Nvidia will announce an x86 CPU in collaboration with Intel at its GTC event, according to one report, though Intel itself shoots down the whole idea

In September of last year, we were all rather surprised by the announcement that Nvidia and Intel had teamed up to produce custom x86 processors for data centers and x86-RTX SoCs (system on chips) for personal computers. Even though the first hints of a name for one of these products, Serpent Lake, popped up soon…

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Minecraft Live will return on March 21 and promises ‘behind-the-scenes secrets, awesome guests, and more exciting stuff to come’ over the next year

Minecraft has announced that its bi-annual showcase, Minecraft Live, will be taking place on Saturday, March 21, and from the trailer it looks like an event worth getting excited about. Although nothing new has been teased or revealed within the announcement, we can expect the “scoop on game drops” which is particularly exciting. Even more…

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Just like XCOM, superhero comedy Dispatch cheats random percentages of success in the player’s favor: ‘anything that had over a 76% success chance would automatically succeed’

When Firaxis’s XCOM remake came out a constant complaint in the comments was that its random number generator was clearly cheating against players. Someone would miss a 95% chance, or God forbid a couple of them, and confidently declare that Jake Solomon was personally tweaking the probability to fuck with them.Of course, that wasn’t the…

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