Cassie Ventura's Team Slams Sean "Diddy" Combs’ Recent Outing With Scathing Message

Cassie Ventura is standing her ground while Sean “Diddy” Combs is on vacation.

The “Me & U” singer condemned her ex-boyfriend’s recent excursion where he went whitewater rafting in Wyoming amid serious legal troubles, including multiple sexual assault lawsuits and allegations of sex trafficking and more.

Cassie’s lawyer Douglas Wigdor said in a July 9 statement to TMZ on her behalf, “I don't think white water rafting will prepare him for the choppy waters that lie ahead.”

Her lawyer’s comments come nearly two months after a 2016 video—which CNN released in May—showed the rapper grabbing her, pulling her to the ground and kicking her multiple times. It also appeared to show Diddy picking up an item and throwing it at her, which matched her description of the incident in Ca…

As we advised last week, three games are currently available free for Amazon Prime subscribers, on top of its usual rotating freebie selection. Claim them before the Prime Day sales event ends at midnight Pacific on Wednesday night, and they’re yours forever.

The games are:

• Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League
• Rise of the Tomb Raider
• Chivalry 2

If you’re a Prime subscriber, you can grab the free games here. To take advantage of the offer, you have to link your Amazon and Epic Games Store accounts, and Epic’s launcher is where you’ll be able to access your new games. 

• We’re curating all the best Prime Day PC gaming deals right here.

If you aren’t already using the Epic Games Store and the thought of dealing with a new launcher puts you off, I’m sympathetic, though to complicate your decision I’ll say that I th…

Coming to approved Warhammer retailers this Saturday, the Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 Recruit Edition board game is “designed to introduce new hobbyists to the world of Warhammer, especially those that want to recreate the battles of the latest videogame hit.”

In other words, if you enjoyed Space Marine 2, this is your invitation to adopt a full-fledged Warhammer hobbyist lifestyle. Accept it at your own risk: You may one day find that you’ve dedicated a portion of your home to the painting of little guys that you can’t stop buying.

The two-player game is designed for 30 minute sessions, and includes 12 miniatures: one Lieutenant Titus, 10 Tyranid Termagants, and one Ripper Swarm. It also comes with five colors of paint, “a range of starter tools and game components,” and a handbook.

If you don’t imagine him charging forward mightily, Lieutenant Titus comes across as a bit wobbly. The big-headed Warhammer proportions contribute to the sense that he’s an unst…

MSI’s take on the killer 4K gaming OLED segment has always looked appealing. How so? In a word, price. At $899, it’s easily the cheapest of the bunch.

Of course, there’s a catch. You kind of can’t buy the MSI MAG 321UPX. At least, you barely ever could, it has been sold out almost all the time. But now you can for that $899 price from Newegg.

I reviewed this monitor back in May. At least, I reviewed the MSI MAG 321URX, which is identical save for having a USB-C interface with 90 W of power delivery. This 321UPX model (note the “P” second from last letter where the other model has an “R”) only serves up 15 W over its USB-C connection.

That detail aside, you’re getting the same stunning QD-OLED panel. Though it’s not perfect. Like all monitors using the Samsung QD-OLED panel tech, it’s a little on the warm side in terms of colour balance. And the quantum dot tech and lack of polarising filter means that the panel kicks some ambient light back out in re…

PC manufacturers are always chasing ways to lower component temperatures, often going as far as using exotic materials, cutting-edge manufacturing techniques, or innovative new cooling methods. But sometimes the best solution is the painfully simple one, as Noctua proves with its new offset mounting bracket—a part that costs under $5 and lowers CPU temps by as much as 3ºC.

Noctua’s latest AM5 mounting bracket is offset by 7mm. That might not sound like much, but it’s importantly the exact distance required to set the cooler more centrally over the hottest and most thermally sensitive parts of an AMD Ryzen CPU: the core chiplet die (CCD).

It’s AMD’s chiplet architecture that’s the important thing here. AMD has been using chiplets in its CPUs for many years now, and on the desktop that means an IO die (cIOD) and one or two CCDs. It’s the CCD that run hottest, containing up to eight Zen cores each, and in both one- and two-core configurations they sit slightly of…

The Overwatch 2 developers explained the constant battle they have to fight for fair matchmaking in a stream today, and said one of the hardest problems to solve are players who smurf.

“To be clear: please don’t do that,” lead meta designer Scott Mercer said of players who make fresh accounts to see how fast they can climb the competitive ladder or to dunk on new players, otherwise known as smurfing.

Mercer and senior software engineer Morgan Maddren said smurfing ruins matchmaking for new players because the system was made to expect gradual skill improvement. Overwatch 2’s swap to free-to-play from the first game brought in tons of fresh accounts, and the new matchmaking system was carefully built to handle that.

“The situation we don’t want is like, ‘Hi, I’m a new player to Overwatch,’ and we totally misevaluate your skill and you lose a bunch of games because we think you’re way better than you are,” Mercer said.

The team had to build systems to anticipat…