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The steam train world speed record has stood for 87 years: yes, you can beat it in the new Thomas the Tank Engine game
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The steam train world speed record has stood for 87 years: yes, you can beat it in the new Thomas the Tank Engine game

He's a really useful engine. So sayeth the sacred texts surrounding star of at least one million mods Thomas the Tank Engine. He's also a really fast engine. Or, at least one of his mates is. So demonstrateth the social media clips I've been watching of folks going as fast as possible in Thomas & Friends: Wonders of Sodor. One of them's confirmed that it's possible to beat the real life world speed record for steam trains - which has stood since 1938 - in the freshly released train game. Read

Our favourite, huge power bank for the Steam Deck is down to ÂŁ52/$80 from Amazon
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Our favourite, huge power bank for the Steam Deck is down to ÂŁ52/$80 from Amazon

The Ugreen Nexode Retractable is our most favouritest Steam Deck power bank, as James decreed with his testing, and by spending his hard-earned money on it – and if it's good enough to earn a top recommendation here, then it's worth you giving it a look over. £52 is a good price for this unit from Amazon, and a price it strangely wasn't during Amazon's Spring Sale last week. In the USA, it's $80 - a 20% reduction on its $100 MSRP. It has sat at this price for the last couple of week

Who'd have thought - Amazon Resale is the place to get an Nvidia GPU for a somewhat reasonable price
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Who'd have thought - Amazon Resale is the place to get an Nvidia GPU for a somewhat reasonable price

Amazon Resale (formerly the Amazon Warehouse) can occasionally throw up a decent deal on computing hardware, just as long as you don't mind a damaged box or perhaps a missing manual. In this instance, it's allowing for this MSI RTX 5070 Ventus 3X graphics card to drop down to below its MSRP - an actual discount down to £449 for a 'Used - Like New' card - something that seems very rare, given the current RAM crisis and such. Read more

"Departures are necessary," Crystal Dynamics say as they yet again lay off Tomb Raider staff, but they're "fully committed" to the reboot and sequel
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"Departures are necessary," Crystal Dynamics say as they yet again lay off Tomb Raider staff, but they're "fully committed" to the reboot and sequel

Tomb Raider developers Crystal Dynamics have announced their fourth round of layoffs in 12 months. A total of 20 staff across development and central operations roles have been let go this time, with Crystal Dynamics emphasising they're still "fully committed" to Tomb Raider: Catalyst and Tomb Raider: Legacy Of Atlantis. In March last year, 17 Crystal Dynamics staffers were given their marching orders, with an unspecified number of others being let go in August, and "just under 30" following in

Opera GX is now available for Linux
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Opera GX is now available for Linux

The "gaming browser" Opera GX is now available for Linux, although I'm still not sure why you would want to actually use it.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

Valve say Counter-Strike 2's reloading needed "higher stakes", so you now dump all the ammo left in a clip when you reload early
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Valve say Counter-Strike 2's reloading needed "higher stakes", so you now dump all the ammo left in a clip when you reload early

Bang. 29 bullets left. Bang, bang, bang, rattatata. 14 bullets left. I'd better reload, in case someone comes around that corner and I need a full clip on hand to empty into then. NO. THINK ABOUT THE BULLETS YOU'RE USING, Valve yell from their giant Steam-powered tower looming high above the battlefield. I look at my magazine and notice that following the latest Counter-Strike 2 update, it now bears a post-it note saying that if I reload early, the leftover ammo will be lost to the mists of tim