A physics teacher from Mexico teaches his students about the laws of nature. To convey this as understandably as possible, he uses charts from One Piece and other animes.
What are those chalk drawings? On Instagram, the teacher from Mexico proudly shows the chalk drawings he creates for his students. There are surprisingly many images from One Piece to be seen:
With the help of Sogeking, the teacher explains the skewed parabolic trajectory.
With his G 2, Luffy can move faster. A great example to symbolize the calculation of airspeed.
Who better to explain magnetic and electrical attraction than Enel, the God of Thunder?
Even the battle between Gear-5 Luffy and Lucci clearly shows how 2 forces clash according to Newton’s laws.
The students are to calculate the trajectory of Usopp’s projectiles.
However, the chalk drawings also contain not only illustrations, but also informative sketches that help explain physics understandably. Additionally, there are other animes that appear here, such as the fire from the movie Howl’s Moving Castle. It is meant to illustratively show heat transfer.
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Many students would have liked a teacher like that
What do people say in the comments? In the comment section of the individual sketches, users overflow with praise for the images. They celebrate the artist as a unique teacher they would have liked to have had in their school days.
Especially the combination of a popular anime and such a dry subject as physics seems extremely motivating to many users. The most liked chalk drawing with Sogeking has already gathered over 500,000 likes and 700 comments.
No wonder some think such images would be too precious to wipe away. Some joke that they would refuse to clean the board.
With familiar faces like Luffy and Zoro, the barrier to learning dry formulas from physics decreases. In Japan, it is even possible to have that as a school subject. There, the anime visits different schools and discusses with the students what they want to achieve in life: Children in Japan have the opportunity to experience One Piece as a school subject
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To make it harder for resellers to resell coveted Pokémon merchandise in the future, there is a new tactic: A newsletter that fans can subscribe to, with a link that quickly loses its validity.
What problem is to be solved? Scalpers are people who buy up a large quantity of a popular item to resell it at a higher price. This can be a problem for example during the release of a highly anticipated game console, but increasingly also with Pokémon merchandise.
Especially new sets from the Pokémon trading card game are often affected by this problem. The fewer copies there are of a card, the more it is worth and can be sold for a corresponding amount of money.
For the release of upcoming Pokémon merchandise, the Pokémon Center has now come up with a solution: A kind of Early Access with a newsletter on the site.
You can also easily collect Pokémon cards digitally on your smartphone with Pokémon TCG Pocket:
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Invitation link self-destructs if necessary
What does the solution look like? There will now be action against resellers with a newsletter and a special link. Fans can sign up for a newsletter and will be selected with some luck, allowing them to choose and buy the desired merchandise before anyone else.
The newsletter contains an invitation link that is valid once. If multiple browsers or devices use this link simultaneously, it will be noticed and the link will lose its validity immediately.
If someone tries to manipulate the system in some way using multiple accounts to get more than one opportunity for the merchandise, they risk complete exclusion.
This way, selected customers, hopefully true fans of the franchise, will get a chance to buy the coveted merchandise.
It is important to mention, however, that signing up for the newsletter does not guarantee access. At least this offers a solution to a long-existing problem.
By the way, MeinMMO author Paul Kutzner recently tried out the dark side. In the game TCG Card Shop Simulator on Steam, he played as a scalper and even enjoyed the role. You can read more about it here on MeinMMO: I’m currently becoming a virtual scalper on Steam – and I love it
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Anyone streaming on Twitch automatically has a chat where viewers can write using their accounts. Streamers and viewers interact this way. But what happens if the viewer who is most present in the chat is not a person but a bot instead? This happened to streamer Maik Zarbex.
Which fan is not real? In one of his past Twitch streams, one of his moderators pointed out to the Twitch streamer Zarbex that his top chatter wahlju from the last 2 years does not actually exist: he is just a bot.
Zarbex looked at the messages that the bot had sent right after the hint: most of them consisted of just a hahahahaha with an added XD.
The bot was only revealed because it had been banned by the moderators and then submitted a ban appeal. In a ban appeal, viewers who have been excluded from the chat due to a violation of rules have a way to request whether they can be unbanned.
Bot wahlju apparently also wanted to participate in the chat again. However, the message in the ban appeal clearly indicated him as a non-human, as the bot promoted his own company, from which he originated. Thus, he can probably forget about getting unbanned.
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Loyal chatter of Zarbex does not exist
How does Zarbex react? Zarbex initially commented on the whole situation with a sarcastic I am broken (Source: Twitch from minute 00:57:10). He further explained that he had recognized the name in the chat repeatedly.
This really hurts my heart because that was such a loyal chatter. I even knew him by name. It’s like having been in a relationship with a woman for 10 years and in the end finding out it was just an AI robot.
Later, Zarbex looked at the bot account: apparently, it had been following him since March 2025, so a whole year. For 2025, the account was even one of the most active accounts in the chat.
Looking at Zarbex’s Twitch recap from 2025 on YouTube, one can discover the bot account wahlju in the category Your biggest fans. At that time, Zarbex also mentioned, just like now, that he would know him from the chat.
The pirate game Windrose starts today in Early Access on Steam. Now the first reviews are slowly coming in, and players are very optimistic.
How is the Early Access received? Those who take advantage of the introductory offer of €26.99 can dive into the world of Windrose on Steam. The developers describe the game as a PvE survival adventure set in the pirate era with Soulslite combat.
In Early Access, about 2 thirds of all content from the full version should already be visible. Over time, 50% more content is expected to be added, including new biomes, bosses, and ships. The story is also expected to continue.
The development team at Kraken Express anticipates that the Early Access will last around 1.5 to 2.5 years.
