Fables After impressing folks with a heart-wrenching episodic story based on The Walking Dead (game of the year at Spike’s VGAs and elsewhere), many gamers are highly optimistic about Telltale’s next major project, which also happens to be based on a comic: Fables by Bill Willingham. As with The Walking Dead, Fables the game will be faithful to the source material, though it will tell a unique story based on Willingham’s universe....
The company attempted to modify its terms to stay afloat - for example, by introducing surge pricing, limiting tickets to just three per month and limiting access to first run blockbusters, but the damage was already done. Eventually, MoviePass and its parent company filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection. Nearly two years later, however, the company’s co-founder, Stacy Spikes, purchased MoviePass out of bankruptcy and is now staging a reboot....
A new high-end controller and increased retail price are not the only recent changes Sony is making to the PlayStation 5. A few days ago, a new hardware model of the 9th-gen gaming machine hit retailers in Australia, the second revision to arrive on the market after the console’s initial release on November 2020. YouTuber Austin Evans has already put this new revision to the test to see what is different and improved under the hood....
Sources familiar with the matter told Nikkei that Nikon has increasingly been losing out on sales to smartphones with powerful integrated camera arrays. Nikon hopes to beat out mobile competition with mirrorless cameras featuring more advanced digital technologies. This isn’t the first time we have heard rumblings of this nature, nor is the revelation surprising. Nikon hasn’t released a new DSLR model since the D6 arrived in early 2020 and stopped making compact digital cameras a few years earlier....
Last week we pointed out the current two-month gap that Hello Games had between No Man’s Sky updates. Historically, lengthy patch breaks like that meant a major iteration is eminent. However, in that case, it appeared it was because the developers were busy on a Nintendo Switch port. That is true, but a big content dump was, indeed, also on the way. Update 3.8, titled Sentinel, focuses heavily on combat (summary trailer above)....
Last year, Asus partnered with Noctua to produce a custom design for Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3070 graphics card. The result was exactly what you’d expect — a graphics card with a beefy heatsink, a minimalistic shroud, and two of Noctua’s best fans. This week, the two companies revealed they’ve extended their partnership to make a GeForce RTX 3080 Noctua Edition graphics card. The move was likely in response to enthusiasts who have been asking the obvious question — why apply Noctua’s expertise to a mid-range Ampere card but not any of its higher-end siblings?...
Like the Lumia 800 that preceded it, the Lumia 900 features stunning industrial design, great build quality, and a fantastic ClearBlack AMOLED display. Add in great network performance, solid battery life, and a fast and fluid user interface thanks to Windows Phone 7.5, and you start to see that Nokia really might have a winner on their hands. Unfortunately, it’s not all peaches and roses with the Lumia 900, as its seemingly capable camera does not live up to expectations in real world performance....
Competition between the GTX 660 and HD 7850 was tight in Dirt 3, as both cards averaged 79fps, though the overclocked GTX 660 reached 82fps, only 1fps behind the HD 7870. Dirt 3 Showdown favors AMD-based cards, so it wasn’t too surprising that the GTX 660 was found to be 22% slower than the HD 7850 and 37% slower than the HD 7870. Interestingly, it was only 5% faster than the GTX 560 Ti while being 21% slower than the GTX 660 Ti....
The Enyo was just over 2x faster than a traditional hard drive using the SATA interface and a whopping 6.5x faster than a traditional USB 2.0 storage device. During sequential write tests the Enyo, believe it or not, was just as impressive against its competition. With a transfer rate of 177MB/s, this portable storage device left every other contender in the dust, with a 1.5x performance advantage over a traditional hard drive and being as much as 5x faster than a USB 2....
As we’ve seen previously, it offered poor sequential write performance which comes down to the use of asynchronous memory. The hybrid solution delivered average results when measuring 4K-64 thread read performance with a throughput of 112.4MB/s on its first run. The 4K-64 thread write performance was even more impressive at 143.7MB/s, making it faster than then full-fledged SSDs by Patriot and Samsung. An SSD’s extremely low millisecond access time is what makes a computer feel so responsive....
