MMO Hype Train: Hytale gets what many canned games never do… a second chance
Getting acquired by a big-time company isn’t always the salvation and blessing that a small game studio assumes. Just ask Hypixel, a little indie outfit...
Asus ROG Swift PG27AQWP-W 27-inch 540 Hz QHD QD-OLED gaming monitor review: Every piece of performance tech in a single display
Asus puts all the gaming monitor tech in its arsenal into the flagship ROG Swift PG27AQWP-W. It’s a 27-inch QHD QD-OLED panel with 540 Hz, 720 Hz in HD, Adaptive-Sync, DisplayHDR 500 True Black and wide gamut color. This display truly has it all.
Isometric MMORPG Dreadmyst reaches over 7K concurrency and mostly positive reviews despite server issues
Last week we got a surprise indie MMORPG release pop up on our collective radar in the form of Dreadmyst, a free-to-play old school-styled isometric...
Microsoft Ends This Decades-Old Offline Activation Method For Windows
Microsoft has officially retired the traditional phone-based activation system for Windows and Office that served as a reliable fallback for users for over two decades.
Indeed, the “slui 4” command has up until now been served PC builders, privacy advocates, and IT administrators well since the days of XP. It allowed users to activate a
Wisdom of Nym: What the new glamour rules might mean for future Final Fantasy XIV set design
One of the biggest features that I cared about in Final Fantasy XIV’s patch 7.4 is, ironically, kind of hard to say much about. I...
Lenovo Leads PC Market Boom As Shipments Rebound But Will 2026 Be A Bust?
Panic over soaring memory costs in the second half of last year didn’t stop the PC market from rebounding in a big way, with global shipments of desktops, laptops, and workstations surging 10.1% to 59 75 million units in the fourth quarter of 2025, according to Omdia. The last-quarter surge propelled the full-year tally to 279.5 million units
Unionized workers fired by Rockstar seek interim return to payroll as the case enters UK court
Last November saw a scandal at Grand Theft Auto developer Rockstar after the company fired a group of devs who were reportedly discussing unionization in...
Instagram Denies Breach After 17 Million Account Leak Sparks Panic
A massive database purportedly containing the personal information of over 17 million Instagram users has surfaced on a popular hacking forum, sparking widespread concern over the security of the social media giant’s infrastructure. Meta denies this “leak” is anything to be concerned about and says it’s merely from a compilation of older data.
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Micron Defends AI Pivot And Rejects Claim It Abandoned Consumer Market
As far as Micron is concerned, the prevailing narrative about its recent strategy shift to focus more heavily on AI customers gets one *ahem* Crucial detail wrong. Actually more than one, though the biggest misconception from Micron’s vantage point is that it’s abandoning the consumer market in favor of AI, when in reality it’s simply serving
Corepunk switches over to a crafting-only gear game with January’s patch
Say goodbye to the easy life of grinding mobs for all that glitzy and stat-filled gear to wear in the wild-and-wooly world of Corepunk. January’s...