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The man who put Doom in a Lego brick is now playing it on a volumetric voxel display
In 2022, I introduced you to James Brown, the Weta Workshop graphics engineer whose hobby is building amazing displays. Now, he’s built a crystal ball filled with shimmering, spinning volumetric light — and of course he’s playing Doom on it. But not just any Doom. Voxel Doom, where every dot of the game’s graphics lives in 3D space, just like…
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If you’re playing PC games and not using supersampling, you’re gaming wrong
When we review the best gaming laptops here at Tom’s Guide, our testing guru Matthew Murray runs frame rate benchmarks at both a laptop’s native screen resolution and 1080p (1920 x 1080). It’s a key process in detecting the raw processing power of a portable PC’s GPU, and these figures absolutely do matter. Yet if you own either an Nvidia…
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How to Hide the Games You’re Playing on Steam
Key Takeaways To hide the game you’re playing on Steam, go to Profile > Edit Profile > Privacy Settings, and set your Game details to “Private.” To hide your activity on Steam Chat, click “Friends” and set your status to “Offline” or “Invisible.” To hide games from your Steam library, right-click the game, then select Manage > Mark as Private.…
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