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The Pixel Buds Pro’s head-tracked spatial audio is a wonderful, useless tech
Valorant agent Harbor’s toolkit is useless in its current form
As a sworn controller main, I was stoked when Riot dropped a water bender who spoke my language. I was all in, rooting for this guy to dominate, but after forcing him on my teammates for five months during my FPS game adventures, I had to wave the white flag. It’s a shame to say it, but Harbor has got to be the biggest flop in Valorant controller history.
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Genshin Impact sales prove Deyha reigns despite being useless
The Genshin Impact day one sales estimates for Dehya are showing that players couldn’t care less about the meta. If you’ve spent any amount of time in or around the anime game‘s community recently, you know that Dehya borders on uselessness gameplay-wise. But she’s one of the most likeable – and well-designed – characters in the entire nation of Sumeru, which seems to be far more important.
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Steam guides are a useless mess of jokes, say PC gaming fans
Getting stuck in games is no fun, and Steam guides have long been a handy tool for everything from bug workarounds to collectible hunting. While we’d of course encourage you to come to PCGamesN for everything from Fortnite Kamehameha locations to Minecraft enchantments, the user-created guides integrated into the Steam Community page are a quickly accessible tool that can often prove very helpful in a pinch. However, many users say that the feature is now plagued with joke entries and people attempting to farm awards for Steam Points.
Steam Points can be earned by purchasing games, add-ons, and other related content through the Steam store. You can use them to buy various items in the Steam Points shop – these are mostly cosmetics that can be used to customise your Steam profile page and avatar, as well as chat effects and emoticons that you can use while talking to other users on Steam. Steam Points can be given to other players as ‘awards’ – this is typically done as thanks for a helpful guide or review.
Steam Points are also often handed out for funny content. As such, users say that the Steam guides section is now full to bursting with a plethora of joke guides hoping to nab some Steam Points awards from other players. From Counter-Strike: GO guides mocking Valve’s anti-cheat service entitled ‘How does VAC work’ (the body text reading ‘it doesn’t’) to numerous ‘How to jump/walk/shoot’ entries that simply list the appropriate button to press, often in a slightly over-elaborate manner, the Steam guides section is now a swamp of entries that aren’t actually useful, even when they are amusing.
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