Lord of the Rings Online player posts epic video of a 10-hour trek from the Shire to Mordor
How long would it take you to accurately walk the exact steps that Frodo did in taking the One Ring from the Shire to Mt....
Bank of America sued over not paying workers for PC boot up time in proposed class action lawsuit
Bank of America is facing a proposed class and collective action lawsuit that accuses the company of failing to pay hundreds of hourly workers for time spent booting their computers.
Throne and Liberty is back online after nearly a day of emergency exploit-busting
A couple days after deploying a new update, Amazon’s Throne and Liberty found itself struggling with an unforeseen issue that took the game offline for...
Computer technician refurbs GPU clogged with tar and nicotine from 17 years of use by a smoker — ‘I am not blowing on that; I’m getting cancer from this’ says repair tech
This is what 17 years of smoking could do to your graphics card.
Apple Watch & MacBook Air Hit Lowest Prices Ever In Early Black Friday Deals
You know what time it is, right? It’s time to shop early Black Friday deals with retailers getting a jump on the annual sale event. If it’s also time to get a new smartwatch, you’re in luck. The Apple Watch Series 10 is back down to an all-time low price. And remember those MacBook Air deals we highlighted a few days ago? Those are still available
25 years ago today, Microsoft released DirectX 8 and changed PC graphics forever — How programmable shaders laid the groundwork for the future of modern GPU rendering
The games we enjoy today would be unimaginably different without the improvements ushered in by DirectX 8 and its programmable shaders. Shader Model 1.0 introduced per-pixel programmable lighting, letting developers write custom code to control how light interacted with objects, rather than relying solely on the GPU’s built-in fixed-function logic.
It’s beginning to feel a lot like One Shots
Halloween? What Halloween? The radio station, every store, and Vincent himself are pushing the Christmas season on us in Final Fantasy XIV despite the protests...
Clean-sheet open source 8-bit gaming console surprisingly preparing for launch in 2025 — the GameTank uses twin 6502 processors instead of FPGAs or microcontrollers
There’s a new open source contender being prepared for the 8-bit console arena.
Corsair Sabre v2 Pro review: 36g but maybe too lightweight on features
The Corsair Sabre v2 Pro is an incredibly lightweight (36g) mouse that feels good and glides like a dream. But the software is web-based — and that’s a problem when your mouse has no profile or DPI switch buttons.
The world’s ‘tiniest GPU’ heads to production — 200,000-transistor TinyGPU v2.0 can render gamepad-manipulated 3D images with up to 1K triangles in real-time
The ‘tiniest GPU’ has gotten a big update with the new TinyGPU v2.0 offering interactive 3D rasterization, with transformation & lighting tech.