AMD has kicked off 2024 for its Radeon line-up of graphics cards with the RX 7600 XT, sporting 16GB of GDDR6 VRAM and minor boosts to the GPU’s clock speed. It’s still using the same Navi 33 graphics chip as in the original Radeon RX 7600, so there are no additional shaders or memory controllers,…
It’s been nearly three years since AMD launched its last desktop APU series, but now the all-in-one CPU+budget GPU chips are back with a bang in the form of the 8000G series. The new range covers four models, all of them using the Zen 4 CPU and RDNA 3 GPU architectures. The best GPU is…
“My tears started welling up”. Despite his wholesome outward appearance, Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto has often been known for his strict nature within the business. Interviews with the auteur have revealed him to be a surprisingly reserved individual; one who rarely gives praise to his peers. In a recent public chat between Miyamoto and Mother…
Nvidia is going after AMD with its own CES 2024 event, but at least it’s not wrapping the entire thing up in a cloak of AI-ness. Instead, it’s calling this a “Special Address” in which we are being told it will “focus on consumer technologies and robotics.” So far, so vague. But, let’s be honest,…
Is your favourite cartridge at the top of the list? The Evercade family of systems has been around since 2020, and has successfully reconnected players all over the world with classic titles in physical form. Thanks to its selection of curated cartridges, Evercade has delivered hundreds of titles to a receptive audience, celebrating the back…
Activision-Blizzard has been the centre of a lot of controversy over these past few years. After a lawsuit went public, detailing “numerous complaints about unlawful harassment, discrimination, and retaliation” and a “frat boy” culture, plus claims from former CEO Bobby Kotick that the whole thing was just an “aggressive labour movement,” the company finally settled…
AMD is going first out of the big PC gaming tech companies in rolling out its plans for 2024, with its CES livestream kicking off today at 7am PT/10am ET, and 3pm UK time. The general information on the event is pretty vague, and as the “Advancing AI PCs” title suggests, it’s leaning heavily into…
Switch sales increase by 37% over November. The latest GfK data puts EA Sports FC 24 at the top of the physical and digital pile for December 2023 for the UK (thanks, GamesIndustry). Thanks to a bunch of sales and discounts, the latest entry in EA’s not-FIFA-but-still-basically-FIFA franchise took the lion’s share of 6.9 million…
You know what wireless headsets need? That’s right, near infinite battery life, and we’re one step closer to that goal with 3M’s solar powered comms headset which has just been announced at CES this week. While there’s a tendency for those of us in the PC gaming space to see CES as a place to…
Final Fantasy 14’s third and final Fan Festival of the Endwalker expansion just took place in Tokyo over the weekend. While there was a surprise lack of release date for upcoming expansion Dawntrail, we did get to see tons of neat stuff: female hrothgar, artsy class Pictomancer, and a bizarro cyberpunk world that has me…