Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? SpongeBob SquarePants! Who sits in his room and plays games on his own like a miserable git? Me. Which means I’m probably not the target market for the SpongeBob Movie Limited Edition Xbox controllers, which seem full of fun and whimsy and childhood delight. Okay, so they’re…
The motherboard is objectively the most frustratingly complicated piece of computer hardware to figure out. Show me an entire GPU generation line-up and I can figure out what I want for my budget in very little time at all. Show me two motherboards and I’ll be umming and ahing for quite some time. At least,…
According to a new report on Korean outlet Dailian, Samsung has announced early results from mass production of its next-gen 2 nm chip node. But the company is only making very modest claims versus its existing 3 nm silicon. Dailian quotes a Samsung report claiming, “the 2nm first-generation gate-all-around (GAA) process has improved performance by…
Mafia: The Old Country‘s depiction of 1900s Sicily is teeming with immersive detail and dangerous encounters. With the new Free Ride Update, the developers at Hangar 13 are giving players even more freedom to explore and survive the Valle Dorata’s criminal underworld. See all the additions included in the Free Ride Update via the trailer…
One for the pre-loaders. The full release of Kirby Air Riders is right around the corner, and to make sure that everything is in tip-top condition on launch day (tomorrow), Nintendo has released a day one patch to up the game to ver. 1.1.1. The patch actually encompasses ver. 1.1.0 and 1.1.1, the former of…
As of early November, Dragon’s Dogma 2, Capcom’s ogre-stabbing RPG, has hit a new sales milestone, with the company celebrating four million copies shifted. For a niche RPG with a hefty price tag, that’s quite the win. That puts it halfway to matching its predecessor’s lifetime sales, including the sales of its well-received expanded edition,…
If there’s one thing Disney Dreamlight Valley knows how to do well, it’s an expansion. Between A Rift in Time and The Storybook Vale, the worlds brought to life outside of your standard valley have been undeniably enchanting. But after spending time exploring Wishblossom Ranch and meeting its inhabitants, there’s an absolutely unfathomable amount of…
Believe me, I’ve tried to get into VR games. However, my introduction to this arena was PlayStation’s expensive niche-within-a-niche PS VR headsets, making for hardly the best first impression. Still, I’m hopeful the wire-free Steam Frame can rehabilitate virtual reality’s image and make VR games just a bit more accessible. Offering the Android app version…
It’s not every day that I get to review a piece of computing hardware that’s almost specifically designed for me, but that’s exactly what Thermal Grizzly’s Der8enchtable is. Well, it was actually created by Roman ‘der8auer’ Hartung, in conjunction with Jon Sandström of ElmorLabs, to make it easier for them to test motherboards, CPUs, coolers,…
The creator of Linux, Linus Torvalds, sat down for a chat at the Linux Foundation Open Source Summit in South Korea earlier this month to talk about a wide range of topics, including AI in software development, his role within the software ecosystem, and the state of Linux today. When asked whether he’d like to…