Tidus ตัวละครเอกจาก Final Fantasy X เป็นที่รู้จักกันดีในเรื่องของผิวแทนอันเป็นเอกลักษณ์ แฟนเกมหลายคนชื่นชอบและจดจำเขามาตลอดกว่าสองทศวรรษ แม้ว่าเขาจะไม่ได้รับความนิยมมากเท่ากับ Cloud Strife จาก Final Fantasy VII แต่ Tidus และ FFX ก็ยังคงเป็นที่รักของเหล่าแฟน Final Fantasy และถือเป็นหนึ่งในภาคที่ดีที่สุดของซีรีส์คำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง

อย่างไรก็ตามปัญหาเริ่มต้น เมื่อ Brave Exvius เกมมือถือแนว RPG ได้มีการเพิ่มตัวละคร Tidus และ Yuna เข้ามาในระบบกาชา แต่ปร�…

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After being challenged over the company shipping $1,599 MacBooks in 2023 with just 8GB of RAM, an Apple VP has responded with the claim that it’s “probably analogous to 16GB on other systems.” With those “other systems” being PCs. Aaaaand, fight!

For those who haven’t been keeping up to date with the latest Apple announcements, the 14-inch MacBook M3 Pro was revealed last week with a starting MSRP of $1599 for the base model with 8GB of RAM, with 16GB and 24GB options available for an extra $200 to $400 respectively. This news has been met with a somewhat frosty reception among Apple fans, as a MacBook with the “Pro” designation is generally regarded as a laptop for content creators and power users. 8GB of RAM seems more than a little stingy for these use cases, and Apple has already received a fair bit of backlash for not upping the default specs.

Apple’s VP of worldwide product marketing Bob Borchers recently gave an interview to Lin YilYi, a Chinese machine learning engineer and content creator who directly asked him about this criticism, and his response was somewhat surprising. He said:

“Comparing our memory to other system’s memory actually isn’t equivale…

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Intel’s forthcoming Lunar Lake CPU architecture, aimed at the low-power mobile market, will be the first processor to sport the chip maker’s Battlemage graphics chip. Very few details about the updated design exist in the wild but some early benchmark results (via Videocardz) have come to light, and they look very promising.

Lunar Lake will be Intel’s second generation of tile-based CPUs. Instead of using a single piece of processed silicon for the processor, it will be like the current Meteor Lake-powered Core Ultra series. Those chips have four tiles, one each for compute, graphics, system agent, and input/output stuff.

More importantly, the graphics tile in Lunar Lake will be using Battlemage (here designated Xe2-LPG) as the GPU architecture. As the successor to Alchemist, it’s fair to say that there’s a lot of expectation that Intel has fixed the failings of that design and has something special waiting on the sidelines, to also be used in discrete graphics cards later this year. This new testing result in the SiSoft Sandra database suggests this may well be the case.

At least, from a pure compute perspective. The Sandra test performed is the application’s …

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Piracy is, and shall likely forever remain, a topic of hot-debate. Whatever your views on the morality of pirating copyrighted works, be they games, films or otherwise, it would seem reasonable to assume that you could talk about it on the internet without getting yourself into hot water.

That might not be the case, at least if these two film studios get their way. Via Ars Technica, film studios Voltage Holdings and Screen Media Ventures have filed a motion to compel Reddit to respond to a subpoena which asked the company to provide the IP address log information for six anonymous Reddit users who discussed pirating media on its platform.

This is the latest move in a series of copyright infringement cases in the past year from multiple studios attempting to demand Reddit hand over user information, in order to legally pursue the ISPs that these redditors discussed as being unable, or at the very least unwilling, to prevent them from pirating media using the connections provided.

Two previous attempts have been unsuccessful, with the first quashed by a US District Court due to the First Amendment rights of the users to anonymous speech, meaning that Reddit didn’…

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The United States Library of Congress inducted its first ever piece of game music into the National Recording Registry yesterday, forever marking it as one of a number of “audio treasures worthy of preservation for all time based on their cultural, historical or aesthetic importance in the nation’s recorded sound heritage”.

Now, I know what you’re thinking: “Obviously, they selected Dragon’s Dogma’s Into Free Dangan for preservation in this prestigious collection of cultural paragons.” Well, that would make sense. Into Free Dangan—an English adaptation of the B’z song Samayoeru Aoi Dangan made for Dragon’s Dogma’s 2012 release—is a technical and artistic masterwork. But the Library of Congress went and chose Koji Kondo’s Super Mario Bros. theme instead.

“Few musicians have had their work become so internationally recognized for decades yet remain so relatively unknown as Koji Kondo,” said the Library of Congress statement on the Super Mario theme’s inclusion, blissfully unaware of the staggering injustice it was inflicting on both gaming and human culture at large, noting that “His main, or ‘Ground Theme,’ for the 1985 game is a jaunty, Latin-influe…

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Singleplayer open world adventure Crimson Desert, by the developers of MMO Black Desert, reemerged after a long period of silence with a new gameplay trailer at Gamescom Opening Night Live today. It was quite the reintroduction to a game we didn’t yet know much about because based on that whirlwind trailer it appears that Crimson Desert is a action game with *checks notes* everything?

The new trailer “portrays the story of the main protagonist, Kliff, who is investigating events that transpire in the region of Hernand and embarking on a journey of exploration through a vast open world,” Pearl Abyss says in a press release today. “Crimson Desert depicts the story of mercenaries fighting for survival on the expansive continent of Pywel.”

It’s a brightly colored world with lovely lighting and uncannily pretty characters, which is no surprise for anyone that’s passingly aware of Black Desert. What did surprise me was just how much the trailer felt like an exhaustive bullet list of features. And not (necessarily) in a bad way.

Things I’ll be doing in Crimson Desert, based on this trailer:

  • A lot of kicking enemies’ legs out from under them and gra…
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