Naya Create review

This is a review that should have appeared at least two months ago, as I’ve had a Naya Create ergonomic keyboard on my desk since the end of June. However, for reasons that will become clear shortly, the journey between first opening the box and the publication of this review has been faltering and difficult….

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Intel reshuffle puts engineering and ‘a new custom silicon business’ in the spotlight but also ends a 30-year career at Intel for Product CEO Michelle Johnston Holthaus

Things are, once again, all shake-up at Intel. After a new CEO, tons of layoffs, an increased focus on the Foundry side of the business, and other changes, Intel is sticking on-brand and making even more changes, this time to executive leadership. And while the biggest news for many might be that Intel Products CEO…

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‘The shining star of losers everywhere’ who inspired one of Umamusume’s most popular horse girls has passed away

It’s a sad day for horse girl enjoyers everywhere. Japaneses racehorse Haru Urara—dubbed “the shining star of losers everywhere” and whose personality and storyline was transformed into an anime horse waifu in Umamusume: Pretty Derby—has passed away at the age of 29. The news was broken by Japanese outlet Friday Digital, with a representative for…

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Nvidia’s CFO says there’s still ‘a little geopolitical situation that we need to work through’ before shipping its AI GPUs to China, but it’s ‘a $2 billion to $5 billion potential opportunity’

Nvidia’s executive vice president and chief financial officer, Collette Kress, spoke yesterday at the Goldman Sachs Communicopea event about a variety of topics, including a discussion of its recent financial results and the ongoing situation regarding its dealings with China. When asked for an update on demand for its H20 AI GPU in the country,…

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I jumped into the management god game Sintopia, only to have all my devil workers go on strike because I spent too much money on punishing sinners

Despite my love for management sims and all my best intentions when playing them, something always ends up going wrong. The real game isn’t to see how long I can keep the charade up, but how much I can manage to get done within the relatively short window of peace before everything goes to Hell….

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Final Fantasy 14 director Yoshi-P says the long-awaited job redesign will change things, but also won’t—which doesn’t clear much of anything up

Final Fantasy 14, as we’ve often observed on this very site, has a bit of a design problem when it comes to its jobs—they’re pretty stale. Tanks mostly play the same, healers get like two damage buttons, DPS all try to shove their buttons into the same two-minute window: It’s a little droll. For a…

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Loot boxes could be coming to Marvel Rivals as a dataminer finds evidence of ‘multiple references to mystery box logic’, and like always, players are divided

Word on the street is that Marvel Rivals has plans for loot boxes after a dataminer uncovered evidence of mystery box logic while trawling Season 4’s files. There’s no official confirmation yet, but the speculation is enough to divide players. “Loot boxes could be coming to Marvel Rivals at some point in the future,” RivalsInfo…

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Upcoming Silksong patch will make the early game easier and the mid-game cheaper—nerfing 2 bosses and shoring up its stingy rosary economy

Silksong’s getting its first patch next week—with a playable beta branch already available on Steam, and while there’s the usual bug-fixes, one adjustment seems super interesting: Silksong’s early game is going to get easier. Well, a little bit. As the patch notes linked above read, there’ll be a “Slight difficulty reduction in early game bosses…

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