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HW News - Microsoft Buys Activision Blizzard for $68.7B, NVIDIA Annual* GPUs, Sony PS5 'Slim' (www.youtube.com)

Hardware news this week covers huge stories, including Microsoft buying Activision Blizzard King for $68.7B, NVIDIA moving to annual architecture launches for some of its GPU lines (not including gaming, it sounds like), Sony launching a PlayStation 5 Slim, and more.

Dell Made an Impressive RTX 4090: Relatively Small, Large Flow-Through, & Good Cooling (www.youtube.com)

Dell's RTX 4090 comes in the Alienware R15 (and we'll soon be looking at the Alienware R16!) and uses a simple, black-and-plastic design with a large heatsink and huge flow-through area. We harvested the RTX 4090 card from the Alienware PC we reviewed previously, mostly because we wanted to check if the PCB is a reference design...

An amazing video by J. Kenji Lopez-Alt where he explains how to shop for Japanese groceries plus Bonus Gyudon! (youtu.be)

Kenji did a great video walking around Uwajimaya explaining the different varieties of common Japanese ingredients and what he recommends getting. I’d say anyone looking to dip their toes or season experts of Japanese cooking will find some good info here.

Live Service And The Decline Of Gaming (www.youtube.com)

I found a lot of things in this review pretty spot on, and am curious if others feel the same. I do still regularly play one MMO which I love (GW2), but dumped all the others I used to play since I got fed up with their obvious shift to practices he discusses here. While Anet may be guilty of employing some, they are not imho...

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