The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director’s Cut and The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition are both marked down 85 percent. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Game of the Year Edition, meanwhile, is 80 percent off. Individually, the games are selling for $1.49, $2.99 and $7.99, respectively, which totals $12.47. If you buy all three as part of the bundle, you’ll save an extra 10 percent, bringing the price down to just $11....
With Intel’s new Skylake architecture arriving next week, we thought it a good time to examine Intel’s advances over the past decade before checking out their next major creation. In 2006 the Core 2 Duo E6600 retailed for $316 and in its place today we have the Core i7-4790K for roughly the same price at $339. The 4790K is clocked at almost twice the frequency, features twice as many cores, and four times as many threads....
It’s still a bit rough around the edges but there’s a good reason for that. Lambert said he wanted to verify the N64 could even do portals before trying to do things he knows it can do. Now that he knows the N64 is up to the task, he can add more details to sell the effect like the animation of the gun firing and the portal growing. Audio will also go a long way....
On Tuesday, Twitter rolled back a change that previously broke many news articles, including some of ours. It involved the way deleted tweets appear in news stories. Using Twitter’s previous embed code, deleted tweets would appear as a simple block quote of what the post said, who said it, and when. However, the social media site changed its JavaScript, so that deleted tweets appeared as a useless blank box (below)....
The SBU wrote in a release that the farms, located in regions that included Kharkiv, Cherkasy, Ternopil, and Zakarpattia, were used for “large-scale information sabotage,” spreading distorted news and propaganda about a full-scale Russian invasion. The ultimate goal was to destabilize the socio-political situation in different areas while instilling panic among Ukraine’s population. Among the equipment seized at the different bot farms were over 100 GSM gateway devices, almost 10,000 SIM cards, laptops, and other computer equipment containing evidence of illegal actions....
The refreshed SKUs can be found on the Asus website, carrying the same number of CUDA cores and boost clocks as the original TUF OC and non-OC variants. The difference lies in the performance of the new graphics double data rate 6X (GDDR6X) memory, which increases memory speeds from 14Gbps to 19Gbps and memory bandwidth from 448GB/s to 608GB/s. Power connection requirements for the new cards also appear to have increased, changing from the original 1x8-pin connector to a 2x8-pin connector configuration....
In November, Xbox players were up in arms about the rampant cheating in Halo Infinite’s multiplayer mode. They demanded that Microsoft or 343 Industries deal with the cheaters or allow a way to disable crossplay with PC players. Just days later, 343 acknowledged the problem and said cheaters would be “dealt with,” but so far, little or nothing has been done, and the crossplay dilemma is coming to a head....
At first glance, the Steam Deck hasn’t caused intense enough tremors to be detected by the broader, dare we say casual, gaming community. But if we dig around a bit, the ripple this tiny gaming machine had on the underlying gaming topography is more extensive than anyone could foresee back in mid 2021 when Valve announced its foray into handheld gaming. Steam Deck prototypes shown below… The Building Blocks Before the PlayStation Portable, handheld consoles were relatively simple gaming machines made to emulate big screen experiences but in a compact form, with simplified visuals and gameplay....
Two new gaming consoles. Both very powerful. Both very ambitious. Both about to meet head to head… and do battle for your time, money and attention, as well as the fate of the universe! Two weeks ago we reviewed the PlayStation 4. Last week we reviewed the Xbox One. Now that we’ve had a decent chunk of time with both consoles, let’s bang them together and pretend they’re fighting....
It’s pleasing to see most of Xiaomi’s design choices paying off here, leading to better-than-average battery life. This smartphone isn’t going to top the performance charts, currently occupied by the Samsung Galaxy S8+, but it falls somewhere around the Pixel XL, which is a solid result. The Mi 6 also performs exceptionally well in PCMark, which is no doubt due to the Snapdragon 835’s improved efficiency. Perhaps the best aspect to the Mi 6’s battery life is that it provides very good battery life for its size....
