The Soapbox: Single-player open worlds will never equal those of MMORPGs
These days it seems like sprawling open worlds are becoming an ever more popular choice for single-player games, from the newer Assassin’s Creed titles to...
How to Check if Your GPU’s Thermal Pads Were Incorrectly Installed
A couple of Reddit users have shared images of their Ampere-based graphics cards with improperly installed thermal pads, causing serious overheating issues.
Intel Core i5-12600K 12th Gen Alder Lake Chip Benchmarked With DDR5-6400 Memory
Some potentially exciting platform upgrades are on the horizon, two of them coming by way of Alder Lake and its accompanying Z690 series chipset. Namely, support for the PCI Express 5.0 bus, which doubles the bandwidth compared to PCI Express 4.0, and DDR5 memory. Will either matter? We can only wait and see, but as we do, a leaked benchmark
Valheim Fireside Chat Details Hearth & Home Update
Valheim devs Iron Gate released a new fireside chat video going into some of the work they've been doing on Hearth & Home and what...
Samsung Exynos 2200 With AMD RDNA 2 GPU Benchmarked
An SoC from Samsung’s upcoming collaboration with AMD Radeon graphics has appeared, and it shows some not-so-very impressive CPU performance results.
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s lack of public testing is fine by me
When the Final Fantasy XIV media tour happens, it’ll be the first opportunity anyone outside of Square-Enix has gotten to look at anything related to...
Samsung’s Exynos 2200 Phone SoC With AMD RDNA 2 Muscle Hits Benchmark Circuit
Samsung is working on a version of its Exynos system-on-chip (SoC) that will incorporate AMD’s second generation Radeon DNA (RDNA 2) graphics, which is certainly exciting from both technical and consumer standpoints. Rumor has it the upcoming chip will power Samsung’s Galaxy S22 phones. As we wait to find out, an interesting Geekbench listing
City of Titans’ senior gameplay engineer talks about creating super-powers
Crafting perfect powers is essential for any superhero MMORPG. If they don’t look, feel, or function in the impressive way that players expect, it could...
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip3 Review: The Folding Flagship Refined
Two years ago, Samsung ushered the era of folding phones with the daring (but ultimately flawed) Galaxy Fold. In 2020, the company followed suit with three much improved foldables — the stylish Galaxy Z Flip, Z Flip 5G, and the powerful Galaxy Z Fold2. With most of the kinks worked out (pun intended), these excellent handsets were finally…
Mozilla Bypasses Microsoft’s Windows 11 Default Browser Tomfoolery With Firefox 89
Microsoft will unleash Windows 11 for the public on October 5th. But users should be aware that the company has made some annoying changes to the default browser behavior compared to Windows 10. As we reported last month, changing your default browser from Microsoft Edge to Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox is more cumbersome, requiring you