At this time, around 48,500 players are simultaneously active in Windrose (as of April 14, 2026, 5:15 PM, via SteamDB). The trend is rising, so we will likely see the maximum in the coming weeks. However, there is already a clear opinion about the game.
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The pirate survival game Windrose finally has a release date, and it is already very close on the horizon
Windrose succeeds where big studios fail
How is the game received? Currently, Windrose has a very positive rating. About 91% of the 502 users have rated the game more positively than negatively. While the 502 users may not be statistically significant, considering that there are currently over 48,500 players in the game, they do provide a preliminary direction.
In the reviews on Steam, players write that Windrose is better than expensive AAAA competitors from big studios. They are referring to the pirate adventure Skull and Bones, which confidently claimed to be an AAAA title. This is basically the highest budget level for gamers.
After the release, however, there was a major backlash for Skull and Bones, which is currently absent for Windrose. Players praise the following aspects:
The combination of open-world exploration, crafting, land survival, and naval battles is considered refreshing.
The seamless transition between battles at sea and exploration of islands on land is also praised.
Especially in co-op mode, the game is a lot of fun.
The overall pirate vibe and setting fully captivate the players.
There is also some criticism. As much fun as the co-op mode is, the solo mode feels much slower and more sluggish. Additionally, the game shows signs of still being in Early Access. While it has a strong foundation, some systems and mechanics still need refinement.
If you think of music with Imagine Dragons, you are actually right. But now the musicians are launching their first game Last Flag on Steam as developers.
What do Imagine Dragons have to do with video games? Songs like Radioactive, Believer, Demons, or Bones have been streamed over a billion times on Spotify. This fame is what Imagine Dragons, specifically singer Dan Reynolds and his brother, band manager Mac Reynolds, want to leverage to create their own video game.
In collaboration with Night Street Games, the two are living their dream. They say in their documentary on YouTube: “Mac and I have always dreamed of founding a game studio for as long as I can remember.”
Their debut work brings a nearly forgotten genre back to life, just waiting for a new coat of paint.
Here you can watch the trailer for the game Last Flag:
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Last Flag shows in the trailer what the shooter by Imagine Dragons is about
TF2, Halo and LoL in one
What kind of game is it? The two brothers did not find it easy to choose a genre. While Mac prefers playing shooters, Dan is at home with MOBAs like LoL. Accordingly, a game emerged that aims to be both tactically challenging and really action-packed.
Last Flag revives the old “Capture the Flag” mode. The goal in a 5vs.5 shooter is to capture the enemy team’s flag and protect your own.
At the same time, the tactical depth of the mode is further enhanced by hiding your own flag. Meanwhile, both teams are busy tussling over a tower in the center of the map, which holds clues about the location of the opposing flag.
Dan Reynolds explains this in the documentary: “The fact that you can hide your flag and it doesn’t always stay in the same position is really the core of Last Flag. It should capture this feeling I had when I hid my flag on the playground back in school during PE.”
What do the two think about their game? The two have a clear vision for their title. Last Flag is not meant to aim too high, but rather to focus clearly on the single game mode. The maps, the heroes, their skills, and everything else are tailored to that one game mode.
Accordingly, the price is also sharp, as it is set to cost 15 € on Steam. However, there will be a discount campaign at release that will reduce the hero shooter right away.
Cyberpunk 2077 is a game full of people who are rarely completely morally black or white. V is also not someone who should boast of moral superiority. However, there is a resident of Night City whom MeinMMO editor Caro will never forgive for a particularly heinous act.
Cyberpunk 2077 often throws players and me into various dilemmas that are not easy to solve and are often decided by which path holds the least evil. My V is no saint and makes some decisions based more on feeling than on the correct behavior of a professional mercenary.
Therefore, I want to judge as few inhabitants of Night City as possible… With one exception: Wakako Okada, the “Lady of Westbrook” and one of the few major fixers in Night City.
It’s no wonder that the job of a fixer is only suited for the kind of people who can switch off their empathy like a switch to act lucratively and, as much as possible, to maintain their own reputation. But Wakako went too far for me.
With one action, she not only ensured that I and consequently my V lost all respect for her but also contributed to one of the worst and most tragic fates in Cyberpunk 2077, which makes me damned angry and sad every time.
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Few suffer as terribly in Cyberpunk 2077 as Evelyn Parker
Wakako may have played a short but crucial role in the terrible fate of Evelyn Parker. The person V initially meets as a client for the heist at Konpeki Plaza hides a much deeper motivation and a tragic attempt to escape her own fate.
Evelyn is a so-called “Doll,” a sex worker with a chip that adapts her behavior to the wishes and desires of clients and erases her memory after the session. In both a metaphorical and literal sense, a doll, a toy.
After the Konpeki heist from the tutorial goes sideways, Evelyn ends up back with her Dollhouse employer at “Clouds.” There, she is silenced by a targeted virus from her own clients, the Voodoo Boys, because she knew too much about their plans.
She barely survived the attack, but her cyberware was so severely damaged that she became almost comatose. What followed made her one of the most tragic characters in the game for me.
Evelyn is first encountered in Lizzy’s Bar, the headquarters of the Mox (Image source: YouTube)
Wakako makes one of the most heartless and soulless decisions, even for a Night City fixer
The manager of Clouds decided, after several attempts to repair Evelyn’s cyberware and offenses against her body, to sell the broken doll to a particularly slimy ripperdoc named Fingers. Without promising measures to restore her, Evelyn’s former employer handed over her body to the ripper as payment.
Fingers eventually contacted Wakako to secure a particularly lucrative deal – and Wakako, a woman with extensive connections, delivered.
