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Valorant patch 3.01 is a relatively small one. Considering the size of the Episode 3 Act I patch, there are a surprisingly low number of bugs. The biggest issue has nothing to do with gameplay. Instead, it concerns the new Account Leveling feature. Players were assigned lower levels than intended when the feature launched. Thankfully, Riot Games is on top of its game and after patch 3.01, Valorant players will have the correct Account Levels....

Valve has launched a new regional pricing recommendation system for Steam, but it could lead to higher prices in certain countries. The new pricing tool suggests prices across the 39 currencies supported by Steam to simplify the process for developers, though these are just recommendations. “We think it’s a helpful guide, but with purchasing power and foreign exchange rates constantly evolving, we needed to make significant changes to those conversion recommendations to stay current,” said Valve in its announcement....

Hello everyone. It’s that time of year when we all take a break from writing words and making pictures move to relax and spend time with our families. But we’ve been working super hard over the last week or so to make sure there’s plenty of content coming up on VideoGamer.com over the festive period. You’re going to get the usual Game of the Year stuff from each of us here, plus some Miller videos, podcasts, a quiz, and an end of year Reviewsical from Colm....

This Vikings review contains spoilers. Vikings Season 6 Episode 8 “You aren’t fit to be called a son of Ragnar.” With the death of Lagertha, attention now turns toward Bjorn Ironside, and Vikings appears ready to step up the pace of Ivar’s story in Rus and finally return to Floki’s settlement in Iceland. “Valhalla Can Wait” addresses each in some measure of detail, but it’s still too early to tell whether any contain enough compelling details to carry the series to a successful conclusion....

HTC Vive is getting into the spirit of Black Friday with a great deal on a new VR headset purchases. Although the price is not dropping, it comes with some great extras including theDeluxe Audio Strap which is worth £100 (see our review). As well as that addition, a copy of Fallout 4 VR, a pre-order code for Doom VR, Title Brush, and a month’s free subscription to Viveport are also included....

Boot on the other foot as 50%-off PSN sale launched Grab the game now for just £5.99 or if you’re a Playstation Plus member, you get an extra 10% off at £5.39. Sale ends Wednesday 28 May. Wales Interactive have also slashed the price of the Art Book & Soundtrack DLC on Steam with 60% off.

Owlcat Games released a brand new gameplay trailer of its upcoming RPG Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader. The trailer provides a look at the turn-based combat system that we can expect in the game, and if you know Owlcat (developers of the Pathfinder series), you probably won’t be surprised to see that it’s a classic turn-based RPG. That being said, it’s certainly different from a fantasy setting, since Rogue Trader is set in the grimdark future of the Warhammer 40,000 franchise....

Wasteland 3 takes the Desert Rangers from the fiery fields of Arizona to the harsh, frozen wilderness of Colorado. Here, they must join forces with the Patriarch in order to rein in his wayward children. Or not — maybe you have other ideas and key decisions to make, each one leading to new outcomes and consequences. Here’s our guides and features hub to help you out. Wasteland 3: Guides and features hub Starter guides, tips, and features...

What Does Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Mean? A software development life cycle (SDLC) model is a conceptual framework describing all activities in a software development project from planning to maintenance. This process is associated with several models, each including a variety of tasks and activities.Software development is a cumbersome activity requiring proper identification of requirements, their implementation, and software deployment. However, the activities do not end there. After the distribution of the software, proper maintenance has to be provided in a timely manner....

What Does Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) Mean? Asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) is a type of DSL technology that provides greater bandwidth and provides higher-speed transmission over traditional copper telephone wires than conventional voice band modem. ADSL is characterized by “high speeds” and “always on” connectivity. This is achieved by using the frequencies not being used by voice calls. Techopedia Explains Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) ADSL is the most common type of DSL connectivity offered by Internet service providers as it uses wires that have already been laid for telephone service....

What Does Cave Automatic Virtual Environment (CAVE) Mean? CAVE is a recursive acronym for cave automatic virtual environment. It is an environment created virtually and consists of a cube-shaped room. The walls of this cube-shaped room behave as rear-projection screens. The first CAVE was developed at the University of Illinois at Chicago where Thomas A. DeFanti, Carolina Cruz-Neira and Daniel J. Sandin demonstrated the first CAVE during the SIGGRAPH conference in 1992....

