MSI MEG Z890 Ace review

The MEG Z890 Ace is one of MSI’s most expensive Intel LGA 1851 motherboards around. It’s not the absolute priciest, as that honour goes to the $1,000 Z890 Godlike. But while the Ace is half the cost, it still sports a very steep price tag for a mere motherboard. So what exactly are you getting…

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The ROG Xbox Ally X seems surprisingly repairable and upgradeable judging by iFixit’s teardown video, which could be good news for stick drift

The Asus ROG Xbox Ally X is a peculiar beast: long-anticipated, but trepidatiously so. It’s the best handheld gaming PC in many respects, but not really worth all that money, and while it’s lacking in some key features, it’s apparently easily upgradeable. This last point has come to light thanks to iFixit’s recent disassembly of…

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Wikipedia says it’s getting fewer ‘human pageviews’ thanks to AI and social media but it’s got a plan to deal with it

Whatever your feelings about it, we are heading into a somewhat different digital world thanks to AI. I’m ridiculously resistant to changing my habits, and even I am starting to consider keeping an AI chatbot open rather than Google for quick research. So really, it’s little surprise that Wikipedia is apparently seeing fewer human pageviews…

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Former Battlefield 6 campaign boss calls out EA for leaving him and other developers out of the credits after closing his studio in 2024

Former Bungie longtimer March Lehto, the art director on the original Halo games among others, launched a new studio at Electronic Arts in 2021 called Ridgeline Games, with the express purpose of developing a “narrative campaign” for the next Battlefield game—the recently-released Battlefield 6, as it turned out. Ah, but it didn’t work out: A…

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