Crystal of Atlan releases its new magitech Inventor class as part of its 2026 roadmap
It’s been a few months since we peeked in on Crystal of Atlan – it was September of last year, in fact, when the MMO,...
Apple A18 Pro In MacBook Neo Beats All x86 CPUs In Single-Core Benchmarks
Apple made a splash earlier this month when it debuted a slew of new products, but the stand-out was undoubtedly the budget minded MacBook Neo, which one PC executive says sent a “shock” through the entire PC market. It’s the company’s most affordable MacBook, powered by the A18 Pro that debuted with the iPhone 16 Pro in 2024, which most expected
MMO Business Roundup: PEGI’s lockbox accountability, Root’s Discord alternative, Pickmon’s barely legal IP frappe
Welcome back to yet another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news! Today’s bundle features a few multiplayer game-specific tidbits for a little bit of...
Tech titans team up to form optical interconnect alliance to solve the AI buildout’s big data bottleneck — Nvidia, AMD, Broadcom & more set sights on building PHY to break through the limitations of copper
AMD, Nvidia, Microsoft, Broadcom, and Meta have formed an Optical Compute Interconnect Multi-Source Agreement (OCI MSA) to develop a standardized optical interconnect for AI data centers, with the aspiration to build a PHY capable of handling speeds of up to 3.2 Tb/s.
Amazon Alexa+ Goes Potty Mouth With New Adults-Only Mode
Amazon is letting Alexa off the leash with a new, sassy adults-only mode, whereby the AI assistant will dole out witty sarcasm and mild profanity. Part of us are thinking this might be an early April Fool’s joke, but the other part also hopes this catches on with Apple and Google, too.
Those of you with Alexa+ subscriptions will now see
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Hits Record Low $429, ASUS X870 Gaming Bundle Deal
Do you have a Socket AM5 system? Do you play games on it? Do you have a 3D V-Cache processor? If the answers to those questions are YYN like some kind of Rush song with the third part turned sideways, then you should absolutely check out today’s deal, where you can pick up a Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor, until recently the fastest gaming CPU
Beastmaster Detailed As FFXIV’s Next Class, Letting Players Capture Beasts To Fight Alongside Them In Patch 7.5
Final Fantasy 14 will add the Beastmaster limited job with the 7.5 patch series, allowing players to capture and utilize beasts, as explained during the...
MMO Jukebox Song of the Week: ‘World Soul Cradle’ from World of Warcraft
A new World of Warcraft expansion is the perfect time to sink deep into a gorgeous new soundtrack, and Midnight’s arrival is no different. Everyone...
Nvidia claims 1 million times better path tracing performance is coming in future gaming GPUs — says current GPUs are already 10,000x faster than Pascal
At GDC 2026, Nvidia held a presentation somehow aimed at gamers and not data center clients. Still, it was sprinkled with AI pat-on-the-backs, with the company touting that its future gaming GPUs will offer 1,000,000 better path tracing performance. And the current-gen Blackwell family is apparently already 100,000x better due to dedicated Tensor and RT cores.
Path of Exile blames ‘very persistent and targeted DDOS attacks’ for its continuing server issues
You might have been having a rough time staying connected to Path of Exile pretty recently, which has been an issue that Grinding Gear Games has...