Before he owned videogames growing up, FromSoftware president Hidetaka Miyazaki loved tabletop RPGs and their source books full of quests and monsters. It’s not hard to see that passion reflected in any of the games he’s designed at FromSoftware, but Elden Ring particularly so: Its sprawling map echoes the kinds I loved to pore over and draw myself (poorly) as a kid, from Lord of the Rings’ Middle-earth to Warcraft’s Azeroth. Elden Ring also seems to directly connect back to the RPGs of the ’80s with its skeleton-filled catacombs, like tabletop-style dungeons ripped straight from the pages of an AD&D campaign.
“You might say that trying to capture the excitement of those old tabletop games and game books was one facet of making Elden Ring,” Miyazaki told me in a recent i…
Read moreHere I am genuinely curious as to what Noctua, a company that specialises in making fans, is cooking up. Over on the company’s official X account, the company has teased “something new is coming…” with a short teaser video showing what it might be. From that, it’s not entirely clear what we’re looking at, but it’s certain not to be one of its usual beige and brown fans.
From the video it’s clearly a product with more coverings and curves than a usual case fan, though there definitely is a fan included. So we can rule out more screwdrivers, then. Dive into the replies for the post and there may be an even clearer indication of what it might be, however.
X user thatcsdude has posted an image in reply that shows off a prototype for a Noctua desk fan, with an “airflow amp…
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