Last week, Sony announced that it’s officially bringing Resident Evil Village to VR on its upcoming Playstation VR2 platform. Now, you can try out a demo of the non-VR game in your internet browser. It’s completely free, and it doesn’t even require you to log in. All you have to do is enter your age (the game is rated M), click the play button, and wait a while for the demo to load....
The concept of blade-throwing guns is not something new. The Ripper from Unreal Tournament and the Ripjack from Unreal Championship 2 come to mind. Other video games have had similar weapons too. However, finding a real-life version is challenging. YouTuber Quint is an engineer who has done numerous crazy projects on his channel Quint BUILDs — BUILD stands for “Better Understanding Involves Learning and Doing.” His latest is a knife-throwing machine (above)....
In the meantime, AMD quietly reduced the Threadripper 1920X’s SEP, short for “Suggested E-tailer Price,” down from its launch price of $800 to just $400. On paper, for $400 a 12-core/24-thread high-end desktop processor is an incredible buy. To help put this into perspective, you can expect to pay roughly the same amount for Intel’s Core i7-7800X, which has half as many cores. Meanwhile, Intel’s 10-core 7900X still costs $1000, so at least when compared to Intel high-end desktop offerings the 1920X is an insane bargain....
Researchers recently published a paper detailing a vulnerability they are calling Augury that affects Apple’s M1, M1 Max, and A14 processors. It might also reach older A-series chips and newer M1 relatives. Although Augury hasn’t led to real exploits yet, it’s unique because it can leak data that neither the core nor any instructions have read. This nullifies many defenses against Spectre which work by tracking what data the core and instructions access....
Like the Asrock H55M Pro, the ECS H55H-CM features a basic 4+1 power phase design with no form of cooling for the power circuitry. Unlike Asrock’s board, however, the CPU socket on the H55H-CM can only accommodate for LGA1156 coolers, meaning that those upgrading from an older LGA775 system won’t be able to use their aftermarket cooler if they have one. As far as the layout of the H55H-CM goes there are no real flaws....
When compared to the AMD Athlon II X4 635 processor, the Core i3 540 uses only slightly less power at idle, while under load it consumes considerably less. The Core i7 750 which works at a lower clock speed and does not feature an onboard GPU consumes much less power at idle, but its quad-core design requires considerably more juice when under load.
The current series’ flagship CPU known as the Core i7-3960X boasts a massive 15MB L3 cache and six cores clocked at 3.3GHz. As we found on our review last November, the i7-3960X is 20-30% faster than the Core i7-2600K, though at $999 it’s over 3 times more expensive. As crazy as that price might seem, there are those willing to fork out the dough to purchase the world’s most powerful desktop processor....
Whereas the Asus P9X79 Deluxe was limited to 3-way SLI, the X79 Extreme9 supports four Nvidia and AMD GPUs using PCIe x8/x8/x8/x8 – at least on paper, anyway. Although the technology is there, the board doesn’t seem to have enough room for four individual dual-slot cards. The X79 Extreme9 has eight DIMM slots for up to 64GB of RAM. Using the chipset’s quad-channel memory architecture, it supports frequencies of 1866, 1600, 1333 and 1066MHz, while 2400 and 2133MHz are possible with overclocking – no different than you’ll find on Asus’ contender....
This week, Piranha Games president Russ Bullock revealed that another MechWarrior game is in the works. The new project will be more like the single-player MechWarrior 5 than the multiplayer-oriented MechWarrior Online. Bullock confirmed the new title in an episode of the podcast No Guts No Galaxy. He said the game would be a standalone release for PC and consoles focusing on single-player and co-op modes. It will build off of the technological base of MechWarrior 5, though Bullock didn’t clarify what that means....
After enjoying a naked OS install in the Averatec 13" ultra-portable we reviewed a few weeks ago, it came as a shock to arrive to the Timeline and have its default Vista installation loaded with bloatware. Needless to say Vista didn’t run as impetuously as I had expected due to the bloat bundle, a practice that we hope will at least diminish somewhat with the arrival of 7 and its more minimalistic approach to background tasks....
