Gamer Fridge

All hail the new king. The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California has announced that the world’s fastest supercomputer, El Capitan, has been officially launched, which strikes me as a hell of a nervy first boot. You always hold your breath the first few times you fire up a freshly-built gaming PC, don’t you? However,…

Fighting for pole position Motherboard makers continue to flesh out the market with socket 1151 options for Skylake builders. Count Biostar among them, which is getting ready to release three new options as part of its new Biostar Racing series. The Biostar Racing line combines “cutting edge features” with a “new racing design for a…

It feels like generative AI is everywhere in game development—a Google survey estimated 87% of game developers are using it in some capacity—but generative AI is really everywhere in Codex Mortis, a Vampire Survivors-esque game the developer has called “the world’s first fully playable game created 100% through AI” in a press release. Reminds me…

Monitors Unboxed’s latest 18 month OLED burn-in update is in and it’s mostly good news. Even after well over 4,000 hours of brutal, worst-case usage the YouTube channel’s 32-inch 4K QD-OLED panel is only just beginning to show sufficient signs of burn in to be “annoying.” Monitors Unboxed emphasises that their usage isn’t at all…

In order to help train its AI models, Meta (and others) have been using pirated versions of copyrighted books, without the consent of authors or publishers. The company behind Facebook and Instagram faces an ongoing class-action lawsuit brought by authors including Richard Kadrey, Sarah Silverman, and Christopher Golden, and one in which it has already…

Only a few months after most of the Warcraft Rumble team was laid off as all future development was canceled, a majority of the remaining workers therein and the Hearthstone team have voted to organize—joining over 1,900 Blizzard workers now in a union under the Communications Workers of America. As the CWA posted on their…