Desert Oasis: Unearthing the origin story of Black Desert studio Pearl Abyss
On our side of the pond, the exploits of various popular video game companies and their founding are well documented. But when it comes to...
CISA Tells OEM To Patch Alarming BrakTooth Security Flaws Affecting Billions Of Devices
The number of ways hackers can exploit security flaws seems endless these days. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) expanded on one of those this week when it encouraged vendors, manufacturers, and developers to fast-track updating vulnerable Bluetooth SoC applications in regard to BrakTooth.
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Book of Travels is turning off permadeath and reviving all your dead characters
Permadeath: If you’re an MMORPG player, you probably hate it, but hey maybe you’re one of those rare folks who don’t. Either way, it’s become...
Albion Online Wants You to Get Out and Explore, So the Guild Seasons are Changing
Albion Online is overhauling its guild seasons in line with the new Lands Awakened update that will encourage exploration in the open world. Go to...
Intel to Acquire Austin x86 Dev Team from Via Technologies
Via divests part of its x86 business to Intel, but retains patents, cores, some engineers.
Star Citizen’s video series returns with a look at mining gadgets, new armor, and Vulture progress
The brief break in-between episodes of Star Citizen’s video series Inside Star Citizen is over, and the weekly videos are back, starting off with a...
WoW Factor: The player council is not the solution to World of Warcraft’s ills
So World of Warcraft is going to establish a player council to offer feedback to the developers. What a terrible idea with already poor implementation and...
DC Universe Online makes ally purchases account-wide, updates early endgame scaling and buffs
There’s been a patching applied to DC Universe Online, and while it’s a bit thin in terms of content, it does have a number of...
Galax GeForce RTX 3060 EX Review
The Galax RTX 3060 performs as well as other cards using the same GPU, with a better cooler and some RGB bling. Unfortunately, supply of the RTX 3060 remains tight, and finding one for sale at anywhere near Nvidia’s MSRP is a pipe dream.
These Games Are Incompatible With Alder Lake But Intel Has A Temp Workaround
Alder Lake is here, and in a sense it represents Intel’s own ‘Zen’ moment, like the one rival AMD had several years ago (see our Alder Lake review for our full analysis). That’s great news for consumers (we need Intel and AMD to keep pushing and leapfrogging one another). What’s not so great is that as good as Alder Lake is, its hybrid architecture