PC Gaming
After buying a fancy new $2,000 RTX 5090 card, some VR users are discovering their Varjo Aero headsets are not working with their rig. The answer, for now, seems to be plugging the headset in via a Thunderbolt cable, setting the Varjo Base (Varjo’s software) to ‘Very Low’, or waiting for drivers—but none of these…
If you think that workers heavily reliant on generative AI may be less prepared to tackle questions that can’t be succinctly answered by the machine, you may just be right. A recent paper from Microsoft and Carnegie researchers attempted to study generative AI’s effects on “cognitive effort” from workers in a recent self-reported study. In…
Final Fantasy 14’s next big patch, 7.2, had both its release date trailer reveal and live letter broadcast today—and it’s looking like the most jam-packed update we’ve had in a while. Here’s a quick shortlist of what’ll be bundled into the patch, and when: March 25 (7.2): New main story quests, including a new dungeon…
If you thought the Raspberry Pi’s chip was dinky, well, get a load of the nattily named Texas Instruments MSPM0C1104, said to the world’s smallest microcontroller or MCU and measuring a mere 1.38 mm². If you look carefully at the image above, you can just make out the eight ball-grid connectors on the tiny 1.38…
The over-ear headset rules the roost for gaming at a desk but peel yourself away for a moment to touch grass or, more likely, play Steam Deck in bed, and a set of earbuds comes into their own. I’m being pulled away from wearing chunkier headphones in favour of slim in-ear designs these days, and…
A major drawback for online gaming on an Arm-based machine has been the lack of Easy Anti-Cheat support, which is necessary to play Fortnite and many other online-based games. Not for much longer, it seems, as Epic Games has just announced it’s adding Windows on Snapdragon support to Easy Anti-Cheat later this year. That’s good…
The latest Silent Hill transmission was a doozie. Konami’s producer, Motoi Okamoto, renowned horror writer Ryukishi07, and veteran composer Akira Yamaoka all joined in on the stream to reveal more about the upcoming Silent Hill f. We haven’t heard much about it for a long while, which Okamoto admits: “We’ve been keeping fans waiting for…
If I had all the money in the world, I think I’d retire to a shed somewhere in the countryside and spend the rest of my life making bizarre projects. I’d have to work damn hard to come up with anything odder than this pasta display, however, nor would I possess the will to keep…
I want to open this article like a responsible adult and say that, generally-speaking, you shouldn’t be trying to exploit, break, or hack an online videogame. I mean, you’re (probably) an adult, you can make your own choices—it’s just inadvisable, unless you want to get banned. In some cases you might even be staring down…
Intel’s numerous woes in the last, well, decade or so are thoroughly documented. So, it’s nice to be able to report some good vibes. Its share price leapt nearly 15% yesterday, primarily in response to the appointment of new CEO Lip-Bu Tan. Meanwhile, an engineering manager at Intel posted some celebratory images from the company’s…