Month: October 2024

Albino Lullaby is intensely bizarre. It’s a horror game, except it’s not really horrific, just creepy, silly, and… well, weird. Honestly, I don’t remember much about it in the way of detail because it’s been almost 10 years since it came out—but man, I remember it being weird.

It was intended to be the first of an episodic series—the full title on Steam is Albino Lullaby: Episode 1—but nothing was ever seen of the promised follow-ons. Until now: Alice’s Lullaby, set to launch on October 8, sets players off on a quest to rescue Alice from the Grandchildren (those scowling-weiners-with-teeth things) in an appropriately warped world where you’ll travel back and forth through time, attempting to “unravel the metaphysical mystery of the Grandchild Cult and find out why they call you the monster.”

It’s hard to say too much about Albino Lullaby, not for fear of spoilers but simply because so much of the experience is a descent into what the hell is going on here? The game world is visually striking and the audio deeply unsettling; a big plus for folks who don’t like jump scares is that, as far as I recall, Albino Lullaby doesn’t have …

Snippets from well-known leakers are suggesting that 2024 is going to be an exciting year for CPU enthusiasts, as AMD’s forthcoming Zen 5 and Zen 5c architectures look like they’ll be pushing core counts to new records. The next series of EPYC server chips could even have as many as 192 cores, 384 threads in a single package.

That’s according to the usual cohort of reliable leakers, InstLatX64, Kepler_L2, and Harukaze5719 (via Guru3D), who posted their claims on a Twitter thread. If some of the terms are a bit confusing, then let me explain—AMD’s CPUs have multiple cores, all sharing a common slice of L3 cache, in a group called a CCX (Core CompleX). The chiplet that houses the CCX is called a CCD (Core Complex Die) and contains one or two CCXs, depending on the generation of architecture.

The first design to be set out like this, Zen 2, has two four-core CCXs per CCD. Desktop Ryzen models, such as the Ryzen 9 3950X, have two CCDs underneath the heat spreader, for a total of 16 cores, 32 threads. AMD’s Zen 2 EPYC chips have up to four CCDs, for a maximum of 32 cores, 64 threads.

That changed slightly for Zen 3 and for those chips, the CCX comprises eight …

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ยังคงเป็นประเด็นร้อนแรงกับเกม Palworld ที่ถูกตั้งข้อสงสัยว่าเป็นเกมก๊อบปี้ Pokémon หรือไม่ โดยล่าสุดมีสื่อต่างชาติได้ทำวิดีโอเปรียบเทียบ Pokémon vs Palworld ให้เราดูแบบชัด ๆ ว่าก๊อปหรือไม่

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Anyone with a more-than-casual interest in League of Legends almost surely knows about Porofessor and League of Graphs. The sites are indispensable tools for the passionate player, stats aggregators that show who’s winning what, when, where, and with which League champion. What those League-heads might not know was that the two sites, and their associated Legends of Runeterra and Teamfight Tactics versions, were made by one person as the company Wargraphs. That person has now sold the company for a pretty nice paycheck.

The deal was for €50 million, about US $54.6 million at today’s rate. It’s probably a steal for Wargraphs’ Porofessor and League of Graphs, which have some 10 million downloads and 1.25 million daily average users, while the websites have about 4.5 billion page views since their launch. It had a healthy income of about €12.3 million in the fiscal period ending November 30th, 2022.

Wargraphs, the single-employee company run by Jean-Nicolas Mastin out of Paris, now belongs to MOBA Network, a company based in Sweden that “acquires, develops and operates gaming communities for the global gaming market.”

“Together with the founder, who will…

Dead Cells launched in early access in 2017, and developer Motion Twin’s brilliant mashup of roguelite and Metroidvania quickly found an audience. It was an excellent game when it launched, but its subsequent support through the early access period and beyond has been exceptional, and mostly free to boot. Most recently we were treated to the wonderful Castlevania DLC and there’s no sign of slowing down with its current developer Evil Empire.

That studio has now announced that Dead Cells has sold over 10 million copies, which is a remarkable milestone for an indie title like this to hit. That’s not all on PC of course, with the the game being ported to consoles and mobile, but it says everything about the quality of Dead Cells and its multitude of free and paid updates. I still load this up every so often and every time have a blast, and there’s now so much stuff in there it’s a delight to see what wacky combinations of buffs and weapons each run turns up.

“Following the success of Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania, Evil Empire has been exploring the path forward for the title as a whole,” reads the studio’s press release. “With years of successful updat…

Innocent, dew-eyed babe that I am, I had no idea that the heavily tatted criminal who makes a brief appearance in the Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer looked like a real guy. But he does, and now I will live with that knowledge until my last days. He resembles Florida Joker—real name Lawrence Sullivan—a resident of, uh, Florida with face tattoos and hair inspired by Jared Leto’s portrayal of the Joker, who originally went viral for a 2017 mugshot.

Turns out the real Florida Joker might be less than thrilled about seemingly becoming a figure of fun in one of Rockstar’s trailers, because he’s taken to TikTok (via IGN) to tell the studio that he wants a word.

@lawrence.sullivan0

♬ original sound – Lawrence Sullivan

“You might have seen that character on GTA 6, [they] just dropped the trailer today,” says Sullivan in the video, “You know, they got that character with the face tattoos, you know who they got that inspired by. By me! Just l…

S-Rank hunts in Final Fantasy 14 are funny little things. Each S-Rank monster comes with specific spawn conditions, some of which are awfully niche. Want to spawn Armstrong, a monster from Endwalker? Whack on some gear you pick up from a level 46 quest in A Realm Reborn, die in a specific spot and hope he turns up. Spawning Salt and Light requires you to discard items from your inventory 50 times, a painfully tedious process. 

With other bizarre spawn conditions including using Blue Mage’s self-destruct spell to KO yourself, crafting a high-quality steak, or flying over spawn points with a specific minion summoned, deciphering how to prompt these foes to appear can be a bit of a task. Thanks to groups of dedicated hunters, these riddles usually get figured out pretty quickly… that is, except for one pesky elite enemy from Dawntrail, the game’s latest expansion, which left players utterly stumped for days.

Kirlirger the Abhorrent was one of the newest S-Rank hunts to be added in the game’s 7.05 patch, which was released on July 30. Yet three days later, on August 2, he was still nowhere to be found. Hunters’ increasingly desperate attempts to spawn him wer…