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Amazon is currently offering LG 27GP850-B UltraGear gaming monitor for $199.99, a 47% discount from its original price of $379.99.
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Amazon is currently offering LG 27GP850-B UltraGear gaming monitor for $199.99, a 47% discount from its original price of $379.99.
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Tracking down an RTX 5090 has become an exercise in patience, luck, and frustration. With standalone cards constantly out of stock, prebuilt systems are quickly becoming the most reliable way to secure Nvidia’s flagship GPU.
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Capcom fans, it's time to open your wallets and embrace greatness. Friendly PSA here: Fanatical just dropped a "Build Your Own Capcom Bundle" as part of BundleFest 2025, and it's exactly what your Steam library needs.
Sometimes you read a piece of criticism and its author immediately becomes one of your guys. That never happened for me with music critic Neil Kulkarni, though I must have read his work given the music magazines he wrote for. That changed a couple of weeks ago when I went to Kieron's (RPS in peace) newsletter in search of his piece in rememberance of J Nash (included in a prior Papers), in which he linked to his similar piece on Kulkarni, who passed last year. I read the examples of Kulkarni's work that Kieron linked, and then the Kulkarni articles the man himself linked, and several hours and several layers deep, I thought: oh no, Neil Kulkarni was one of my guys>.
Merry weekend, everyone. It's been a busy time, hasn't it. Lots of kingdoms coming. The Middle Ages haven't been so packed since, well. I don't even need to say it, do I? Whether you're playing that or something else, let us know what you're getting up to this weekend in the comments below. Here's what we're all hoping to click on this weekend!
Path tracing has been back on the PC hardware agenda recently, with Nvidia’s sales pitch for the GeForce RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 more than lightly based on how good they are at shotgunning this premium graphics tech down your eye stalks. Yet beyond the sparkling glamour of marketing slides, however, path tracing remains exceptionally niche: nearly six years since Quake II RTX served as the tech’s de facto gaming debut, you can still count the number of compatible games on your fingers. Compare and contrast with the dozens upon dozens of games that have embraced ray tracing, path tracing’s less demanding nephew, and you’ll likely start wondering why more game devs don’t go for it.
We’re not here to answer that, though. This is Should You Bother With, here to investigate whether you> should start using path traced effects to give your games – some of them, anyway – the full maxed-out-visuals treatment. Even if it takes a graphics card upgrade to do so.
The Nvidia RTX 5080 is out! Kind of. In theory. If you can find one. But here’s the thing: it's basically just an expensive RTX 4080 Super in disguise (in my opinion). Performance is near-identical, stock is non-existent, and unless you’re willing to shell out over $2,500 for a prebuilt system, good luck getting one.
Running out of space on your Steam Deck or ROG Ally X again? Sitting there, deleting games like it's some emotional farewell? Stop that. Your least favorite RPS writer found a ridiculous Amazon deal on our favorite microSD card for Steam Deck, the Samsung Pro Plus.
Oh no, it's a pre-order article for Civ VII, get down! Well, it's also just a friendly PSA, in case you're looking for the best deal right now. The game is launching on February 11, and if you've been waiting to carve your place in history again, we've found a solid discount going right now for PC gamers.
Hark, or whatever that is in Czech. Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 has earned Playable status on the Steam Deck, and it’s a shrewd assessment on Valve’s part: there are some shortcomings that keep the coveted Verified badge out of Deliverance 2’s reach, most notably its cramped UI, but I’ve been bumbling around the medieval RPG for hours now and it is indeed plenty functional in handheld mode. Despite its system requirements arguably suggesting otherwise, it can even manage some decent 40fps-plus performance without dumping all the quality settings to their lowest.