this personally, maybe we can hit undo to save ourselves. This week, it’s a question of control. What’s better: air control, or an AI-controlled friend just running about helping me fight?...

June 22, 2022 · 3 min · 573 words · Christina Owen

Wordle answer (Thursday 23 June 2022): Wordle word of the day #369 and hints

Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word Below we’ll help you to find the correct Wordle answer with our usual three hints. Further below you’ll find the answer itself, and an explanation of the word’s meaning for those who want it. Wrong day? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th Decemberinstead! Wordle June 23 hints The Wordle answer today is an interesting one: let’s see if you can find the answer with the help of our handy selection of clues and hints:...

June 22, 2022 · 2 min · 303 words · Michael Hall