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The Red Ring Of Death Stalked All My Friends, And Then It Came For Me
26.10.2022
Hidden from the bustle of Jamaica Avenue, down a winding flight of stairs, the shop looked like a mausoleum, with stacks of busted PS2s, OG Xboxes, and GameCubes lining the walls. That small store in the Jamaica Colosseum Mall was the same place I’d once purchased Splinter Cell on PS2, Doom 3...
Microsoft Working to Bridge Its Services With the Metaverse
26.10.2022
Microsoft, the software and computing behemoth, is seeking to adapt part of its software service stack to the metaverse. Ihsan Anabtawi, CMO of Microsoft UAE, declared that the company was working to make its cloud division compatible with metaverse experiences, and to allow companies to use...
Nvidia PC Graphics Card Cables May Be Burning, So There's An Investigation
26.10.2022
Perhaps the over-sized, power-hungry, and highly-priced 4000-series graphics cards from Nvidia are a bit too hot of a product right now. After one user posted photos of their charred 12-volt, high power (12VHPWR) connector on Reddit, Nvidia responded with an investigation into at least two cases....
A Week Later, Elden Ring Undoes 'Invincible' Combat Change That Broke The Game
25.10.2022
If you’ve come across other savvy denizens of the Lands Between lately, you’ve probably not been having a great time playing Elden Ring multiplayer. Perhaps you’ve been getting punctured repeatedly by thrust weapons. More likely than not, though, you’ve found that every single one of your attacks...
Mining Rig Manufacturer Canaan Launches 2 New ASIC Bitcoin Miners With up to 130 Terahash
24.10.2022
On Monday, bitcoin mining rig manufacturer Canaan Inc., announced the launch of the company’s latest high-performance bitcoin miners called the A13 series. Canaan has revealed two models in the A13 series, which feature “improved power efficiency over its predecessors,” and the new models produce...
Alan Wake Remastered On Switch Looks Rough
20.10.2022
Good news! The fantastic third-person shooter, Alan Wake, is out now on the Nintendo Switch. Bad news! It’s uh…a pretty rough port, with early impressions suggesting it’s buggy, looks terrible, and has some framerate issues, too. Read more
Netflix Announces Game Streaming Plans Three Weeks After Google’s Attempt Blows Up
19.10.2022
In the wake of Google Stadia’s recently announced, entirely inevitable collapse, launching a new streamed gaming service might seem a little brave. But then, if you’re Netflix, you’ve certainly at least got some of the infrastructure in place. The streaming giant has made clear its intentions...
Activision Bans Top Call of Duty Twitch Streamer From $100,000 Tourney Over Marriage Prank
18.10.2022
Activision hosted a Call of Duty tournament this weekend, and the top competitive player was noticeably absent from the lineup. In a now-deleted tweet, Doug “Censor” Martin revealed that the publisher had banned him for competing in Fortune’s Keep, citing that he had “harassed [Nadia Amine].”...
Corsair Apologizes After Rep Calls YouTuber's Review Comments 'Bullsh*t'
17.10.2022
Corsair has publicly apologised after a “member of staff” was found last week to have called sections of reviews of the latest RTX 4090 graphics card—made by both Gamers Nexus and Guru3D—”total bullshit”.Read more
Facebook's Legs Video Was A Lie
14.10.2022
Earlier this week Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took to the stage to demonstrate that, having spent billions of dollars to create a virtual reality universe (Horizon Worlds) that looked like it was from 2004, his company was working on improving that universe to make it look like it was from 2009...
I.D.E.A.S.: Investing in the Future of Digitization and Computing
13.10.2022
Steam Finally Has A Modern Phone App
13.10.2022
While the main Steam application itself has got better over the years, it’s still pretty easy to look at Valve’s approach to store and platform design, look at competitors like Google and Apple and see how everything feels a little quaint. Steam’s mobile app was one of the main offenders in this...
Valve Might Soon Start Selling Steam Deck Boot Videos
12.10.2022
Data miner and SteamDB creator Pavel Djundik has found solid evidence that Valve is planning to introduce Steam Deck startup movies, brief videos triggered by turning on your Steam Deck, to the Steam Points Shop.Read more
Google Kills Cloud Gaming Service, Announces Cloud Gaming Laptops
12.10.2022
At the end of September, Google shut down its Stadia gaming platform, an ambitious attempt at letting people play video games without needing any actual video game hardware to play them on. Today, Google announced a new line of Chromebooks with an emphasis on cloud-based gaming.Read more
Everyone Cheers As Mark Zuckerberg Reveals Feet
11.10.2022
Facebook’s virtual reality metaverse is getting a major upgrade. After a year of being floating torsos, people in Horizon Worlds are finally getting feet. The feature is set to launch sometime in 2023. Please clap. Read more
A Rare Opportunity To See The Huge Money Spent To Keep Game Pass, PS Plus Bursting With Games
11.10.2022
Video games are a nearly $200 billion industry. That’s a lot of money sloshing around an increasingly small group of notoriously secretive companies. Where does it all go? At least some of it is poured back into competing storefronts and subscription services like PlayStation Plus and Game Pass....
2K Customer Data Was Stolen, Sold Online After Support Desk Scam
11.10.2022
Back in September, 2K suffered a data breach when hackers were somehow able to gain access to the company’s support desk, and in doing so impersonate official channels in order to get hold of people’s data. At the time the company wasn’t sure what, exactly, had been stolen, but it does now.Read more
Oops: Valve Shows Switch Emulator In Steam Deck Vid, Then Deletes It
7.10.2022
There are a lot of reasons why people buy Steam Decks, Valve’s new portable gaming PC. It lets them take beloved Steam games on the go. Others use it to get the most out of Xbox Game Pass on PC. And some people use it to run a Nintendo Switch emulator called Yuzu. Valve admitted as much in a recent...
Report: Even Facebook Isn't Using Its Own Metaverse, Begs Employees To Spend Time In It
7.10.2022
According to a report by The Verge, Meta’s Horizon Worlds metaverse app is so dreadful, even the people making it don’t want to use it. So if you woke up this morning wondering, “I wonder if anyone’s figured out what the metaverse is for?” you can rest assured, it’s still nope.Read more
New Nvidia PC Graphics Cards Are Nearly As Big As A PS5 (And Power Hogs, Too)
7.10.2022
Not too long ago, I helped a family friend rebuild their computer. At the time, I thought their choice of a power supply over 1000 was silly. Well, now who looks like an idiot? (It’s okay, I’m used to it). Size and price aren’t the only supersized elements of the 4000-series GPUs. Based...