What Does Buffer Mean? A buffer is a temporary holding area for data while it’s waiting to be transferred to another location. It is usually located in the RAM. The concept of the buffer was developed in order to prevent data congestion from an incoming to an outgoing port of transfer. Techopedia Explains Buffer For example, when a user downloads a video or audio file, a certain percentage of the downloaded file is placed in the buffer and then played....
What Does Filter Bubble Mean? A filter bubble is the intellectual isolation that can occur when websites make use of algorithms to selectively assume the information a user would want to see, and then give information to the user according to this assumption. Websites make these assumptions based on the information related to the user, such as former click behavior, browsing history, search history and location. For that reason, the websites are more likely to present only information that will abide by the user’s past activity....
What Does Flapping Router Mean? A flapping router exhibits the condition of transmitting routing update information about a network destination via one route and then another in a rapid sequence. Route flapping happens when there are pathological conditions such as hardware, software or configuration errors found in the network that causes certain information to be repeatedly advertised and withdrawn. Techopedia Explains Flapping Router In a network where a link-state routing protocol is run, the flapping router will force all connected routers to frequently recalculate topology....
What Does Gigabit (Gb) Mean? Gigabit (Gb) is a data measurement unit applied to digital data transfer rates (DTR) and download speeds. One Gb equals one billion (1,000,000,000 or 109) bits. Techopedia Explains Gigabit (Gb) Central processing units (CPU) are built with data control instructions for bits–the smallest data measurement unit. Bits are magnetized and polarized binary digits that represent stored digital data in random access memory (RAM) or read-only memory (ROM)....
What Does Land Grid Array (LGA) Mean? A land grid array (LGA) is an integrated circuit design involving a square grid of contacts that are connected to other components of a printed circuit board. The term refers to a “socket design” where certain components are disconnected from the actual circuit board and integrated into the board’s structure in particularly new ways. In contrast to most other designs, LGA configurations have pins in the socket rather than on the chip....
Over 4 million copies of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt were sold within the first two weeks of the game going on sale, CD Projeckt RED has announced. The figure doesn’t even account for units sold within the last seven days, during which the game continued to hold on to the UK No.1. “May 19th was a crucial date for all of us here at CD PROJEKT RED — we released The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, our open world role-playing game that we had been hard at work on for over 3 years,” said co-founder Marcin Iwinski in an open letter posted earlier today....
Three new Xbox 360 titles are now backwards compatible with Xbox One, Major Nelson has revealed. The new titles are Bound by Flame, which we didn’t like all that much; the rather brilliant Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown; and the excellent The Maw from Twisted Pixel. The trio join a host of other titles added this month: ARKANOID Live! Bayonetta de Blob 2 Of Orcs and Men (not available in all regions) QIX++ Bejeweled 3 Deathspank T....
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint is the latest entry in the Ghost Recon subfranchise, and as such, carried with it a lot of expectations. At its core, it manages to meet a lot of these expectations, but it also drops the ball on more than one occasion. Ghost Recon Breakpoint puts the “tactical” in Tactical Shooter but fails to stand out in nearly every other regard. The game shines in its combat, and that’s mostly because it’s incredibly similar to Ghost Recon Wildlands....
The Call of Duty franchise is, and always has been, one about shooting. Its legacy spans three generations of console gaming, including PC and even handheld releases. Did you know there was even a CoD game on the Nokia N-Gage? While the series spent its infancy as a WWII shooter and looked like it’d be set that way forever, the pivotal release of Call of Duty 4 took the setting into modern times and set a lot of standards that are still adhered to over a decade later....
Tower of Fantasy is a free-to-play gacha stylized MMORPG by Perfect World. As it is an MMORPG, there’s a wide range of characters that you can pick. One of these characters type includes Simulacra that are the weapon characters. These characters can awaken to uncover their backstories and their traits. These can be their passive abilities which can be pretty effective during fights. But to do so, you need to create a bond with them....
Dovetail is putting together the final touch-ups to its upcoming Train Sim World game, which is due to pull out of the station later this year. To show off more of Train Sim World 3, the studio has recently published a new issue of its Dev Diary video series, with this particular one being titled “Freedom.” Here, various members of the development team highlight how the new sim offers various improvements and new features to give players a chance to feel even more immersed in the openness of this sim’s world....
Trek to Yomi is all about Samurai-slashing action as it explores the storyline of Hiroki. The entire gameplay, mechanics, and aesthetics of this game are like a tribute to Akira Kurosawa. If you have watched any of his flicks, you may know that the antagonists are straight-up wicked. Similar to the movies, the game features Kagerou which killed the sensei and village of Hiroki. Sounds demonic enough? He can also take the form of a Demon during the final boss fight....
Twitch wants to start the new year off right, at least in the loot department. It’s too early to say if 2020 will bring greater clarity or consistency to the livestream platform. It definitely will bring a good amount of free games, though. Twitch Prime members can now claim five new free games in addition to the five Devolver Digital titles still offered from the holiday special. January’s free games will let you start riots, go through people’s phones, and get your Metroidvania on....
A second Ubisoft Forward showcase will be held later this year, as announced by the company yesterday. “I hope you will have enjoyed what you have seen today, and that you will love playing these games,” said Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot of the games shown off in the latest presentation. After E3 2020 was axed due to the pandemic, a number of companies pivoted to individual or collective showcases of their upcoming games....
A new Trackmania game is on the way. As announced by Ubisoft in an official news update, the French publisher is remaking Trackmania Nations. Planned to release on May 5, the Nations Remake will serve as a seasonal title that receives various long-term updates. This is being introduced to combat how players often “rush through the campaign” and then stop playing altogether. Originally released in 2006, Nadeo’s Trackmania Nations was the third game released in the Trackmania series....
Unturned is a Minecraft-like game in the survival genre and involves several unique things you can explore and experience. However, the game offers more than just crafting items and materials. The game has loads of fun features such as vehicles, weapons and teleportation that you can easily obtain using cheats. The vehicles in the game have some fundamental properties that need to be considered such as fuel, battery and speed which adds to the immersion of this survival multiplayer....
September 8 can’t come soon enough for Valorant players, as it marks the beginning of the next Act for the tactical shooter. The upcoming Act was previously delayed by Riot Games to ensure it’s polished and ready for launch. With Episode 3 Act II, Valorant will receive a new battle pass, but more importantly, a new map, called Fracture. The new Act will also include a patch to the game. Recently, patches have only fixed minor bugs, along with implementing some stability improvements....
Vampire Survivors has been an unexpected delight in the indie game scene since its initial Early Access release in December of last year. The simple but addictive game tasks players with surviving hordes of monsters for 30 minutes at a time while becoming increasingly more powerful. The twist, though, is that players can only control the movement of their character while the game automates attacks. Now, nine months later, Vampire Survivors has a full 1....
Violence is a staple in all forms of media; from classical literature and Shakespearian plays, to death metal, and horror movies. Video games are no exception, with the majority of video games focusing heavily on violence as a plot device, gameplay mechanic, or, in some cases, as the games sole purpose for existing. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. After all, we’d rather it be fictional violence on the screen as opposed to real violence on the streets, right?...
In the Voltron season 6 episode, “Razor’s Edge” Keith and his mother Krolia find themselves in a time warp of sorts where Keith befriends an alien wolf creature. While of course adorable, many fans were wondering just where the hell it came from and what purpose it might play in the show. Executive producer Joaquim Dos Santos has, as he jokingly refers to it, a very superficial reason. “I wanted Keith to have a really cool wolf....
