If you’ve been thinking, like I have, that we’re still some way off seeing AI being used in games for more than just upscaling or frame generation, then it’s time to think again. That’s because it turns out that Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Mirage is one of only a tiny number of games to use neural…
YouTuber mryeester, he of zany tech-tweaking antics fame, is at it again, this time creating an infinite ice-cooled PC setup. It may sound silly, it’s probably hideously inefficient. But, by Jove, it actually seems to work. The basic idea here is to use plain old water ice to cool a CPU. You can test the…
Usually, Overwatch‘s bugs are pretty harmless—like Ramattra’s occasionally wonky Nemesis form—but there have been some game-breaking ones lately. Just a week or two ago, progression systems were completely borked, with Blizzard issuing apology lootboxes and event items to all. Frustrating as it was, it was nowhere near as game-breaking as yesterday’s discovery. Quite literally, in…
Looking for your next challenge in God of War Sons of Sparta? Go to the place all aspiring Spartans prove their worth as warriors, the Pit of Agonies.  Enter The Pit today The Pit is a separate endgame roguelike challenge mode that gives you different enemies and reward pools each time you play. Play Video…
3Decisions. Gosh, the passage of time is a nasty one, eh? There we are just trying to enjoy our day, when all of a sudden, BOOM, we’re reminded that today is the 15th anniversary of the 3DS. Yes, the 3DS, that console which, in our minds, is still a relatively young whippersnapper, was released on…
NEC and Hudson’s last roll of the dice. The stories of the NEC’s PC-FX’s failure are legion. Following the successful PC Engine, the PC-FX was an entrant in the fifth-generation console race in the mid-’90s, and its failure led to NEC’s departure from the game console market as a direct participant. As a Japan-only console,…
The Drop store, purveyor of reasonably priced hardware collaborations and funky keycaps, will be closing down at the end of March. You’ll still be able to review your order history via the Drop site after the end of March, but it will be parent company Corsair taking on the retail reins. According to a recent…
Intel is making some eye-popping claims for its latest graphics driver release for Arc graphics. According to the official release notes, the Intel Core Ultra series 3—otherwise known as Panther Lake—benefits from a fully 35% uplift in Witcher 3 performance. Specifically, that’s 35% when running at 1080p High, which should be a pretty relevant setting…
Nvidia has announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year, and they make for some pretty astounding figures. Total revenue for the quarter was reported as $68 billion, up 73% year-over-year, but the real headline news is the annual data center revenue: $193.7 billion. That’s a 68% increase year-over-year, and the sort…
The birds are shining, the trees are singing, the sun is swaying in the breeze: it’s the year 1999, and Baldur’s Gate has just got another patch. Everything is perfect, and nothing hurts. Wait, no, my mistake. It’s 2026, and everything is bad. Good news, though: the Baldur’s Gate patch thing is actually true. 14…