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The day has finally come: The Intel i9-9900K is here. The new “world’s best gaming processor” brings the i9 line to mainstream consumers for the first time and packs a full 8 cores and 16 threads of performance, boosts 5GHz out of the box, and marks the return of a soldered heat spreader to keep it cool. Let’s see how it held up!
The day has finally come: The Intel i9-9900K is here. The new “world’s best gaming processor” brings the i9 line to mainstream consumers for the first time and packs a full 8 cores and 16 threads of performance, boosts 5GHz out of the box, and marks the return of a soldered heat spreader to keep it cool. Let’s see how it held up!
When the EVE Online Winter Update launches in the near future, it will be headlined by the “new and improved Abyssal Deadspace 2.0″. This means that players will be able to travel to Abyssal Deadspace, that is considered a”dangerous and isolated” corner of New Eden. In addition, players will be able to get hold of new ships, new navigation structures and will find the newly-added Activity Tracker to keep tabs on everything that’s going on.
One of the bigger complaints that World of Warcraft players have about Battle for Azeroth is the acquisition of Azerite armor pieces, particularly by running Mythic+ dungeons. That will be changing, however, with 8.1, when a new as-yet-unnamed currency is introduced that players can earn in their weekly Mythic+ chests or by scrapping Azerite armor pieces. Once enough currency is earned, players will be able to visit Thaumaturge Vashreen who will sell two different types of items.
During today’s EVE Vegas convention, CCP Games revealed that EVE: Echoes is its first EVE Online-based mobile game. Previously known as EVE Project: Galaxy, the mobile game is being developed by NetEase and is brand new in that it is ‘set in an alternate universe of New Eden’. It is not related to EVE: War of Ascension with each first launching in different markets at different times. The goal is to launch EVE: Echoes in 2019 for both iOS and Android mobile devices.
During today’s EVE Vegas convention, CCP Games announced that they are working on a brand new FPS game set in the EVE universe. Called Project Nova, the game features “tactical co-op PvE and competitive PvP” alongside a “deep and meaningful progression system. Project Nova is playable by those lucky enough to be at EVE Vegas and are automatically invited to the Alpha. Others can register on the Project Nova site for selection to participate.
The Chronicles of Elyria site has been updated with a post to inform backers who have claimed an Elyrian package or higher that they will be selecting each server’s starter continent. Voting will take place over two rounds. Round 1 will allow players to choose the top five maps out of a pool of twenty. Round 2 will see players select which of the five will “contain the starting continent” map.
During last summer’s TennoCon, Warframe developers announced the game’s next big expansion, Fortuna. Players will be jetting off to Venus, to a “wasteland populated by specialized Corpus units, an alien ecosystem and subterranean mysteries”. Along the way, players will meet Solaris “who live in debt-slavery to their profiteering Corpus overlords”. Now the team has let the world know that Fortuna will be coming to Warframe in November.
Earlier this month, Nexon announced that it was closing the Korean version of Hyper Universe. It appears that the problem of a lack of a robust player community has been detected in the West and the PC / Steam version will be closing down on December 19th.
From today’s rumor mill: According to Gematsu, a Digital Game Rating Committee in Taiwan has posted a listing for a PlayStation 4 version of Grinding Gear Games’ Path of Exile. If true, the PS4 version would join the already-existing XBox One and PC versions, though it remains to be seen if there would be any cross play capabilities between the three.