The Elements of Gadgets and Gaming
A few weeks back, I wrote about how the iPhone SE 2 is not the mid-range killer the media are making it out to be. Which is certainly true from a features perspective. Aside from raw performance, you’re getting something that falls short of a lot of mid-range Android phones from five years ago. That…
You’ve probably heard the whole kerfuffle about Doom Eternal this past week. id Software released a surprise update to the game that included the kernel (“ring 0”) level Denuvo Anti-Cheat tool. Needless to say, many fans, myself included, were not happy. Kernel level software can cause a whole host of problems. Not to mention the…
You’ve probably seen reports in the news lately of people setting “5G” towers on fire. Something about this technology has gotten a lot of folks spooked, especially the fringe theorists among us. With far ranging claims from it spying on you, to cooking your brain, to spreading the CCPVirus. So what the heck is 5G…
So, it’s been a long time since we’ve talked about Apple products on here. With good reason too. They’ve kind of lost their lustre since Steve Jobs passed away, at least in my eyes. But low and behold, we have a new iPhone SE. A “cheap” iPhone for the unwashed masses to bathe in the…
Nintendo dropped Switch Firmware 10.0.0 yesterday. It adds a whole slew of cool new features, like button mapping and the ability to move game data from the internal storage to a MicroSD. Which is certainly handy given the console’s very limited internal storage. But most games will automatically default to the card anyway if its…
Washington University’s Folding@Home project has reached 1.5 exaFLOPs in processing power. Making in the fastest distributed computing project, and indeed the fastest computer in the world. The recent jump in performance is largely thanks to the PC gaming community, who have volunteered en mass for the medical research project in order to find a treatment…
UPDATE: GameStop and EB will now be closing stores after all to comply with rules closing non-essential businesses. GameStop, and its Canadian subsidiary EB Games, have announced plans to stay open during the COVID-19 pandemic, despite many jurisdictions asking non-essential retailers to close. In an internal leaked memo, the company went as far as to…
The Xbox Series X is shaping up to be one mighty console according to official specs released by Microsoft earlier this week. While we already knew that it would feature an AMD’s Zen 2 processor and RDNA graphics, but now we have more information about what’s under the hood. 8-Core AMD Ryzen “Zen 2” CPU…
Google has been maintaining radio silence on their Stadia game streaming platform, which is causing concern among the platform’s fan base. Over in the official Stadia subreddit, user Gizoogle noted that over 40 days have passed since any new games or features were announced. While Google had claimed that over 120 games were coming to…
Games industry analysts Kantan Games are predicting that Nintendo will absolutely, without a doubt, release an updated “Switch Pro” sometime in 2020. CEO Serkan Toto told reporters that he predicts “4K support, bigger cartridge sizes, and of course beefed-up components.” Toto expects the device will be released sometime after the summer holidays, much like the…