Month: October 2024

It’s not been a bad week for Microsoft. Not only has the UK Competition and Markets Authority decided that, actually, it doesn’t have a problem with the Xbox-maker taking ownership of Call of Duty at all, but now GamesRadar reports that the dread hand of a California judge has thrown out a so-called “Gamers’ Lawsuit” against Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard. 

The Gamers’ Lawsuit was brought against Microsoft by a group of ten Call of Duty fans in December last year. Echoing arguments that have also been voiced by the US Federal Trade Commission, they said that Activision was one of “only several independent game publishers in the world that are capable of making the highest production quality and most graphics-intensive videogames,” and that any consolidation of those companies would invariably have a negative impact on videogame players. 

They also claimed that Microsoft had lied about not having an incentive to limit the availability of Bethesda games before it acquired that company in 2021, boding poorly for any similar promises it made about Activision Blizzard games. I admit, the term “Gamers’ Lawsuit” has an effect on me like a bucket of…

System memory is a question of style not just speed. At least, that’s the thinking behind Corsair’s new Dominator Titanium DDR5 kits, which have removable top bars and support 3D-printed customisation.

The speed bit is covered off by launch frequencies of up to 8,000MT/s, which should cover most needs and then some. It’s about as quick as DDR5 currently comes. The style? Well, that’s the unusual bit.

As standard, these are particularly clean and slick looking memory sticks courtesy of the now-traditional Dominator machined metal cladding. They also run nice and cool thanks to DHX dual-path heat exchange technology.

But staying traditional isn’t the idea. Instead, the new Dominator Titanium DIMMs support fully replaceable top bars.

For starters, you can replace the factory-fitted RGB-lit top bars with a Fin Accessory Kit inspired by those Corsair Dominator DIMMs of old. Not that the RGB bars are too shabby, what with 11 programmable LEDs.

Corsair says system-wide RGB lighting effects are possible when the DIMMs are combined with the  CORSAIR iCUE Murals, including synchronised lighting that matches your music, games, or movies.

Corsair has…