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I sat down for a demo of Chinese action game Phantom Blade Zero with two main curiosities. First was how its combat compares to last year’s Black Myth: Wukong, and it turns out: pretty different. Second was the backstory of S-Game studio founder “Soulframe” Liang, who started his career with an RPG Maker game while…

A Reddit user has posted an alarming investigation into the disk activity associated with AMD’s PC graphics driver. Among other examples of heavy storage traffic, it turns out the AMD graphics driver is making hundreds of modifications to log files every time you move or resize a window. So, is the AMD graphics driver a…

Strix Halo, AMD’s upcoming and extremely large APU, has finally seen some benchmarks in 3DMark Time Spy. These early results are in line with its Geekbench debut last December. This is not only a potential affirmation of what we previously saw but a sign its performance may be a little worse than we expected (hoped)….

As reported by The Guardian, The Trump administration has announced, through the United States Customs and Border Patrol, that smartphones, computers, and other electronic devices/components will be exempt from the US’s chaotic and destabilizing new tariff regime. That even includes the steepest 125% tariffs on China. I’ve lost track whether we’re doing the tariffs, not…

Cryptocurrency Terraform Labs co-founder, Do Kwon, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison by a district judge in New York. The cryptocurrency boss oversaw the collapse of TerraUSD and Luna in 2022, which the judge described as “fraud on an epic, generational scale.” “In the history of federal prosecutions,” US district judge Paul A….