With the launch of Capcom’s Resident Evil Requiem, PC gamers can add another game to their libraries that sports one of the most impressive and most inaccessible of rendering technologies: path tracing (or full ray tracing, as Nvidia prefers to call it). If you want pixel-perfect lighting, shadows, and reflections, only path tracing will do,…
Kevin O’Buckley is departing from Intel following nearly two years as senior VP and GM of Foundry Services. Qualcomm has snapped him up to run its own semiconductor operation. Taking on the lofty-sounding role of executive VP of global operations and supply chain, O’Buckley will be in charge of “global semiconductor operations across manufacturing engineering,…
The time is finally upon us, Marathon’s server slam has begun as players now get to see what’s on offer over the course of the weekend. And while initial reactions seem to be pretty positive, if not quite bloody, there is one thing that people just can’t seem to get over: the UI. “Marathon gotta…
Videogame oracle Jason Schreier has issued a dire portent: Sony might be gearing up to reverse its push onto PC of the past six years. In the latest episode of the Triple Click podcast, Schreier said that “the sense I’m getting is that [Sony is] backing away from putting their exclusive console stuff—like, traditional singleplayer…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has released a statement on the company’s website regarding its months-long dispute with the US Department of War over the use of its AI technology. In the statement. Amodei outlines his refusal to remove safeguards that prevent its AI products from being used for fully autonomous weapons and domestic mass surveillance…
If you thought you were being diligent by getting the latest Nvidia GeForce drivers in time for the launch of Resident Evil Requiem, you should probably move back to the last ones. Otherwise, you might start to find your rig acting a little strange. That’s according to Nvidia’s latest blog post, announcing the rollback of…
World of Warcraft: Midnight’s opening minutes throw you right in at the deep end, seeing you defending the Sunwell in a direct continuation of the expansion’s trailer—alongside a host of paladin and priest cameos. It’s a really neat moment, honestly—Blizzard’s seriously tapped into the well of named NPCs here. It’s a veritable feast if you’re…
If you own a handheld gaming PC that’s powered by an AMD Ryzen Z1 or Z1 Extreme processor, like the Asus ROG Ally, you may have noticed something’s missing. Not a feature or application, but any kind of driver update for the integrated GPU within the last six months. Paired with the fact that Resident…
A Rare treat. Blaze has announced two new Evercade cartridges. Activision Collection 2 is the second helping of classic titles from the industry veteran and is composed of classic releases for the Atari VCS/2600. Read the full article on timeextension.com A Rare treat. Blaze has announced two new Evercade cartridges. Activision Collection 2 is the…
It’s finally here, Resident Evil Requiem is out in the wild, and the wait is over. I was expecting a larger-than-normal reception for this game, considering how much it seeks to do and how great all the reviews have been for it, including ours, but these numbers have surpassed even what I thought Requiem would…