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Bungie addresses major Destiny 2 player complaints with massive changes on the horizon

Destiny 2, Bungie’s long-running online sci-fi shooter, has a year of substantial changes ahead of it, according to a new roadmap the studio detailed in an extensive blog post published on Thursday. While the game’s next major expansion, The Witch Queen, has been delayed to early 2022, Bungie says it has major overhauls planned for… Read more

DS Audio is sharing its optical phono cartridge secrets for free

Home News (Image credit: DS Audio) DS Audio has decided to share its niche expertise in optical phono cartridge technology with the world for free. Why? The Japanese company has pioneered what has largely been an eight-year solo effort in implementing optical tech in its development of phono cartridges. Now, it wants others to join… Read more

Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite on turntables, soundtracks and live church recordings

Home Features (Image credit: Brian Sweeney) This interview was originally published by What Hi-Fi? in March 2016. It is easy, often and now especially, to become consumed by technology. It is easy to allow the romanticism of music, the entire grounds for that technology, to be camouflaged. That is why, speaking with Stuart Braithwaite, guitarist,… Read more

Pokémon is a huge hit because it’s cooperative

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Twenty-five years later, that’s still the case When Pokémon launched 25 years ago, it did so twice simultaneously. Pokémon Red and Green (later made Blue for its Western release) are almost identical, but each has a few exclusive monsters. The fire puppy Growlithe is only available in… Read more

HyperX Alloy Origins 60 Review: Big Wins, Small Keyboard

Our Verdict The HyperX Alloy Origins 60 is a 60% gaming keyboard that justifies its premium price tag with sturdy build quality, responsive mechanical switches and RGB backlighting. For Premium build quality Doesn’t take up a lot of desk space Responsive, ping-free switches Against 60% layout can be hard to learn Replacement spacebar uses ABS… Read more

Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Donald Glover to star in Amazon’s Mr. and Mrs. Smith series

Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Donald Glover will star in a new Amazon Prime Video series based on the 2005 film Mr. and Mrs. Smith. The movie starred Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt as a pair of married killers-for-hire who are assigned to assassinate each other. I am trying to envision what Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag character would make… Read more

MSI Immerse GH61 Review: Lucious and Immersive

Our Verdict Thumpy, warm sound combined with very good microphone performance and lusciously soft ear cups make the MSI Immerse GH61 a winning choice. For Effective DAC and AMP Immersive virtual surround sound Quality, microphone Super soft ear cups Against Ear cups get warm after a while Bass lacking at max volume We all like… Read more

33 Spotify tips, tricks and features

Home Advice (Image credit: Spotify) As of February 2021, Spotify boasts 155 million Premium subscribers and 345 million monthly active users. The platform has long been the world’s most popular music streaming service, and with good cause – it got in on the ground floor and its simple interface and vast library make it a… Read more

Ruark R3

Our Verdict While we thought its radio sources need a little tonal attention, the highlights here are playback from CD, from streaming music services and Bluetooth. For Compact music system Endless paths to music CD and streaming Against Edgy sound on radio sources Variable results for ‘3D audio’ Sound+Image mag review (Image credit: Future) This… Read more

10 best Lego sets 2021: Our favourite Star Wars, Technic, City, Frozen II sets and more

(Pocket-lint) – Each year Lego unveils stacks of new sets that combine top name franchises, other brands and the best of traditional series such as Lego City and Lego Technic. There are hundreds of new sets to choose from and, now that Lego appeals to huge numbers of adults as well as kids, the choice… Read more

Prove you’re top of the pops with this 1990s music quiz

Home Features (Image credit: Creation) We’ve just published our list of the 40 best 1990s albums to test your speakers, taking in everything from shoegaze to jungle, but which records topped the charts at the time? We had a look and found plenty we remembered, and many we couldn’t for the life of us recall…. Read more

software-architektur.tv: C4 Architecture Model and Structurizr

Simon Brown will be the guest of tomorrow’s episode of software-architektur.tv. He is the author of Software Architecture for Developers, a developer-friendly guide to software architecture, technical leadership, and balancing with agility. He is also the creator of the C4 software architecture model and the founder of Structurizr, a collection of tools designed to help… Read more

Best Beats wireless headphones 2021: Bluetooth Beats for every budget

Home Best-buys Best Beats wireless headphones Buying Guide: welcome to What Hi-Fi?’s round-up of the best Beats wireless headphones you can buy in 2021. Beats had already established itself as the headphone make of choice for youngsters, athletes and hip-hop artists alike, but since it was bought by Apple in 2014 the brand’s profile has… Read more

Review: Goldmund Telos 590 NextGen II Integrated Amplifier / DAC

Thanks to the recent introduction of the high performing and a lot less expensive Goldmund Telos 7 integrated amplifier and the further developments of the Swiss, it is now even possible to use the Telos 590 NextGen even further. In this review we will go into that in more detail, because the ‘590 MkII ‘is… Read more

software-architektur.tv: Patrick Kua – Evolutionary Software Architecture

Patrick Kua was CTO and Chief Scientist at the Berliner Direktbank N 26 and now works as an independent coach and mentor for CTOs and Engineering Vice Presidents. Patrick Kua has written several books such as how to talk to tech leads and he is co-author of a book on evolutionary architecture. In this episode,… Read more