Estimates on the financial impact of yesterday’s AWS outage range from ‘hundreds of billions’ to over $75 million per hour, but one thing we can all agree on is it was pretty bad, chief

Large parts of the internet are still in a state of recovery today, after yesterday’s AWS outage took out large portions of our beloved world wide web thanks to what appears to be a relatively simple DNS error. Even Fortnite, Roblox and Reddit dealt with significant disruption, a fate worse than death for many of…

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Star Wars Outlaws Lands Another Update On Switch 2, Here Are The Patch Notes

Graphical improvements and *stability*. Star Wars Outlaws, Ubisoft’s excellent open world adventure, has received another update on the Switch 2. This isn’t a huge one, but it contains further improvements to the overall visuals, including upping the quality of the textures – yum. We’ve also got some of that all-important Stability™ alongside some more general…

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Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 lets you unlock 24 fancy outfits, so here’s my entirely objective ranking, as an expert on wearing clothes

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 will let you dress your bloodthirsty undead elder in 24 different outfits. 25, if you count their unflattering corpse pajamas (which I don’t). That’s a lot of outfits. A lot of outfits that desperately need to be ranked. I have worn clothes for more than 40 years. You could…

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Jackbox Party Pack 11 is the first to not include sequels to earlier Jackbox games, but there’s still plenty of familiar DNA in the all-new offerings

Jackbox Games is poised to deliver its 11th Jackbox Party Pack this week, so how are they keeping things fresh after all these years? Well, by literally keeping things fresh: every one of the five games in Jackbox Party Pack 11 is an original. There are no sequels to fan favorites like Drawful or Quiplash…

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Mushihimesama, Dodonpachi Resurrection, & Espgaluda 2 Just Got An Unexpected Update On Nintendo Switch

All three title were delisted last year. Live Wire, the company behind the Nintendo Switch reissue of several classic Cave shoot ’em ups, has released a series of unexpected updates earlier today, introducing online leaderboards to four of its previously released titles. As spotted by Gosokkyu, the list of titles to receive a surprising update…

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AMD’s dual V-Cache uber CPU gets a (rumoured) name and a high-clocked single-die cousin: Give it up for the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 and Ryzen 7 9850X3D

That AMD is planning a dual-die Ryzen CPU with added 3D V-Cache goodness on not just one but both CPU core tiles has been rumoured for some time. But now we have apparent further details of the chip, including naming and claimed clockspeeds. Oh, and there’s an updated and higher-clocked single-die V-Cache Ryzen chip, too,…

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MSI MAG Z890 Tomahawk WiFi review

The MSI MAG Z890 Tomahawk WiFi has been on the market for 12 months, as it was one of the first motherboards to be released alongside Intel’s Core Ultra 200S range of desktop CPUs, aka Arrow Lake, in October 2024. At the time, there were few other models to choose from, but that’s considerably changed…

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Congratulations to Victoria 3 players on causing 860,000,000,000,000,000 deaths by famine in a single year, enough to depopulate Earth 107,000,000 times

Every great leader knows it: you can’t make an omelette without breaking some eggs. Sometimes you have to do bad things in order to achieve good things. Sometimes you have to spill a little blood. Sometimes you have to, let’s see here, kill 806 quadrillion people via famine in the space of a single year….

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