Nvidia GPU partners reportedly cheap out on thermal paste, causing 100C hotspot temperatures — cheap paste allegedly degrades in a few months (www.tomshardware.com)
Stardew Valley creator swears 'on the honor of my family name' that he'll never charge money for DLC (www.pcgamer.com)
Warframe Players Have Baldur’s Gate 3 To Thank For New Romance System (kotaku.com)
Nvidia could lose up to $12 billion in revenue if US bans new China-oriented GPU — analysts believe the H20 will get the banhammer soon (www.tomshardware.com)
It's official: International Olympic Committee votes to confirm the first Olympic Esports Games will happen in 2025, even if they don't know the games yet (www.pcgamer.com)
Unreal Engine supervisor at ModelFarm blasts 50% failure rate with Intel chips — company switching to AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X, praises single-threaded performance (www.tomshardware.com)
Valve gives developers some big reasons to add a demo on Steam (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Asus’ new ROG Ally software is broken. The brand new ACSE 1.5 software is entering a never ending install loop, but thankfully some ROG Ally owners have figured out a fix [also here in comments] (www.pcgamesn.com)
Find the Armoury Crate SE shortcut on the Windows desktop...
Another Game Just Got Review-Bombed Into Dropping Controversial Login Requirement [ EDF 6 and requirement to Epic's login on Steam] (kotaku.com)
Fallout: London is out (www.gog.com)
Stormgate developers say they want to lower the RTS skill floor, not the skill ceiling: 'It's okay to be a high-skill game' (www.pcgamer.com)
Indie publisher Humble Games has reportedly been closed [from IGN, as company that lay them off] (www.videogameschronicle.com)
Capcom Says Mega Man is “Highly Valued” and is Considering How to “Create Games for it on an Ongoing Basis” (noisypixel.net)
There is no fix for Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs — any damage is permanent (www.theverge.com)
Microsoft’s ‘World of Warcraft’ Gaming Staff Votes to Unionize (www.bloomberg.com)
Asus ROG Ally X Review - IGN [9/10] (www.ign.com)
PowerWash Simulator keeps on giving, with two nautical maps chosen by the community coming to the people's champ in a free update (www.pcgamer.com)
Activision secretly experimented on 50% of Call of Duty players by 'decreasing' skill-based matchmaking, and determined players like SBMM even if they don't know it (www.pcgamer.com)
Concord’s second free weekend on PS5 defies logic with 8% player drop [premise of what's coming to PC] (www.truetrophies.com)
Ubisoft's live-service pirate sim Skull and Bones pulls into port on Steam this August (www.pcgamer.com)
[optimum] Razer's new keyboard is basically cheating. (youtu.be)
Actors' union 'not happy' about GTA 6 strike exemption, but confirms it's in the contract: 'Insane, but it's there' (www.pcgamer.com)
FlatOut - Steam Deck ✅, Workshop 🔧 and more! (store.steampowered.com)
World of Goo 2 - Official Trailer 2 (yt.artemislena.eu)
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