Key Facts Have you ever wondered how big the largest server farms ever built are and what kind of technology powers them? Did you know that a single server farm can use enough electricity to power a small town? © Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock.com The massive amount of energy needed to keep these data centers running has drawn attention to the environmental impact of the technology industry. But, why do we need server farms in the first place?...
Ark: Survival Evolved is a fascinating game that has players survive a hostile world populated with dinosaurs by banding together with other survivors and taming the dinosaurs to their personal use. But as players expand their power through the creation of tribes and bases it’s quickly revealed that there are greater threats on the island than the common dinosaurs they’ve been fighting and taming. In Ark, there are bosses that rule the world: powerful dinosaurs and other beings that have carved out a territory for themselves and become absolutely monstrous when threatened....
At its core, Yu-Gi-Oh! is a simple TCG. Players battle each other by summoning monsters to fight on their behalf, while supporting their own cause (or hampering their opponent’s) with spell and trap cards. The first player to lose all of their HP is defeated. All of that’s simple enough, but it’s the sheer volume of different cards that’s hard to grasp. So many of them have been released over the years, some of which are absolutely bizarre....
The Final Fantasy series is now 32 years old with fifteen mainline entries. That doesn’t sound like a great deal, because there’s usually a few years and a whole generation between the contemporary mainline releases. However, there are dozens of spin-offs, ports and remasters that get also get released in-between to keep fans of the franchise satisfied and, for better or worse, to keep Square-Enix making money. Despite not being mainline titles, many of the spin-off games have become classics in their own right, and even spawned a series of their own....
Apple Music has a massive library with over 90 million songs, and for people in the Apple ecosystem already, the integration is seamless. One of its top features is lossless audio streaming.Unlike streaming platforms that rely on Ads and third-party promotions to pay their artists, Bandcamp allows artists to set their prices. Deezer is available in 189 countries and offers a similar library size and listening experience to Spotify. The music platform is compatible with almost every device that can get an internet signal....
It’s the most wonderful time of the year — spooky time, of course. Whether your preferred mode of celebration involves providing strangely-dressed strangers with candy or huddling beneath a blanket as zombies and serial killers grace your screen, there are tons of more-than-acceptable ways to embrace what is clearly the best holiday. Ours is probably video games. You might’ve guessed that already. Hint: it’s in the website title. But which video games are the best to break out after you’ve lit the Jack-o-Lanterns and warded away the ghoulishly-garbed trespassers with offerings of candy corn and travel-sized tubes of toothpaste?...
Ubisoft has announced it’ll be adding 60 FPS for Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5 players of open world racer The Crew 2. As spotted by Eurogamer, the update was actually first announced last week as part of the game’s fifth year of content. Despite the game launching all the way back in 2018, the team at Ubisoft’s Ivory Tower studio have been adding updates ever since. And that’ll continue this year, with more content and additions for players still zipping around The Crew 2‘s streets....
The sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has been delayed until Spring 2023. Nintendo had originally planned for a 2022 release. However, in a video statement, series producer Eiji Aonuma announced the game has been pushed back. “For those of you who have been looking forward to a release this year, we apologise,” he said. “As previously announced, the adventure in this sequel will take place not just on the ground as in the previous game, but also in the skies above....
The Lost Lindwyrms is a Favor in God of War Ragnarok that you can complete to get one of the most important upgrades in the game. The mission in itself is quite simple. You need to find and trap 6 creatures and bring them to Ratatoskr. But going about aimlessly can take a lot of time to find them. So in this guide check out the locations of all Lost Lindwyrms in God of War Ragnarok....
Magic items in Dungeons & Dragons are often seen as powerful upgrades to a character’s abilities. Sometimes they are so powerful they open up an entirely new strategy to a character. But magic items can be much more than artifacts that make your player’s characters more powerful. Browsing through the Dungeon Master’s Guide, as well as Xanathar’s Guide to Everything and other books, one will discover that there are many magic items within the pages of these dusty tomes that lend themselves to all kinds of hijinks....
