Japanese servers for Blade & Soul and Blade & Soul NEO will officially shut down in March
We have some unfortunate news to share for any Japanese fans of NCsoft’s MMORPG Blade & Soul: The studio has officially confirmed that both Blade...
MSI RTX 5090 Lightning Z With 8-Inch Display Breaks 1000W Barrier For Extreme Performance
One of the cooler things we saw in person at CES this year is MSI’s new GeForce RTX 5090 32G Lightning Z. A flagship GPU like the GeForce RTX 5090 is capable of standing on its own for noteworthiness, but what separates this one from the crowd is that it comes with a big and integrated 8-inch color LCD panel to display system vitals, artwork,
MassivelyOP’s 2025 Awards: Most Anticipated MMO
Welcome back to MassivelyOP’s annual MMORPG awards for 2025! Today’s award is for the Most Anticipated MMO, which was awarded to Star’s Reach last year. This...
Super Star Torn To Pieces By Black Hole Releases Energy Equal To 400 Billion Suns
Astronomers have captured the moment a supermassive black hole literally tore apart a super sun (one 30 times larger than our own) and released a burst of energy equivalent to 400 billion suns.
Affectionately called the “Whippet” (officially AT2024wpp), this Tidal Disruption Event (TDE) occurred on a scale that defied traditional expectations.
Why AMD Isn’t Losing Sleep Over Panther Lake’s Big GPU Upgrade
As impressive as the debut of Intel’s mobile Panther Lake lineup at CES 2026 was, AMD has gone on the record as being “not afraid” of Intel’s latest and greatest architecture. The reason for this is because Intel didn’t compare Panther Lake to AMD’s top-of-the-line Strix Halo in its slides, with an AMD executive saying, “Strix Halo, or Ryzen
Samsung and Intel co-develop ‘SmartPower HDR’ for Panther Lake OLED laptops, with up to 22% power savings — dynamic voltage control lowers power without sacrificing panel brightness
SmartPower HDR will use up to 22% less power, leading to 30-40 minutes of extra battery life on Panther Lake laptops. Co-developed by Samsung and Intel, this tech enables dynamic voltage control on OLED laptop screens where the panel only draws more voltage when explicitly needed for high-brightness HDR content, even if HDR is on system-wide in Windows.
Boxes of 100 server-grade DDR5 memory now cost as much as property in Shanghai in China spot market — single 256GB server sticks now over $5,700
In China’s spot market, vendors are quoting prices that put a box of 100 high-capacity DDR5 server memory modules at roughly 5 million yuan,
Sea of Remnants opens sign-ups for an ‘extremely limited’ closed alpha starting in February
In the middle of last year we first started reporting on Sea of Remnants, an upcoming Age of Sail-styled RPG promising “vibrant graffiti energy” from...
Future iPhones May Use 200MP Camera And Cutting-Edge Multispectral Tech
Apple is reportedly exploring camera technology currently being used in medical, archeology, and the military, with rumors suggesting the integration of multispectral imaging and high-resolution 200MP sensors in forthcoming iPhones. That would certainly be exciting if true, though as always, treats rumors like this with a grain of salt.
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ASUS ROG NeoCore Wi-Fi 8 Router Concept Brings Dungeons And Dragons Vibes
Forget for a moment that ASUS is already embracing the Wi-Fi 8 standard when the vast majority of consumers have yet to upgrade their home networks to Wi-Fi 7 hardware, let alone Wi-Fi 6E or even Wi-Fi 6. The real story here is the design of ASUS ROG’s NeoCore Wi-Fi 8 router concept—is it just me or does it look it could be rolled like a D20