Should You Build or Buy Your Gaming PC?

Gaming computers need to be powerful machines to handle all the latest games. This means you're looking at expensive top of the line models for your gaming computer. Alternatively, you can opt to build your own, but is it worth the hassle? In the old days, the answer was always yes, but technology has improved. PC makers often create high-quality prebuilt machines that are worth buying

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China: Making Playing Video Games Suck Since 1872

A labor camp in northeast China: break rocks and dig trenches in open coalmines by day. Slay demons, battle goblins, cast spells at night.

That's right, being a prisoner in some places in China means...being forced to play video games!

But it's not the fun and games it sounds like.

The prisoners were used to build up credits for the prison guards who would basically trade them for real money. When you can amass enough of it, this fictional gold can be worth a whole lot of real-world money to gamers who use the digital gold to progress in games. One of the former prisoners said it was an even more lucrative project than the hard manual labor they were forced to do.

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