We all deserve better than this

The first time I woke up last night, somewhere around three in the morning, I checked my phone to see if online stores had already posted and sold out of their stock of AMD’s new RX 9070 XT graphics cards, which carried with them the promise of a GPU launch that would finally have plenty…

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Battlefield playtest gameplay is leaking all over the internet, and fans seem cautiously but genuinely excited: ‘Okay, we might be back’

Early playtesting of the next Battlefield game is now underway—there hasn’t been an official announcement to that effect as far as I know, but we can tell because gameplay footage is flooding the internet. The testing is taking place under the auspices of Battlefield Labs, the initiative announced in February that aims to ensure future…

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The Resident Evil movie reboot bidding war is over, and the winner is… Sony, who did every one of those other pretty terrible Resident Evil movies

Sony has won the bidding war for the Resident Evil movie reboot—the same studio that released the first (bad) six Resident Evil live action movies, plus the Jovovich-less (and still bad) reboot Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City in 2021. Some things never change, I guess. Maybe the eighth time will be the charm? As…

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Around half-a-dozen 2000AD games were in the works before fizzling out: ‘The games you get to see are a tiny representative of the number that get started—sadly’

British studio and publisher Rebellion is gearing up for the release of Atomfall, an alt-history Stalker-like with a stiff upper lip that CEO Jason Kingsley calls a “dream game.” PCG’s intrepid Joshua Wolens recently spent several hours in the game, and found himself charmed by the endless distractions, a lack of things like quest markers,…

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Intel is still using TSMC for 30% of its wafer demands: ‘We were talking about trying to get that to zero as quickly as possible. That’s no longer the strategy’

Intel’s foundry business never seems far from the headlines these days, not least because various ex-executives continue to publicly debate whether it might be a good idea to split it from the rest of Intel entirely in the wake of well-publicised financial woes. Speaking at a technology conference yesterday, John Pitzer, Intel’s vice president of…

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