Creature collecting game wants you to shoot ’em all, catch ’em all, work ’em all to death, dispose of ’em all in a huge corpse pile-
Every fresh look we get at Palworld makes it appear more fun and yet more disturbing than it did before. Palworld is a cartoony open world creature-collecting and battling game that is heavily inspired by Pokémon, but it’s also filled with machine guns and rocket launchers.
And you’re not the only one spitting lead: guns aren’t just used by you against the monsters you’re trying to defeat and capture, but by the cute and fluffy creatures themselves. Yes, sheep can operate machine guns and a creature that looks suspiciously like Pikachu on steroids does wield a massive minigun.
We’ve already heard a lot of the unseemly things you can do with your Pals besides pit them in battle against each other. For instance, you can slaughter them and use them for meat. That’s pretty darn grim—though I do have to admit it’s also potentially delicious. But there’s more to do with your Pals, as shown in the new Palworld video above.
There’s a base-bu…
Microsoft Flight Sim’s free DLC finally adds what we’ve all wanted- giant mechanical dragonflies, decolonisation, and the chance to win a magical floating Xbox controller-
We’re all a bit iffy about flying Boeings ever since that plane had its door ripped off, so why not try an alternative? For instance, the gargantuan mechanical dragonflies that dotted the skies above the Butlerian Jihad of 200 BG to 108 BG? Those have so many moving parts that could go horribly wrong that you probably won’t even think about the doors.
If you’re tempted, then I’ve got good news: Microsoft Flight Sim’s free Dune expansion is out now, bringing the Royal Atreides Ornithopter from those Denis Villeneuve films into the wide, flighty world of the game and giving you a chance to, uh, realistically simulate flying them. Can you realistically simulate a fictional thing? Yes. No further questions, please.
The tie-in is, of course, part of the marketing run-up to the release of Dune 2 in March, and also adds the desert plains of Arrakis—the science-fantasy North Africa in which much of Dune’s plot takes place—as a playable location to the game, complete …
No E, just the P—Intel quietly launches Raptor Lake Rekked for the embedded market-
Intel has been using a hybrid design for its Core processors since it launched the 12th Generation in October 2021. Since then, we’ve had Core i5, i7, and i9 chips with P- and E-cores, plus low-end processors with just a couple of P or E-cores. With very little fanfare, Intel has launched a range of Raptor Lake CPUs (via HardwareLuxx) for the embedded market that have no E-cores in them—they’re 100% P-cores.
Topping the new line-up is the Core i9 14901KE, with eight P-cores, a maximum clock of 5.8 GHz, and a TDP of 125 W. Basically, it’s a 14900K with the entire E-core block, including its L3 cache, completely disabled.
However, there are a couple of other changes under the hood. There’s no Thermal Velocity Boost and the base frequency of the 14901KE is 3.8 GHz—600 MHz higher than the 14900K. Intel’s database doesn’t say anything about higher power limits, so it could be the case that the 14901KE is capped at 125 W in all circumstances.
These are probab…