Stardew Valley’s 1.6 update smashes its Steam player record

From The Verge: Stardew Valley’s massive 1.6 update has been out on PC for less than 24 hours, and it’s already taken the game’s popularity to staggering new heights. The cozy farming simulator hit 146,159 concurrent players on Steam according to SteamDB data, smashing the game’s previous record as...

Respawn Rolls Out Security Update in Response to Apex Legends Hack

From PC Mag: Apex Legends developers at Respawn have finally responded to the hacking incident over the weekend that forced its North American Apex Legends Global Series (ALGS) esports finals to be put on hold.

"On Sunday, a few professional Apex Legends players accounts were hacked during an ALGS...

Steam Family feature offers better sharing and parental controls

From PC World: PC gaming tends to be a solitary affair, leaving the living room co-op to console players. Even so, Steam has offered some sharing and parental controls before, in features such as Family Sharing and Family View. Today the storefront consolidates a lot of that into the new Steam...

Noctua presents NH-D12L chromax.black CPU cooler

From Noctua Press Release: Noctua today expanded its chromax.black line with an all-black version of the award-winning low-height 120mm CPU cooler NH-D12L: Staying true to the successful formula of the original model, the new chromax.black version with its black fans and black coated heatsink...

Thermaltake Launches a Powerful Active-Cooling MS-1 M.2 2280 SSD Cooler

From Thermaltake Press Release: Thermaltake is proud to announce the launch of the MS-1 M.2 2280 SSD Cooler. The MS-1 Cooler features an active high-speed micro fan, direct-contact heat pipe, and a high-quality aluminum heatsink, keeping the Gen5 SSD cool effectively. With this latest cooler, you...

Ad-free Facebook might get way cheaper to appease EU regulators

From The Verge: Meta says it’s offered to reduce the price of its ad-free subscription for Instagram and Facebook in Europe to address regulatory concerns, Reuters reports. Speaking in a hearing with the European Commission, Meta lawyer Tim Lamb said the company has “offered to drop the price from...

Microsoft will share a Surface and Windows ‘AI vision’ in May

From PC World: Microsoft will kick off its Build conference with a special event on May 20 focusing on the company’s “AI vision,” the company said Monday.

“Satya Nadella will share our AI vision across hardware and software as part of a dedicated news briefing,” the company said, the day before...

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