Rise of Empires Reviews

Rise of Empires is a popular mobile strategy game developed by Long Tech Network Limited. The game is set in a post-apocalyptic world where players must lead their civilization to prosperity and dominance. It combines city-building, real-time strategy, and RPG elements, making it an engaging and challenging game. Gameplay: In Rise of Empires, players start by building their own city, gathering resources, and training troops. As they progress, they must defend their city against other players and NPC enemies. The game also features a complex alliance system, where players can team up with other players to form powerful alliances, engage in epic battles, and share resources. The game has two main modes, PvE and PvP. In PvE mode, players must complete various missions and challenges to earn rewards and advance through the game. In PvP mode, players can engage in battles with other players and alliances to dominate the world map. Graphics: Rise of Empires boasts stunning graphics and visuals, with highly detailed environments and character designs. The game also features smooth animations and special effects that make the gameplay experience more immersive and enjoyable. Sound: The game's sound design is also noteworthy, with a variety of sound effects and background music that add to the game's atmosphere. The voice acting is also well-done, with believable performances from the game's characters. Controls: The game's controls are intuitive and easy to learn, with simple tap and swipe gestures used to navigate the game's menus and interface. The game also features a helpful tutorial that guides new players through the basic mechanics and gameplay. Overall: Rise of Empires is a highly engaging and addictive game that combines city-building, real-time strategy, and RPG elements into one package. With its stunning graphics, immersive sound design, and intuitive controls, it is a must-play for fans of the genre. However, the game's reliance on in-app purchases and its steep learning curve may deter some players. Nonetheless, the game is a solid choice for anyone looking for a challenging and rewarding mobile strategy game.

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AOC CU34G2X MONITOR REVIEW

The AOC CG34G2X seems to offer something incredible: a 21:9 ultrawide monitor with 144Hz refresh rate and 1ms response time for under $/£500? The age-old phrase states that if something seems too good to be true, then it probably is, but in the case of the AOC CU34G2X and our picks for the best gaming monitors, that might not be the case. AOC has plenty of gaming monitors on the market, ranging from budget 1080p screens to top-of-the-line 4K beasts, but on paper, the CU34G2X may well be the best curved gaming monitor option when it comes to ultrawide gaming, and not just from within AOC's own range. You might expect a monitor with such promising specs to make an aesthetic statement too, but the AOC CU34G2X actually does the opposite. Despite being 34", this screen would fit in at most offices, with the only hint of color being a deep red that accentuates the very bottom of the display, a circle on the base, and some lines on the back. The rest is a matte black with very little else noteworthy, which means you'll need to add the flashing RGB lights later if that's to your tastes. As monitors go, it's a sturdy and well-built beast, though we'd expect nothing less from AOC. Assembling it is as simple as slotting the arm on the back and screwing in the two-pronged base. Inside, it's rocking a 3440x1440 (21:9) resolution, 144Hz refresh rate, 1ms response time, all inside a FreeSync VA panel which is impressive in and of itself. Externally, you're looking at four USB 3.0 ports, two DisplayPort 1.4, and two HDMI 2.0. First impressions from the second I plugged the monitor in were that it looked considerably darker than most monitors and despite fiddling with the settings, that issue persists. It certainly doesn't look bad – I'll get onto gaming performance in a moment – but it isn't as vibrant or noteworthy as other displays I've used, which means it isn't a great option for doing color-sensitive work or watching films. Not that you'd want to watch them on a 21:9 screen anyway… In-game, however, it's a different case altogether, which is what matters since this is marketed as a serious gaming monitor. Ultrawide isn't as much of an advantage as it may have led you to believe but it does provide a small boost. While your aim probably isn't good enough to snap onto someone in your peripheral vision on Counter-Strike because of just how wide the screen is, the ability to spot them and call their location out to your teammates is vital. Combine that with the 144Hz 1ms specs and kerblammo, you've got yourself one heck of a gaming monitor. In Valorant however – my PC shooter of choice – ultrawide isn't supported. Shooters aren't the only place you'll see benefits though. Any racing or driving games, whether you're behind the wheel of an F1 car or cruising in a truck simulator, having the FOV set up just right with an ultrawide monitor means you can see at almost a full 180° angle; no more swiping the mouse or pressing a button to look left and right. In games like League of Legends you can see way more of the map, as is the same in any strategy game with an isometric view. Also, a special shoutout has to go to Elite Dangerous – few things compare to having almost your entire cockpit in view as you hurtle at lightspeed through space.

WD BLACK SN850 REVIEW

pretty much universal. What’s less well established is just how much difference comparative SSD performance makes for gaming as opposed to other workloads. That’s the context for the shiny new WD Black SN850 SSD. By the numbers, this thing absolutely rips, and is definitely a contender for best SSD for gaming. It’s a PCIe 4.0 drive with some serious performance specs, including 7GB/s peak sequential performance and up to 1 million IOPS. Scary, but in a good way. Of course, performance on the best gaming PC (or best gaming laptops, for that matter) doesn’t necessarily benefit from ever-faster SSDs. It’s actually pretty hard to tell from measures like game loading times whether there’s a plain old SATA SSD or the latest M.2 NVMe beast under the hood, for example. The reasons for all this are pretty technical, but boil down to the fact that storage bottlenecks involving IO requests and CPU load tend to be the limit to performance, not raw bandwidth. The catch is that this is set to change thanks to a new next-gen-games-console derived technology for Windows known as DirectStorage. Due later this year, it might just give the likes of the new WD Black SN850 (or the WD AN1500 to namedrop another belter) real purpose when it comes to PC gaming performance. Design & Features Tested here in 1TB capacity, the WD Black SN850 is also available in 500GB and 2TB variants. All three are M.2 NVMe SSDs with quad-lane PCIe 4.0 interfaces. So, they’re right at the bleeding edge of PC storage technology. Peak sequential performance is quoted at 7,000MB/s read and 5,300MB/s write for this 1TB model. As for random access performance, peak performance is pegged at 1 million read IOPS and 720K write IOPS. Underpinning all that is a WD/Sandisk NVMe G2 controller chipset, SanDisk’s 96L 3D TLC flash memory, and 1GB of DDR4 DRAM. The more detailed configuration includes up to 300GB of the 1TB of flash memory dynamically set aside to operate as a fast SLC cache, a feature known as nCache in WD nomenclature. As for endurance, WD backs the drive for five years and 600TB of writes, which is enough for 100GB of data written daily, wait for it, 16 years. Yeah, that should have you covered. As with most M.2 SSDs, physically the WD Black SN850 is largely unremarkable. Still, it is worth noting the SN850 doesn’t have much by way of cooling as standard, despite the fact heat dissipation can often be an issue for sustained SSD performance. A heat sink is available as a cost option. Performance Speaking of performance, this drive does a pretty decent job of blitzing our benchmarks. It isn’t necessarily the fastest M.2 drive on the market by every measure. The likes of the Samsung 980 Pro and Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus have the edge by some metrics. But the SN850 puts in some very nice numbers: 6996 MB/s read and 5205 MB/s write on CrystalDIskMark, to provide some context. Peak performance is in line with the claimed specs, with sequential reads of a whisker under 7GB/s and writes around 5.2GB/s. As nice as those numbers are, it’s actually the 4K performance that most impresses. 4K queue depth one read speed is right up there with the Samsung 980 Pro at 81MB/s, while the 250MB/s write speed for the same test is the fastest we’ve ever seen. As for sustained performance, it drops off right where you’d expect given the SLC cache provision, with sequential write throughput roughly halving after around 300GB of data. That ought to be plenty for most users.