Month: September 2024

A ~7.4 magnitude earthquake that struck Taiwan on Wednesday morning has left many injured and at least seven dead in official reports. The earthquake, one of the strongest to hit the island in decades, also led to TSMC, the largest manufacturer of computer chips in the world, closing its doors temporarily.

TSMC, the primary manufacturer of many of today’s leading performance computer chips, including those from Nvidia, AMD, and Apple, had reportedly halted production and evacuated some locations, according to a report from Bloomberg. 

The Guardian has confirmed with TSMC that workers are now returning to its many fabs in the area, though further inspections of the highly sensitive equipment used in the production of computer chips is still ongoing.

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Destiny raids have always featured fights against the universe’s biggest bad guys, but they don’t get bigger than what’s waiting at the end of Salvation’s Edge. The Final Shape’s raid, opening its doors tomorrow at 10 AM Pacific, will finally pit players against The Witness—the primordial antagonist whose forces we’ve been fighting for a decade. Imagine like, the most evil guy, but times a million. The Witness is like that. But worse!

In the raid trailer released today, Bungie’s hype building is as on-point as ever, with all the slick slow-motion and song-synchronized gun reloads we’ve come to expect from a Destiny sizzle reel. Judging from all the clusters of massive, grasping hands and agonized, dismembered statues, Salvation’s Edge looks like it’ll be spo…

Developer Respawn has released a nine minute clip of the upcoming Stars Wars Jedi: Survivor and, yep, this sure looks like a Star Wars game with a Jedi, surviving. What it does show is returning protagonist Cal Kestis (and his droid BD-1) making their way around a new planet, Koboh, which they’ve apparently crash-landed on.

Koboh is a lush environment that is host to a Separatist hideout, with various battle droids patrolling around alongside plenty of local fauna, and of course some bigger nasties that demonstrate the game’s lightsaber combat. Respawn had already talked about the combat focus of the sequel, with Cal having five “full realised” stances to switch between while fighting

Cal has clearly been in training with new combo moves for his double-bladed lightsab…