The Radeon R9 Fury X, released by AMD in June 2015, faced considerable challenges that contributed to its mixed reception in the graphics card market. Positioned as ahigh-end GPU, its performance did not match the claim, particularly against Nvidia's offerings at the time. The pricing of the...
Something has happened in video-game adaptations over the past few years. In the three decades since the release of the first game-to-screen movie, 1993’sSuper Mario Bros., there have been precious fewgoodentries in the genre (in a critical sense). But things started to change with the ...
Notable for: Years after release the developer confirmed a long-running rumor that mid-card talent Adam Bomb was a hidden character, but maintained that the grappler in question was not present in a fully completed form. A bit like Reptile in the first Mortal Kombat then, except for the fac...
and colorful graphics,Clash of Clanshas seen many iterations and updates in its lifetime. While the current version of the game does seem to utilize less battery than its original version, the game still drains phone battery quickly. If players don't plan to play for long stretches of time,...
Use your Gaddgets to take the game into the real world. Place your finger on the Finger X-Ray to see what's hidden inside, or use the Compatibility Meter to see how well you and your friends match up. Developer: Hudson Soft Genres (Video game): Quiz/Trivia, Card & Board Game View...
The 1.18 update implemented massive changes to the world generation algorithms, completely revolutionizing the way terrain is generated in both the underworld and overworld. This covered complaints from the community that environments were too stale, or unrealistic. ...
As we’ve seen with devices like the Steam Deck, a new chip doesn’t always net much higher performance. In the case of Ryzen AI 300 and Lunar Lake, however, we’re dealing with new graphics architectures that look upward of 50% faster than the previous generation. Even a fraction of...
The problem: The game relied on Microsoft’s new WinG graphics engine, and video card drivers had to be hand-tuned to work with it, says Alex St. John. He’s currently CEO of game publisher WildTangent, but in the early 1990s he was Microsoft’s first “game evangelist.” In late ...
The RCA Studio II was second game console in history to use interchangeable ROM cartridges. Unfortunately for RCA, the first and third game consoles in this category–the Fairchild Channel F and the Atari VCS–worked much better. Both the Fairchild and the Atari consoles used color graphics and...
Found all over the world, lavender is a flowering plant with purple blossoms often used in aromatherapy. Studies show thatsniffing lavender oilstarting about a half-hour before your ideal bedtime can enhance sleep. Take glycine before bedtime ...