AMD has wheeled out its latest gaming CPUs at CES in Las Vegas and they’re both better and worse than we’d hoped for. The big news is that AMD has applied its 3D V-Cache tech to the Ryzen 7000 series. And this time it’s not just one chip, but a trio of CPUs.

Last time around it was the sole Ryzen 7 5800X3D that got the game-accelerating 3D V-Cache treatment. For Ryzen 7000, there are three CPUs, extending all the way to 16 cores.

Just as a quick reminder, the whole 3D V-Cache thing is about using 3D packaging to stack extra memory on top of CPUs. Games in particular benefit from additional cache memory, reducing traffic over the CPU’s memory bus and boosting frame rates.

Anyway, for the new 3D V-Cache versions of the latest Ryzen 7000 series CPUs, the fun kicks off with the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. It’s a direct replacement for the Ryzen 7 5800X3D and the chip many thought would be the sole V-Cache offering from the Ryzen 7000 series. It retains eight CPU cores, though obv…

Esports organization Team Liquid has secured a coveted world’s first completion of World of Warcraft’s latest raid, Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible. Liquid came out on top over rivals Echo and Method, and as reported by Dot Esports, the team has ended a three-year drought since their last world’s first completion, Shadowlands’ Castle Nathria.

The race to be the first team to clear a new WoW raid is a vaunted tradition, with it taking days or even weeks for professional esports teams to master complicated new encounter mechanics. Team sizes vary from raid to raid, but Liquid came into Aberrus with a 20-person roster including 13 DPS players, five healers, and two tanks.

The race for Aberrus began last Tuesday, and the teams were tasked with clearing all nine bosses of Dragonflight’s second raid on Mythic difficulty. Liquid started putting up an impressive showing from the halfway point, being the first to beat the last five of those bosses. It’s now left to Echo and Method…

Here’s a thing about Baldur’s Gate 3 you might not know if you haven’t played previous Larian games. On the left-hand side of the dialogue screen there’s a row of icons, shortcuts that let you read back over the conversation, attack whoever you’re talking to, or switch to another character who isn’t in the conversation so they can get into position to attack whoever you’re talking to. (Or pinch all the stuff behind them while they’re distracted by whoever’s doing the talking.) Sometimes, one of those icons is “trade”.

Even NPCs who aren’t flagged on the map as merchants and don’t have a dialogue option like “show me your wares” can be traded with if this icon’s active. A random druid in the Emerald Grove will just be carrying around a potion of healing, some mugwort, a book about vampires, and one carrot, all of which she’ll happily sell you. Nearby, Rolan the tiefling has a scroll of detect thoughts should you need one.

You can even buy items right off …

Old School RuneScape developer Jagex is trying to quell player discontent after a strongly negative reaction to comments about the proliferation of bot accounts seemingly made by the company’s new owner: CVC Capital Partners. 

CVC bought Jagex earlier this month for £900 million, a splashy acquisition that, naturally, caught the eye of the Financial Times. A source close to CVC told the paper that “bots are part of the RuneScape ecosystem, they just are,” and went on to say that the goal was “a sort of equilibrium of players and bots” in the game. “If a player is sufficiently committed to pay for three accounts, and have an account and two bots as part of its ecosystem, then so be it,” said the FT’s source.

Players took that as an indication that—so far as CVC was concerned—bots were going to be left to get on with it so long as their owners were paying. As is the case in pretty much any MMO, bots are a persistent problem in OSRS, with automated ac…

How timely it is that, just days after the last Super Blue Moon, a second sneak peak at the Project: Blue Moon TTRPG should arise. This upcoming tabletop game by R. Talsorian games—makers of the Cyperpunk RED TTRPG—comes from Cody Pondsmith, whose mind birthed The Witcher TTRPG. 

Just to be clear, Project: Blue Moon isn’t the final name for the game. It’s just a working title, but where Ponsmith neglects it’s name, he sure as heck makes up for it in atmosphere. Prepare yourself for a dangerous, Japanese-themed world full of dragon spirits and ever-churning death machines.

The first Blue Moon TTRPG sneak peak (via Dicebreaker) showed off some ethereal, east-Asian inspired artwork featuring a great Torii gate and lanterns. Behind it, trees of blood red surround an orb-like fire pit, a shrine perhaps, standing ominously at the top of a grand stairway. With the moon shining bright above the scene, it certainly sets a mood—a touch of m…

Get ready for some close-up card-driven brawling, because battler Fights in Tight Spaces has a sequel-spinoff coming: Knights in Tight Spaces, a fantasy themed throwdown that’ll have you take a party of ruffians engaging in a tactical brawl against not just action movie mooks like the first game, but skeletons and wizards and rock monsters.

It’s just as stylized as the first game was, though definitely refined into something even prettier than before, with a hybrid kind of lined and woodcut print looking aesthetic that’s much easier to read than the prior game’s black-and-red-on-white.

“Knights in Tight Spaces is a tactical deckbuilding game in the same universe as Fights in Tight Spaces, the successful game by Ground Shatter. It is a standalone title that sends us back to medieval times, building on the much-loved gameplay in new and dynamic ways,” says the developer.

The first game was notable for its use of tight terrain maps over the deckbuilding layer, forcing…