A year ago today Intel and AMD teamed up to defend x86, establishing an advisory group called the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group (EAG). It’s job is to help simplify, improve compatibility for, and increase the capabilities of x86. Now, exactly one year on, AMD and Intel are letting us know the fruits of this perhaps…
Despite being the poster faction for Total War: Warhammer 3, actually playing the Russian-inspired Kislevites in Creative Assembly’s ever-expansive strategy sandbox has always been a bit contentious. The pain-points went beyond mere frostbite, with the fiddly political back-and-forth between the Ice Court and the Great Orthodoxy putting a chilling effect on those wanting to play…
The Locked Diary item is one of the biggest mysteries in the new Modern Warfare 3 update to zombies mode. The new season adds extra wonder weapons, schematics, and there’s also a new warlord and stronghold coming when the reloaded update arrives. Most importantly, though, there’s a new special mode called Dark Aether Rifts and…
Creative Assembly’s latest strategy deep-dive into a raucous period of history takes us to Ancient Egypt in the 12th Century BC. As this part of the world hurtles towards the collapse of the Bronze Age, the Egyptians, Hittites, and Canaanites already have much of their histories behind them, with rich pantheons of gods and historical…
Similar to many global businesses, we continue to navigate a challenging economic environment. As a result, we’ve made the difficult decision to increase the recommended retail price for PlayStation 5 consoles in the U.S. starting on August 21. The updated recommended retail price for PlayStation 5 consoles in the U.S. are as follows: PlayStation 5…
When it was announced that Baldur’s Gate 3 would have turn-based combat unlike its predecessors, I reacted like the little girl with the frog from The Cabin in the Woods: “The evil has been defeated!” Our long national nightmare was over. And by “nightmare” I mean games expecting us to control an entire party of…
Forget what the megacorps are doing. I’m fairly certain that, if a true artificial intelligence ever does spring from a digital chrysalis and kill us all some day, it’ll be because someone got a bit too enthusiastic twiddling the dials in Garry’s Mod. I say this because I’ve just finished fooling around with the sandbox’s…
Do you ever see the word imposter or sus and cold shivers run down your spine? Well same, and we all have Among Us and its astoundingly large reach to thank for that. It seemed like everyone was playing the social dedication party game back when it released, and especially during Covid, but it seems…
Late last year Google settled a class-action lawsuit that began in 2020, which accused the internet behemoth of invading the privacy of millions of users by tracking their activity even when Chrome’s Incognito mode was activated. As part of the settlement Google has now updated the description of Incognito in Chrome to something… well, basically…
In a conversation at this year’s rich person convention—aka the World Economic Forum—Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned that AI will lose public support unless it’s used to “do something useful that changes the outcomes of people and communities and countries and industries.” “We will quickly lose even the social permission to take something like energy,…