Only after being rescued by Judy with V’s help could Evelyn escape this torture, but only for a short time. Evelyn was unable to overcome the events and ultimately took her own life in Judy’s bathtub.
Wakako knew exactly what she was doing
Wakako had no ill will towards Evelyn and no other reason to sell her to the Scavengers than pure indifference. The Scavs are known for trading body modifications, cyberware, and organs on the black market, just as they produce snuff braindances.
Wakako’s base is unfortunately also located on Jig-Jig Street, where sex work and the dealing of increasingly extreme material is the order of the day.
She knew exactly what she was doing. And that makes her not only one of the most ruthless fixers but also one of the most heartless and coldest individuals in all of Night City, to whom neither I nor V will ever give any respect.
Perhaps it’s because she is a woman herself, or maybe it’s just the gut-wrenching staging of the game. But I will never be able to get used to Evelyn’s fate in any playthrough and always have to take a break after her story.
While some gangs decide to make some people’s lives a real hell without any remorse, there are also other groups that see it differently. Referring to a gang that took Evelyn Parker under their protection, rather than seeing her as an outsider, and that was none other than the smallest but most respectable group in Cyberpunk 2077: The smallest gang from Cyberpunk 2077 is known to every player, but few know what really lies behind the Mox
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The LoL player and coach Saskio kept track of his female players’ hormone cycles for months in League of Legends. On X he claims to have noticed impacts on gameplay behavior and win rate.
What did the coach do? The LoL player and part-time coach Tony Chau, aka Saskio, went viral on X (formerly Twitter) with the claim that he documented his duo partner’s monthly cycle for months. In a post from April 13, 2026, he claimed that his partner Yuulu is a completely different player when she has her period.
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Cycle reportedly affects gameplay behavior and win rate
This is what he claims to have discovered: Saskio asserts that the cycle has significant effects on the gameplay behavior of his duo partners. Player Yuulu plays significantly more aggressively during her period. Therefore, he would choose the champ Tristana even then and dive into fights with her:
“I match her chaos with my chaos. When she flashes forward, I flash with her. We both commit war crimes at the SAME TIME.”
However, outside of menstruation, things look quite different: Yuulu suddenly plays methodically and calculated, and dies less often. Then he chooses Vayne and waits for good opportunities for a fight. This approach impacts the win rate: during the period it is at 52%, outside it shoots up to 57.5%.
Saskio says: “The data doesn’t lie.” He recorded over 147 matches. His predictions are so accurate that he can now predict Yuulu’s period more precisely than her own tracking app.
In an article on X, Saskio goes into more detail about the “science” behind his approach.
This is what is being discussed: The mood in the nearly 250 comments on X can be summarized as follows: “Fascinating … but pretty creepy.” Users are amused by the premise and impressed by the attention to detail, but also criticize that Saskio apparently neither obtained his teammate’s consent to track this personal data nor to share it with the public. After all, the post has now been seen over 3.5 million times.
How scientific is this whole thing? Saskio’s approach should not be confused with actual scientific work. 147 matches may seem like a lot, but as a sample, it is relatively small and has limited statistical significance, especially considering external factors such as day form and teammates. Anyone who has ever tackled a PvP game is painfully aware of the influence of matchmaking.
Nevertheless, the basic idea has a scientific basis. A study from University College London from 2025 suggests that the hormonal cycle may actually affect the athletic performance of female individuals.
However, the results differ from the data of the LoL coach: women tend to perform particularly well on cognitive tests during ovulation, while reaction time is fastest during their period — even though participants reported feeling their worst physically during this time.
Crimson Desert is continuously being improved by the developers, and a recent update has implemented a setting that elevates your gaming experience in Pywel to a new level – you just have to set it up correctly.
What setting is it about? The recently released Update 1.03.00, released on April 11, 2026, introduced new options in Crimson Desert that enhance gameplay. Primarily, it concerns camera settings, which include:
Camera field of view
Vertical camera position
Horizontal camera position
Automatic camera rotation in movement direction
Adjust camera to movement direction
Since they are hidden under the options in the “Accessibility” section, some players may have missed them. At least you now know where to find them. But what do you need to set to immerse yourself better in Pywel? We will show you.
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More immersion with just three options
What do I need to change? In the settings, go to “Accessibility” and change the following options to these values:
Camera field of view: 65
Vertical camera position: 15
Horizontal camera position: 15
Here you can find the settingsBefore the settingAfter the setting
What do our parameters change? The camera field of view is essentially the FOV setting. With it, your field of view is expanded, making the image appear more realistic, as you can see much more in your view.
The vertical and horizontal camera positions are also set so that your characters are more centrally positioned in the image.
This way, you are in the center while still having enough distance in your field of view to perceive your surroundings perfectly. If you do not like these settings, feel free to experiment a bit. This allows for various versions that deliver more or less immersion.
If you want to squeeze out more FPS, feel free to check here:
These were all the important details on how you can improve your gaming experience in Crimson Desert with just three small adjustments. Do you have other parameters that you would suggest to the readers? Then feel free to write them in the comments. You can find more guides on Crimson Desert here: Crimson Desert: All guides, tips, and lists at a glance
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A new analysis is causing a stir: A well-known AI for developers is said to have lost significant performance. The software engineer and head of AI at AMD, Stella Laurenzo, mentions up to 67% less thinking depth. The possible reasons behind this are likely recent updates.
Which AI assistant is it about? Claude Code is a coding tool developed by Anthropic that runs directly in the terminal and helps developers refactor, document, or debug code efficiently.
