Marvel Rivals’ latest balance update continues to fan the flames of a broken meta: ‘Today’s patch notes have made me lose all hope’

NetEase finally spilt the beans on Marvel Rivals‘ Season 6.5 update yesterday, ahead of its launch on Friday, 13 February, giving us our first look at Elsa Bloodstone and all the balance changes. Of course, this was conveniently timed right as its competitor, Overwatch, launched its massive yearly refresh, which caused the game to break…

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‘I told you so!’: As Mewgenics roars past 250,000 copies sold in less than a day, Edmund McMillen says ‘I knew this game would eventually see the light of day, and I knew it would be my best work’

The path to Mewgenics was a long one. It was revealed in 2012—yes, that’s 14 years ago—and then delayed, and then cancelled outright. In 2018 Edmund McMillen announced that work had resumed, but instead of working with Team Meat partner Tommy Refenes, he was collaborating with Tyler Glaiel. A bit after that he warned that…

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Discord clarifies it ‘is not requiring everyone to complete a face scan or upload an ID’ and will ‘confirm your age group using information we already have’

If you don’t like the idea of giving your data to Discord to enter adult servers, the good news is you’ve likely already given enough information that it doesn’t need to do that. I’m sure you’re happy to find out. In its latest blog, Discord clarifies “it is not requiring everyone to complete a face…

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The three big players in computer memory are all building new factories but it probably won’t help DRAM prices until 2028, if then

The three biggest players in computer memory are all tooling up major new factories, but the main impact of that won’t come until 2028 and even then it may not be enough to normalise spiralling memory prices. This analysis comes from IEEE Spectrum, which has published an overview of the current memory market and insights…

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The rumour that Intel’s next-gen Nova Lake chips will consume up to 700 W of power is nothing to worry about—Core Ultra 400 gaming PCs aren’t going to be melting your house down

Intel’s past few series of desktop processors have somewhat of a bad reputation for being power-hungry beasts. Its current range of Arrow Lake chips has reversed this trend, fortunately, but with one top leaker claiming that the next generation, Nova Lake, will hit the 700 W mark, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Intel has…

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