U.S. Patent Office Rules in Intel’s Favor for $2.18 Billion VLSI Patents Case
U.S. PTO nullifies VLSI’s 7,523,373 and 7,725,759 patents.
Wurm Online’s corporate owner plans a game rebrand and a new integrated cash shop
Who had “Wurm Online shakes things up in a big way” on their 2023 MMO Bingo card? Nobody? That’s what we thought. In an industry...
Noctua’s AM5 Mounting Bars For Ryzen CPUs Promise To Drop Temps
Computer processors have always been complex feats of engineering, but they’re even more so today with fundamental shifts in the design and packaging, such as stacking technologies (Intel’s Foveros and AMD’s 3D V-cache) and the use of chiplets. These novel approaches to chip design can alter the heat pattern, and Noctua has come up with as
Thermaltake Ceres 500 TG ARGB Mid Tower Case Review
Since the day I took on the honored mantle of Enclosure Review Analyst for PCPer.com I’ve had this love/hate relationship with Thermaltake. They’ve supplied me...
Amazon Games’ Bill Trost vacates creative director position to become lead designer for Ashes of Creation
The name of Bill Trost will likely strike familiar to older vets of the MMORPG genre. He was one of the original design leads for...
Black Desert’s Land of the Morning Light expansion officially launches today
It’s launch day for Black Desert’s massive Land of the Morning Light expansion. “Land of the Morning Light invites players to a new region inspired...
Court grants FTC temporary restraining order to block Microsoft/ABK merge ahead of ongoing lawsuit
Yesterday, we reported on the FTC’s appeal to the US District Court of Northern California to block Microsoft’s buyout of Activision-Blizzard. The FTC maintained that...
The Daily Grind: Should MMOs divorce experience from mob kills?
If you look at the wider field of computer RPGs, especially old ones, there’s one very notable difference between their design and MMORPGs: Several older...
Raspberry Pi Pico W Gains Official Bluetooth Support
In a recent update, Raspberry Pi adds Bluetooth support for MicroPython projects.
AMD Unleashes EPYC Bergamo And Genoa-X Data Center CPUs, AI-Ready Instinct MI300X GPUs
AMD hosted its Data Center and AI Technology Premiere in San Francisco, CA today, where it outlined its vision and strategy for the “future of computing.” The company introduced its first batch of fourth generation EPYC 9004 series server processors, aka Genoa, last November which largely delivered on the promise of unbeatable general-purpose