October 15, 2024

The long running Destiny franchise is getting a mobile entry thanks to a partnership between Bungie and NetEase. Destiny: Rising will be a free-to-play shooter that is part of the official Destiny universe and will include both PvE and PvP modes. It will be coming to both Android devices and iPhones. This could be nice shot in the arm for Bungie, as the studio has faced various struggles, including layoffs, after being acquired by Sony.

Once upon a time, there were a myriad of CPU architectures vying for dominance. Occasionally, you’d even have multiple architectures from the same vendor competing against each other. As happens in competitive environments, processor ISAs died off one-by-one until the modern day, where we basically have x86-64 for desktops, laptops, and server, Arm for mobile and low-power processors, RISC-V for open-source diehards, and then a few legacy and esoteric architectures hanging around on the periphery.

Game developers and publishers have been using the Denuvo digital rights management (DRM) scheme to protect their games for several years, often to the chagrin of PC gamers. The reason Denuvo has such a bad reputation is because it’s often found to severely effect game performance, souring game buyers who feel like they get a worse experience than those who pirate. A new study shows why Denuvo continues to be used despite how much customers

Memory overclocking can have a huge effect on application performance, depending on the app in question. One of the key features of Intel’s new Arrow Lake processors is that they can support stratospheric memory transfer rates. However, that may only apply to the high-powered “K” series processors, at least if ASRock has any idea what it’s talking about. As spotted by Uniko’s Hardware, the memory QVL for ASRock’s Z890 Taichi high-end Arrow Lake motherboard shows