Vitae Aeternum: New World gave us one of the MMO genre’s best villains
I’ve been going through the highlights of my time with New World. In the past couple pieces, I talked about some places in that game...
Sonos Super Bowl Blowout Delivers Big Deals On Premium Audio Gear
Are you ready for some football?! The Super Bowl featuring New England Patriots (woohoo!) and Seattle Seahawks (boo!) is just a week away, and if you want to hear every bone-crunching hit, you’ll want to ditch your TV’s wimpy built-in speakers for a discrete audio setup. You don’t have to break the bank, either, not when there are several
RTX 5070 OLED gaming laptop slashed to $1,294 in Lenovo’s blowout sale — premium 1440p 280 Hz OLED monitor drops down to $485
We spotted some outstanding Saturday deals on Lenovo’s website, including powerful gaming laptops and high-end gaming displays.
Highguard launches a 5v5 mode for this weekend only, plus a new base and more optimizations
If you’ve been following the reactions, user reviews, and discussions around the team vs. team FPS Highguard, then you’re familiar that one of the most...
Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks for Roblox, Nintendo, CD Projekt Red, and more
Google’s Project Genie can generate games using the company’s Genie 3 model, which is trained on prompts from Gemini. It’s an experimental tool that doesn’t even create fully playable games, but it was still enough to shiver the timbers of video game shareholders. Unity saw a 20% drop in its stock price following the reveal of Project Genie, along with several other firms.
Nvidia’s plan to invest $100 billion in OpenAI appears unlikely — Jensen reportedly criticizing OpenAI’s business decisions in private discussions
Nvidia and OpenAI are still in talks about the $100-billion MOU the two parties signed in September 2025, and it seems that deal will be modified for a much “smaller” sum of tens of billions of dollars.
Podcast #854 – AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D Review, DDR4 and Storage Prices, GOG Linux Focus, Windows 11 Awfulness and MORE
We review the Ryzen 7 9850X3D, alongside DDR4 and storage price analysis and head smacking moments. We also discuss GOG's Linux focus and Intel's latest...
WRUP: Come down to Butter Dan’s Butter Depot or whatever edition
Join us for our weekly open thread! We're discussing what MMOs we're playing this weekend and answering a bonus question about chairs. Hehe. Go to...
Maingear brings back the 90s nostalgia with old-school pre-built PCs with RTX 5090 and Ryzen 9 9950X3D — limited edition Retro98 PCs are available now
Maingear is offering a high-end retro gaming PC based on the Silverstone FLOP02 “beige box” case, with a limited run of 38 units.
RTX 4090’s 16-pin power connector erupts in smoke in shocking live footage — GPU melts during Marvel Rivals gameplay
An RTX 4090 has been caught melting on camera, with streamer “jessick” being lucky enough to record the incident for the internet. The GPU caught fire while playing and streaming Marvel Rivals on Twitch, and the video shows a wire melting with visible smoke. For some reason, jessick didn’t immediately turn off her PC after seeing something on fire inside.