I haven’t once thought about my Arisen’s mug ever since I slapped a helmet on his head, but even I’m annoyed that changing your appearance isn’t a god-given right in Dragon’s Dogma 2. Instead, alterations to your character and main pawn come in the form of a book you buy in towns. This book, Art of Metamorphosis, isn’t bought with regular gold, but a rarer currency called “Rift Crystals” acquired by finding Riftstones and sending your pawn out to help other players.
It’s a functional system on its own—I’m sitting on hundreds of RC I’m not using—but Capcom is catching reasonable flak on day one because it’s also selling Rift Crystals and the Art of Metamorphosis tome as DLC. Thankfully, modders have already uploaded a workaround to make character re-creation much easier…
While not the first attempt at a keyboard with screens in the keys, the PolyKybd by modder Thpoll is first one I can actually picture myself or the wider public using in earnest in the future. And as a recent split keyboard convert, I’m especially on board with this project.
The PolyKybd is a mechanical split keyboard with OLED displays inside of the keycaps. The idea is to have a keyboard with universal language support, by having the keys switch over to any language. Since it’s OLED, the letters and symbols on the keycap will come out ridiculously bright, making them easy to read under any lighting.
Thpoll has posted about the difficulty of adding glyph rendering for languages that use Japanese, Korean, and Arabic symbols. “To truly support multiple languages, …
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I didn’t completely miss a whole bunch of really obvious clues, I just chose to take the scenic route to today’s answer. Honest. Have you ever had one of those games where you really can’t see the correct word at the time, but it’s blindingly obvious once you’ve exhausted every other option? Yeah, that was Thursday’s Wordle for me.
Today’s Wordle hint
Wordle today: A hint for Thursday, July 25
What would you call that covered bit at the entrance to a house? Depen…
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Twice in a row, I was certain I’d been clever and found today’s answer early, only to be crushed as Wordle flipped over more grey boxes and my yellow remained the same colour, just in a different spot. I ended up a bit stuck at that point, and that didn’t really change until I’d armed myself with a fresh mug of coffee, a notepad, and the determination to carefully work out every valid word remaining. I’m glad my efforts paid off, but I do hope tomorrow’s Wordle answer is a little easier.
A year ago it looked like Ubisoft’s ardor for NFTs was cooling, but now it seems that the heat is back on. The Assassin’s Creed publisher has entered into a new partnership with blockchain gaming platform Immutable “to create a new gaming experience that will further unlock the potential of Web3.”
Ubisoft’s history with NFTs has not been an especially good one. Bullish rhetoric and half-assed efforts like numbered helmets in Ghost Recon: Breakpoint didn’t impress anyone, Ubisoft employees included, and in September 2022 the company seemed to change tack, saying (not entirely convincingly) that it was really all just for research, and that “when we have something that gives you a real benefit, we’ll bring it to you.”
It didn’t take Ubisoft long to find the “benefits” it was l…
With the first examples of laptops powered by Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X chip landing with actual buying customers, Qualcomm has released some more juicy details around gaming performance and features. According to Qualcomm, its new Arm chip trades blows with Intel’s Meteor Lake laptop CPUs, sometimes beating them handily, in a range of games.
The caveat, obviously, is that Qualcomm is hardly an unbiased source. But hold that thought. Qualcomm’s latest marketing dump (via Anandtech) commits the company to monthly driver releases for the Snap X’s Adreno integrated GPU. Qualcomm also has an Nvidia GeForce Experience-style app for the chip which includes pre-baked optimisations and settings for a range of Windows game titles. So, yeah, Qualcomm is pushing pretty hard with the …
When it comes to PC gaming one of the biggest trials is keeping things cool. You can have all the power in the world packed into your case, but it’s for naught without cooling. More power often means more heat thanks to that big jerk physics, and plenty of builds bottleneck due to temps, rather than capabilities. This is why we see overclockers do wild things like douse their CPUs in liquid nitrogen or use about 8 lbs (nearly 4 kgs) of solid copper.
Copper is an amazingly conductive material, great for cooling, but it’s also hideously expensive. This is why I was in no way prepared to see a honking tower of solid copper sitting casually on top of one enthusiast’s CPU. The awe-inspiring, yet wallet-crushing image was posted to Reddit by That Desktop User and was also shared by Fanl…
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I can see a million different ways I could’ve uncovered today’s Wordle at least a guess or two earlier than I did, now I’ve got the answer staring me in the face. Uncommon letter choices can really turn a game around some days… but not this one.
Wordle today: A hint
Wordle today: A hint for Monday, December 4
The most terrible outcome. The lowest someone can sink. The poorest quality something can be. The opp…
At a recent roundtable Q&A session with Bungie for Destiny 2’s Season of the Deep, I asked why the bosses in its latest dungeon have so much damn health. And sure, I know what you’re thinking: get good. But it’s not just me. On release, plenty of the player reaction—particularly from those who like to solo Destiny 2’s dungeons—was about how many phases it takes to bring down its two bosses.
The answer surprised me, because it reveals just how much each dungeon is designed as a response to the previous one.
“You know, there’s kind of a story that the dungeon releases tell,” says design lead Brian Frank. “I’m over the moon with how awesome they’ve turned out. You’ve got Grasp of Avarice, which was fun, fast, not as challenging, more lighthearted. Duality was a …
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I was more than a little worried by the time I was halfway down the board, staring at the same green and the same yellow I’d uncovered at the start. I ploughed on, though, and… nothing really improved—not until the last guess, anyway. Although I wouldn’t say I solved today’s Wordle, more that I rearranged the only letters I had left into the only word I could think of.
Wordle hint
A Wordle hint for Sunday, April 16
Lingering for a while in one parti…