Attention survival game sickos: you can be among the first to playtest the sequel to one of my favorite survival RPGs

Attention survival game sickos: you can be among the first to playtest the sequel to one of my favorite survival RPGs

I loved 2019’s Outward. The fantasy RPG from Nine Dots Studio embraced survival in a way few RPGs do, making everything from casting a basic spell to packing for a trip between cities a methodical and thoughtful process. Even its permalife system, which sounds forgiving—you don’t die if you lose a fight, you lose consciousness…

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The company that invented the AIO cooler has accepted an $85 million buyout offer from a major Chinese electronics group

Asetek, the company that invented the closed-loop liquid cooler for CPUs, has received an offer it can’t refuse from CQXA Holdings, a subsidiary of Chinese electronic group Suzhou Chunqi, to fully take over the company. If successful, CQXA would pay 1.72 Danish Krone (around $0.27) per share to make up a total of 547.4 million…

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The memory market is so screwed right now that Samsung is negotiating with, err, Samsung over DRAM contracts

Under normal market circumstances, companies don’t get into strained negotiations with themselves. But shortages can make foes of even the most familiar of computer hardware behemoths. Case in point, Samsung’s recent negotiations over DRAM contracts with, err, itself. According to SEDaily (via Wccftech), Samsung’s Semiconductor Division (DS) won’t give its Mobile Experience (MX) division—its smartphone…

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