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By Ben Funk on Mar 20, 2021 02:10 pm
[Happy Birthday Animal Crossing New Horizons! Year In Review For A Hall Of Fame Classic]( Sometimes, a work of art hits our culture at just the right time, when it can transcend its medium and become something greater. Such events are exceedingly rare in video games, but we old folks remember Pac-Man Fever and Fred Savage in The Wizard playing Super Mario Bros. 3. More recently, video games have become spectator sports in large
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By Nathan Ord on Mar 20, 2021 12:48 pm
[Acer Falls Victim To Crushing $50M Ransomware Attack Likely Due To Microsoft Exchange Vulnerability]( Earlier in the month, brewer Molson Coors was allegedly hit by a ransomware attack under the guise of a âcybersecurity incident.â Now, Taiwanese computer manufacturer Acer has reportedly been hit by a REvil ransomware gang attack, and the hackers are demanding the largest known ransom to-date. The ransomware gang announced earlier this
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By Ben Funk on Mar 20, 2021 11:31 am
[Apple Heavyweights Cook, Federighi And Schiller To Testify In Blockbuster Trial Vs Epic Games]( It feels like forever ago, but it's only been a few months since Apple kicked Fortnite out of the App Store and suspended Epic's developer account. Of course, you know how the rest of this story goes: Epic filed a lawsuit against the iPhone maker charging that the App Store itself represented a monopoly. In a case this significant, it only
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By Paul Lilly on Mar 20, 2021 11:20 am
[Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake-S Allegedly Delivers Potent 20% Single-Thread Lift, Huge Multithreading Boost]( There is some buzz surrounding Intel with the launch of its 11th Gen Core desktop processors, otherwise known as Rocket Lake-S, and the direction the company might go with Pat Gelsinger now at the helm. One thing we know is on tap from Intel is a hybrid CPU architecture called Alder Lake. Details have slowly been trickling in, but adding to
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By Brandon Hill on Mar 20, 2021 11:14 am
[Simple GeForce RTX 3060 ETH Crypto Limiter Bypass Discovered For Multi-GPU Mining Rigs]( Earlier this week, we learned that NVIDIA's cryptocurrency mining limiter on the GeForce RTX 3060 was easily bypassed using the 470.05 beta driver. The limiter can slash Ethereum mining performance by 50 percent or more, which was supposed to reduce the graphics card's appeal to miners. While the beta driver seems to be perfectly fine for
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By Paul Lilly on Mar 20, 2021 10:20 am
[AMD Radeon RX 6800M Navi 22 Mobile GPU Found Lurking In Latest Adrenalin Driver]( It is a pretty safe bet that AMD will introduce a range of mobile GPUs based on its latest generation RNDA 2 graphics architectureâessentially a porting of the Radeon RX 6000 series over to laptops. Exactly when and what specific SKUs will launch are both wait-and-see things. While we wait to see what emerges from AMD, the company seems to
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By Brandon Hill on Mar 19, 2021 04:06 pm
[Cyberpunk 2077 1.2 Patch To Address Omniscient Police And Wonky Driving Mechanics]( Back in late January, CD Projekt Red issued the first major patch for Cyberpunk 2077, which fixed a litany of issues with the game. The second patch was supposed to land in February, but the developer got hit by a ransomware attack which put it behind schedule. Now that things are getting back to some semblance of normalcy for CD Projekt Red,
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By Nathan Ord on Mar 19, 2021 03:33 pm
[Activision's Accidental Release Of Crossbow In COD: Warzone, Black Ops Cold War Sparks Anger]( This week, Activision slipped up and sold a new crossbow weapon for Call of Duty: Warzone and Black Ops Cold War, which some players spent real money on. Now, the company has pulled the weapon and promised refunds, but some players are irate about the turn of events. On March 18th, a bundle with a blueprint for the R1 Shadowhunter Crossbow
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