Battlefield 4 patch fixes balance, bugs, and Mantle issues
EA DICE posted the mother of all Battlefield 4 patches this morning. Today's update includes stability and bug fixes, a whole bunch of balance adjustments, and some additional tweaks aimed at the game's Mantle renderer, which premiered a couple of months ago. A full list of what's in the update can be found in this post on the BF4 forums.
On the balance front, DICE's tweaks address everything from assault rifle recoil to grenade capacity and properties to the effectiveness of weapons on aircraft and ground vehicles. I haven't played a whole lot of BF4 multiplayer myself, since ...
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Samsung's budget 4K monitor is selling for $700
A wave of more affordable 4K monitors is set to hit this year. Samsung's U28D590D looks like it might be one of the first—and it should also be among the most affordable. Amazon has the 28-incher listed for pre-order at $700.
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EA's Origin store to stop selling games on discs
And the slow slide toward the deprecation of physical media continues.
EA's Origin service is already best known as a purveyor of downloadable games, but right now, the service also sells PC and console discs. Starting April 4, ...
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Carmack chimes in on Oculus-Facebook deal
A lot of folks have spoken out about Facebook's pending acquisition of Oculus VR, but John Carmack, who has served as Oculus' CTO since last August, has stayed characteristically quiet. Or at least, he had, until a couple of comments of his surfaced in a Tumblr thread about the deal. The comment thread is tied to a blog post by chiptune musician Peter Berkman, who is critical of the deal.
In his first reply , Carmack says that, while there's a "case to be made" for going at it alone and taking an approach similar to that of Valve with Steam, VR is "too obviously powerful, and it makes converts on contact." He ...
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SanDisk intros workload-optimized CloudSpeed server SSDs
SanDisk is bolstering its CloudSpeed family of server-oriented SATA SSDs with four new models tuned for different workloads. The drives are all based on the same 6Gbps controller and 19-nm MLC NAND. However, they've been carefully segmented with different capacity points, performance ratings, and endurance specifications to suit specific audiences. Here's how the models stack up:
| Model | Capacities | Max seq. (MB/s) | Max ran. (IOps) | Drive writes per day |
Total writes | Warranty length |
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| Read | Write | Read | Write | |||||
| CloudSpeed Eco | 240-960GB | 450 | 400 | 75,000 | 15,000 | 1 | 1.05PB | 3 years |
| CloudSpeed Ascend | 240-960GB | 450 | 400 | 75,000 | 14,000 | 1 | 1.75PB | 5 years |
| CloudSpeed Ultra | 200-800GB | 450 | 400 | 75,000 | 25,000 | 3 | 4.38PB | 5 years |
| CloudSpeed Extreme | 200-800GB | 450 | 400 | 75,000 | 25,000 | 10 | 14.60PB | 5 years |
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AMD shows teaser pic of likely dual-Hawaii Radeon
Earlier this month, Scott received a mildly creepy envelope from AMD that contained a picture of his face, duplicated horizontally, with the caption, "Wouldn't you agree that two is better than one?"
On Saturday, the following tweet and picture ...
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