The next Dragon Age, aka Dragon Age 4, is now Dragon Age: Dreadwolf. BioWare confirmed the name earlier today in a brief Twitter message while also dropping a couple story details in its blog. The story of Dragon Age: Dreadwolf will revolve around a man named Solas, also called the Dread Wolf. It’s a little on the nose, er, snout. Solas is clearly a mysterious figure in Dragon Age lore. Called a “betrayer of his people,” a “savior,” or a “trickster deity,” the guy is known for a lot....
With the start of the Call of Duty League just hours away and the third season of the Overwatch League quickly approaching, it was unclear where the matches for both leagues would be broadcast for all the world to watch. Fortunately, the silence was broken just before the start of the inaugural season of the Call of Duty League when it was announced that Activision Blizzard and Google struck a deal for the two leagues to broadcast on Youtube Gaming for the 2020 season and beyond....
The following contains spoilers for Transformers: The Movie. Just thought we should mention it. The shadow of death hung like a black curtain over Transformers: The Movie. Thanks to an edict handed down by the powers that be at Hasbro, pretty much every toy in the original Transformers 1984 line was wiped out in the course of the film’s events; and by the time the noble Autobot leader Optimus Prime died at the hands of Megatron towards the end of the first act, a generation of youngsters were scarred for life....
The next big set for Legends of Runeterra is Guardians of the Ancient. Since its official reveal earlier this week, Riot has not wasted time showing off previews for the set. Today we got our first big look at the set and Zilean is the first new champion to join the game’s ranks. As the resident time manipulator of the League of Legends universe, his abilities and support are thematically appropriate....
This The Twilight Zone review contains spoilers. Remember the sense of dread and powerlessness The Twilight Zone audience felt after watching “It’s a Good Life,” the classic episode in which six-year-old Anthony Fremont sends his enemies into a cornfield of oblivion with the power of his mind? “Wunderkind” seemed to want to pay homage to that earlier story but failed to achieve even half of that level of horror at seeing the cruelty of a spoiled child who rose to the rank of President of the United States on a wave of public outcry for anything other than politics as usual....
The “best” ending for Ciri has always been a subject for debate among fans of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. All in all, there are three to be exact: the one where she dies, the one where she becomes a Witcher, and the one where she becomes Empress of Nilfgaard. Of course, the first is just a terrible outcome, so we’re going to leave that out — as it basically means Geralt is a bad father....
Over the weekend Sega released a number of games for free to celebrate their 60 year anniversary. One of them is a remake of Yakuza entitled Streets of Kamurocho. Simply put, it is a Streets of Rage 2 level with Yakuza skin and aesthetics over it. You can play as either Kazuma Kiryu or Goro Majima, the two main characters if the series. The game is very short, about the length of one average Streets of Rage 2 level....
Subnautica: Below Zero lands on early access today. The standalone expansion pack takes you to a new, frozen land with more alien creatures and dangers. You find yourself stranded at a research station on Planet 4546B. Though the location has changed, much of the game remains what you expect. You still start off with a small underwater habitat, and you’ll need to scour the ocean for raw materials. Crafting and constructing vehicles also hasn’t changed much....
After meeting Marguerit Maida in her underwater base, you’ll be able to scan a PDA that gives you the blueprint for the Test Override Module. We can craft that to progress the story, but, first, we’ll need to acquire the Parallel Processing Units. Here’s our guide to help you find the Parallel Processing Unit locations in Subnautica: Below Zero. Note: For more information, check out our Subnautica: Below Zero guides and features hub....
Hardcore Call of Duty fans won’t hesitate to subscribe to the recently announced Elite’s premium subscription option. That’s according to Jamie Berger, Activision’s vice president of digital for Call of Duty. Speaking in an interview with VideoGamer.com, he said “when the players see the value, they just go ‘it’s a no-brainer’.” But Berger is keen to stress that users need to see the service in context before making snap judgements about the product....
