AMD posts record profits but it’s not just all about endless chips for generating AI slop, gaming CPU and GPU sales are booming, too

AMD has just posted its latest financial results and the message is clear: Things are good. Things are very good. Indeed, CEO Lisa Su summed it all up succinctly: “We delivered an outstanding quarter with record revenue and profitability.” Overall revenue was up 36% to $9.2 billion, while profits grew by 31% to $2.2 billion….

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Final Fantasy 14’s voice actor for beloved catboy G’raha Tia gets crowned sexiest man alive, entirely vindicating my taste in fictional men

Final Fantasy 14‘s G’raha Tia is the sexiest man. Also, in unrelated news, his English voice actor Jonathan Bailey has been named the sexiest man alive by People Magazine. You might be shocked as I was (appalled as I was, mortified as I was) to discover that People Magazine, a publication for normal, well-adjusted readers,…

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Apple’s new web store looks all spiffy, but its devs forgot to do something kinda important: Disable the sourcemaps

While this isn’t exactly PC gaming news, Apple recently launched a new interface for its app store when viewed in a browser. Specifically, it makes the whole shebang work just like the Apps… err… app. Still, while it looks and works as intended, Apple’s web developers forgot to do something important before making it live:…

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Victrix Pro BFG Reloaded review

In early 2024, Turtle Beach bought gamepad and peripherals company PDP for $118 million. Just before that happened, PDP released the Victrix Pro BFG. It was a pro gamepad with some neat customization features: The left stick and the D-Pad, and the right stick and the face buttons, both lived on modules which could be…

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Tiny PS5 build reduces size of original console by 60%, making it look like a mini PC while slashing its power draw and temps too

Before I wrote about all things PC hardware, I enjoyed a sordid, console gaming past. My platform of choice? Sony’s curvy white box, the PlayStation 5. Having spent enough time with the console to create an alarmingly accurate mould of the DualSense controller with nothing but my palm prints, I think I’m qualified in saying…

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