How to use Discord: A beginner’s guide
Discord has grown to become the most popular communication app for gamers, allowing you to text, have voice or video calls, and even screen share while you play games. If you and […]
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How to cheat at Wordle
The now established social-media craze is Wordle, the simple word game where you have six guesses to match the game’s five-letter solution. Five green squares means you’ve succeeded, and can rack up […]
How to use the Steam Deck interface on your PC
Valve’s Steam Deck is a smash hit, thanks to a combination of great hardware and efficient software. If you don’t have one yet and you’d like to check out the latter, Valve […]
How to clean a mechanical keyboard
If you’re a full-time goblin like me and do almost everything at your computer, chances are your peripherals could use a good cleaning. Not only do I regularly eat lunch at my […]
DOS games on Steam Deck: Here’s the best way to do it
Why did I suddenly want to play the original Duke Nukem on my Steam Deck? I can’t recall the exact reason, but I do know that after a hefty dose of Googling […]
How to fix stick drift on the Steam Deck
If there are two words that strike fear into the heart of every gamer, they’re “stick drift.” This dreaded hardware failing on analog sticks has been the bane of many a controller, […]
How to benchmark your graphics card
Sure, benchmarking your graphics card may sound like rocket science, but it’s not as difficult as you might think. Roll up your sleeves, because this guide will show you just how easy, […]
6 big PC hardware myths, exposed
A dedicated sound card always “sounds” better than an integrated sound chip on the motherboard! A PC with extra RAM is always “faster” than a PC with less RAM! A long HDMI […]
PC bottlenecks: How to know if your CPU or GPU is limiting games
If your PC doesn’t deliver the desired performance in a particular game, it’s usually—but not always—due to two limiting factors. Either your processor (CPU) or your graphics card (GPU) is bottlenecking performance. […]
How to use Steam Deck as a desktop PC
Back in 2015, US company Valve had already released gaming systems with Linux. At that time, Steam OS was based on Debian and the hardware was built by companies such as Dell […]