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The gaming journalists will claim it's a new war, but the reality is that it's not. Nintendo will sell more because their consoles cost less and they have a very closed ecosystem they control better than Sony does with theirs. For Sony, this would just be another peripheral to cover as much...

There were reports that Ponte Veccio was being cancelled/EoL by Intel to focus on newer hardware that has shown more promise. Which puts the DoD's supercomputer as the only major use of it.

God, I just want a proper successor to the Vita. That thing, despite its age, has aged quite well (both the LED and OLED screen variants I own do at least), and with homebrew firmware, gave it a second life being able to emulate old PS1, PS2, and PSP games as well as still being able to connect...

A legally signed payment agreement is an agreement regardless, but if you like working for less than what you signed on for, then you do you. Sticking to a sinking ship you're not even at the helm of sounds dumb as heck. He isn't like LTT either, who auction/sell off sponsored freebies after...

If people watched the video, he actually ripped them out since he was replacing both the CPU and GPU block with better ones from Optimus (and who are also reportedly replacing EK as a possible build sponsor) AND cleaning translucent fluid gunk out of his reservoirs and radiators (and the rest of...

Elecom produces some nice trackballs. I just wish that they also fixed the dreaded double-click issue that most Logitech mice seem to suffer from. Granted, it took nearly 5 years for my Elecom to develop it over the 2 year old Logitech Ergo MX. Now if only Elecom would offer an angled riser to...

Then again, it IS a part of their luxury/premium line, Granzon. I would hope though that the coldplate would at least have slightly better performance than the basic Blyski blocks. Otherwise yeah, it'd be pretty marked up.

When I eventually had to toss a fouled EK block (corrosion due to my fault), I ended up using a budget Blyski analog, which lasted a long while until I finally splurged on high-end blocks (that are not EK). Still ended up using the Blyski (attached to a repurposed Alphacool expandable AIO) for a...

I wonder if how bad will performance be if they include mitigations to fix the unfixable security issues plaguing the M1-3 series, and needs a software patch on M4s. Not going to lie, had a few of those way back when, and they made for great pocket-change gardening and general-purpose jeans...

Meh, for 70.99, or a for a limited time, 55.99, one could buy a 3 pack of overkill SuperFlower Megacools and have plenty of untapped raw power and no RGB crud. Or if some actual quality to cost is warranted, HYTE's new THIC FP12 Fans come in at 110 USD average for a 3-pack + control hub, but...

Indeed, not another game like this, where the Devs actively manipulate the lore/story/in-game events, giving the illusion that the game is really evolving or adapting to players' actions. The rest of the game is nothing new, and like you mention, could be found on some level in other games, esp...

Really, the funniest bit was playing some random battles with individuals, and having some of them rant about Sony even as they continued to play the game. Sure, they left a negative review, but then proceeded to continue playing. They couldn't bring themselves to abandon the game. The most...

Eh, Sony will not give up on it. They'll definitely end up doing some kind of juicy bonus exclusive to PSN accounts, probably not only exclusive cosmetics, but maybe a special set of weapons/equipment (possibly hidden under the guise of a collab with another Sony-exclusive) and a bonus XP...

I'm surprised that taking on work for EK (and some other brands) is apparently part of how Swiftech hasn't completely died. I wonder if Swiftech also owns their own production line, which allows them to scale as-needed, unlike EK which didn't own most of their production. I wonder who else ended...

Now that you have a contact in Thermalright, it'd be nice to see their TL-B12 reviewed at some point, which are their own rivals to the legacy Gentle Typhoons and the A12x25s.