The Seagate FireCuda 530 2 TB is one of the best NVMe SSDs you can buy right now, and it’s on sale at B&H at an aggressively low price of only $239. If you’re looking for an upgrade to speed up your game load times, look no further. 

In our review of the FireCuda 530 last year, we said “it combines awesome performance with best-in-class reliability to take the SSD crown,” pretty much making it the top choice for premium memory storage. Aside from the lack of AES 256-bit encryption, the only downside was its steep price. The 2TB version of the drive retails from $400-460, so you can score this for almost half-off, which is an absolute steal and a whole easier to recommend. 

It’s got a 7,300MB/s read and 6,900MB/s write speed. As for performance, it’s at the…

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In a new trailer that premiered during the PC Gaming Show 2023, we got our first glimpse of Jumplight Odyssey’s combat. The upcoming roguelite spaceship colony sim was revealed last year in a fittingly rambunctious story trailer, but, as the new trailer reveals, it’s not just buck-toothed pigs and accidental fire hazards you’ll be dealing with as you lead a crew on a voyage through the stars. 

It looks like you’ll spend a lot of time fending off invading Zutopan fleets (led by the wonderfully and theatrically named Admiral Voltan) and preparing various defenses. Blast doors must be initiated, gangways locked, and crew members ordered to (literally) spin into their combat uniforms before operating defensive turrets. Starfighters nee…

You know how OLED panels make LCD monitors look like slugs when it comes to response times? Well, you might want to sit down. Because Samsung’s new microLED TV is 500,000 times faster than its latest OLED panels.

Specifically, Samsung says its new MicroLED CX panels, just announced at CES, are good for 2 nanosecond response times. That compares with the 0.1ms pixel response the Dell Alienware 34 OLED is rated at, which of course uses a Samsung Quantum Dot OLED panel.

If nanosecond sounds like the natural progression from millisecond, it’s worth remembering how big a gap there is between the two metrics. Milliseconds are of course one thousandth of a second. Nanoseconds? That’ll be one billionth of a second. All of which means that this Samsung micoLED panel is five million t…

Ray traced lighting, man. I often feel like I can do without its beastly hits to performance in my games, but then I’ll see a transformative use of it that makes me want to slam that “RTX on” button. Modder Slasks Psybunker’s demo for ray tracing in the original Max Payne (first spotted by DSOGaming) is one such dinger.

Slasks Psybunker seems to have used the RTX Remix runtime to use this, an earlier version of the RTX remastering toolkit Nvidia plans to release at the end of the month. As a refresher to those who aren’t fully tuned in with bleeding edge Nvidia graphics stuff, RTX Remix is the tech giant’s tool for quickly creating ray tracing-enabled “remasters” of older PC games. The company first showed it off with a ray tracing-enabled version of Portal.

The results are …

Raise your hand if you’ve played through a FromSoftware game without using a guide. If your hand’s up, you’re a rare and impressive bird, clearly suited to a life of luxury in some billionaire’s menagerie. I can’t think of a developer I associate more heavily with online guides and wikis than FromSoftware. While it’s certainly possible to beat their games without outside help, I think the vast majority of players look up weapons, NPC questlines, boss strategies, even basic item descriptions to better piece together what the heck is going on in Dark Souls or Elden Ring.

Who’s related to who? Who betrayed who? Whose magic and hubris destroyed the world? To the internet! 

I always assumed FromSoftware knew good and well that its players turn to wikis and multi-hou…

I’ve spent more thousands of hours playing the Destiny games than I care to admit, so the loss of Lance Reddick last week, at the far too young age of 60, hit particularly hard. As the voice of Commander Zavala since day one, Reddick has stoically accompanied us on missions across the solar system, providing fatherly encouragement as we batted away one paracausal threat to humanity after another. 

Another actor might have turned in a rote performance as a patrician leader and called it done, but in his nine years on the series Reddick nailed the character’s struggles with guilt and the burden of responsibility. Where Zavala could have been a cloying, one-note character, thanks in large part to Reddick he landed as a believable voice for hope in a universe beset by perm…

Keep your Wordle win streak heading in the right direction no matter what—just click yourself over to today’s answer. Or if you’d rather have a little help, you’ll find a clue for the July 13 (754) game waiting below, as well as plenty of tips and useful advice to help you figure out the solution to today’s puzzle.

The joy of uncovering a healthy string of greens early on was balanced out by the sheer number of potentially valid words they led to. Should I tactically “waste” a few goes trying to eliminate as many letters as possible, or should I stumble upon today’s Wordle answer on my next go, like the luckiest person in the world? It wasn’t a clever win, but hey—it still counts.

Today’s Wordle hint

A Wordle hint for Thursday, July 13

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Need help with today’s Wordle? You’ll find a range of tips on this page, every one designed to help you squeeze the most out of your guesses. Don’t worry if you need something more direct either: there’s a clue for the July 10 (751) Wordle here too, as well as today’s answer.

The guess that led to today’s win was something of a joke—a silly word typed in just to make myself smile and see what would happen if I gave it a go. Imagine my surprise when four of today’s five greens immediately showed up and I snagged today’s Wordle answer right after that. 

Today’s Wordle hint

A Wordle hint for Monday, July 10

Any building designed to look impressive but serve no real purpose can be described using the answer to today’s Wordle, as can anyone…