Now, the coding AI from Anthropic is under criticism. The trigger is an analysis by the tech giant AMD, which documents a significant decline in performance.
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The center of the criticism is an investigation of about 7,000 real usage sessions. It was observed that the AI performed worse in many cases than before. According to Stella Laurenzo, head of AI at AMD, and reports from Winbuzzer and The Register, efficiency is said to have decreased by up to 67 percent in certain scenarios (via GitHub).
Especially notable was that the AI, when faced with tasks it could reliably solve before, now often delivered incorrect or incomplete results.
Unable to perform complex technical tasks
How was the deterioration discovered? The findings come not from an isolated test, but from evaluating real use. Stella Laurenzo had thousands of interactions with the AI analyzed to better understand its behavior in everyday situations.
The AMD team had logged every conducted Claude Code session since January 2026. The data foundation consists of thousands of logged sessions with tens of thousands of individual thought steps (Winbuzzer).
This revealed a clear pattern: The AI needed, on average, more attempts to find solutions and abandoned more complex tasks. The AMD internal developers also reported that answers were less precise or skipped important steps.
These changes were measurable and occurred consistently over many sessions. According to Laurenzo, this means Claude Code is unable to perform complex technical tasks.
Made dumber by update?
Why has the AI deteriorated? A clear cause has not yet been confirmed. However, according to the analysis, the decline is not due to a large, obvious error, but rather two small changes that together had significant consequences. On the one hand, the introduction of adaptive thinking and the adjustment of the so-called effort value.
What is “adaptive thinking” and why is it a problem? In February 2026, Anthropic introduced a feature called “adaptive thinking.” The idea behind it: The AI decides for itself how much “thinking effort” it puts into an answer (devpik & Anthropic).
In simplified terms:
For easy tasks, it only thinks briefly or skips them entirely.
For difficult tasks, it should think longer and more thoroughly.
This saves computing power and makes the AI faster.
In practice, however, something unexpected happened: In some cases, the AI decided to not think at all.
This specifically means that for the tasks where careful thinking would have been crucial, the AI skipped this step and instead delivered incorrect answers.
What else has changed? Additionally, at the beginning of March, a second, even less noticeable change was made: The so-called “effort” value was adjusted. This value determines how much maximum “thinking power” the AI is even allowed to exert. Previously, this was set to “high” by default, afterward only to “medium” (Venturebeat & GitHub).
Meanwhile, the lead developer of Claude Code, Boris Cherny (GitHub) has responded to the criticism from Stella Laurenzo and confirmed certain adjustments and possible deteriorations.
Artificial intelligence is now used in many areas. Above all, many people use it in everyday life. And Generation Z has discovered AI as a therapeutic aid. But this can lead to a big problem: AI like ChatGPT tells users what they want to hear
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Since the Kickstarter boom in the 2010s, there has been a whole host of developers wanting to finance their MMO through crowdfunding. But which games have actually been released? MeinMMO delivers the reckoning after more than a decade.
Wasteland 2, Divinity – Original Sin, Pillars of Eternity … these are all role-playing games that successfully gathered a significant part of their funding through Kickstarter in the 2010s, which initiated a real crowdfunding boom in the gaming industry. The existence of games like Baldur’s Gate 3 or Avowed today can also be attributed to the successes of these projects.
The boom, however, did not stop at other genres either. From 2012, we counted more than 20 MMO(RPG)s that have also made their way through Kickstarter in the past 14 years. But what has actually happened to all these projects? Which games have been released, which were discontinued, and which are still in development?
MeinMMO presents you with the – spoiler: quite sobering – reckoning below, starting with the oldest Kickstarter MMOs. Through the table of contents, you can jump directly to the MMO projects that interest you the most, if desired.
Update from April 14, 2026: We have added a section about the VR MMORPG Asteria and checked all other topic blocks for their currentness.
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Star Citizen
Setting/ Genre: Science Fiction / MMO | Developer: Cloud Imperium Games | Platform: PC | Status: Still in Development, Alpha | Year of Campaign: 2012 | Money raised via Kickstarter: 2,134,374 $ | Backers: 34,397
Star Citizen set a very high bar with its success on Kickstarter but only later transformed into a historical project of superlatives. More than 5.6 million backers have raised over 809 million US dollars through crowdfunding (via robertsspaceindustries.com) enabling a large team to work on Star Citizen for many years.
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That would be up to 17 years after the start of pre-production of Star Citizen in 2011 and up to 16 years after the start of the Kickstarter campaign in 2012. At that time, the plan was, by the way, to deliver the game in November 2014 (!) (Source: kickstarter.com).
Following were the alpha updates 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3, which included, among other things, launcher 2.0, dynamic NPC conversations, new fauna, radiation, dynamic rain and snow, additional missions, and much more.
However, this should not distract from the fact that one can also look critically at the project and studio head Chris Roberts. For years, reports of poor management, large-scale waste of money, layoffs, and excessive overtime periods have repeatedly surfaced. Particularly disturbing were the insider reports from October 2024: SciFi MMO Star Citizen is said to be heading towards disaster despite 728 million dollars
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The developers behind many of the old Warhammer games have updated them and brought them to Steam so you can relive your childhood.
What kind of games are these? Anyone who has been a gamer for a long time knows the problem: the favorite video games from childhood are no longer available and if you still have a copy, it no longer runs on the current gaming PC.
The developers at SNEG, who are behind many of the Warhammer classics, are taking care of this and making the retro games playable again for veterans and newcomers.
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Childhood Back on Steam
What have the developers improved? The developers at SNEG, who are behind many of the old Warhammer titles, have improved over 20 video games that were released since 1990.
