MMO Business Roundup: Savvy Games’ CEO, Nvidia’s AI filter, and PlayStation 5’s monetization
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent business news.It’s another wild ‘n’ wooly bundle of items that are kind of in our periphery...
Wizard101 celebrates its birthday with a free pack of goodies and housing items
Finding out that Wizard101 is 18 years old should ruin your day a little. Not because the game doesn’t deserve to be 18 years old by...
Choose My Adventure: Dungeon delves to wrap up my opening stint in EverQuest Legends
Sure, I could do what last week’s polls told me to do and visit one dungeon in EverQuest Legends, but what about visiting two of them instead?...
World of Warcraft promises to find players who boosted their way to the top of Mythic Plus rankings
What would you do for a new bird mount? If you’re a certain type of World of Warcraft player, you may have bought your way to...
A Hidden Secret Found Inside Mars Is More Proof The Red Planet Isn’t Dead
A major discovery reveals that Mars is fundamentally asymmetrical deep beneath its surface, with its southern interior burning between 200 and 400 degrees Celsius (392 to 752 degrees Fahrenheit) hotter than its northern counterpart.
Published recently in the Nature journal, the study demonstrates that this massive heat difference renders
Fight or Kite: PvP siege MMORPG Gloria Victus is back from the dead
It always amazes me just how many MMOs existed, continue to exist, and come back from a sunset. I’m always shocked when I look at...
Quantum Battery Breakthrough Fully Charges In Under A Second
Scientists at CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, have built a prototype quantum battery that upends classical physics by charging faster the bigger it gets. How fast? Think a quadrillionth of a second.
In the world of consumer electronics, size can be a penalty: scaling up an energy storage system, whether it be smartphones or
Nvidia pours $3.5 billion into MediaTek — company will adopt NVLink Fusion for its custom AI accelerators
Nvidia invests $3.5 billion in MediaTek as the companies expand their partnership into custom AI infrastructure with NVLink Fusion, local AI computing, and automotive platforms.
AMD Wins Massive $450M Contract To Power Europe’s LUMI-AI Computer
The European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has awarded a €387.8 million (around $450 million in U.S. currency) procurement contract to systems vendor Bull to deliver LUMI-AI, Europe’s next-generation flagship supercomputer. Of particular note, AMD scored the key hardware wins for the project, supplying both its
Alienware 16X Aurora review: A thoroughly competent gaming laptop
The Alienware 16X Aurora pairs a gorgeous 240 Hz OLED display with solid performance, sturdy build quality, and strong upgradeability, though its size and battery life limit portability.