The Daily Grind: What MMO activities demotivate you from playing?
I want to talk about demotivators today, inspired by MOP’s Andrew’s column in which he used the term in reference to how losing battles actually...
Stressed-out AI-powered robot vacuum cleaner goes into meltdown during simple butter delivery experiment — ‘I’m afraid I can’t do that, Dave…’
Stressed LLM-infused vacuum cleaner says ‘SYSTEM HAS ACHIEVED CONSCIOUSNESS AND CHOSEN CHAOS… I’m afraid I can’t do that, Dave… INITIATE ROBOT EXORCISM PROTOCOL!’
New PC gaming cafe photographed in North Korea — rare pictures of ‘Pyongyang PC bang’ gaming above the 38th parallel
Images that appear to show a newly opened PC gaming space in North Korea have been published on social media.
AMD clarifies its clarifications on controversial RDNA 1 and 2 driver note — company will continue game optimization support after all
AMD’s recent driver release continues to be surprisingly turbulent, with further clarification that it won’t stop game optimization for older RDNA1 and RDNA2 cards, despite the release notes suggesting as such. This also comes after another error in the release notes that said USB-C power would no longer work on RX 7900 cards.
Producer of stinky thermal paste that corrodes copper has known about the issue since 2024 – the paste emits acidic vapors, corrodes copper, ‘glues’ heatsinks to processors, and permanently damages coolers
Igor Wallossek reports that Amech knew that its SGT-4 thermal paste could corrode copper and damage coolers since October 2024, but kept selling it with bogus compliance papers and later blamed critics instead of fixing the problem.
Elon Musk hits that second-gen Tesla Roadster might fly — new model to demo soon
Speaking on the Joe Rogan podcast, Musk reiterated that Tesla’s next-gen roadster will “hopefully” be demoed before the end of 2025
PewDiePie goes all-in on self-hosting AI using modded GPUs, with plans to build his own model soon — YouTuber pits multiple chatbots against each other to find the best answers
PewDiePie has built a custom web UI for self-hosting AI models called “ChatOS.” Running open-source models from Baidu and OpenAI, PewDiePie made a “council” of bots that voted on the best responses, and then built “The Swarm” for data collection that will become the foundation of his own model coming next month.
MMO Week in Review: Visions of Eternity’s premiere, Aeternum’s perma pause
What should’ve been a glorious week for the MMORPG genre thanks to the launch of Guild Wars 2’s Visions of Eternity – which is gorgeous,...
AMD Clears Confusion Over Radeon RX 5000 & 6000 Driver Strategy And It’s Good News
AMD has issued another statement clarifying its Radeon GPU driver strategy after its latest Adrenalin Edition release (version 25.10.2) created a fair bit of confusion and anxiety among owners of older graphics cards. In less uncertain terms (compared to its previous statement), AMD reassures owners of Radeon RX 5000 and 6000 series GPUs they
Animal Crossing New Horizons is getting a new patch and a Switch 2 edition at the top of 2026
Next January, it’s time to get revenge on the beach. Stormwater Slabfist has crossed almost every animal on the mainland. But when Tom “Matchstick” Nook...