OCZ’s suggested retail price for the Vertex 2 100GB is $400, while the Vertex LE is currently selling for $360 offering the same capacity, albeit for limited time while supplies last. Then we have the original Vertex, which costs $340 in 120GB capacities. Looking at our file transfer tests there was little difference between the Vertex and the Vertex 2 for the most part. At best we found the Vertex 2 to be 12% faster, which is a nice performance bump but not enough to warrant the more dramatic hike in price, not to mention the loss in storage space....
In addition to our featured storage devices, the Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM hard drive has been included for comparison’s sake. Other SSDs used for comparison feature controllers such as the SandForce SF-1200, JMicron JMF616, Intel PC29AS218A, Marvell 88SS9174, Toshiba TC58NCF618GBT and Samsung S3C29MAX01. Our testing suite consists of four synthetic benchmark programs and our own file copying and load time tests. As you should know by now, while manufacturers claim impressive peak I/O performance out of the box, this performance can diminish over time....
The OCZ Vertex 450 256GB took just 95 seconds to install Red Orchestra 2, which was the fastest overall and is the same time it took the original Vector drives. Most high-end solid-state drives tested took just 43 seconds to complete a virus scan of the System32 folder, OCZ Vertex 450 256GB included. Either the CPU or the SATA 6Gb/s interface is creating a bottleneck here and is stopping us from breaking the 43 second mark....
If I was writing a book of personal gaming records, I’d mark up a page for the Ouya: New console that stayed in the box, unplayed, longer than any other one I’ve ever had. Three days. Sealed. No urgency to play the tiniest console I’ve ever seen. It’s so tiny, yet I still wasn’t sure I had room for it in my life. Who asked for the Ouya, anyway? Many people did, actually....
Being one of the most popular programming languages in the world, Python is both an opportunity and a risk for programs and the open source software supply chain. Case in point: researchers are rediscovering a security vulnerability hidden within Python for 15 years. The bug “works by design,” at least according to Python developers; others think otherwise and are working to provide a patch to affected projects. First discovered in 2007 and listed as CVE-2007-4559, the vulnerability is located in the tarfile module which is used by Python programs to read and write Tar archives....
Gamers will face off in 5v5 PvP matches across a variety of game modes and maps including fan favorites like bank and border. The title will feature many of the same operators from Siege, with Ubisoft hand-picking the most popular ones to create its starting roster. Ubisoft has already announced nearly a dozen operators for the game including Ash, SLedge and Twitch on offense and Bandit, Smoke and Mute on defense....
This week’s Steam Deck software update makes Remote Play Together fully operational on the handheld. Users can now join and host online sessions in games with only local multiplayer. Valve introduced the feature to Steam in 2019, which lets one user stream a game to friends who can send back their inputs to particulate in local multiplayer, while only the host needs to own a copy of the game. Steam Deck verified games supporting Remote Play Together include NBA 2K22, Stardew Valley, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Cuphead, and others....
PCMag reports that China’s Modern Defence Technology journal published a paper last month warning of the potential dangers posed by Starlink satellites. The study was led by Ren Yuanzhen, a researcher with the Beijing Institute of Tracking and Telecommunications under the PLA’s Strategic Support Force, and was co-authored by several senior scientists in China’s defense industry, writes the SCMP. “While [Starlink] is booming and also because of its huge comprehensive application potential, it has brought hidden dangers and challenges to our country,” the paper reads....
The Galaxy S5’s fingerprint scanner is the swipe-type, meaning you have to swipe the entirety of your print from top to bottom along the home button for it to register. Meanwhile, Apple uses a static sensor in the iPhone 5s, which simply requires you to press your finger to the home button. You can probably tell which implementation is better just from the description (hint: it’s the iPhone’s). The main use of the Galaxy S5’s fingerprint scanner is securing the phone....
If you want to learn more about the Exynos 5433, I’ve already covered it in detail in my review of the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 last year. The Tab S2 also comes with either 32 or 64 GB of internal storage, plus a microSD card slot that can handle up to 128 GB cards. It’s great to see expandable storage in the Tab S2 after Samsung killed this feature in the Note 5 and Galaxy S6....
