Amazon cancels Crucible, just five months after its initial release

Amazon’s Crucible is most likely the biggest flop of 2020. Crucible was a free to play sci-fi PvP shooter that came out in May 2020. In July 2020, after a disappointing launch, the team decided to move the game into closed beta. And yesterday, Amazon announced that it will discontinue the game’s development. Continue reading Amazon cancels Crucible, just five months after its initial release

First Star Wars Squadrons Update adjusts input curves for Flight Sticks, improves stability

EA Motive has released the first update for Star Wars Squadrons. According to the release notes, patch 1.1 adjusts the default input curves for Flight Sticks, which should make controls feel more responsive. In addition, it packs a number of stability improvements and general fixes. Continue reading First Star Wars Squadrons Update adjusts input curves for Flight Sticks, improves stability

Intel’s next-gen Alder Lake-S “Gracemont” core CPU architecture to support AVX/AVX2, AVX-VNNI instruction sets

Intel’s next generation of Alder Lake-S Core processors are said to be the company’s first 10nm-based mainstream desktop processors, and we have already seen documents, datasheets, and release notes for these CPUs which also appeared on Intel’s own developer website. These processors have been confirmed to support a new LGA 1700 socket as well. Continue reading Intel’s next-gen Alder Lake-S “Gracemont” core CPU architecture to support AVX/AVX2, AVX-VNNI instruction sets