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Vile Monarch, creator behind Oh Sir: The Insult Simulator, has revealed that it’s launching Weedcraft Inc. for PC next year via Steam, otherwise known as ’the burgeoning legal pot industry’s first fully fledged tycoon game.' You play as a chap who just dropped out of business school, and decide to team up with your brother, who has been growing marijuana for your now-deceased father, to kick off a thriving business in the production and distribution of various strains of bud....

Perks are passive skills that you can acquire in Weird West. You won’t need to do anything since they’ll continue to buff you throughout your journey. Here’s our Weird West perks guide to help you with the passive skills, as well as the Golden Aces of Spades that are required. Note: For more information, check out our Weird West guides and features hub. Weird West perks guide – The best passives and finding Golden Aces of Spades Similar to Nimp Relics/abilities, you’ll find a lot of Golden Aces of Spades in Weird West....

A new SSD can make a massive difference to your PC or PS5, helping you store more games without having to delete ones you’ve already installed. A faster SSD will also reduce load times for games, apps, and your operating system. The SN850 is a brilliant SSD because its size and speed give it more than enough to store and load all of the new AAA games without any issue. The SSD also has a bit of character thanks to the subtle RGB strip on the top which can be configured in a range of colours to match your other components....

What Does I/O Spikes Mean? I/O spikes are extreme changes in network demands that can cause certain impacts on distributed computing systems. This general term can be used to describe the different kinds of network or system impacts that may be problematic for planners and IT professionals. Techopedia Explains I/O Spikes One of the common scenarios where I/O spikes are a problem is in a network or system with a storage area network....

Destruction AllStars is the new, next-gen game for the PS5 console. Released as a free release for PS5 users, Destruction AllStars has got everyone in a frenzy. With some chaotic gameplay involving smashing and crashing into your opponents, Destruction AllStars seems to be a juggernaut in the making. The gameplay is extremely vivid with some top-notch graphics to complement the bright, dazzling colors and insane gameplay. Speaking about dazzling things you must have seen some diamond-esque Shards that seem to be floating around on their own....

What Does Clock Cycle Mean? In computers, the clock cycle is the amount of time between two pulses of an oscillator. It is a single increment of the central processing unit (CPU) clock during which the smallest unit of processor activity is carried out. The clock cycle helps in determining the speed of the CPU, as it is considered the basic unit of measuring how fast an instruction can be executed by the computer processor....

What Does Digital Identity Mean? A digital identity is an online or networked identity adopted or claimed in cyberspace by an individual, organization or electronic device. These users may also project more than one digital identity through multiple communities. In terms of digital identity management, key areas of concern are security and privacy. Techopedia Explains Digital Identity Like its human counterpart, a digital identity is comprised of characteristics, or data attributes, such as the following:...

What Does Garbage Collector Mean? A garbage collector is a piece of software that performs automatic memory management. Its job is to free any unused memory and ensure that no memory is freed while it is still in use. Some languages such as Java and .NET languages feature automatic garbage collection, whereas others such as C/C++ require the programmer to manual manage memory. Techopedia Explains Garbage Collector Garbage collection was first introduced by Lisp creator John McCarthy to ease the manual memory management when working with the Lisp language....

The Witcher received its second and final trailer this past Halloween, and it left fans hungry for more. Fans looking forward to the series will be happy to know that the showrunners have broken down the trailer, explaining some of the subtleties and fun facts revolving around The Witcher’s characters, action, and world-building. The theme of this show will heavily revolve around the idea of good and evil and will place both villains and heroes in situations where they can channel those concepts....

Minor spoilers for episode 2 of The Book of Boba Fett. If you haven’t watched up until this point and don’t want the plot point for the current state of Tatooine spoiled, I’d suggest coming back after you watch the most recent episode. After a bit of a short and slow, but still good, first episode, The Book of Boba Fett caught up ground quickly in episode 2, not only doubling the run time but also introducing a bunch of interesting currents and past plot elements that are sure to have large implications on the rest of the season....

