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VESA to release an adaptive sync compliance program for monitors No need for G-Sync or FreeSync certification anymore? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. When you’re looking to buy a gaming monitor, you’ll come across models that supportNvidia’s G-SyncorAMD’s FreeSyncadaptive sync technology, both of which aim to reduce or eliminate screen tearing and artifacting that occurs when the GPU’s frames per second output and monitor refresh rate aren’t aligned....

Warcraft Arclight Rumble squeezes Blizzard’s classic RTS into a mobile puzzle game Blizzard announced the mobile Warcraft game today. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Blizzard has announced Warcraft Arclight Rumble, a mobile game it’s calling a ‘tower offense’ strategy game that resembles popular games like Clash Royale. Arclight Rumble, which has you collect characters from the Warcraft franchise and battle them across many levels, will be Blizzard’s third mobile game, and will be available in beta soon....

What Coca-Cola’s ‘pixel flavored’ soda tastes like I tried Coca-Cola’s new limited edition, metaverse-inspired Zero Sugar Byte soda. It tasted kind of like grape flavoring. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. After I sharedthe announcementof Coca-Cola Zero Sugar Byte, a limited edition “pixel flavored” soda that is supposed to have something to do with the metaverse, a Coca-Cola representative contacted me and asked if I’d like to try a can....

Why I failed to terraform Mars: too many space hotels, not enough cabbage Strategy colony-builder Terraformers puts you in charge of turning Mars from a red planet to a green one. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. I’m in charge of terraforming Mars for human colonization, and as I gaze out over the small cluster of habitats, greenhouses, wind farms, and factories on the barren surface of the Red Planet, I mutter to myself: “Dammit, I need more green space cubes....

Wikipedia won’t take crypto anymore But they only made up 0.08% of donations anyway. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Wikimedia is the non-profit firm behind Wikipedia and a host of other sites that operate under similar principles, and has the goal of “developing and maintaining open content” and funding it. Now, after four months of community discussion and argument, it has announced that it will no longer be taking donations incryptocurrency....

Windows 11 gets new Auto HDR sliders and game profiles Fine control over your HDR settings sounds like a huge win. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. When it comes to visual fidelity in gaming, HDR is the current new hotness. It stands for High Dynamic Range and refers to the contrast in an image. It’s all about getting the maximum difference in those black blacks to white whites, and the difference it can make in consuming content is pretty huge....

Wrecking Ball benched in Overwatch 2 beta for literally wrecking servers The hamster’s grapple hook was “too powerful” for the beta. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. The Overwatch hero known as Wrecking Ball is finally living up to his name. A recently discovered bug in theOverwatch 2beta was allowing the tank hero (a hamster named Hammond who rides around in a robotic hamster ball) to overload servers and crash the client of every player except his own....