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As a Birmingham lassie myself, I do have a patriotic soft spot for Facepunch Studios. The British developer has produced some mainstay PC gaming bangers: Garry's Mod changed the face of my YouTube recommended for several years, and players continue to run around as naked blokes smacking trees with rocks in Rust.
2019 feels like forever ago now, thanks to a barrage of world-changing events bludgeoning us around the proverbial heads year after year. This played out in the PC and broader tech industry to the tune of chip shortages and a general industry slowdown. Now, judging from some industry reports about motherboard shipments, it looks like the PC market (and therefore the PC gaming market) could be back in business.
Stockholm has a new game studio. Going by Blue Scarab, the announcement shared on the company's official website says it consists of over 20 'industry veterans' who have led development on games like World of Warcraft, Battlefield, and Helldivers 2.
Are you upset about the recent Game Pass price hike? Well, good news: so is the mighty American state. Or part of it, anyway. The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the country's antitrust and consumer protection watchdog, has submitted a filing to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in which it attacks Microsoft for «introducing a degraded product» with its new Game Pass Standard tier.
If you have an AMD AM4 machine, there's pretty much only one CPU that's worth considering if you want the best for gaming—the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. Except when AMD launched the Ryzen 7 5700X3D back in January of this year, you were suddenly given a tricky choice: do you go all out and get the brilliant but pricey 5800X3D or do you save yourself a fair bit of cash and get the slower 5700X3D. Well, that's precisely the conundrum we're going to solve in this review.
We've seen a lot of successful TV adaptations of video games in the last few years, a prime example being the Fallout series which quickly became Amazon's biggest hit since Rings of Power. But when the Halo show aired on Paramount+ in March 2022, it got a mixed reception. Now, just two seasons in, it's been cancelled.
With millions of people around the world affected by the apparent bug in CrowdStrike's Falcon software—bringing down IT systems in media, hospitals, and airports around the world—there's a good chance it will go down in the annals of tech history as being the worst outage ever, putting it ahead of the likes of 2016 Dyn DDoS cyberattack, Facebook's server woes in 2021, and Canada's biggest IT failure ever in 2022.
A bug is affecting a large number of systems running Windows and the security software from CrowdStrike. Airlines, train companies, health and emergency services are among those facing an issue causing repeated restarts and the blue screen of death (BSOD).