We’ve found an RTX 4080 Super at its $1,000 MSRP, and at this price it’s probably the best way of scoring one right now-
Graphics card pricing is still a huge point of contention for many PC gamers. While we’re long past the pandemic shortages and the accompanying crypto boom that drove the prices sky-high in the first place, we’re still regularly seeing many GPUs selling for way above their MSRP, particularly the high-end Nvidia cards like the RTX 4080 and RTX 4090.
However, we’ve spotted this blazingly fast Zotac Super Trinity Black Edition RTX 4080 Super for its actual suggested retail price of $1,000 at Amazon, and given the state of the market right now that makes it a deal worth shouting about.
Yep, that’s genuinely a good price for such a powerful card as things stand, and while $1,000 is hardly what you’d call cheap you do get an extremely high-performance GPU for all that cash.&…
UK police begin first-ever investigation into sexual assault in the metaverse-
UK police are investigating the alleged sexual assault of a teenage girl in a VR metaverse, in what seems like the first criminal investigation of its kind. The chair of the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners, Donna Jones, told the BBC that the complaint was made in 2023 and the inquiry is ongoing.
The news was first reported by the Daily Mail, which says the victim is a girl under the age of 16. The girl was using a headset when she was allegedly assaulted by multiple strangers, who approached her avatar and began touching it with their own avatars. The original report does not name the platform involved as Meta’s Horizon Worlds, though it does include a statement from Meta:
“The kind of behaviour described has no place on our platform, which is why…
Wordle hint and answer #618- Monday, February 27-
Need a little help with today’s Wordle? Then you’re in the right place. We can offer you anything from general game-winning hints and tips to a daily clue, and if you’re really stuck—or would rather skip straight to the part where you win—you’ll find the answer to the February 27 (618) Wordle just below.
I had no greens at all after two guesses today… but I did have four yellows to rearrange into a winning combination, and today that turned out to be more than enough help, even so early on in the game. I’ll happily start my Wordle week like that.
Wordle hint
A Wordle hint for Monday, February 27
Today’s answer is the negative outcome of what can sometimes be a well-intentioned act—such as an amateur artist trying to resto…
Why Counter-Strike players think Valve is about to announce ‘Counter-Strike 2’-
A perennial rumour in the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive ecosystem has been the theory that the now 10-year-old FPS will be ported to Valve’s current in-house engine, Source 2. This past week, the speculation and whispers have gone into overdrive, with many convinced that a ‘new’ version of perhaps the iconic PC game is on the way.
CS:GO as it stands was made with Valve’s older Source engine. What an upgrade to Source 2 would actually look like is the subject of some debate, with some starry-eyed about the prospect of a rebuilt game that follows in the longer history of Counter-Strike being re-released in new forms, while others are more downbeat and expect any eventual Source 2 version to be ‘only’ a minor visual upgrade, possibly with the official 128-tick serve…
Wordle hint and answer #624- Sunday, March 5-
Need a hint for today’s Wordle? Then you’ve come to the right place. In fact, you’ve come to the right place no matter what your Wordle woe may be. Spend some time with our hints and tips if you’d like to hone your guesses, take a look at the March 5 (624) clue if you need a little guidance, and scroll straight down to today’s answer if you want to make sure you’ll win.
I groaned as soon as Wordle put me out of my misery because, of course, that’s what the answer was. I just managed to use up all of my guesses today on everything else instead. Oh, what I wouldn’t give for just one more go.
Wordle hint
A Wordle hint for Sunday, March 5
Any extremely harmful or poisonous substance or chemical can be referred to by today’s answer. Thi…
This fluorescent gaming PC has 69 water blocks to keep it frosty-
Here’s a water-cooled gaming PC that will make you go “Ohh, wait, what? No way!” There’s no denying that this gaming PC aglow in fluorescent UV light is absolutely gorgeous, but look closer and you’ll notice almost every component—be it RAM stick, GDDR6 chip, motherboard chipset, VRM, and more—has its very own water block.
It’s a build by Reddit user psychoOC, and it reportedly took two months of continuous work to put it all together. No doubt it’s absolutely paid off. I see a lot of fancy gaming PCs in this line of work, but this one made me stop scrolling and gawk for a while.
The rig itself is an all-AMD machine with an AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX and AMD Ryzen 7 7700X. There are four liquid-cooled RAM sticks running at 6000MT/s, and that’s all plugged into an Asu…