What Does Commodore VIC-20 Mean? The Commodore VIC-20 was one of Commodore’s earliest personal computers that came out on the market after the PET, but well before the range of Commodore 64 computers that showed the company’s technological advancement through the latter part of the 1980s. The Commodore VIC-20 first appeared in 1980 at the Computer Electronics Show – it was the first personal color computer to sell for under $300 in the U....

What Does Computron Mean? In IT, a “computron” is a fictional unit of computer power intended to reference the ability of a computer or device. Less tech-savvy people may use this term informally to suggest the amount of computer power at their disposal. Techopedia Explains Computron Experts on IT slang describe the computron as a hypothetical synthesis of instruction speed, storage capacity and available memory. Basic use of the term computron involves end-users who are talking about what a particular computer can do....

What Does Dual Stack Network Mean? Techopedia Explains Dual Stack Network A dual stack network involves nodes that are capable of processing IPv4 and IPv6 traffic simultaneously. When a node within a dual stack network receives traffic, it is programmed to prefer IPv6 over IPv4 traffic. In the event that the traffic it receives is solely IPv4, then the dual stack node is capable of processing it as well. Dual stack networking is one of several solutions for migrating from IPv4 to IPv6, but it is also one of the most expensive....

What Does Fluxgate Magnetometer Mean? A fluxgate magnetometer is a sensor capable of measuring the orientation and intensity of magnetic flux lines. Although traditionally used in geological prospecting, underwater navigation and land navigation, fluxgate magnetometers are also used in robotic space probes while analyzing magnetic fields of planets, including Earth. Techopedia Explains Fluxgate Magnetometer Saturation of magnetic materials is the principle on which fluxgate magnetometers operate. The designs of the fluxgate magnetometer broadly are categorized into two types, namely: ones employing ring cores and ones employing rod cores....

What Does Magnetic Drum Mean? A magnetic drum is a magnetic storage device used in many early computers as the main working memory, similar to how modern computers use random access memory (RAM) cards. In some cases, magnetic drum memory was also used for secondary storage. It is basically a metal cylinder that is coated with a magnetic iron-oxide material where the changing magnetic polarities are used to store data on its surface, similar to how modern disk drives use magnetism to store and retrieve data....

The TV adaptation of The Witcher has taken the world by storm since its Netflix debut last month, and audiences have taken note of the strong performances from the high fantasy series’ leads. Newcomer Freya Allan shared some info on the unique details that she brought to her performance as Princess Cirilla, a.k.a. Ciri. “All the screaming was mine,” Allan told Comic Book. “Like, I remember on set, the very first time I did the scream, we did a rehearsal, and the director came over and said ‘Oh, we should have done a take....

Supermassive Games have been a titanic force in horror games recently, ever since the release of Until Dawn. The developer’s spooky resume has granted it the approval of the eight-game anthology with Bandai Namco Entertainment — a series of games known as The Dark Pictures. The official website for the anthology only includes three of the first games: Man of Medan, Little Hope, and House of Ashes. But a new trademark filing shows that the world of The Dark Pictures is much more vast, with five other games on the way....

Epic’s new game store might be big news for PC gaming, but don’t forget about the plucky underdog, Itch.io. Last week, Epic Games, creators of Fortnite, Gears of War, and Unreal Tournament, launched a new digital games distribution service to take on Valve’s Steam. With exclusive titles and a small but well-curated library, Epic hopes to unseat Steam as the default digital games marketplace. For developers, the big news with Epic’s platform is a much more generous revenue split....

A new Resident Evil 2 mod replaces the T-00 foe with Dr Disrespect himself, complete with music and audio from the Twitch streamer. T-00, better known as Mr. X to fans of the series, is one of the most terrifying villains to ever appear in the Resident Evil games. The hulking figure was one of multiple T-103 bio-organic clones that was genetically modified for combat. Mr. X is tasked with eliminating any survivors in Raccoon City’s Police Department, as well as acquiring a “G-Virus” sample and returning it to the antagonistic Umbrella Corporation....