Is the worm finally turning for the poor beleaguered PC gamer, pummelled by painful component pricing? Yesterday, we covered a report claiming that spending cuts at OpenAI had “hit” memory chip prices. Now market analyst Trendforce says that retail DDR5 kit pricing is falling “sharply” in the US, Europe and China. “Recent sharp price corrections…
One of the most popular JavaScript libraries, Axios, was recently the victim of an attack that had fake, malicious versions available to roll out to developers. These malicious versions install a remote access trojan (RAT), which is, as the name implies, a kind of malware that allows an attacker to access compromised devices from a…
“I wanted to see what it would be like”. Shigeru Miyamoto and Illumination’s Chris Meledandri are out promoting the new Super Mario Galaxy Movie, and in an interview with Forbes the Star Fox creator has discussed how Fox McCloud ended up in the movie, despite Nintendo’s general reticence to mixing its IPs. Miyamoto told Forbes…
As the ongoing memory crisis continues to make DRAM unaffordable for the majority of us, I’d imagine many are choosing to hold onto what they’ve got. But can you run a PC with no system memory at all? That’s the question that YouTube channel PortalRunner has been investigating, and the answer is… No, not really….
Assessor Matrix is a new material added in Arc Raiders‘ Flashpoint update, and they’re painfully hard to get. If you thought finding some Vaporizer Regulators was bad, buckle up, buddy. But you’ll still have to get them, since the High-Gain Antenna project demands you find 24 of the suckers. That’s a lot, by the way….
Modern software and technologies are often so complex that it’s inevitable there will be some glitches or odd behaviours to begin with. In the case of Nvidia’s new Dynamic Multi Frame Generation, which all RTX 50-series owners can now use, there is definitely one problem that needs to be addressed. To get a complete handle…
Fragmented Logs is one of the most annoying quests in Arc Raiders, mainly because you’re sent through some of Stella Montis’ biggest deathtraps. It’s not helped by the fact that the map is a maze. On the bright side, you don’t need to complete it in a single run, so don’t worry too much if…
Disney Dreamlight Valley is rolling out its Whispers of the Wind update on April 8, adding Pocahontas and a bunch of new friendship quests to work your way through. If you want to make your way through these quests as quickly as possible and invite Pocahontas to your valley, then a little preparation goes a…
…and YouTube channels, and podcasts, and physical magazines… I’m sure it hasn’t escaped your attention that the internet is in a pretty grim spot at present. Media sites are either getting gobbled up by massive conglomerates or closed down (or both), GenAI is filling the web with clanker-made slop, and social media is literally addicting…
The company behind the popular Geekbench software tool has taken another pot shot at Intel’s BOT software. Primate Labs says that Intel BOT “only supports a handful of applications, meaning BOT-optimized benchmark results paint an unrealistic picture of how a CPU performs in practice. This makes Intel processors appear faster relative to AMD and other…