2024

A private equity company behind the Six Nations Rugby tournament is on the verge of buying RuneScape developer Jagex for a cool £900 million, according to a report by Sky News. CVC Capital Partners is a Luxembourg-based “private equity platform” that “manages €118 billion of assets”. Its investment portfolio includes the Six Nations Rugby Tournament,…

When you picture Nvidia and AI together, how often do you include Iceland and web browsers in the same image? If you’re like me, then probably never, but there’s a first time for everything and that’s what Opera has announced today: It’s very own Nvidia DGX SuperPOD cluster, based entirely in Iceland, for handling requests…

Palworld players are working smarter, not harder by letting gravity do the work of killing bosses for them. Specifically, they’re constructing enormous stairways into the sky, luring bosses up, then deleting them, leaving poor foes to plummet helplessly to a sticky end on the ground below. It’s a bit like the bowl of petunias from…

In 2009, Infinity Ward heads Jason West and Vince Zampella were abruptly fired by the company’s owner Activision. West and Zampella had directed the original Call of Duty, and brought the series to superstardom through Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Their sacking just before the release of Modern Warfare 2 shocked the industry, and…

Sapphire Pulse RX 7900 XT | 20GB | 5,376 shaders | 2,450MHz boost  | $899 $699 at Newegg (save $200) At fully $200 below its original launch price just over a year ago, the 7900 XT now looks like a very decent deal. For pure raster performance, it has the edge on the more expensive…