While surveys suggest that most game developers don’t want to integrate NFTs in their games, some of the largest devs are going all-in with crypto. Ubisoft announced its first NFT drop in Ghost Recon Breakpoint late last year to widespread criticism. That didn’t stop the company from adding “Digits” items…
With the arrival of the DirectStorage API for Windows, game developers have begun talking about what it could mean for future games. The technology is currently in-use on the Xbox Series X and is part of the console’s Velocity Architecture. It allows for faster loading and decompression of game assets,…
After Apple’s Peek Performance event this week winded down the company unveiled a new accessory: a 3M Thunderbolt 4 cable. At first blush it seems like a nothingburger served with a side of Apple gouging. Upon closer inspection though, there’s more to it than you might think. The introduction of…
In a surprising turn of events, AMD might not allow any overclocking on its soon-to-launch Ryzen 7 5800X3D CPU. This is AMD’s first consumer CPU with a huge 64MB chunk of on-die 3D L3 cache. This gives the CPU a total of 96MB of L3 including the 32MB included in…
The last time we heard some rumors about MSI’s incoming Z690 Godlike motherboard, we wrote, “it’s not hard to imagine this board eclipsing the $1,000 mark, or more.” We were so naive way back in /checks notes December 2021. Now that the board has officially arrived, it’s being offered at…
(Image: Ithome) We love SSDs for so many reasons: they’re silent, they move data so much faster than hard drives it’s orgasmic at times, they’re tiny and easy to tuck out of the way, they’re affordable in reasonable capacities, and they don’t get very hot, or at least current models…
Now that the PlayStation 5 officially supports third-party storage devices, the review community has gotten to work evaluating performance and compatibility. Sony’s decision to support a wide range of storage products on the PS5 is something of an about-face for the company. In the past, Sony has often used its…
Kioxia recently presented at the China Flash Market Summit, where it shared data on what kind of performance to expect from its upcoming PCIe 5.0 drives. Just as PCIe 4.0 doubled bandwidth compared with PCIe 3.0, PCIe 5.0 doubles up compared with 4.0. An x1 PCIe 5.0 lane will deliver…
A few weeks ago, we covered the news that multiple SSD manufacturers including Crucial, Western Digital, and Samsung had been caught bait-and-switching customers. Specifically, the new drives these companies are shipping do not always offer as much performance as the versions sampled for review. We heard from Crucial and Western…
SpaceX launched itself into the public consciousness with the Falcon 9, a highly reliable rocket that has now completed numerous trips to the International Space Station. NASA has even authorized the Falcon 9 and its Dragon capsule to transport astronauts, a first for private aerospace. The Falcon 9 was also…