Final Fantasy XIV plans a 24-hour maintenance window for patch 6.18
So there’s good news and bad news for people heavily looking forward to Final Fantasy XIV patch 6.18. The good news is that it should...
Intel to Cut Alder Lake Pricing for Major PC Makers: Report
Intel already cut its Alder Lake CPU pricing by as much as 10% in Q2, and it is unprecedented to cut current-gen pricing so early, says a Taiwanese PC industry sourced report.
LOTRO pushes Shadowfax and Treebeard forward, defends expanding class and race combos
With Anor closing in August, Ithil already closed, and no new legendary worlds planned for the near future, the options for a progression server experience...
Shadowrun Trilogy Review – The RPG Files
Harebrained Schemes brought its tactical combat RPG, Shadowrun Returns to the PC back in 2013. Since then, the series has spawned two sequels, expanding on...
Intel Silicon Photonics Breakthrough Paves Way For Lightspeed I/O And Chip Interconnects
Intel Labs has announced it has made a noteworthy advancement in the area of integrated photonics research, which it bills as the “next frontier” in expanding communications bandwidth between compute silicon in data centers and across networks. The company believes this advancement holds the promise of a future input/output (I/O) interface
Guild Wars 2 team vows ‘better context’ for controversial class changes following death threats
Ideally, an MMO patch day should be filled with delight and exploration. Sometimes, however, there’s a sense of dread, especially when the developers start making...
EVE Online’s New Player Experience Gets Career Program, Updated Career Agent Dungeons
EVE Online's continued effort to update their new player experience moves forward today with the release of its latest update. This time players can expect...
AMD Ryzen 7 5700G Processor with Radeon Graphics Mini Review
AMD’s current high-end solution for a processor with integrated graphics is the Ryzen 7 5700G. I still call these things APUs (which stands for “Accelerated...
Dell XPS 17 (9720) Review: Bright Screen Meets Efficiency Cores
Dell’s big-screen XPS 17 gets Intel’s latest CPUs for better performance and battery life. Its screen is also great but the design, while solid, feels stale.
The Daily Grind: Do you play any MMOs merely out of habit?
MOP reader Slava recently wrote to us with an intriguing topic about playing MMOs out of habit more than out of enjoyment. “Back when I...