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Pokémon Go ‘Water Festival: Beach Week’ Timed Research, event guide

Pokémon Go ‘Water Festival: Beach Week’ Timed Research, event guide

Pokémon Go’s yearly Water Festival event runs from June 6-12 this year, with a focus on the beach. As expected from the name, the event focuses on water-type Pokémon, specifically those you’d find while on the sandy shores of a beach. Notably, the sand castle ghost-type Pokémon Sandygast has been added to the game as part of this event. Clauncher is also available shiny...

There’s An Easy Way To Get Pokemon Scarlet/Violet Starters For Free

There’s An Easy Way To Get Pokemon Scarlet/Violet Starters For Free

Levelling up all three starters in any Pokemon game takes time and effort, but Nintendo is offering a convenient shortcut for Pokemon Home users. As announced in the above tweet, if you transfer a Pokemon from Scarlet or Violet into the mobile version of Pokemon Home, you’ll receive all three starters from that game: Sprigatito, Fuecoco, and Quaxly. What’s more, those Pokemon will have...

Diablo 4 Treasure Goblins are extra valuable and might save you from entering the real-money store

Diablo 4 Treasure Goblins are extra valuable and might save you from entering the real-money store

Diablo 4 is pretty much an MMO. You run into other players randomly as you roam its open world, some quests are basically ‘kill ten of that thing’, there are dedicated PvP zones etc. But perhaps its most MMO-like quality is that it really wants you to show off your cool gear to other players. This has always sort of been a thing in...

Creating The Look Of Final Fantasy 16

Creating The Look Of Final Fantasy 16

Final Fantasy art is some of my favorite in all of games. The series’ visuals fall somewhere between realism and fantasy, and it’s always fun to see how Square Enix studios leverage more powerful hardware to bring worlds to life. These settings, characters, and monsters are memorable, and a large reason for that is the art. It’s striking and unique – you know it’s...

Nefarious Overwatch glitch lets Mercy tank everyone’s framerate to single digits, then bring her own back up to start blasting the sluggish victims

Nefarious Overwatch glitch lets Mercy tank everyone’s framerate to single digits, then bring her own back up to start blasting the sluggish victims

An Overwatch 2 player has discovered a new glitch with Mercy that allows players to hold an entire lobby hostage and, in theory, game competitive matches as well as annoying the hell out of everyone. YouTuber nsbunited describes themselves as an “Overwatch glitch hunter”, and the Mercy bug was discovered while experimenting with a known element of the Blizzard’s FPS: During the earlygame countdown,...

Nvidia 4060 Ti 8GB offers up the sort of performance Nvidia promises – and questions the current GPU market

Nvidia 4060 Ti 8GB offers up the sort of performance Nvidia promises – and questions the current GPU market

With the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB, Nvidia has a clear audience and a clear goal in mind. We all like to make a big song and dance about the hardest-hitting, heaviest-lifting state-of-the-art graphics cards – but the truth is, the majority of people don’t buy them. Glance over at the Steam Hardware survey and you’ll see that story: right now, the most popular...

Intel claims ‘substantial’ CPU core speed boost in Meteor Lake test chip ‘for just moving wires around’

Intel claims ‘substantial’ CPU core speed boost in Meteor Lake test chip ‘for just moving wires around’

In a recent blog post Intel has made some bold claims about its new PowerVia technology, and how it’s been performing in Meteor Lake-based test chips, delivering a greater than 5% increase to clock speeds. According to Intel’s Ben Sell, vice pres. of technology development, that puts PowerVia on track for delivery next year along with the Intel 20A process node.  PowerVia represents a...

Is it really a surprise that Diablo 4’s business model is a clone of Call of Duty?

Is it really a surprise that Diablo 4’s business model is a clone of Call of Duty?

I don’t know which is worse, that we have to use the old Diablo 3 Auction House argument as a way of painting the Diablo 4 business model in a better light, or that our only options are various degrees of terrible. In case it wasn’t already clear, yes, Diablo 4 does indeed share its business model with Activision Blizzard’s other premier franchise, Call...

PlayStation Store: May 2023’s top downloads

PlayStation Store: May 2023’s top downloads

It’s time to see which top downloads for PS5, PS4, PS VR2, PSVR, and free-to-play received the most downloads to make the list this month. The U.S. and EU PS VR2 charts saw some major movement in the top three spots, while the PS5 charts saw little change, and the U.S. and EU PS4 lists crowned a new number one spot. Check out the...

Flash drives often end up as e-waste but this eco-friendly one might alleviate some of the guilt

Flash drives often end up as e-waste but this eco-friendly one might alleviate some of the guilt

Having just dropped a new, totally net-zero flash drive, TeamGroup steps in as yet another tech company taking steps to reduce the use of new plastics, and tackle some of the issues that come along with the inevitable evil that is e-waste. From the same company that brought us the first PCIe 5.0 storage made for non-server use, the C175 ECO is TeamGroup’s new,...