Helldivers 2’s next warbond makes slowdown an unpatriotic thing of the past with ‘motivational shocks’-
Helldivers 2 has announced its next warbond, the game’s equivalent of battle passes, will arrive on May 9 and is going to take the temperature of this war all the way down. Polar Patriots leads with the line that “a deep freeze is coming to the galaxy” before introducing a plethora of cold-themed armor, new weapons, and a white phosphorous grenade to balance things out.
There are fancy cloaks and cool new emotes too, but we all know what we’re here for: firepower. The new AR-61 Tenderizer assault rifle trades huge power for a small magazine in “a real tentacle-tearer” with which “unpatriotic ‘banter’ shots are not advisable.” Helldivers who’ve been calling for more SMG options will salute the arrival of the SMG-72 Pummeler, which has a slower rate of fire than existing SMGs…
Read moreI wear these Bang & Olufsen headphones daily and now they’re finally at a price I can actually recommend you buy them for this Cyber Monday-
One size fits all takes on a new meaning with the Bang & Olufsen Portal headphones. They should fit any head size, but I’m actually talking about how they’re handy for a load of different devices. They’re able to connect to your PC, phone, handheld console, or otherwise wired up to anything else you might have—an old Zune, maybe—via Bluetooth, 2.4G dongle, or USB Type-C cable.
Usually there’s a pretty big premium on this sort of multi-use gaming headset: anything that can claim to do the job of two headsets tends to come with a price tag equal to two headsets (or more). That’s usually true of these B&O Portal cans—they’d usually set you back a whopping $499—but right now you can pick a pair up for $209 at Amazon.
It’s worth stating that these …
Read moreIntel is making progress on a handy new material for building even bigger computer chips- glass-
With the growing need for computational power and performance, processors are getting bigger—much bigger. Even some of today’s gaming graphics cards push the boundaries of a small package, but they’re relatively small-fry next to AI accelerators and supercomputer chips. From here on out, it’s all about cramming more and more stuff—chiplets, memory, interconnects—onto a single processor. But there are limits to what’s possible.
The limits aren’t just in how much you can stuff into a single silicon chip—that’s a problem that cutting-edge process nodes, chiplets, and interconnects try to solve. There’s also what you put those silicon chips onto afterwards. This is called the substrate, and it’s what allows the silicon chip to communicate with a motherboard. In…
Read moreA fresh easter egg in WoW teases The War Within, double-confirms that yes- the big sword stuck in the planet is still important-
The War Within arrives this year—promising to finally address Battle for Azeroth’s biggest dangling plot thread: the giant bloody sword that’s sticking out of the planet. We know this because of some subtle hints from the expansion’s cinematic trailer, like when the camera pans to the giant bloody sword. The one that’s sticking out of the planet.
In case you’re out of the loop, the sword was put there by Sargeras the Dark Titan, leader of the Burning Legion, when he was finally slain in the Legion expansion. This caused Azeroth to bleed a material called Azerite—kicking off the events of Battle for Azeroth and yet another unpopular borrowed power system (giving players new toys only to yoink them away at the end of the expansion).
Only, everyone kinda forgo…
Read moreMojang finally adds more than one type of dog to Minecraft, after over a decade of players struggling to tell their wolves apart-
If you’ve ever been too terrified to take your Minecraft wolf out on an expedition for fear of creeper explosions and pillager raids, then boy, do I have news for you.
Today, Mojang announced on Twitter that wolves will receive a significant update in Minecraft, including new variants and wolf armour. While these changes are still in the works, you can try them out for yourself by enabling snapshots for Minecraft: Java Edition or in the previews/beta for Minecraft: Bedrock Edition.
I’m overjoyed. Not only will I finally be able to tell my army of wolves apart without needing dozens of nametags and a magnifying glass, I’ll also be able to finally give my pets the protection they deserve.
It’s an update that’s well overdue, considering cat…
Read moreAnd now it’s official- Nicolas Cage will play Nicolas Cage starring as Nicolas Cage in Dead by Daylight later this year-
The multiplayer survival horror game Dead by Daylight is getting a brand new survivor in Year 8, and his name is Nic. The big news actually leaked out earlier this week, but now it’s official and real: Nicolas Cage, the man who brought us, well, Nicolas Cage, is coming to the game later this year in “the collaboration players didn’t know they needed.”
Nicolas Cage is a tremendously talented actor—remember, he’s won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild award, and been nominated for numerous others—but over the years he’s also developed a reputation for being seriously over the top, both personally and professionally. To some, it represents a deep commitment to his craft, while to others it’s just deeply weird, and there’s really no telling how much …
Read moreSteam will ditch Windows 7 and 8 support next year-
If you’re reading this on a PC running Windows 7, Windows 8 or Windows 8.1, then it’s bad news, I’m afraid: Steam won’t work on your computer next year. Valve announced as much today, and it’s all because of Google Chrome.
“The newest features in Steam rely on an embedded version of Google Chrome, which no longer functions on older versions of Windows,” Valve’s typically curt announcement reads. “In addition, future versions of Steam will require Windows feature and security updates only present in Windows 10 and above.”
If you are running Windows 7 or 8 to play games, then you’re extremely in the minority. According to Steam’s February Hardware and Software Survey, only 0.09% of users run Windows 7, while 1.43% use the 64 bit version. It’s less than h…
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