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Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus review: another skippable CPU series
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Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus review: another skippable CPU series

Regardless of whether Intel would say it out loud, the Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and Core Ultra 5 250K Plus both represent an attempt to right the wrongs of the original Arrow Lake/Core Ultra 200S family. That bundle of chips was, necessarily, more power-efficient and cooler-running than the hotheaded 14th Gen models before them, though this came at the cost of hamstrung gaming performance. Rarely a desirable quality in a gaming CPU, that. These two Core Ultra 200S Plus (or Arrow Lake Refresh) pr

Nothing 4a Pro im Test: So ein Handy habe ich schon viele Jahre nicht mehr gesehen
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Nothing 4a Pro im Test: So ein Handy habe ich schon viele Jahre nicht mehr gesehen

Nothings günstige Mittelklasse hatten wir uns im letzten Video bereits angeschaut. Jetzt soll es um das etwas teurere Nothing Phone 4a Pro gehen, das einiges anders macht. Das Pro-Modell unterscheidet sich in diesem Jahr deutlich vom Schwestermodell, alleine das Design ist völlig anders. Statt transparenter Rückseite setzt der Hersteller auf Aluminium – das habe ich so schon viele Jahre nicht mehr gesehen. Daneben kommt die vom Nothing Phone 3 bekannte Glyph Matrix zum

Minecraft Dungeons 2 will dungeon-crawl through the blockworld yet again when it launches later this year
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Minecraft Dungeons 2 will dungeon-crawl through the blockworld yet again when it launches later this year

Diablo-ish Minecraft spin-off Minecraft Dungeons has a sequel, and said sequel's coming out at some point in 2026. What's it about? Well, Mojang say, "all was well until it wasn't". Wait, lads, that's pretty much the setup for every sequel and arguably story humanity's ever produced. Aye, Mojang say, but the mild-mannered villagers are on fire, so you'd better get your diamond sword polished. Read more

This week in PC games: a new Hooded Horse city-builder, some PS2-style horror, a school-day RPG and an absolutely tremendous catfish
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This week in PC games: a new Hooded Horse city-builder, some PS2-style horror, a school-day RPG and an absolutely tremendous catfish

Urgh! What's happening? The air feels dreadfully recycled all of a sudden. Food dissatisfies, music grates, punchlines flop like stunned seagulls - everything seems somehow overfamiliar. We have entered a Lull. There are few Big Games out this week - little in the way of Big Sequels or New IPs From Triple-A Veterans or other projects that make you say "oh! That one" - and the Maw is making up the shortfall by siphoning novelty from the building blocks of reality itself. To the pumps, colleagues