Halloween festivities across the MMO world, 2024 edition
It’s weird we keep meeting like this every single year a week before October 31st, right? A strange and unusual coincidence, perhaps even a conspiracy?...
Gearbox Boss Responds To Terminally Ill Fan Asking For Early Look At Borderlands 4
A terminally ill and enthusiastic Borderlands fan has gotten a quick response from Gearbox co-founder Randy Pitchford to his plea to get a glimpse of Borderlands 4 early. Caleb McAlpine was recently diagnosed with terminal stage 4 cancer, with doctors estimating he has 12 months to live.
While the Borderlands franchise may have taken a
G.Skill And Kingston Top DDR5-12000 In Fierce Race For Memory OC Bragging Rights
How quickly things can change, eh? When DDR5 first came onto the scene, the speed-to-price ratio was underwhelming, to say the least. It didn’t take long for pricing to settle way down, but speeds didn’t seem to ramp all that quickly afterward. Now with the introduction of CU-DIMMs, we’re seeing memory makers hit new speed tiers, both within
Design Mockument: Alternate trinities in MMORPGs and the challenge of other roles
The trinity has been a truism of MMO design now for about as long as it wasn’t. I came up during the small times when...
How to run CMD or PowerShell as administrator, no right clicks required
Launch an elevated Command prompt or PowerShell terminal window. You can configure either program to run as admin automatically, so you don’t need to right click it.
Intel names long-term successor to its process technology development chief
Navid Shahriari will succeed Ann Kelleher as head of process technology development.
New World discusses the design, lore, and mechanics of its Nightveil Hallow event
Halloween has descended on New World this week, but perhaps you’re curious about how this event came together from a lore and design standpoint. If...
Undead Zombie Star Survives A Supernova Explosion And This Is What It Looks Like
A supernova event recorded by Chinese and Japanese astronomers in 1181 is at the heart of a first-of-its-kind 3D animated map, unveiling new secrets of a flowering “zombie star.” Supernova Sn 1181 is one of the few to be documented before the invention of telescopes.
The zombie star in question was first discovered in 2013, but it was not
Throne and Liberty’s Halloween event, Haunted Harvest, is finally here
So there’s some good news and bad news with Throne and Liberty’s Halloween event. The bad news is that it was delayed a day; it...
ASUS Vivobook S 14 OLED Laptop Leads Lunar Lake’s Charge Into Sub-$1K Territory
Not only are there are handful of laptops available based on Intel’s latest Core Ultra Series 2 lineup, otherwise known as Lunar Lake, but they’re mostly all relatively affordable models. There are several options hovering around the the $1,000 mark, the least expensive of which is the ASUS Vivobook S 14 with a 14-inch OLED display.
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