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Attacks on Kingdom Come: Deliverance for gay romance, representation ‘only mattered to a handful of terminally online culture warriors,’ reckons KCD2’s exec producer, and probably didn’t impact the games’ reception

Kingdom Come: Deliverance, as a series, is no stranger to controversy. The first came in for criticism from progressive voices over representation and its depiction of the conflict between the Czech protagonists and their Cuman enemies, while the second game managed to upset the opposite end of the political spectrum by featuring gay romance and…

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AMD leaves the door open to an official ‘beta’ version of its latest AI-enhanced FSR upscaling tech for older RDNA 3 GPUs

Call them FSR 4, FSR Redstone, FSR Whatever, AMD’s latest generation of AI-enhanced upscaling technologies are definitely a major step forward. Which makes it a great pity that they’re not available for older generations of AMD GPUs, like RDNA 3. The just possibly good news is that, in a new interview, AMD has left the…

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Jen-Hsun needs to up his game because we’ve run the numbers and AMD’s CES keynote hit 1.8 mentions of AI per minute—even more than Nvidia

Did you watch every CES presentation this year? If you didn’t, don’t worry, you didn’t miss much. We tend to keep a close eye on Nvidia and AMD for any news about upcoming products, but this year, it was all about AI. I’ve run the numbers, with a little help from AI-powered transcription, and the…

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Jen-Hsun needs to up his game because we’ve run the numbers and AMD’s CES keynote hit 1.8 mentions of AI per minute—even more than Nvidia

Did you watch every CES presentation this year? If you didn’t, don’t worry, you didn’t miss much. We tend to keep a close eye on Nvidia and AMD for any news about upcoming products, but this year, it was all about AI. I’ve run the numbers, with a little help from AI-powered transcription, and the…

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This “Bad” Italian Movie From 1998 Gives Us A Fascinating Look At London’s Defunct SegaWorld

“Cucciolo somehow managed to do something important”. Opened in 1996, SegaWorld London was a massive indoor theme park located within the UK capital’s Trocadero venue, and was packed to the rafters with Sega arcade machines and other rides. Despite the amazing array of games on offer, SegaWorld London was not a commercial success and would…

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Intel’s new handheld gaming chip rumoured to be called ‘Core G3 Extreme’ and rocks a full-spec Xe3 iGPU with 12 graphics cores

Intel went on record at CES about a planned version of its new Panther Lake chip specifically configured for handheld gaming PCs but didn’t provide any details. Now Videocardz claims the chip will be branded “Intel Core G3 Extreme” and have the same iGPU as Panther Lake in laptops. That means the Core G3 will…

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Intel’s new handheld gaming chip rumoured to be called ‘Core G3 Extreme’ and rocks a full-spec Xe3 iGPU with 12 graphics cores

Intel went on record at CES about a planned version of its new Panther Lake chip specifically configured for handheld gaming PCs but didn’t provide any details. Now Videocardz claims the chip will be branded “Intel Core G3 Extreme” and have the same iGPU as Panther Lake in laptops. That means the Core G3 will…

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