It’s a rough time for Destiny 2’s community right now. I’d argue the game itself isn’t in too bad of a place, but the combined effect of Lightfall’s disappointing campaign and more general burnout with the seasonal model has meant the mood around online discussion has been grim for months now. Step forward today’s ‘State of the Game’ post from Destiny 2 game director Joe Blackburn and the wider team, which attempts to tackle some of the recurring complaints and concerns being raised.

There’s a handful of scraps regarding Crucible, Vanguard and Gambit activities, but first, I want to highlight the planned quality-of-life updates coming in a few weeks with the launch of season 22 on August 22, aka, the good stuff.

• You’ll finally be able to favourite shaders, ornaments and…
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โฟเด้น ได้รางวัลสูงสุดจากสมาคมนักเตะอาชีพ, สมาคมนักข่าวฟุตบอลอังกฤษ และ พรีเมียร์ลีก อังกฤษ จากผลงาน 27 ประตู, 12 แอสซิสต์ ในการเล่น 53 แมตช์ ฤดูกาลที่แล้ว แต่มาซีซั่นปัจจุบันฝืดจัด 5 เกมไร้ประตูหรือแอสซิสต์

เรื่องดังกล่าว เป๊ป เข้าใจแข้งวัย 24 ปีเพราะมันคือการกรำศึกต่อเนื่องจากทีมชาต…

โกเมส วัย 24 ปี ประเดิมสนามให้ทีมชาติอังกฤษเมื่อเดือนที่แล้ว หลังถูก ลี คาร์สลี่ย์ เรียกตัวมาติดทีมครั้งแรก

สตาร์จากสโมสรลีก เอิง สร้างความประทับใจกับบทบาทเพลย์เมกเกอร์ตัวต่ำในเกมกับ ไอร์แลนด์ และ ฟินแลนด์ ในรายการยูฟ่า เนชั่นส์ ลีก

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There’s going to be a beefier GeForce RTX 4080 on its way in the first few months of 2024, so is the latest graphics card rumour on the social grapevine. The name, Super or Ti, has yet to be decided but it’s supposed to be using a cut-down version of the AD102 GPU, that’s the GPU currently powering the RTX 4090. Power limit is supposed to be less than 450W and the price range is similar to the RTX 4080’s.

This is all according to MEGAsizeGPU on Twitter (via Videocardz) but as with any post on social media with precisely zero hard evidence to back it up, it’s best to treat it as being no more than a shower thought, regardless of who actually posts it. That’s said, there’s some merit to breaking down what’s actually being claimed.

Let’s start with the use of the AD102. The cur…

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Balancing games is a tricky business—just ask Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead about that. Generally speaking, games need to put up enough of a challenge to keep players engaged without unduly punishing them when they get out of line, a mystical zone of difficulty sometimes casually referred to as “fun.” In a new video on the topic, Josh Sawyer discusses his approach to Fallout: New Vegas, saying he wanted to ensure the game was a bit more of a challenge for players than Fallout 3 or Skyrim—but that he couldn’t just crank up the numbers to make it happen.

“This is a controversial statement I’m going to make,” Sawyer says in the new video, before taking a long, dramatic exhale and dropping his nearly-too-hot-for-YouTube take: “Fallout 3 was not a hard game. The…

If you learned to play Dungeons & Dragons back in 1983 or thereabouts you may well have done so with the D&D Basic Set, a red box that included a solo choose-your-own-adventure to introduce the basics of the Basic rules. That adventure’s star NPCs, Aleena the cleric and Bargle the Infamous, are still fondly remembered (and hated, in Bargle’s case) by an entire generation of roleplayers today.

Wizards of the Coast has created a new pick-a-path introduction to D&D called Before the Storm, no relation to the Life is Strange prequel, which you can play in a browser. You get to select a character from five options—human paladin, hill dwarf cleric, lightfoot halfling rogue, high elf wizard, or wood elf fighter—and play through a story that introduces the rules of…

Intel’s Core i3, i5, and i7 branding has been around for well over a decade now, starting with the release of Nehalem chips back in 2009. It’s been through a few iterations since then, namely the introduction of a higher Core i9 tier back in 2017, but its biggest shake-up might be on the way with next-gen Meteor Lake chips.

Intel might be ditching the ‘i’ from Core i3, Core i5, etc., and in some cases replacing it with the word “Ultra”.

The rumours first started when an Ashes of the Singularity benchmark showed up with a Meteor Lake chip in testing called the Core Ultra 5 1003H (via Videocardz). That’s a bit of a weird name even without the Ultra stuffed in there, but this isn’t a desktop chip. It’s likely a mobile processor from the specs listed in a SiSoft benchmark databa…

What more does one need to add to a story headline like the one above? Basically just that thread below—go read it and then come back and tell me you weren’t absorbed even if you had no idea what they were talking about half the time. 

Essentially a person buys a prison laptop off eBay, tinkers with it to see if they can make it work, then tumbles down an enormous rabbit hole of astonishing things you never knew about tech in jails. That alone makes it sound really cool but the whole story, replete with neat pictures and help from other readers, just makes it the best thing I’ve read in a long time.

The person in question is zephray_wenting on X (or Twitter, if you prefer) and the journey begins with a look at the laptop in question: An older model of Justice Tech…

At this year’s MysteriumCon, Myst creator Cyan Worlds provided a first look at alpha gameplay of its upcoming remake of Riven: The Sequel to Myst. The short demo came at the end of a presentation where it was also revealed that Riven’s original co-director, Richard Vander Wende, has been heading up the remake.

The demo showed off a portion from the middle of the game, with a puzzle involving a large boiler on the shores of a lake and some scaffolding leading out from the shore. The look of the thing reminds me a lot of Cyan Worlds’ 2021 remake of Myst, and like that first remake, Riven’s gorgeous, dreamy aesthetic survives the shift from pre-rendered scenes to realtime, full-3D exploration.

Time will tell if the remake is able to handle the gameplay transition better than My…