Perfect Ten: Times when MMOs brought about world-shattering cataclysms
The notion of an in-game cataclysm is hardly the sole domain of Activision-Blizzard; on the contrary, large-scale apocalypses pop up all the time in MMOs....
Intel Demoes 8-Core, 528-Thread PUMA Chip with 1 TB/s Silicon Photonics
Intel demoed a non-x86 chip with eight cores, 528 threads, and 1TB/s of optical I/O at Hot Chips 2023.
Embers Adrift’s August patch improves ‘combat feels’ and adds the hunting log
Power of the Ember Veins: That’s the name of this month’s patch offering from Embers Adrift. Yesterday’s update to the indie MMO may not have...
Corsair’s Scimitar Elite Wireless Mouse Brings Wire-Free Gaming Bliss To MMO Fans
The first in Corsair’s lineage of Scimitar gaming mice came out eight years ago and made a splash with a bevy of buttons for fans of massively multiplayer online (MMO) titles like World of Warcraft. The rodent has evolved over time, now culminating in the new Scimitar Elite Wireless, the first rodent in the Scimitar family to shed its tail
Previewing New World’s Rise of the Angry Earth expansion: Artifact gear, endgame, crafting, and onward
In my previous Vitae Aeternum column, I covered the big tentpole features of New World‘s first paid expansion, Rise of the Angry Earth, including the...
New World’s first expansion, Rise of the Angry Earth, launches October 3 with mounts, flails, new housing, and more
New World‘s 2023 roadmap promised its first expansion, but until now, we had few details on what that meant. Recently the folks at Amazon Games...
RuneScape subbers are not happy about its new battlepass-style Hero Pass system
If you were desperately hoping that there was another way to give RuneScape your money on top of the game’s existing subscription option, good news!...
Gigabyte Unveils Aorus Gen5 12000 SSD With Blistering Speeds And A Beastly Cooler
Gigabyte is adding to a small but growing pile of solid state drives (SSDs) that make use of the PCI Express 5.0 bus for faster throughput. That puts the company’s new Aorus Gen5 12000 SSD in elite company. By our count, there are around half a dozen PCIe 5.0 SSD models (not including different capacity options) available to buy at places
AMD Warns of Fake Radeon Starfield GPU Giveaways
The attractive force of the Radeon RX 7900 XTX Starfield Limited Edition GPU is inspiring giveaway scams, reckons AMD exec.
Guild Wars 2 finally removed Valdhertz Crypts from Wizard’s Vault objectives after SOTO’s first week
Those darn Valdhertz Crypts! No one in Guild Wars 2 likes them! That’s why people were kinda miffed about having Valdhertz Crypts (and other mini-dungeons)...