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Seems like it was only the other week I was writing about Cloudflare throwing up its shields against a record-breaking DDoS attack—because it was. Yup, an attack pelting the servers with 11.5 Tbps (terabits per second) of data in less than a minute is more than enough to make me break out in a sweat….
With Payday 3 still struggling badly, Starbreeze has made the surprising and somewhat confusing announcement that it has launched a brand-new subscription service for its predecessor Payday 2—which, for the record, is still going gangbusters. Payday 2 has been operating for 12 years now, and in that time it’s racked up an awful lot of…
Back in August 2023, Rockstar Games acquired the team and tech behind FiveM, a Grand Theft Auto Online mod it had previously tried to shut down. FiveM enables the use of custom cars, maps, and weapons among other content, but crucially also allows for a much bigger player count in online games. Together, these capabilities…
So, Google and Qualcomm are bigging up what’s basically a desktop version of the former’s Android OS for smartphones (via 9to5Google). The idea, apparently, is to fuse “mobile and PC” into a single device. And given Qualcomm is part of this particular conversation, that device would presumably be running an Arm chip rather than a…
AI data centers are some of the largest consumers of electrical energy in the world of computing, and with gigawatt-sized projects currently in development, there is increased demand for sustainable means to power them. It just so happens that there’s one solution that’s entirely off-grid, with apparently zero emissions, and even generates the water required…
Silent Hill f finally releases to the masses tomorrow, but before everyone’s even got their hands on NeoBard’s new take on the Silent Hill series, one modder has managed to completely remove all the fog from the game. Simply named No Fog, this mod, created by Fellow_Demo, strips all the fog from Ebisugaoka, but players…
Helldivers 2 is in the “it’s so over!” part of the chart again, unfortunately. Despite its latest patch being a ton of fun, the entire engine is also buckling and groaning under the weight of extreme technical debt. Crashes, bugs, terrible performance, and an ever-balooning file size are all starting to get the game a…
From time to time, I rely on machine translation. From time to time, machine translation reminds me why it can never truly replace human translators—case in point, referring to this VR glove as having ‘vibrator’ touch panels. Large Language Models are trained on many libraries worth of words, spitting out a statistically likely word vomit…
Hades 2 almost had me questioning Supergiant’s decision to make its first sequel. I loved Hades, which brought all of the studio’s past experience to bear on a killer action game for the roguelike curious, but I wasn’t convinced a sequel would be a better follow-up than whatever new idea for a game Supergiant could…
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