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Feature: Pure FX Appeal – Unpicking The History Of The PC-FX, One Of Japan’s Biggest ’90s Console Flops

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,…

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New Intel graphics driver claims a remarkable 35% performance boost for Panther Lake’s nifty little iGPU in Witcher 3 at 1080p

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…

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Nvidia reports a truly astonishing $193.7 billion in annual data center revenue in its latest earnings call, up 75% year on year, while little old gaming brought in $16 billion

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…

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After getting Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora on PC Game Pass, unlocking its ‘Unobtanium’ max graphics mode, and then upgrading those stunning visuals even more with mods, I’m convinced this is the ‘But can it run Crysis?’ FPS PC gamers should install today

If you’ve previously slept on Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and have a PC Game Pass subscription, then now is the time to play ‘Ubisoft’s best open world game in years’, as it is not just a highly polished and content-rich FPS that delivers buckets of intense action, but it is also the absolute best way…

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