A standalone app now permits players to build and import bases into No Man’s Sky. The “Townscaper-esque” app - well, it’s more of a PC mod, really - is “simple, focussed, and made purposefully for No Man’s Sky” so players can create, edit, and improve their base building with “fun ways to move, snap, and color base parts”. And it comes with the greatest of great endorsements from Hello Games’ own Sean Murray (thanks, PC Gamer):...

Thor: Ragnarok isn’t just the best Thor movie. It’s the most cosmic Marvel movie this side of the Guardians of the Galaxy series. And without any pesky, annoying Earthlings (ahem, Midgardians) hanging around to clog up the proceedings it’s got more Marvel references and easter eggs per frame than any of its predecessors. It’s now available to own on Blu-ray and DVD, too. Thor: Ragnarok is a feast for Marvel fans, and it will probably take me a second viewing to catch everything in it, simply because in nearly every scene there’s a design, a piece of architecture, or a background character who positively must have come from the comics page....

No one has enough time to play every interesting video game that comes out in a given year. If, like me, you have been gaming for over 30 years, it means you have missed a lot of video games in your lifetime. That’s just the way it is: we have a limited amount of time that we can allocate to our favorite hobby, so we have to pick carefully what we want to play....

Hello! Our ongoing series of articles examining accessibility in games continues with this piece from Caelyn. This piece discusses depression. Anyone who has a large collection of games, whether it’s in the form of shelves of physical media, a Steam library bloated by years of sales and bundles, or a subscription service like Xbox Game Pass, has probably experienced a form of choice paralysis at some point. You’ve got some time on your hands, you want to play a game, you have dozens or even hundreds to choose from, but none of them tickle your fancy....

With nearly 7 million followers, Turner “Tfue” Tenney is the second-most popular streamer on Twitch. In one of his recent livestreams, Tfue appeared to use a racial slur while playing Minecraft. Tfue has deleted the stream from his recorded videos, but clips of it still exist online. In the video, Tfue is killing enemies and appears to say, “You guys f****** killed all the villagers, man. Ya’ll motherf****** killed them n*****....

The Hero of Chaos, Cao Cao, is set to do battle against his friend-turned-rival Yuan Shao. Here’s our Cao Cao campaign guide for Total War: Three Kingdoms – Fates Divided. Note: For more information, check out our Total War: Three Kingdoms – Fates Divided guides and features hub. Likewise, please be reminded that this guide is based on Romance Mode playthroughs with VH/VH difficulty selected. Total War: Three Kingdoms – Fates Divided – Cao Cao campaign guide We’ll be dealing with a lot of mechanics and facets when it comes to Cao Cao’s 200 CE campaign in Total War: Three Kingdoms – Fates Divided....

Tower of Fantasy is an Adventure open-world MMORPG game similar to Genshin Impact with multiple story quests. There are multiple mini-bosses lurking around the map to wreak havoc and cause obstruction in your path. Apart from these mini-bosses, there are 6 world bosses on different regions of the map. Moreover, these world bosses get tougher as we explore the open-world map by completing the story quests. These monsters have different character levels that make them more powerful and dangerous....

Ever since Crunchyroll and Funimation officially unified, anime fans have been treated to an abundance of new subbed and dubbed titles that have been arriving on the platform. Today, Crunchyroll revealed its full catalog of titles that are coming to it this month. Below is the full calendar of anime that will be new to Crunchyroll: May 3 Shironeko Project ZERO ChronicleKemono Michi: Rise Up May 5 RE-MAIN May 17...

Tunic, previously known as Secret Legend, got a brand new trailer at the PC Gaming Show during E3. Tunic is a stunning-looking, isometric Zelda-like action adventure game where you play as a painfully adorable fox who is a dab hand at swinging a sword around. Check out the trailer below to get a better idea of this promising little game from developer Andrew Shouldice. Tunic is scheduled to launch on PC in 2018....

It’s getting to be that time of year when major video game publishers are reporting on the next fiscal year of launches and into the foreseeable future. As such, Ubisoft’s financial conference call for investors and analysts revealed five upcoming games that would be released for both current-gen and next-generation consoles, the PS5 and Xbox Project Scarlett. Anticipation for both next-gen consoles has been ramping up in recent months, with Sony teasing its current PS5 title lineup and the Xbox Scarlett preparing to launch sometime in the holiday season of 2020....