They are supposed to run on modern gaming PCs again and no longer require cumbersome modifications to be compatible with a new system. Buying the games will also be easier. The developers have packed all 20 titles on Steam, where you can now simply purchase them.
Which titles are affected? In total, 20 old titles are affected that can now be purchased as a collection on Steam. To celebrate the upgrade, the developers have also announced a 20% discount on individual titles until April 20.
Anyone wanting to buy several of the old games will be even luckier. In the “Warhammer Classics” bundle on Steam, there are 13 parts for about €90 instead of €166 while the offer lasts.
In Crimson Desert you can equip your loyal mounts with useful gear. We explain everything you need to know.
What is horse gear useful for? You can significantly improve your horses with various parts by equipping them with:
Bridle
Increases attack value
Saddle
Increases health points
Stirrups
Increases health regeneration
Armor
Increases defense
Horseshoes
Increases stamina regeneration and attack value
So you should equip your loyal companions with suitable gear as early as possible. How to do this and what to pay attention to, you can find out here.
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The legendary horse Rokade is also happy about cool gear:
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Here you will find the legendary horse “Rokade” in Crimson Desert
Where to get horse gear in Crimson Desert?
To obtain suitable items, you have various options:
At various saddlers across Pywel
You will usually find them associated with stables or markets.
At the beginning, you can find your first stops here:
Here you can find 2 saddlers near the city of Hernand.
At contribution shops
You will find at least one in each region.
In Hernand you can find one here right at the start of the game:
Here you can find a contribution shop in Hernand with gear for your horse.
By stealing items lying around
You will usually only find “shabby” gear here – but better than nothing if you need it quickly.
Depending on where you are in the game, the various traders may not offer you much yet. So you have to be a bit patient if you want really cool gear.
Many traders have better items in stock for you if you increase their affection towards you by giving them gifts or chatting with them. For others, you need to increase your reputation in the region or with the respective faction.
How to equip horse gear?
To bring a new piece of gear to your mount, you must first have summoned it. You do this by using the appropriate key or through the wheel menu. Then go into the menu and select the tab for your inventory. If you take a look at your character view, you will see that next to your selected character’s name, the breed of the horse is displayed:
In the inventory, you can equip your mount with the appropriate gear and compare values.
So select this tab and you can equip appropriate items from your inventory and also compare the values.
Customize horse gear – What works and what doesn’t?
Can horse items be upgraded? Currently, it is not possible to upgrade gear for mounts. So you need to look for better items if you care about the values.
Can horse gear be crafted? Currently, there are no crafting recipes for mount gear. Whether this will change in the future is not known yet.
Can mount armors be dyed? Yes, you can do that. Go to a dye merchant and there you can adjust the gear of your currently used mount just like you can with your character. So you can dye all parts and adjust the material.
In Crimson Desert, there are a bunch of different mounts you can secure and with which you can cause havoc in Pywel. Do you already have a favorite mount or are you still chasing that one dream animal? Feel free to share it with us in the comments! To read about all the mounts available, check out our overview: All mounts and where to find them
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Rockstar Games was hacked and the leaked data shows how much money the developer studio earns every day from GTA Online.
What kind of hacker attack is this? The hacking group “ShinyHunters” claimed over the weekend to have hacked the GTA developer “Rockstar Games”. The attackers threatened to publish stolen financial documents, contracts with partners, and marketing plans if Rockstar Games did not pay a demanded sum of money.
The attack was shortly thereafter confirmed by Rockstar Games. As a spokesperson for the developer studio stated, for example, to Kotaku, the attackers had accessed “a limited amount of non-essential business data”. However, this does not have any impact on the company or the players.
The attackers allegedly used a service provider for cloud cost management and analytics called “Anodot” to gain access to the cloud-based data platform “Snowflake” and extract data from Rockstar Games (Source: thesybersecguru).
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Leak shows: GTA Online generates a fortune for Rockstar Games every day
This is why Rockstar Games is not in a hurry with GTA 6: On April 14, ShinyHunters followed through on the threat and released some data from Rockstar Games. The first findings from the published documents are already circulating, including financial data on Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption, as shown in a post on resetera.
According to the published data, GTA Online generates an average revenue of 1,319,322 USD every day. This corresponds to approximately 1.12 million euros at the current exchange rate. The weekly average is reported to be 9,592,109 USD (approx. 8.14 million euros). In addition, the studio earns about 507,193 USD per week from Red Dead Online.
GTA Online is said to have an average of 9.94 million users across platforms every week, with the PS5 having the largest platform at 3.47 million active users, followed by the PS4 with 1.89 million. The PC is the weakest platform with only 894,621 weekly users.
Microtransactions and subscription models are a windfall for Rockstar
The leak reveals this as well: The published financial data also indicates that almost 74% of the weekly revenue is generated by Shark Cards. The remaining 26% is said to come from the subscription service “GTA +”.
Shark Cards are a type of microtransaction that allows players to purchase in-game currency for real money. The most expensive Shark Card, “Megalodon”, costs 74.99 € and gives players 10,000,000 GTA dollars.
Germany is said to be the third strongest country in spending rankings with around 15 million USD, about 10 million behind the UK in second place. The US unchallenged ranks first with over 153 million USD. To ensure you don’t have to buy Shark Cards, we show you the best ways to make money in GTA Online.
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Even though Season 5 of The Boys is the finale of the series, there are still new Supes being introduced to the audience. In the last episode, there was a new adversary who looks like a tragic figure from Marvel.
Attention Spoiler: In the following article, we spoil events from Episode 2 of Season 5 of The Boys.
