HWMonitor now shows you thermal hotspot data for RTX 50-series graphics cards, so I thought I’d give one of ours a quick test

Hot off the news that repair shops have gained access to leaked internal Nvidia tools to gather RTX 50-series hotspot data, CPUID’s HWMonitor has added its own hotspot thermal tracking info in the latest update. Version 1.65 adds two hotspot sensor data rows within the graphics card column for RTX 50-series cards, right underneath the…

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Taito’s Dragon-Based Shooter ‘Syvalion’ From The Creator Of Bubble Bobble Hits Arcade Archives This Week

‘Hercules no eikou II Taitan no metsubou’ is also coming to Console Archives. Taito’s 1988 dragon-based shooting game Syvalion is heading to modern consoles this week, as part of Arcade Archives and Arcade Archives 2, Hamster has revealed. Developed by a team that included the Bubble Bobble creator Fukio Mitsuji, Syvalion was famous for including…

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That annoying day one DLC in Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced was less than 3% of its initial Steam sales, but hey, $1 million is $1 million

Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced is, naturally, a modern Ubisoft game—and as modern Ubisoft games are wont to do, it had some really annoying DLC wrapped up into it alongside an in-game cash shop. One point of contention was a day-one map pack DLC for five bucks, which reveals the location of every collectible in…

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Latest Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates stamp out a record 622 security vulnerabilities, as the company’s AI-enhanced bug hunt looks to bear fruit

As much as AI has its drawbacks, it’d be wrong to say it doesn’t have its uses. Case in point, Microsoft’s previous commitment to leverage AI vulnerability detection in Windows security updates looks to be bearing fruit, as the latest Patch Tuesday release fixes an astonishing 622 CVEs across its products. Which is a new…

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“Games Like PaRappa The Rapper Don’t Get Made Anymore” – Shawn Layden Thinks Mainstream Gaming Has Gotten Too Safe

“Nobody wants to take a risk on unicorn ballet in space”. Back in the days of the original PlayStation, it felt like Sony was constantly experimenting with new ideas and greenlighting weird and exciting projects. From the paper-thin, hip-hop stylings of PaRappa the Rapper to the Dual Analogue-controlled antics of Ape Escape, the company clearly…

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“I Had A Front-Row Seat To One Of The Greatest Creative Explosions In History” – Dead Space’s Creator Calls Time On His 35-Year Career

“You told me when I was good, and you told me when I wasn’t so good”. Glen Schofield, the director of games like Gex: Enter the Gecko, Dead Space and The Callisto Protocol, and the co-director on three Call of Duty games, has announced his retirement after 35 years working in the games industry. In…

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