Diablo 4's lead live game designer says difficulty is 'a tricky balance,' but Season 8 should pack more of a punch: 'If there isn't enough challenge, then it just feels like you're getting candy for free'

Diablo 4’s lead live game designer says difficulty is ‘a tricky balance,’ but Season 8 should pack more of a punch: ‘If there isn’t enough challenge, then it just feels like you’re getting candy for free’

We’re in a golden age of ARPGs if you haven’t been paying attention, but that doesn’t make them any easier to balance. Since its launch, Diablo 4 has been criticized for its awfully gentle take on the Burning Hells; and though smacking loot pinatas until they stop moving doesn’t have to be all that hard…

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Intel’s elderly Raptor Lake CPUs are still selling surprisingly well and the reason is simple: They’re cheap

Given they’re over two and half years old and plagued with reliability concerns, you might be surprised to learn that Intel’s Raptor Lake CPUs are selling like high-temperature baked comestibles. That’s according to Intel itself in its latest earnings call for investors. Raptor Lake refers to Intel’s 13th and 14th Gen CPUs for mobile and…

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Japanese game producer argues that thick thighs on anime girls are a natural byproduct of economic recession

Atelier, a Japanese RPG series, is—as you might expect—filled with conventionally attractive anime people. An upcoming entrant in the series, Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & the Envisioned Land, is no exception—and it has big shoes to fill. See, the game’s past protagonist, Ryza, made waves among its fanbase due to having body fat…

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A Florida woman has been sentenced to 22 months in prison for conspiracy to traffic thousands of stolen Windows 10 and MS Office keys via their Certificate of Authenticity stickers

The US Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida has announced the sentencing of a 52-year-old woman after she was found guilty of “conspiring to traffic in illicit Microsoft Certificate of Authenticity (COA) labels.” Heidi Richards, a resident of Brandon, Florida, was sentenced to 22 months in US federal prison for her part in…

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AMD says Intel’s ‘interesting choices’ around multithreading could help Epyc CPUs gain server market share

AMD compute and enterprise AI VP Madhu Rangarajan told tech news site CRN that they are expecting next-gen AMD Venice servers to increase the performance lead over next-gen Intel Xeon Diamond Rapids, in part due to Intel’s decision to ditch for the upcoming server CPU generation. The AMD VP said, “We understand that our competitor…

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