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How Dungeons & Dragons shaped every corner of PC gaming “I think D&D influenced everyone in the computer game business back in the ’80s and ’90s.” When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. It explains a lot about Warren Spector, the driving force behind Deus Ex, that his first dungeon master was the author Bruce Sterling. Not only was Sterling destined to become one of the fathers of cyberpunk—the science fiction genre that spliced future tech with social commentary, just as Deus Ex would—but he was a generous and accommodating DM....

If you can’t stretch to Alder Lake then one of Rocket Lake’s best CPUs is now only $230 The Core i5 11600K is $70 cheaper over on Newegg right now. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Intel’s 12th Gen arrived earlier this month, and it’s no secret that I was quite taken by one particular chip of the lot, theIntel Core i5 12600K....

Kojima says screw it and finally sets up a movie studio With the aim of “expanding the reach and awareness” of Kojima Productions' games. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Hideo Kojima and Kojima Productions has established a new business division intended to work in music, TV and film (thanks, GI.biz). The studio will be in Los Angeles and is intended to take the studio’s games (or game at this point: Death Stranding) into these fields....

Leap into high-end audio for less with the Drop + Sennheiser HD 6XX headphones on sale for $179 I love my pair of Sennheiser HD 650 headphones, and this pair from Drop are made to match. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. I recently took the plunge into high-end audio with my own headphone and Amp/DAC set-up: Sennheiser HD 650 headphones with the Schiit Magni and Modi stack....

LG TVs can now stream games through the Nvidia GeForce Now app Now you don’t even need to plug anything into the TV for cloud gaming. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. In another cool move to support cloud gaming, LG and Nvidia are bringing the Nvidia GeForce NOW service to a range of LG smart TVs. The complete list is still to be announced, but is set to include certain 2021 LG models running webOS?...

Memorialize your MIA gamer buddies in the ‘first metaverse graveyard’ Where do gamers go when they die? Perhaps to the infinite online “Gamer Graveyard.” When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Freddie Kruger taught us that if you die in your dreams, you die for real. But what if you die in the metaverse? You won’t be dead in the real world (probably), but you could end up with your name engraved on an 8-bit tombstone in theGamer Graveyard, a project that’s making the odd claim of being “the first ever graveyard in the metaverse....

My beloved Razer DeathAdder gaming mouse is only $20 right now Lightweight and precise, Amazon has this mouse at a bargain price. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. The Razer DeathAdder Essential is on-sale at Amazon in a limited-time deal for $19.99, a whopping $30 off the list price. The DeathAdder has been my gaming mouse for several years now, andtops our list of the best gaming mice, knocking the once-venerable Sidewinder off the mat....