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Lord of the Rings Online player accurately recreates Frodo’s journey to Mount Doom in 10-hour YouTube video: ‘When I saw how perfectly the game followed Tolkien’s imagination, I decided to do it properly’

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Sean Bean once famously said that “one does not simply walk into Mordor,” and hoo boy was he ever wrong on that one. Demonstrating his utter wrongness yet again is the Emulated Vintage Gaming YouTube channel, which recently posted a 10 hour long video of a lore-accurate recreation of Frodo’s epic journey from Bag End…

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‘The return of baby driver’: The Dwarf Fortress Siege Update briefly reintroduced an old bug where dwarf babies pilot their moms like mech suits until they die of dehydration because babies don’t know what drinking is

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On Monday, Dwarf Fortress received its eagerly awaited Siege Update, which revamps Fortress mode sieges by giving invading forces all sorts of dastardly new tools and behaviors to circumvent, demolish, and overrun the player’s fortifications. Dwarves, meanwhile, received new toys to stem the tide of besieging goblins, like autocrossbow turret emplacements and metal-fortified walls. Overnight,…

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Study says only 72% of game developers reckon that Steam has a monopoly on PC games, and even with some big caveats, it makes me wonder what the other 28% are thinking

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For well over a decade, Steam has been the first port of call for anyone who wants to buy or sell a video game on PC. While there are alternatives like GOG, the Epic Store, and *snigger* The Xbox PC Games store, Steam’s enormous user-base, and, frankly, superior user experience make it the de facto…

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Japan’s biggest publishing house and one of the world’s largest manga producers takes aim at OpenAI, accusing it of ‘trampling on the dignity of artists’

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You may not know the name Shueisha off the top of your head, but you likely know the works it is responsible for. Under its Jump line of magazines, Shueisha published One Piece, Dragon Ball, Demon Slayer, and recent mega hit Chainsaw Man. This is all to say that Japan’s biggest publishing house owes its…

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Tech Upgrade and Unboxing

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Laptop – https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/legion-laptops/legion-7-series/lenovo-legion-7i-gen-10-16-inch-intel/83kycto1wwus2?orgRef=https%253A%252F%252Fwww.google.com%252F&srsltid=AfmBOoqxpCx4l08ARtMDxptyndX5wbjI1iPdLU1AbfYLAlfBFbuzYf8- Elgato Stream Deck + https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/accessories-and-software/webcams-and-video/video-capture-devices/78508950?orgRef=https%253A%252F%252Fwww.google.com%252F&srsltid=AfmBOop3lf7UNUr92t9G7bSeS0xBAqZeuyEz_S_qedFZ999mNDUun6ID Mouse https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/accessories-and-software/keyboards-and-mice/mice/gy51c96033?orgRef=https%253A%252F%252Fwww.google.com%252F&srsltid=AfmBOoqqSNitfCSgZkz_a8DgbLr9SyitTPKt3ucTHJt6qH4-SSpP4MvC

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Give it up for the MCHOSE Ace 68 Turbo, the world’s first 16 kHz keyboard and surely the last word in technological overkill

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Fans of absolutely asinine technological overkill rejoice. Your keyboard has arrived. May we present the MCHOSE Ace 68 Turbo, the world’s first keyboard with a 16 kHz polling rate. What possible benefit could this have, you ask? Well, lower latency is the obvious answer. In other words, less lag between stabbing a key and having…

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If Microsoft can’t source enough electricity to power all the AI GPUs it has, you have to wonder how Amazon is going to cope in its new $38 billion deal with OpenAI

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To keep the AI juggernaut rolling ever forward, you might think that the biggest companies in artificial intelligence desperately need ridiculous numbers of AI GPUs. According to Microsoft, though, the issue isn’t a compute or hardware limit, it’s that there’s not enough electrical power to run it all. And if that’s the case, it raises…

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