I like to think I’m pretty speedy when it comes to building a gaming PC, but my record is firmly in the mud. Two contestants at Newegg’s PC speed building contest at Megacon 2025 have finished with sub-five minute times, and that’s a mighty impressive feat, even if it does come with some caveats. And … Read more
If you’re one of the 23 people around the world who has managed to snag an RTX 5090, you might be tempted to splash out on a fancy set of power cables to make your new upgrade look the best it can. That got us thinking about what set would be best to use, so … Read more
Update 11/02/2025: Digital Extremes has gotten back to me with the numbers on this year’s TennoCon attendees. In total, the event sold through 3,000 tickets in about 30 minutes, which seems pretty believable to me. If you missed out, DE says “prospective attendees who were able to join [the] virtual queue will have tickets for … Read more
This past weekend saw a bizarre, still largely unexplained outage of Sony’s PlayStation Network service, effectively rendering a bunch of folk unable to access digital games and online servers. As someone who moonlights as a console sicko, I’ll admit it was a real spanner in my weekend plans. It was quite frankly terrible timing, too—as … Read more
MMOs—at least, the big boys that have endured from the massively multiplayer golden age—can sometimes be considered a smidge stale. Many design elements are, in a sense, solved. The Holy Trinity took over years ago, dungeon finders are a must, and heaven forbid if you’re running something suboptimal in a pick-up group of hypervigilant strangers, … Read more