Which Supe is it about? In Episode 2 of the 5th Season of The Boys, the main characters want to test the deadly virus to see if it actually works on Supes. They plan to use the Supe Rock Hard. He has been out of the public eye for a while after defiling the ear of the Lincoln Memorial with his bodily fluids.
In the episode, Butcher and crew find the Supe in the basement of the group Teenage Kix, a parody of the Teen Titans. There, he is completely petrified and can only communicate through a computer. As it turns out, this petrification is due to his own bodily fluid that he expels when he watches erupting volcanoes. That is his form of porn.
They can’t just poison him either, because he can hold his breath for hours. In the episode, Rock Hard continuously mocks the Boys with his computer voice, insults them, and does not take the whole situation seriously.
As a character, he is completely new and does not come from the comics by Garth Ennis. Did you recognize which Marvel character he is based on?
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Which Marvel hero is Rock Hard referencing? Rock Hard is a reference to The Thing from the Fantastic Four. Showrunner Eric Kripke confirmed this in an interview with Variety. They had not made such a stone figure before because it would have required a lot of CGI, which is why they opted for an immobile figure:
Let’s make him gain so much weight and become so huge that he can no longer move. So we actually only need two eyes, like in a “Scooby-Doo” picture, that move and that we can incorporate into this sculpture that we build, which can then be removed.
The episode’s writer, Jessica Chou, then came up with the idea to use an automatic computer voice, only that Rock Hard speaks disgustingly and repulsively.
Who is The Thing from Fantastic Four? Ben Grimm was, like the other three members of the Fantastic Four, an astronaut who received high radiation in space. Unlike his friends, he did not just gain a power; he also physically transformed into a Rock Man.
This is quite a powerful ability, as he not only has good protection but also cannot age as long as he remains a Rock Man.
Despite his appearance, he is a loving friend who helps anyone in need. However, his appearance is also a central conflict of his character that he struggles with. He mostly hates his appearance and tries to hide it so that people won’t be afraid of the monster.
He is continuously confronted with loneliness in his form and often has a different status in public than his Fantastic Four colleagues, who retained their human appearance.
The next Community Day in Pokémon GO has been announced. And it brings joy to trainers, even though the monster is actually quite weak.
Last weekend saw the Community Day with Forgita in Pokémon GO, which probably brought joy to many trainers. Forgita was relatively hard to obtain in the game prior to the Community Day and also came with a strong PvP attack.
Now, the next Community Day has already been announced. It will take place on Saturday, May 9, 2026, from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM. This time, a monster is in the spotlight that you have probably caught many times yourself – yet the community is still excited.
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Pokémon GO Fest 2026 comes with Mewtwo and Zeraora
Normal monster, ground attack, beautiful shiny
What kind of monster is it? The monster of the next Community Day is Ferkuli. This monster comes from Generation 9 and has the Normal type. With Fragrunz, it also has an evolution that brings some visual differences depending on the gender.
If you evolve Ferkuli into Fragrunz during the event or up to 4 hours afterwards, it will learn the exclusive fast attack Mud-Slap.
Additionally, the event also features familiar bonuses, including a significantly increased shiny chance, double catch candy, an increased duration of incense and lures, as well as a significantly reduced distance for hatching eggs (1/4).
Why does the monster bring joy? Although Ferkuli and Fragrunz are not considered to be among the best attackers in Pokémon GO, the announcement elicits much positive feedback on Reddit.
The first reason lies in the fast attack. This could provide the monsters with at least a partial boost in competitive league usage.
However, the greater excitement is for the shiny variant of the monster, which you can acquire during a Community Day with a very high probability if you take advantage of the event.
What the shiny variants look like is shown by user krispyboiz in the relevant post on Reddit in a comment:
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What does the community say? While some trainers are disappointed with the monster itself, many are excited about the pretty shinies. Some of the comments on Reddit include:
“What a bore. I’ll pass,” says phillypokego.
“Since I’ve caught over 1100 of them without a single shiny, I’m excited,” comments westcoastbeergeek.
“A cute Pokémon with a great shiny – it could be a lot worse,” says biophys00.
“Honestly, I’ve wanted that shiny since day one,” notes legally-.
What do you think about the Community Day? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments. If you also want to know which events, raids, and Dynamax monsters you can expect to see in the game soon, be sure to check out our overview of all events in April 2026 in Pokémon GO.
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Albion Online celebrates the release of the “Radiant Wilds” update and prepares for its debut on Xbox. MeinMMO summarizes what you need to know about the successful MMORPG from Germany.
What does the new update bring? On April 13, 2026, “Radiant Wilds” was released for Albion Online and focuses primarily on the visual overhaul of the entire world of the MMORPG. The developers promise improved lighting, revamped vegetation, optimized ground textures, and new water graphics.
Furthermore, there will be noticeable optimizations for the game’s performance and stability. Specifically, large-scale battles with many characters should run more smoothly and stably. You can find all the details about the visual overhaul and performance improvements on the overview of “Radiant Wilds” at albiononline.com.
What else is part of the update? Other highlights of “Radiant Wilds” include:
the new weapon storage, allowing players to discover effective builds based on data from other players
expansion of the arena with a 1v1 solo mode where players compete in best-of-three duels
improvements to controller support with features such as a new controller HUD, a controller layout for the main menu, radial menus, and enhanced targeting controls
optimizations for the destiny board and combat mounts, as well as the introduction of a feature to collect all loot with the push of a button
What does the near future bring? Albion Online will be released on April 21, 2026, for Xbox Series X|S. Thanks to cross-progression and a free-to-play model, you can seamlessly continue playing your existing accounts and characters on the new platform.
