A proper jewel. If you’re old enough to recall the battle between the PS1, N64 and Saturn at the close of the 1990s, then you’ll no doubt be aware that by 1997, Sega had effectively thrown in the towel in the West. Sony’s 32-bit console was dominant in pretty much every market, but in Japan,…
The first true Nvidia CPU has been benchmarked and found to beat, well, just about everything. The catch? While this is an independent test, Nvidia dictated the kinds of workloads that could be assessed. We speak, of course, of Nvidia’s Vera CPU, part of the company’s upcoming nexty-gen Vera Rubin AI platform. Vera contains a…
In 2017, a new era of Star Trek was born. More than a decade after Enterprise’s cancellation, we returned to the pre-ToS period with Discovery. We had drama, betrayals, twists and movie-quality set-piece space battles. Also mushrooms or something. Next year, a decade after it began, this era will be over. Discovery ended in 2024,…
The Rage:MP multiplayer platform for Grand Theft Auto 5 says it will begin a “structured shutdown” after receiving a cease-and-desist order from GTA publisher Take-Two Interactive. The news of the looming closure was shared by the admin team in the Rage:MP forums (via Dextero): “Rockstar Games and Take-Two Interactive have made it clear that FiveM…
Deadlock still technically isn’t out yet—which means that Valve’s gonna experiment. As was the case with last Friday’s patch, that made a sweeping list of changes to the urn, one of the objectives on the game’s map that helps encourage players to actually batch up for teamfights. Previously, the urn spawned on one side of…
Katsuhiro Harada may have departed Bandai Namco at the end of 2025—it seems, unfortunately, in favour of opening up a Saudi-funded studio of his own—but he can’t shake his 30-year history with Tekken that easily. During a visit to Atlanta for an appearance at Momocon, Harada made sure to stop by and document his visit…
While I personally find the cynicism of Cyberpunk 2077’s world wearying, I can’t deny Night City has got style. A number of nerdy clothing lines have attempted to recreate V’s iconic Samurai jacket, but the standing, light-up collar presents an obvious practical challenge to realise. One YouTuber has decided they’re up to the task. Hardware…
Employees of TSMC, the world’s biggest chip fab, are reportedly threatening to strike over what they see as an unfair share of bumper AI-fuelled profits. The news follows the ongoing dispute between Samsung and its workforce over pay. Digitimes reports that Taiwan-based TSMC was planning to actually cut employee bonuses by 15% despite “soaring” profits….
The Logitech G Pro X2 Superstrike rattled the gaming mouse market earlier this year with its haptic-inductive clicks, but it was pretty certain other companies would be looking to get in on that analogue action as soon as possible. To that end, Finalmouse has just announced the tactical FPS-oriented, 38-gram Starlight X, which also has…
Brian Blessed is a national treasure. From attempting to climb Mount Everest multiple times without oxygen, to being the oldest man to trek to the Magnetic North Pole on foot, to that episode of Have I Got News For You where he eroded Ian Hislop’s will to live, the man is a veritable force of…