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Explaining Hall-effect, TMR, and other new types of “mechanical” switches
12+ hour, 16+ min ago (1638+ words) Ars Technica’s guide to new keyboard sensing technologies. The mechanical keyboard isn’t always so mechanical anymore. Over the past six years, keyboards with optical, Hall-effect, and other “contactless” switches have become increasingly common, often going for higher prices than traditional…...
Someone got Doom in an SQL database
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (524+ words) Can it run Doom: SQL database edition Ars Technica “Rendering Doom in a database is obviously a bad idea,” Lukas Vogel writes in a lengthy blog post explaining how exactly he managed to render Doom using an SQL database. OK,…...
PS5 emulation is suddenly making big strides on PC
4+ day, 22+ hour ago (307+ words) Games like Astro Bot and Demon’s Souls are running ably without a console. For a long time, PC gamers could access many PlayStation 5 games only if the publisher invested in a bespoke port (something Sony has recently said it will…...
Discord gives more advertisers more tools to target its users
5+ day, 8+ hour ago (403+ words) Discord is “opening the platform to advertisers, regardless of their budget.” Discord has announced tools aimed at expanding the number and types of companies that advertise on the platform. This week, the social media firm announced Discord Ads Manager, an…...
PS5 jailbreaks just got a lot more useful
5+ day, 8+ hour ago (226+ words) New exploit works on all but the most recently updated consoles. For a few years now, the PS5 hacking community has been chipping away at various exploits that let users fully jailbreak their locked-down console. For the most part, though, those…...
Discord age verification rolls out today with changes spurred by user backlash
1+ week, 5+ day ago (867+ words) Discord will try to automatically estimate ages, require verification when it can’t. Discord today is rolling out an age-verification system that estimates each user’s age and requires some users to prove they are old enough to access age-restricted content. Discord…...
Shuffling the deck chairs: Xbox continues its "reset" with dramatic restructuring
1+ week, 6+ day ago (339+ words) Activision gets Halo, Obsidian becomes part of Bethesda, and more internal shake-ups. The biggest apparent change is for the Halo franchise, which will now be under the remit of Call of Duty maker Activision. Halo Studios (formerly 343 Industries), which recently…...
Not just Proton: Getting to know Valve's new SteamOS compatibility layers
2+ week, 5+ day ago (164+ words) New system-level tools bring Arm chipsets, Android APKs into the Steam ecosystem....
Random rewards enrich classic game-theory contests
3+ week, 3+ day ago (179+ words) Simple games gain rich strategies in the face of noise. Similar dynamics can be found in games of chicken, rock-paper-scissors, and more. The evolution of strategies can lead to stable populations, bistable populations (where the population flips between two stable…...
GOG brings back "big box" PC games, one printable template at a time
3+ week, 6+ day ago (436+ words) Ars Technica Those who remember PC gaming in the days before Steam may have fond memories of the “big box” packaging that made those games stand out as shelf eye candy and sought-after in-home collectibles. Today, PC gaming platform GOG…...