Since all players – whether on Xbox, PC, or mobile – play on the same servers, crossplay with your friends is always possible.
The Xbox launch will be accompanied by an event where you can claim special Twitch drops until April 27, 2026. Here’s how to get the chests:
Watch any creator in the Albion Online category to receive double Community Chests, or tune in to a member of the Albion Online Creators Program to simultaneously unlock regular and Noble Community Chests
Request your chest on Twitch and open it through your in-game mailbox!
What do I need to know about Albion Online? The nearly 9-year-old MMORPG is from developers Sandbox Interactive based in Berlin and is considered one of the few positive examples of successful MMORPGs funded via crowdfunding. The player counts have steadily increased over the past years.
The largest player increase came in 2024 with the first EU server, which significantly positively impacted not only simultaneous active users but also viewer counts on Twitch .
However, Albion Online is not an MMORPG for everyone, especially due to its isometric perspective and strong focus on PvP as well as sandbox elements. Over the past years, however, more and more PvE content has been added to the servers, making the game more accessible. Last year, one of the developers spoke about the secret of Albion Online’s success: the developer reveals which feature from Albion Online is a “stroke of genius” for the sandbox MMORPG genre.
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A young user is paying for several devices in his mobile contract and suddenly receives a crazy bill. An error in the direct debit authorization caused the costs to explode.
What is the user paying for? A 19-year-old T-Mobile customer shared his monthly bill on Reddit, as it suddenly amounted to 838 dollars (about 700 euros). The amount did not simply accumulate from a single phone contract, but mainly because the user is paying for seven devices at once:
Three smartphones (+ one more in sight)
Smartwatch
Two AirPods
One tablet
This variety of devices leads to high monthly costs. However, according to the user, the actual trigger for the extreme amount was a misbilling setting. He forgot to set up a standing order for the correct card. The 19-year-old simply did not pay his bill on time, but rather accumulated it.
As a result, an additional reminder fee was due, which further increased the already high amount.
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How exactly is the high amount made up? The user claims to pay the monthly fees for 2 of the 3 smartphones for his siblings as well.
The tech magazine WCCFTECH has compiled the possible cost breakdown based on a comment under the post. Accordingly, the user’s monthly fee should be around $319.16. For two months, this makes the bill $638.32. For the reactivation of the service, T-Mobile usually charges between $20 and $23 per device, according to a user. With a fee of $23 for each of his seven devices, these costs alone add up to $161. Thus, the total costs amount to $799.32.
Finally, T-Mobile likely also charged a late fee, which presumably amounts to $38.88, raising the total to $838.20 (via WCCFTECH & Reddit). This results in costs of almost 700 €.
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How does the community react? On Reddit, the case is being discussed intensively and the reactions are strong.
User Wojtek30 writes sarcastically: “He has four phones, two AirPods, and a tablet. This guy is the wet dream of every creditor.” (Note: According to the user, a fourth has already been ordered)
User Firm_Work_8879 clearly sees the problem with the user himself: “The reminder fee hurts all the more because it could have been completely avoided.“
Meanwhile, Irsu85 seems more surprised by the amount: How can this be? My phone bill is only 15 €.
The face of Throne and Liberty, “Tico” has left Amazon Games, but he’s not going just anywhere, rather to the developer of the MMORPG.
What is the status of Throne and Liberty? Ever since Amazon announced the end of New World, fans have been wondering what will happen to the other MMORPGs. While Lost Ark initially lost, among other things, the German language, it is now struggling with significant player loss.
Things are slightly different for Throne and Liberty. Although a slow downward trend is also creeping in here according to SteamDB, the MMORPG is currently in a better position after server mergers and thanks to further updates. However, there haven’t been any major leaps since the September update.
Fans are speculating what to expect from Amazon Games in the future as the publisher of MMORPGs. However, there’s already another blow for the company.
Here you can watch a trailer for Throne and Liberty:
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Tico leaves Amazon Games
Who has left? Throne and Liberty has released a video every month featuring host Tico discussing upcoming updates, issues, and feedback. However, host Tico has now left Amazon Games according to his LinkedIn profile.
But Tico is not unemployed; on the contrary: he has made a seamless transition to NC (formerly NCSoft). There, he now works as “Director of Product Management,” which does not really narrow down or describe his role.
What could this mean? With the move to NC, two theories come to mind, both of which are possible. The main theory is that Amazon Games is stepping back from the MMORPGs they brought to the West together with NC as developers. This would align with the end of New World and the announced exit from the traditional MMORPG direction.
This would mean that NC would also take on the role of publisher for their MMORPGs and in this course want to retain the face of Throne and Liberty. Tico would thus remain at Throne and Liberty under NC leadership, and Amazon Games would be phased out sooner or later.
We already inquired about Amazon Games’ future plans for another article regarding Amazon Games and have received no response yet. So, it remains completely open whether the move means the end of Amazon Games or if theory number 2 is true.
What is the second theory? In a post on Reddit, many believe that Tico is moving to NC to work on the release of Aion 2 in the West. As the face of Throne and Liberty, he would thus become history and potentially take on the same role at Aion 2.
One theory does not necessarily exclude the other, so Tico could work on both Aion 2 and Throne and Liberty for NC. However, whether one of the two theories turns out to be true cannot yet be stated with certainty.
In court, Blizzard secured a victory against the private server Turtle WoW. This bears a strong resemblance to a comparable legal dispute that ultimately led to WoW Classic. It seems certain that the developers of World of Warcraft will now follow up with another major announcement.
When the starting signal for WoW Classic was given on August 27, 2019, a long battle lay behind the community and Blizzard’s developers. For years, fans had been asking the MMORPG’s officials for a release of the 2005 vanilla version.
