'Still a slight risk of critical deformation': Noctua isn't happy with its next-gen 140mm fan so it's pushed until Q2 2024 at the earliest

Der8auer has been shattering glass water block windows for testing purposes, and also because it’s really fun

YouTuber, extreme overclocker, and Thermal Grizzly CEO Der8auer has been keeping themselves busy of late, testing the pressure resistance of water block cooling windows. Traditionally, these are made of a durable acrylic that can easily withstand far more pressure than a conventional liquid cooling system can provide, but Thermal Grizzly has been experimenting with glass…

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“Not Everyone Was Brimming With Confidence” – Nintendo Legend Chip Tanaka Reflects On The Famicom’s Uncertain Launch, 43 Years Later

“There was no other path but this one.”. Today, it’s very easy to fall into the trap of believing the Nintendo Famicom’s success in Japan was a foregone conclusion or that Nintendo was 100% convinced about its chances of success, but that apparently wasn’t the case. With Famitsu recently celebrating the console’s 43rd anniversary, Hirokazu…

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Arc Raiders has added Denuvo anticheat ‘initially to a limited player pool’ after a successful rollout in The Finals

Arc Raiders’ has had somewhat of a long struggle with cheaters. It’s plagued the extraction shooter pretty much from day one, with the few players who are guilty of it ruining the game for the masses as they’d use wallhacks or extra-sensory perception to ruthlessly hunt down other players. Over the months since Arc Raiders’…

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Last Epoch players turn on the action RPG for announcing a paid DLC class, tanking its Steam reviews: ‘go play Path of Exile instead’

Since it was bought by Krafton in July, players have been looking at Last Epoch developer Eleventh Hour Games with a worried expression. Will the formerly independent studio pivot to AI, or be gutted like Subnautica developer Unknown Worlds was? No, said founder Judd Cobler, and it won’t be charging money for Last Epoch’s upcoming…

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Scientists warn against crappy age verification: ‘if implemented without careful consideration… the new regulation might cause more harm than good’

As age verification becomes more commonplace across the web, there are some trying to oppose its rollout on security and privacy grounds. An open letter signed by over 400 researchers and scientists arguing the many reasons why age verification (and most especially the current age assurance technology) isn’t all it’s cracked up to be is…

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