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Microsoft wants to put ad breaks in your games. Well, sort of. Microsoft filed a patent for a system that watches for "natural downtime" in a game. You beat a boss, finish a quest or end a round, and the game pauses to show you "promoted audio-visual content." That's an ad. It's your reward for winning. Here's where it gets worse: there's a credit system. Watching ads earns you more ad-free playtime. The patent's own wording: "the credit delays suspension of the user's interaction." So your game gets suspended, and watching a commercial holds that off. That's a parking meter for fun. To be fair, this is a patent application. Companies patent everything, most of it never ships, and nothing in it says it touches games you paid for. The likely targets are free-to-play and cloud gaming, where Microsoft has already tested ad-supported tiers. The scary part is where this is heading. TV invented the ad break. Streaming swore it would be different, and the ads came back anyway. Now the biggest company in gaming has drawn up a blueprint for them. Would you play with ad breaks if it meant free games?

Wrong answers only: what does the PSU actually do?

RTX 5070, 32GB DDR5, 1TB NVMe, 850W. Guess the price. Closest one wins bragging rights.

What are you playing this weekend?

Two truths and a lie about your setup. Replies gotta guess.

A warning for anyone selling PC parts on eBay: a buyer nearly scored a free CPU, and eBay's own system almost let it happen. A seller listed a CPU in perfect shape, photos included. The buyer opened a damage claim, but reportedly bent the pins himself first. The seller denied the refund and asked for the part back. What came back was wrecked, pins destroyed. Here's where it gets worse: eBay's automated system tried to auto-approve the refund based on tracking info alone. The seller had to hunt down a real support rep to pause it. Even with photo evidence in hand, eBay still refunded the buyer out of its own pocket. The scary part is this apparently isn't a one-off. It's a repeatable play. Fold once, and the part's gone for free. If you're selling components right now: photograph the serial number before shipping, film yourself packing the item, and always insist on a human rep, never trust the auto-refund.

Drop your build if you're brave enough 👇

What are you playing this weekend?

There's only room for one top monitor in these parts...name it👇

Bonus round: now name the part you'd upgrade FIRST if money wasn't a thing 👇

Would you rather have a PC that's dead quiet at idle or dead quiet under full load?

What are you playing this weekend?

Name your bottleneck in your PC right now. 👇

One high-end monitor or two mid-range monitors?

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If you could have any case print design on your PC what would you do??

Full RGB build or all-black stealth build. Which one are you?

What are you playing this weekend?

MMORPG just reviewed the Steamroller V3 and called it "a phenomenal piece of kit" that "should be on your shortlist" for a mid-range gaming PC. SteamOS-powered. Whisper quiet. Fully upgradeable. Full review 👉 mmorpg.com/hardware-reviews/…