The arrogant reply from the developer did not sit well with parts of the community.
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Nostalrius paved the way
This very community then showed Blizzard that Brack was wrong. Privately hosted servers, where one could play the original version of World of Warcraft, became increasingly popular. The largest project – Nostalrius – reportedly reached 800,000 registered users and more than 150,000 active players.
That was quite a few WoW fans who weren’t paying for a subscription. Blizzard therefore felt obliged to protect its rights and take action against Nostalrius. With success. The server went offline in April 2016. Numerous fans witnessed the end live in the capitals and said goodbye to each other.
But that was not the end. Petitions and countless forum posts followed, with countless comments from players who wanted to express their desire for an official classic version of World of Warcraft. They were also supported by former Blizzard developers like Mark Kern.
Blizzard’s responses initially ranged from “The implementation is extremely difficult” to “We are thinking about it.” In the end, it was a Blizzard developer named Omar Gonzalez who managed to develop a working prototype. This showed the rest of the team: It is feasible!
The fact that many decision-makers at Blizzard still did not really believe in the success of WoW Classic is evidenced by how they wanted to implement the launch: The low number of servers for the name reservation phase was a joke. The community had to fight again for language servers for Germany and other countries, as well as for individual RP worlds. In the end, the success of WoW Classic far exceeded Blizzard’s expectations.
Classic WoW plays very differently from modern Midnight. Many Classic fans want more of that.
What follows Turtle WoW?
The story repeats itself. Every historian will confirm that. Looking at World of Warcraft, we might be witnessing such a repetition live right now: Blizzard has once again taken action against a provider of a private server for WoW and has cleared the way. There, players could experience a variant of WoW Classic Plus that has been on the wish list of many WoW fans for years.
WoW Classic Plus is about taking the foundation of WoW Classic and then taking a different path after the final Naxxramas patch, rather than what happened back then with Burning Crusade. The hope of many players for such a classic variant:
The developers have the opportunity to learn from past mistakes and add content and improvements that preserve the classic WoW experience.
The team could revisit and finalize many of the originally planned but later scrapped concepts for WoW.
Completely new classic content will come, into which countless fun hours can be invested.
But why is Blizzard taking action against Turtle WoW right now? Well, there are indications that the developers will actually announce an official variant of WoW Classic Plus this year. Their previous Classic seasons were already trial runs to see how successful and feasible something like this could be (and what resonates well with the community and what does not).
The roadmap for World of Warcraft in 2026 – no one knows what follows WoW Classic: Mists of Pandaria.
What are these hints? The most important hint came from WoW head Holly Longdale early this year, who promised a huge announcement for 2026 during the “State of Azeroth” on YouTube for WoW Classic fans, but was interrupted mid-sentence when she was about to get more specific. That was most certainly a teaser for the BlizzCon happening in September, where WoW Classic was also announced at the time.
When you raise anticipation in this way, you should also deliver and announce something that the community has been hoping for for a long time. Blizzard had to painfully learn this lesson at a BlizzCon through the announcement of Diablo Immortal.
However, there are further hints for Classic Plus. For example, a glaring gap in the roadmap for Classic in Q4 2026. Surveys from Blizzard specifically about Classic Plus and new content for level 60. But also some data mining finds that have uncovered Classic WoW content that was not completed in its originally planned form – such as Gilneas, Hyjal, or the Dragon Isles.
How does MeinMMO editor Karsten Scholz evaluate the situation? Classic Plus would be the logical step following the enormous successes of WoW Classic, Hardcore, and the Classic seasons. The community has not only repeatedly proven that they are eager to play the classic WoW content up and down, but exciting projects like OnlyFangs or Sauercrowd have also emerged from it.
Through these events, the over 21-year-old MMORPG has repeatedly become a topic among audiences that Blizzard usually does not reach. Various new players have gotten to know and love WoW for the first time and then progressed to Burning Crusade Classic or the modern Midnight.
I am therefore very sure that Blizzard is taking the Classic theme seriously and is working on it with considerable developer resources to expand it gradually. As I said: Classic Plus would be the next logical step, as the smaller seasons and the cycle through all expansions will eventually wear out. The strict action against Turtle WoW underscores that Blizzard does not want any competition in this area.
When you look at reviews on Steam, you will notice that under some review texts, you can find a blue box with details about the specs of the PC system.
This is what the optional hardware feature on Steam looks like, which has been available since February 2026.
And that is the most important limitation of the feature: Specifying hardware is completely optional, and you must intentionally enable this option.
Steam extracts this device information by itself; it is not entered by the user. So you cannot enter an RTX 5090 as your graphics card if you only have a GTX 1060 in your computer.
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Now the function brings a completely new context level to the review, as the specified specs allow you to compare the game with your own PC hardware. For example, someone writes on Reddit:
(…) Besides reading reviews where performance issues are mentioned and comparing the technical data with your own, there are also people with extremely powerful machines who say the performance is poor – which suggests that the optimization is simply bad.
However, some point out that the system specs only show one more detail and can provide additional context to the previous review. Because both the optimization of the game and the state of the PC play an important role in how many FPS you can play: If you clutter your system with bloatware and use an outdated graphics card driver, you typically have worse performance than a user who keeps their system up to date. And those are details that the new feature on Steam cannot address.
Currently, you can give Valve permission to collect data regarding your framerate. Steam collects exactly this data to observe how many FPS you have in a game. Valve is expected to use this data in the future to warn you about poorly optimized games. You can read more about it on MeinMMO: Steam may soon get a new feature to prevent you from wasting money on poorly running games
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