PC meltdowns are infrequent, but they’re certainly dramatic. A gamer posted a picture of their mangled Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti on Quasar Zone, saying that a fire broke out in their system while they were playing a game. The GPU seems to have taken the brunt of the damage, …
Read More »Gamer chat app Discord hits 25 million users, can now be used in developers’ own games
Jason Citron, who previously founded and sold the early mobile social gaming network OpenFeint, returned to gaming startups with the launch of Discord in May 2015. This voice and text chat app for gamers — a challenger to incumbents like Skype and Teamspeak — has since grown to 25 million registered users, who are sending 100 …
Read More »Microsoft Announces Updated Xbox 360 And Vows To Maintain Gamer Support Through The Xbox One Launch
Microsoft announced their Xbox 360 in 2005 and has maintained the console for most of a decade. Today the company announced an updated version of the console that mirrors the look and feel of the upcoming, next-generation Xbox One. The new console is “small, sleek, and quiet” and eschews some …
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