Indie MMO Spotlight: Stunning Team Play
In an extremely light week for the indieverse, Ship of Heroes rewards you for teaming up, BitCraft sends you a DM, and Drakantos works on...
The Stream Team: Delving into the new treasure dungeons of Final Fantasy XIV’s patch 7.3
It’s patch week in Final Fantasy XIV, and among the things added with the new update were all-new treasure dungeons to try and delve, and...
The Asus Vivobook 16 Flip Laptop is on sale for all-time low $949 at Amazon
The Asus Vivobook 16 Flip Laptop is available at Amazon for one of its best prices to date — $949 instead of its usual $1,999.
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Canvas Legacy, Striving for Light, and Stardust Exile
Welcome back to another roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent multiplayer games you’ve never heard of! It’s our semi-regular grab bag of under the radar and...
New local AI integration into Firefox spurs complaints of ‘CPU going nuts’ — chip and power spikes plague new version 141.x
Firefox rolled out update 141 last month with AI enhanced tab groups, but an issue simmering under the hood has only now come to a head.
Dead RTX 4090 gets cooked beyond salvation — VRAM swap and multiple signal patch jobs fail as buried PCB traces give up for good in unsuccessful repair attempt
A lifeless RTX 4090 with 48GB of VRAM landed on a repair bench, showing no display output. What followed was a deep dive into diagnostics, power rail checks, and trace hunting—only to reveal hidden PCB damage so severe that even expert fixes couldn’t bring the GPU back from the dead.
Microsoft brings AI-powered assistance to gaming — Copilot Gaming (beta) and Copilot 3D creative features went live this week
Microsoft is putting Copilot Gaming (Beta) on the Game Bar for Xbox Insiders, while giving every creator access to its new AI-driven 2D to 3D feature (as long as you have a Microsoft Account).
Faced with a Sony lawsuit, Tencent’s Light of Motiram Steam page swapped out images and text
Tencent’s multiplayer sci-fi survival sandbox Light of Motiram grabbed attention for all of the wrong reasons, as its initial reveal last December drew numerous comparisons...
Heretic + Hexen Fantasy FPS Classics Re-Released In Glorious Retro Pack
Phil Spencer, CEO of Microsoft Gaming, raised some eyebrows after wearing a graphic t-shirt featuring the box art of the classic video game Hexen during the 2023 Xbox Showcase event. At the time, he played it off as simply wearing a t-shirt of a game loved. For fans of the classic franchise, however, Spencer’s shirt was actually a clue to
China state media says Nvidia H20 GPUs are unsafe and outdated, urges Chinese companies to avoid them — says chip is ‘neither environmentally friendly, nor advanced, nor safe’
A social media account linked to China state media says that users should avoid Nvidia chips.