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Geekbench says enabling Intel BOT paints an ‘unrealistic picture’ of CPU performance and makes Intel chips seem faster versus the AMD competition ‘than they would be in typical, real-world usage’

The Fridge5 months ago05 mins

The company behind the popular Geekbench software tool has taken another pot shot at Intel’s BOT software. Primate Labs says that Intel BOT “only supports a handful of applications, meaning BOT-optimized benchmark results paint an unrealistic picture of how a CPU performs in practice. This makes Intel processors appear faster relative to AMD and other…

Gallery: We Weren’t Prepared For The Sheer Size Of Yoshi’s Popcorn Bucket

The Fridge5 months ago01 mins

Butter that popcorn. Prior to release, apart from the new characters appearing in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, one thing in particular seemed to capture the enthusiasm of NL staff and readers alike: the Yoshi popcorn bucket that cinemas are flogging alongside the film. Featuring Mario’s trusty steed rendered as a tin receptacle, he’s carrying…

Minecraft Sulfur Cube: Everything you need to know about the game’s newest multifunctional mob

The Fridge5 months ago05 mins

Minecraft revealed its second drop for 2026 during Minecraft Live: Chaos Cubed. And, while the main appeal of this announcement is the brand new Sulfur Cave biome it’ll receive, I’m far more excited for the brand new mob, the Sulfur Cube. This cave-dwelling beast has stolen the hearts of many players already, including my own,…

The latest Nvidia App beta update adds DLSS 4.5 Dynamic Multi Frame Generation support and an intriguing Auto Shader Compilation feature to the green team suite

The Fridge5 months ago03 mins

The Nvidia App beta has been updated to include DLSS 4.5 Dynamic Multi Frame Generation support for RTX 50-series owners. The much-anticipated tech allows for dynamic adjustment of AI generated frames based on a target frame rate, with the goal being consistently smooth, high fps gameplay. The tech allows for up to 6x frame generation,…

Round Up: It’s April Fools’ Day, Here Are The Best Gaming Gags We’ve Seen (2026)

The Fridge5 months ago01 mins

Fools rushin’. It’s April Fools’ Day once again, which means today you’ll find a big dollop of ridiculous gaming news (fun) mixed in with your usual ridiculous gaming news (price hikes, layoffs, not-fun). So as is customary, we’ve rounded up our picks of the best gags for your amusement as we kick off April with…

Modder Picks Apart Old PlayStation Consoles To Create The Ultimate “Hybrid” PS1

The Fridge5 months ago01 mins

Custom PCB makes it all possible. If you know your PS1 history, you’ll be aware that not all of Sony’s 32-bit consoles were created equal. Like any hardware maker, the Japanese tech giant made revisions to the core PlayStation build, swapping out parts and streamlining the internals to reduce costs and (sometimes) improve performance. Read…

Basketball Classics Review: Stellar

The Fridge5 months ago03 mins

The 2K Basketball Empire has manifested itself on every console to the point where they even took over the NBA Playgrounds series once that showed some potential. The end result was a monopoly on the roundball gaming experience that cost gamers looking for something new. Enter Acclaim’s Basketball Classic, a three-button retro game experience that…

“I’m On A Mission” – Miyamoto Wants To Include Pikmin In Any Kind Of Nintendo Product He Can

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Somebody get this man a Pikmin. Miyamoto has spoken on many occasions about his love of Pikmin and how there is effectively no restriction on where they can appear. We’ve seen them pop up in Mario Wonder, on the back of football shirts, and even at Nintendo’s theme parks, and their global expansion is set…

Miyamoto Isn’t So Sure About A Smash Bros. Style Movie

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But he’ll always give Pikmin the spotlight. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie goes beyond the Mushroom Kingdom and introduces a whole new cast of characters. As we now know, there’ll also be some faces that aren’t even from this particular Nintendo universe. It’s led to discussion once again about a possible “Smash Bros.-style Nintendo Cinematic…

Amazon says its Fallout series has now been watched by 100 million people, ‘with season two now joining season one as two of our top four biggest seasons we’ve ever launched’

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After the first season of Fallout launched on Prime Video, Amazon boasted it had been watched by 65 million people, making it their biggest hit since The Rings of Power. Unlike The Rings of Power, people actually seem to have liked Fallout’s second season, which The Hollywood Reporter reports has now been seen by 83…

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 and Warzone Season 06 launches The Haunting September 17

Just days after The Tetris Company warned that ‘we take copyright infringement very seriously,’ the Tetris clone in the White House Arcade suddenly disappears

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 and Call of Duty: Warzone Season 06 Content Drop: The Haunting

Feature: Xanadu Or Hydlide – Which Was Truly Japan’s Highest-Selling Computer Game For 20 Years?

Geekbench says enabling Intel BOT paints an ‘unrealistic picture’ of CPU performance and makes Intel chips seem faster versus the AMD competition ‘than they would be in typical, real-world usage’

Gallery: We Weren’t Prepared For The Sheer Size Of Yoshi’s Popcorn Bucket

Minecraft Sulfur Cube: Everything you need to know about the game’s newest multifunctional mob

The latest Nvidia App beta update adds DLSS 4.5 Dynamic Multi Frame Generation support and an intriguing Auto Shader Compilation feature to the green team suite

Round Up: It’s April Fools’ Day, Here Are The Best Gaming Gags We’ve Seen (2026)

Modder Picks Apart Old PlayStation Consoles To Create The Ultimate “Hybrid” PS1

Basketball Classics Review: Stellar

“I’m On A Mission” – Miyamoto Wants To Include Pikmin In Any Kind Of Nintendo Product He Can

Miyamoto Isn’t So Sure About A Smash Bros. Style Movie

Amazon says its Fallout series has now been watched by 100 million people, ‘with season two now joining season one as two of our top four biggest seasons we’ve ever launched’