No, I only have been using, building and optimizing stuff for 30 years now. Therefore I also say that the real-world speed is more than raw throughput, you will need lots of iops more, especially when the games contain of thousands of single files that have to be fetched.
Burst speed vs. sustained speed is another…

Gigabyte Aorus Gen4 AIC SSD 8TB - 1800€, but 15.000MB per second and also when writing! and 8 TB of storage at that sustained speed.
Samsung PM1735, 7000MB/sec, 1.6TB for less than 700€ seems to be a better deal though.

PS5 will not sustain 5.5GB as raw speed, you have my word on it. And 9.0 only in very short intervals…

I’ve never seen 10gbps stated anywhere. Merely 7gbps, as a theoretical throughput. Also, Sony accepts additional NVME M.2 ssds with 4gpbs in their additional slot, therefore the games have to be optimised for that number.
And those are abundant on the PC market.
The theoretical speed of m.2 is 10gbps. Sony is probably…

To be fair, a console will always produce better graphics than a pc of the same cost. Its only when you factor in additional money for the online service, the lower costs of games on pc and the abundance of sales that the money factor is skewed in favor of a pc. Plus, you are missing out on some exclusives (less from…

Tim Sweeney ist flat out lying. There are PCIE NVME SSDs already available on the market (at a high price) that eclipse the speeds that have been posted for the NVME SSD in the PS5. There are also alternatives that can achieve about the same speeds and iops for less than 150€ for 1TB.
So the SSD of the PS5 will be a…

eh, no big deal actually. Ok, admittedly, I mostly only drive up to 270, and my 911 maxes out at something near 290, so that Benz has me beat.
But on a well-tended road? No problem.
You’ve been to Germany several times, where’s the problem? I can drive that speed almost every day when commuting to work for quite a…

You are missing Middara and Big Trouble In Little China (the one from Everything Epic) ^^
Middara just oozes style in its art on every single piece - cards, character sheets, manual, and even the UV spotted map pieces are just unbelievably good looking.
The art style reminded me a bit of Torchlight somehow.

I call BS.
There was the exact opposite on a lot of games, where the tracks included in the game had more dynamic range than the OST. Sometimes even the albums, Death Magnetic sounded WAY better on Guitar Hero than on the album release (which was compressed to death).
I get it that they might want to “flatten” the…

oh, it is possible, and has been for years.
I’ve been at a VMWare conference around the time the iPhone4 was the current model, and VMWare already had full phone virtualization running as a demo, including virtualizing the SIM card (which was shunned by the carriers back then and one of the reasons the technology was…

Any and every aspect of law enforcement should be forbidden from being privatized.
Everything, from lawmaking, law enforcement and the punishment system should be in the hands of the state only, and also be held responsible to the same laws they uphold on people on equal terms.

Then none of this would happen. Also,…

actually not. I got my hands at the various Grimtooth Traps books a short time before designing this, and I just needed an excuse to get the players into a maze to expose them to the various traps. Changed them though to be less deadly and more humiliating ^^
All in all it was a different but very fun session, with the…

The point Tim tried to make isn’t that you should steal from other adventures or outright run them without owning the book, but not to be afraid to adapt all kinds of content from everywhere and modify it to fit your gameworld.
Borrow characters from age old sagas, from childrens books, from tv shows, from movies and…

The stealing point is true, and if it’s only for inspiration - so be it. I once had players investigate a huge wooden elephant that had mysteriously appeared in the harbor of a town ( trojan horse similarity), only to find out “it is bigger on the inside” and contained an actual complete dungeon. Players who took the…

Sometimes colors go away for reasons that are out of control. Remember the viper green of the Scirocco 3?
The plant that made the pigment used in that paint was apparently close to Fukushima when the incident occured there. Combined with the dwindling sales of the car VW could not be bothered to source another plant to…

except you can easily clean automotive cloth with a steam cleaner or a tornador gun, or some other form of foam/vaccum cleaner combination. Thousands of possibilities really, and if you have the right type of cloth (microfiber), it won’t stain, fade, or get knotty like Alcantara.
Plus, Mercedes actually makes cloth…

I have a PS3, PS4, several 360, Xbox One in the house. The PS3 and PS4 controllers almost all needed their batteries replaced because they would not hold a charge anymore. Replacing a battery and getting the internals to work again flawlessly afterwards is a PITA with the PS3 controllers because some of their contacts…

aaah, the famous Atari Jaguar dental equipment. Rumor has it that the shell can be repurposed to house Jaguar internals again ^^

Apart from the obvious problem here, a tip for handling masks:
Stop. Touching. Your. Face. And. Adjusting. The. Mask.
The masks are there to protect other people from the stuff you might have. So put them on, wash your hands, go do your duties and then only touch them/take them off when you are back at home. Throw them…

Over here in Europe we had news outlets write a week ago that the US would be sending relief masks and gowns to Italy to help them.
A few days later, we got photos of a russian AN-124 full of protective gear headed for the US.
Today, we read that the US was outbidding european states directly at the manufacturers in…

There’s one missing: CivNet.
It should’ve been mentioned, because it was the game that catapulted the Civilization experience into online multiplayer, away from the roots of Civ1 where we were used to taking turns on the same machine (which got boring for everyone when one persons empire was really, really large).

I…