Half-Life: Alyx needs to be played. Ignoring all the amazing set pieces and revolutionary visual flourishes, if you’re a long-time devout of Valve’s FPS series, there are some vital story moments in the VR shooter that completely change how you look at Half-Life 2 and the episodes. There are ways to play Alyx without an expensive headset (more on that later) and now, as rumors abound that Half-Life 3 might actually, really, truly be in development, the 2020 sequel is available at a historically low price. Maybe it's a coincidence. Maybe it’s not. But just to be on the safe side, this is probably a good time to give Alyx a whirl. Continue reading As Half-Life 3 rumors swirl, Valve sets Alyx to historically low price MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Half-Life 3: the entire story, Who should make Half-Life 3?, Half-Life 3 is now Project Borealis

AMD could be about to make gamers on ultra-tight budgets very happy, if rumors are to be believed, as there's a suggestion that two new entry-level graphics cards could be arriving soon. The new GPU leak hints that we could see AMD Radeon RX 7400 and RX 7300 cards added to the company's lineup, slotting in below the $259 RX 7600. The RX 7600 is already at the top of our best graphics card charts when it comes to choosing a budget GPU, but these two new AMD entrants could become even more tempting choices if they're considerably cheaper and not too much slower. Continue reading AMD is working on two new budget Radeon gaming GPUs, according to leak MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Ryzen 7 7800X3D review, Best gaming CPU, Radeon RX 7800 XT review

Students Sue AOC, Other 'Squad' Members Over Their Support for Violent Pro-Hamas Columbia U Protests

Image: MacRumors (YouTube) Not a day goes by without me getting frustrated at the state of the mobile web. I rarely use my iPhone to read news articles now because every time I do there’s a cookie prompt obstructing what I want to read, or so many ads on a page that I can’t even see the text anymore. Apple is clearly just as frustrated as I am, so it’s added a Thanos snap animation to iOS 18 that wipes out annoying parts of websites. The new “Distraction Control” feature showed up in Safari earlier this week in the fifth beta of iOS 18 and iPadOS18. It’s designed to let you temporarily remove annoying and distracting elements from a mobile website, including cookie prompts, ads, those infuriating autoplay videos that follow you around while you scroll a site, and... Continue reading…

A new study of sapphires found in volcanic fields in Germany reveals that these beautiful blue stones form where magma and rocks from Earth's crust mix.

Congenital syphilis is preventable, but nonetheless, the disease is on the rise in countries like Australia and the U.S.

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Good Tuesday morning. Here is what’s on 46 agenda today: 2:15pm: The President receives the President’s Daily Brief News roundup:Hospitality workers’ union endorses Harris, dismissing Trump’s…

On the 700th anniversary of Marco Polo’s death, Prime Minister Meloni journeyed to Beijing to reconfigure Italy’s relationship with the Middle Kingdom — a diplomatic pivot designed to tame the Communist…

The global financial markets experienced a significant shock on August 5, 2024, as fears of a potential US recession triggered a widespread sell-off across various asset classes. This article explores…