The latest title in the Call of Duty franchise, Black Ops 7, just dropped, and players are complaining about its campaign mode. As reported by IGN , the “innovative Co-Op Campaign” that Activision has been flexing means an online-first experience. So, even if you’re playing solo, you still need to be connected to the internet.
Even though you can launch missions alone, they’re designed from the ground up for cooperative multiplayer. That means those
Asus just released the price for its limited-edition ROG Matrix RTX 5090, based on the GeForce RTX 5090 , one of the best graphics cards . According to its product page , the GPU, made in celebration of its 30th year of making graphics cards, is priced at $3,999. This makes it twice the cost of the Nvidia RTX 5090 Founders Edition card, which has an SRP of $1,
With memory prices skyrocketing to an all-time high, the next best upgrade to give your PC a noticeable performance boost is a fast and responsive SSD. The WD Black SN850X, for instance, is a great choice, as it offers peak PCIe 4.0 speeds and is currently down to $139 for the 2TB storage model at Walmart . That’s a $28 discount off its listed price of $167, making it
The U.S. Department of Justice just announced that it has convicted five individuals, including four U.S. citizens and one Ukrainian national, for facilitating the illegal employment of North Korean IT workers at American companies. According to its press release , these people used their own identity or provided false or stolen identities to North Korean workers seeking employment with U.S.-based firms. They also hosted the company-provided laptops in locations across the United States. They used
I noted a few gamma issues during calibration but aside from that, the LG Ultra Gear 45GX950A is a superb OLED gaming monitor for flying and racing simulation. The picture is stunning and the motion is smooth. With its extreme curve, you’ll be completely drawn into the gaming environment.
Bright, sharp and colorful image with high pixel density
Accurate without need for calibration
Excellent video processing
Flexible refresh rate modes
Excellent sound with DTS Headphone
Major Bitcoin mining firm Bitfarm has announced that it will pivot its business from cryptocurrency to AI data center services by 2027. Although it’s not the largest crypto mining firm in the U.S., it still has a sizeable operation with 12 data centers dedicated to Bitcoin mining. According to Decrypt , the company’s current energy capacity sits at 341 megawatts (MW), which it could take advantage of to deploy several thousand Nvidia
Memory prices have recently surged by 100% or more , driven by market pressure from the massive demand for memory chips amid the AI infrastructure buildout. Because of this, memory module manufacturers are reportedly delaying the launch of new memory kits, which were expected to arrive in the latter half of 2025. According to Hardwareluxx [machine translated], the companies are moving their new product releases to 2026 to see the effect of the supply crunch
Broken PCIe fingers are becoming a frustrating trend among Nvidia's latest flagship graphics cards based on its RTX 5090 Founders Edition design. Computer technician NorthridgeFix on YouTube published a video detailing the story of one of his customers who suffered such bad luck on not just any high-end RTX Blackwell GPU, but Nvidia's crazy-expensive $10,000 RTX Pro 6000 workstation graphics card. According to the video, the card snapped
The 3Dfx Voodoo 2 and the Nvidia Riva TNT were the pinnacles of the early era of 3D graphics. Both were released in 1998, and while I owned the latter, the Voodoo 2 was the faster of the two, despite the inconvenience of requiring an existing 2D graphics card. The Voodoo 2 is naturally memorable, and it's a regular presence in retro PC builds. As the YouTube channel Bits und Bolts (Bits) found out
An incredibly ambitious hardware modder with a penchant for both sublime and ridiculous GPU tinkering has boosted an RTX 5050 to nearly 3.5GHz with a camping freezer. The result is clocks boosted to nearly 3.5GHz, a 23% uplift, and a handful of broken world records. This test was performed as part of what Trashbench calls "the dumbest competition on YouTube" in a video about his battle against fellow overclocking YouTuber Clock Bench to see who can push