Arrow Lake’s had three months of Windows and BIOS updates to fix its performance, and my testing shows in some games, it’s worse

Almost immediately after the launch of its Arrow Lake desktop CPUs in October 2024, Intel said it would work on producing firmware and software updates to improve its lacklustre performance. The likes of the Core Ultra 9 285K not only ran games slower than Raptor Lake chips, the previous generation of processors, but also worse…

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It’s still grim out there, even if you aren’t AAA: Industry report claims that 1 in 10 respondents were laid off in 2024—with ‘narrative’ roles taking the biggest overall hit

2023 was one hell of a tough year for game developers, with over 16,000 layoffs happening across the industry—but hey, at least things are improving, right? You are now permitted to imagine me laughing nervously and looking very, very tired. 2024 was no stranger to shutdowns and layoffs like, say, the Microsoft carnage at Activision…

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