Fortnite fans say Epic is ‘throwing stuff at the wall’ with baffling updates as Battle Royale concurrents dip—and there’s some truth to it

Epic Games upended Fortnite’s Battle Royale meta this season when, without warning, they brought back two fan-favorite assault rifles and a powerful shotgun from previous seasons. Fans were stumped: none of them fit the season’s bug-infested theme. One of the rifles instantly became—in my opinion—the best weapon in the game, with the other close behind….

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang confirms the upcoming N1 APU that’s heading for the PC is indeed the same as the GB10 ‘Superchip’ in the DGX Spark AI box

Among other tidbits that emerged from the recent Intel-Nvidia love in is confirmation of what we’d long suspected, namely that the upcoming Nvidia N1 Arm chip for PCs is indeed the very same as GB10, the “Superchip” at the heart of the DGX Spark AI box. “We also have a new Arm product that’s called…

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Gaming on 8-bit Atari – by Bill Lange

From its debut in 1979, the Atari 8-bit computer family set a new standard for home computing by combining cutting-edge graphics, rich sound capabilities, and a design philosophy rooted in arcade gaming expertise. Powered by a trio of custom chips – ANTIC, GTIA, and POKEY – these machines delivered features like hardware sprites, smooth multi-directional…

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