After two years of massive layoffs at IT companies, 2024 was expected to be a year of recovery for the IT industry. While there are early signs of that, with global IT spending expected to increase 8% to cross $5.1 trillion in 2024 according to Gartner, jobs continue to be impacted in the sector. Some…
Developer Kokku and publisher Paradox Interactive have announced that Prison Architect 2 has been delayed indefinitely. In a recent blog post, they explained that, following multiple internal reviews, more time is required to get the game to meet the teams’ standards and expectations. Prison Architect 2 was originally slated for a September 3, 2024 release,…
Enlarge / The Pocket 386 is fun for a while, but the shortcomings and the broken stuff start to wear on you after a while. Andrew Cunningham The Book 8088 was a neat experiment, but as a clone of the original IBM PC, it was pretty limited in what it could do. Early MS-DOS apps…
Intel is making a strategic shift toward AI as it grapples with significant financial difficulties, including an 85% year-on-year drop in second-quarter profit. The company has also announced that it’ll slash over 15,000 jobs as part of its effort to reallocate resources toward AI technology. In light of ongoing financial struggles and escalating competition from…
The infamous “Kill 5” Personal Order has returned to Helldivers 2, causing confusion for those who didn’t see it the first time around. However, we now know how to complete this objective, and thankfully, it aligns with our current Major Order. The “Kill 5” Personal Order in Helldivers 2 requires you to kill 5 Automaton…
These days, a relatively clean and uncomplicated Windows 10 or 11 system disk might be home to more than 250,000 files and 90,000 folders. A more complex, application-heavy system disk might contain between half a million and a million files. My Windows 10 production PC has over 2.9M files and 750K folders, for example. My…
Enlarge / Samsung’s 2022 The Frame is one of the edge-lit TVs that RTINGs tested. Samsung Thin LCD-LED TVs are appealing because they’re easy to find space for and are aesthetically pleasing. To stay slim, most thin TVs, like Samsung’s The Frame pictured above, use edge-lit backlights. But beyond the image quality limitations of these…
Enlarge / Apple CEO Tim Cook. Lionel Hahn/Getty Images Apple reported its earnings results for the third quarter of the 2024 fiscal year, and it satisfied investors’ expectations at the top level with 5 percent growth year over year. The company set a third-quarter record with $85.8 billion in revenue. Despite that growth, a couple…
Developer Omeda Studios has announced that its third-person MOBA Predecessor will finally be leaving its early access phase and launching as a 1.0 release on August 20, 2024. The game has been in development for years and is itself a resurrection of an even older title, but the work is far from over. Through 2024,…
The Mystery of the Unicorns challenge in Hitman World of Assassination is fairly simple to complete, provided you have good map knowledge. Without it, you’ll struggle, which will make any Silent Assassin attempt even more difficult. Developer IO Interactive added the Mystery of the Unicorns challenge to Hitman World of Assassination as part of the…