The Elements of Gadgets and Gaming
Apple will be ditching Intel and transitioning the Mac to ARM based processors over the next two years. I’m actually surprised it hasn’t happened before now, but here we are. The Mac lads are now full steam ahead, making their fourth major architecture change since the dawn of the platform in 1984. The move makes…
Welcome to the first day of the end of your life. Fortunately, everybody here is just as dead as you. That’s why they call it the Land of the Dead. Oops, wrong game. Well, we’ve journeyed to the 8th Underworld already, but what treats, or terrors, can you build for souls who make the arduous…
Detective Inspector Hector is the only halfway decent policeman in Clappers Wreak, the town that took the “Great” out of Great Britain. He’d love nothing more than to spend the afternoon with a good cuppa and the filthiest porn the internet has on order. Unfortunately, there’s a terrorist knocking about, who’s threatening to commit the…
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…
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…
2019 was not a exactly a particularly notable year in gaming. As the current console generation winds down, so are major releases. To be honest, there really wasn’t a lot of really outstanding titles to choose from. We got a lot of remakes and remasters this year, but it seems most publishers are saving their…
Twas the month before Christmas, and all through MMNTech, disappointing games, made me want to go blech. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that St. Nicholas, would’t put any of these there. The “had to wear Aunt Clara’s bunny pajamas” award goes to… Pokemon Sword & Shield (Game Freak/Nintendo) How…
Apple announced quite a few new devices at the annual World Wide Developer’s Conference this past week. We have some new iPads, and a brand new Mac Pro. But what’s catching most people’s attention is not electronics, but rather the ludicrously expensive stand for their new professional 5K monitor. The stand retails for $999 US…
EA’s stocks have taken a sharp dive following what the company called a “difficult quarter”. CFO Blake Jorgensen cited increasing competition in the video game space from titles like Fortnight, as well as weaker than expected sales for Battlefield V. The game sold about 7.3 million copies, which was 1 million fewer than expected. “It’s…
When you’re a kid, you have all the time in the world to play games, just no money to buy them. As you become older, the opposite becomes true. There’s money to buy games, just no time to play them. So the games pile up. About a year ago, I decided to replace the flooring…