Month: August 2023
Is ‘War Games’ Homeworld 3’s secret weapon?
If one thing kept me coming back (and back) to Homeworld, it was skirmish mode. Setting up a quick (“quick”) battle against the CPU would often rob me of a whole weekend while at college. Homeworld 3 sees a new mode arrive on the second sequel, a roguelike-inspired multiplayer co-op…
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AMD announces Radeon RX 7800 XT and 7700 XT, starting at $449
“I just wish there were an option between the $300 to $400 marks that offered enough performance to push us firmly into the 1440p era.” That was my colleague Tom Warren’s conclusion reviewing the $399 Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti and $269 AMD Radeon RX 7600. On September 6th, AMD may…
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AMD claims there’s nothing stopping Starfield from adding Nvidia DLSS
But he clearly can’t. Azor says he can’t say what the contract includes. Instead, he repeatedly lands on this: “If they want to do DLSS, they have AMD’s full support.” He says there’s nothing blocking Bethesda from adding it to the game. Azor, a co-founder of Alienware, has had many…
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SwitchBot’s new robot vacuum mop is the closest thing yet to a sci-fi cleaning robot
Smart home robotics company SwitchBot — of robot finger fame — has come up with another ingenious solution for automating boring chores in your home. This one is a sizable leap toward a Rosie the Robot vision of a fully autonomous robot house cleaner, though without the personality. The SwitchBot…
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Baldur’s Gate 3’s gigantic new patch is for the shorties
Baldur’s Gate 3’s first official patch is apparently so large its patch notes exceed Steam’s character limit. The patch, out now, addresses “over 1,000 bugs, balancing, flow issues and much, much more.” You can read the full but spoiler-heavy patch notes here, while BG3’s Steam page has a truncated but…
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This premium WordPress plugin could let hackers hijack your website
WYSIWYG editor for WordPress and first-draft Elon Musk baby name JupiterX Core has been hijacking accounts and uploading files, but a patch has been issued. Reporting the news, BleepingComputer also cites Themeforest sales for the JupiterX theme to estimate that it’s used on over 172,000 websites. The real number is…
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