It should come as no surprise that the biggest chip companies in the world spend billions of dollars every year on research and development. To stay ahead of the competition and improve revenues, new architectures, systems, and software stacks need to be designed, built, and tested. What might raise a few eyebrows is just how…
TSMC has enjoyed fast-track status for US chip manufacturing equipment exports to its plant in Nanjing, China—but soon, no more. From December 31st, TSMC’s validated end user status privilege will end, and those chipmaking tools will require US export licenses. As not just one of, but THE biggest chip foundry in the world, TSMC has…
“No two games play alike and they are all designed to be fun as possible”. The name ZSNES will be instantly familiar with anyone who was emulating video games back in the late ’90s and early 2000s. One of the earliest SNES emulators, ZSNES launched all the way back in 1997 and was created by…
“we know you guys do such a good job of keeping all of that up to date”. After 28 long years, Final Fantasy Tactics is finally getting the remaster it (hopefully) deserves when The Ivalice Chronicles launches on Switch on 30th September 2025. According to director Kazutoyo Maehiro, however, development on the upcoming remaster wasn’t…
Based on Clamp’s manga series. Clamp’s Chobits series is perhaps more important than ever right now, thanks to the fact that the world is currently going AI-crazy and chatbots are telling us to glue pizza and eat rocks. The original manga started in 2000, and tells the story of college student Hideki Motosuwa, who finds…
AMD is barely manufacturing any RDNA 4-based graphics cards. It’s hard to avoid that conclusion if the latest data from long-time PC market data analyst JPR is correct. JPR reckons that AMD’s share of the add-in graphics card market has fallen to a miserable 6%, leaving Nvidia with the remaining 94% of the market. There’s…
Someone jammed the Stalker tap in the ‘on’ position and now no one can turn it off. After Stalker: Call of Prypiat released in 2009, we were stuck waiting 15 years for another entry in the series (and it was just as wonderful and busted as ever), and now we seem to be awash in…
Just earlier this year, the US DOJ came in hot arguing “Google must divest the Chrome browser”, and accusing it of dominance “through its unlawful and unchecked, monopolistic conduct over the past decade.” For a while, it felt like something might happen to break it apart, and now it appears this was all bluster. As…
I’d be hard-pressed to come up with a series that ‘plays it safe’ more than Borderlands—and this isn’t an insult. Every game I’ve played in the series has taken the same formula and added another nice crunchy little layer on top of it, and as a result, I’ve enjoyed basically every one I’ve touched. It’s…
With ultra-realistic, ray-traced graphics being the norm for developers wanting to show off the power of their proprietary game engine, you expect PC hardware requirements for such releases to focus almost entirely on the graphics card. Unusually, though, the freshly-released system specs for Dying Light: The Beast go very much the other way, suggesting that…