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Halo Infinite Multiplayer Beta
Straight up I must confess that I’ve not played a Halo game since the days of the OG Xbox in good old fashioned 4 player split-screen, screen cheating action. The first things I noticed were “damn that 343 intro looks cool”, and wow the title screen is beautiful. Halos all-too-familiar music also kicks in and…
Edge, I’ve said no dammit!
Microsoft’s web browser according to their side “puts you first” however unfortunately their tactics for promoting their browser certainly do not. In this article, I explore this problem, and basically why there are no (or few) reasons other than shameless self-promotion at the expense of user experience for Microsoft to do this. I must also…
Rift Breaker, a unique RTS multi-genre fusion
Rift Breaker is a cool fusion of RTS + ARPG. Build bases and slog through enemies whilst exploring and defending them. It provides a minimal but adequate story and tonnes of exploration to keep one quite engaged. Essentially you travel through a multitude of missions on different maps spanning several biomes. Each with its own…
Alder Lake – What do we need to know?
Intel’s 12th Generation Core Architecture also known as Alder Lake brings with it a host of new features and considerations for those wishing to upgrade. For example, it brings a new socket and with it, considerations for cooling, DDR5 which has some interesting quirks when it comes to maximum supported speed on Alder Lake, PCIe…
Backblaze data suggests young SSD’s are less likely to fail than HDD’s
A recent Backblaze blog post is one of the best comparisons of SSD and HDD reliability currently available and I highly recommend having a read. Unfortunately, many outlets have presented misguided clickbait headings but the facts are simple, the Annualized Failure Rate of HDD’s in the lifetime controlled comparison (average age ~14.2 months) was 31.4%…
No it’s not likely that New World is bricking GPU’s
Despite the reports, headlines and misguided comments claiming New World is bricking GPU’s this perspective has little basis in fact. The reality is few people (GPU manufacturers and Amazon) can definitively say “yes it is” or “no it isn’t”. Whilst some cards have certainly failed whilst playing New World I think this is a correlation,…