Intel is currently weathering a storm of epic proportions right now, with falling share prices, a foundry service that’s losing billions of dollars, thousands of staff being fired, and processors that are reportedly failing in large quantities due to excessive voltages. Getting concrete data on the latter has been tricky but Puget Systems, a well-known manufacturer of workstation PCs, has issued a report detailing its own findings on the failure rate of 13th and 14th Gen Intel CPUs—and the results might surprise you.
The short version of the Puget report is simple: it has certainly experienced Raptor Lake and Raptor Lake Refresh processors crashing and giving up the ghost but it’s all been “much more muted in terms of timeline and failure rate.”
That may seem somewhat at odds with what’s been said and if one reads nothing but headlines, you’d been forgiven for thinking that Intel’s chips are veritable bombs, just waiting to go off at a moment’s notice. However, bec…
Blizzard has changed the way nabbing a mythic skin in Overwatch 2 works, introducing a new shop, new currency and (sort of) new method of obtaining them.
The Mythic Shop is the new home for Overwatch’s rarest ‘stumes, where mythic skins that are at least two seasons old will appear. Instead of grinding out each season’s battle pass for its respective skin, you’ll be able to choose which one you want. Fancy this season’s Mercy mythic? You can do that, but if you’re still upset you missed out on season one’s Genji skin, you can opt to buy that instead. However, if you’re gunning to buy a skin that’s from last season or the season before, you’ll have to wait until its third season for it to appear in the shop.
Skins can be bought with the game’s newest currency, Mythic Prisms. Thankfully, you can earn these just by playing through the premium battle pass. One completed battle pass will nab you enough Prisms to purchase a mythic skin with its four customisation tiers. Altern…