Month: May 2022
Battle.net hit by huge DDoS attack
Audio player loading… Popular gaming service Battle.net was taken offline by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that took services down for several hours. Parent company Blizzard tweeted that the attack may result in high latency and disconnections for some players. According to Downdetector user reports, the DDoS attack…
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Ayn’s Odin is the retro gaming handheld to beat
There are many, many ways to play retro games today. Plenty of those options are handhelds. But you might be surprised at how many of these devices feel jury rigged, cheap or often both. Worse, there’s a mishmash of open-source emulators running on a variety of operating systems to deal…
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This update means you’ll never lose a Microsoft OneDrive file again
Audio player loading… Making sure you never lose that vital Microsoft OneDrive file should soon be a lot easier thanks to a new update coming soon. The cloud storage service is adding the ability to rename your “Add to OneDrive” shortcuts, hopefully making it a lot simpler to track down…
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The best mobile gaming controllers you can buy
Mobile gaming is serious business now. The biggest titles out there are games like Fortnite and Genshin Impact, helped along by legions of kids getting their first smartphone. Lots of game publishers are putting out console-quality experiences on mobile, and it’s taken time for gaming accessories to catch up. But…
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The Pixel’s camera bar is here to stay, and that’s a good thing
You can spot an Apple iPhone from 20 paces away. I bet you’d be able to tell a Samsung Galaxy from that distance, too. Yet, until last year, a Google phone didn’t have an eye-catching design language all its own. But this week, Google revealed that its most distinctive, in-your-face…
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AMD’s CPU market share hits an all-time high – how worried is Intel now?
Audio player loading… AMD has set a new record for its overall CPU market share (when it comes to x86 processors), despite a drop in the total sales of these chips. The CPU numbers for Q1 2022 were crunched by Mercury Research, which found that AMD reached an all-time high…
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