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This could be the competitive panel of my dreams: the 'world's first esport OLED monitor' looks to be a 540 Hz, 24.5-inch beast

Last year at Gamescom, I got to feast my greedy little eyes on a 540 Hz monitor from Asus ROG (pictured above) and was mighty impressed. That one is a 26.5-inch 1440p/720p dual-mode deal, though, so not necessarily for esports. As I've argued before, 720p is a bit low even for esports. And 26.5 inches and 1440p is too...

2 months ago πŸ‘ 52
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Steam Week in Review: 4 Backrooms games released on Steam last week, joining a list of over 500 cash-ins, parodies and legitimate contenders

With this week's theatrical release of A24's The Backrooms adaptation, I was expecting an avalanche of new Backrooms-themed videogames to appear on Steam. Surprisingly, the number is quite modest: a mere four!Surely you've noticed that Backrooms games have been releasing at a steady clip on Steam for years now. When I...

2 months ago πŸ‘ 75
gaming Counter-Strike 2

Counter-Strike is good for personal development, but don't let me tell you, listen to this bona fide Buddhist monk with a beast RTX 4090 rig instead

I play Counter-Strike 2 most nights, and I can't say I've found anything particularly Zen about trying to clutch a 1v4 after my teammate on A-site dies to his own molotov and proceeds to shout expletives in Russian while I try to listen to enemy footsteps. But who am I to say? Not a Buddhist, that's for sureβ€”and certai...

3 months ago πŸ‘ 49
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Counter-Strike's co-creator isn't worried about low player counts: "Those people are never going to play your game."

It's difficult to avoid the ongoing discourse surrounding concurrent player numbers on Steam. Hell, we're guilty of it ourselves. It's understandable why so many people are so fixated on this metric; it's one of the only numerical ways to identify how successful a game launch has been, after all. For indie developer Mi...

3 months ago πŸ‘ 57
gaming Counter-Strike 2

Turtle Beach Stealth Pro II review

In my approximation, diminishing returns start for gaming headsets after around the $100-$150 mark. That's to say the value per dollar starts to go down the higher up you go. With budget gaming headsets only getting better, it becomes harder and harder to justify spending $300+. And with the Stealth Pro II, you can tel...

3 months ago πŸ‘ 71