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League of Legends' Vanguard anti-cheat finally gets the option to only run when you fire up a game, as Riot roll out "on-demand sessions" for "sufficiently secured" PCs
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League of Legends' Vanguard anti-cheat finally gets the option to only run when you fire up a game, as Riot roll out "on-demand sessions" for "sufficiently secured" PCs

League of Legends and Valorant developers Riot Games have added an optional "on demand" mode to their Vanguard anti-cheat software. With this new mode enabled, Vanguard will only run when you fire up a game it needs to be active for, duly shutting down once you exit said game. Up until now, the only option has been the default one: having Vanguard start up the moment you turn your PC on, then run in the background until you shut down. Read more

Save the hassle of building a PC with these six anti Prime Day prebuilt PC deals I've spotted
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Save the hassle of building a PC with these six anti Prime Day prebuilt PC deals I've spotted

I swear to God it's too warm to do anything in the UK this week. I am barely coping in the heat if it wasn't for the array of small Ohyama Woozoo fans I have, plus an array of Meaco air circulators and more besides. Of course this week is the week that all the deals are happening - that's just the way of the world it seems - and none of us can catch a naffing break. Godspeed to anyone outside doing real work in this UK heat - can we make air con mandatory in new homes, please? Being too hot to

Firefly Studios released a demo for Stronghold 4
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Firefly Studios released a demo for Stronghold 4

Firefly Studios continue working on their next-generation castle defence RTS - Stronghold 4, with a first demo now available to try it early.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

Halo: Campaign Evolved system requirements revealed
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Halo: Campaign Evolved system requirements revealed

If you're hoping to play the new Halo: Campaign Evolved that launches July 28th, Xbox Game Studios recently put up the system requirements.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

Folk Emerging is a 4X strategy sim entirely set inside the first few turns of a Civilization game, and I think it has huge potential
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Folk Emerging is a 4X strategy sim entirely set inside the first few turns of a Civilization game, and I think it has huge potential

As the permafrost disappeared from the fjords of Edwinland – gosh, I'd absolutely kill to be living through a miniature Ice Age right now – Norel, shaman of the Moon tribe, gathered his people to make a fateful proclamation. The tribe had prospered during the colder years, fishing and hunting boar as they traversed the steppes, but that prosperity had its drawbacks: our population had swelled past 40. We had far too many quarrelsome youths, bumping elbows around the campfires. What