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Samsung 990 review: a lower-spec SSD that’s weirdly great for games
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Samsung 990 review: a lower-spec SSD that’s weirdly great for games

Launching a new SSD in the current hardware climate, even a simple, DRAMless, QLC-packing SSD like the Samsung 990, may seem like starting up a roof thatching business during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius: innocuous idea, apocalyptically bad timing. Read more

Toy Defense codes (July 2026)
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Toy Defense codes (July 2026)

Redeem these new Toy Defense codes as they come and you’ll breeze through waves with a near-endless supply of free cookies and more.

Dino Hunters codes (July 2026)
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Dino Hunters codes (July 2026)

Get everything you need to make bigger and badder dinosaurs your best friends when you redeem these new Dino Hunters codes for free rewards.

Build an ASMR Tower codes (July 2026)
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Build an ASMR Tower codes (July 2026)

Get free cash to make a tower out of keycaps, microplastics, and 4oz packs of salted butter when you redeem these Build an ASMR Tower codes.

Blue Lock Skibidi codes (July 2026)
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Blue Lock Skibidi codes (July 2026)

Redeem these new Blue Lock Skibidi codes to get piles of free cash you can spend on silly skins, hilarious emotes, and bizarre boosts.

First-person explorer Sketchy Fables is a twitchy, teeming feast of hand-drawn art with acting from Hades 2's Sarah Grayson
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First-person explorer Sketchy Fables is a twitchy, teeming feast of hand-drawn art with acting from Hades 2's Sarah Grayson

Sketchy Fables is a first-person explorathon in which, if you kill things with homing butterflies, the world will grow more beautiful, whereas if you kill things with shotguns, the world will slowly succumb to "dark layers filled with loss, decay, and the end of lives". Sure beats Paragon/Renegade. In a pinch, you can also batter creatures with the stickerbook housing all the bizarre artefacts you've discovered. I'm not sure how weaponising the very inventory contributes to the landscape's tra

Valve see the great RAM shortage "getting worse," just in case you were clinging to hopes of a cheaper Steam Machine
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Valve see the great RAM shortage "getting worse," just in case you were clinging to hopes of a cheaper Steam Machine

As Oisin reported over the weekend, Steam Machine engineers Yazan Aldehayyat and Pierre-Loup Griffais gave a big Valve thumbs-down to the practice of platform exclusives – a hot topic in the context of Xbox owners Microsoft retreating back into whatever kind of shrivelled, joyless husk Xbox is nowadays. The same interview, with Bloomberg scoopsmith Jason Schreier, also touched on the acutely PC-spoiling subject of RAMnarök and its subsequent, en-masse embiggening of hardware prices.