“You were the driving force behind the formation of IDSA and the E3 Show.”. Those of you who grew up in the ’80s and ’90s will likely remember the heated marketing wars that took place between Nintendo and Sega, with both companies vying publicly for control of the video game market while trading barbs in…
At this year’s Computex event, Nvidia announced something that many PC enthusiasts have been waiting for. No, not its Arm-powered RTX Spark laptop chip, but a forthcoming update for DLSS Ray Reconstruction, one that brings it on par with the rest of the DLSS 4.5 package. Back in January, Nvidia launched DLSS 4.5, with a…
Minecraft has shared the first features of its third game drop of 2026 at TwitchCon, and while we still have a lot to learn, we do know it’ll feature an entirely new forest biome: the dappled forest. After the Chaos Cubed update focused on bringing a new and exciting biome to the underground, I for…
Last year at Gamescom, I got to feast my greedy little eyes on a 540 Hz monitor from Asus ROG (pictured above) and was mighty impressed. That one is a 26.5-inch 1440p/720p dual-mode deal, though, so not necessarily for esports. As I’ve argued before, 720p is a bit low even for esports. And 26.5 inches…
Computex 2026 officially begins on June 2, but we’re already swimming in PC gaming hardware announcements. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has revealed the RTX Spark SOC for laptops, desktops and more, Intel has taken the wraps off its G-Series Panther Lake-based gaming handheld chips, and… gosh, this’ll be a long intro if I write them…
Computex has not even really started yet and already I’ve seen the two most exciting gaming developments I’ll see this week. One is the new Nvidia RTX Spark Arm-based hardware, and the other is Intel’s G3 family of handheld processors. It’s a game-changing bit of hardware that is delivering on the twin pillars of gaming…
The new Nvidia RTX Spark is an Arm-powered system-on-chip (SoC) set to be the heart of new super thin-and-light gaming laptops and mini PCs. It comes packing up to 20 Grace CPU cores and up to 6188 CUDA cores in its GPU, alongside up to 128 GB unified LPDDR5x memory. And one of the most…
One of the issues that gaming on Linux has right now, and one of the main reasons why Windows is still the dominant platform for gaming, is because there are still games that resolutely will not work on SteamOS or any other Linux-based distro. And one of the main reasons for that is a lack…
Have you heard? Nvidia is “reinventing” the PC with Microsoft, launching its own lineup of laptops, desktops, and workstations called RTX Spark, using Windows on Arm. Moreover, we know that the company has plans for the new platform until at least 2030. On a slide behind Jensen Huang during his GTC speech at Computex, we…
Nvidia’s upcoming RTX Spark laptops and mini PCs are being designed for AI agents, software developers, and PC gamers alike. But if it’s going to be a success on the gaming side, the emulation layer required to get today’s games running on the system has to be as transparent, or even as invisible as possible….