CEO Jensen Huang reveals that Nvidia is now making chips in the USA but will that help with gaming GPU supplies?

“We are now running production silicon in Arizona.” So says none other than Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Exactly what silicon? How many chips? Hold those thoughts. The term “production silicon” is a significant upgrade from previous confirmations from Nvidia that it merely had plans to make chips at TSMC’s factory in Arizona. Likewise, “production silicon”…

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After Ubi came crawlin’ back to Steam, Assassin’s Creed Shadows blasts past a million players in under 24 hours and has already smashed Valhalla’s player record

Bad news for Nobunaga and his ambitions: Assassin’s Creed Shadows has parkoured past 1,000,000 players in under 24 hours. Naturally, Ubisoft immediately bragged about it on social media. It’s not even 4PM here in Canada and Assassin’s Creed Shadows has already passed 1 million players!Thank YOU from the bottom of our hearts for joining this…

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Valve CMO threatened the company would walk away from games if it didn’t own the rights to Half-Life—’It wasn’t an idle threat—we weren’t going to take on all of the risk to make other people rich’

It’s the 2025 Game Developer’s Conference, and one of this year’s most interesting talks was delivered by Monica Harrington, a founding member of Valve and the company’s first chief marketing officer. Harrington’s career has been very much on the business side of software development but, way back in Valve’s early days, she suddenly realised “there…

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Mackie CR3.5BT + CR8SBT subwoofer review

I’ve long been of the opinion that you don’t necessarily need a set of gaming-specific speakers for great gaming audio. That probably sounds rather counterintuitive, I know, but unless you’re prepared to run the cabling nightmare that is a 5.1 system around your gamer cave, a good set of regular speakers has long been my…

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Animal Use Protocol’s dysfunctional chimp-rat alliance drags the Stasis series into a horrible new first-person era

When chimp-and-rat buddy horror adventure Animal Use Protocol was first announced late last year, I felt fear. Not the good kind that tiny South African indie outfit The Brotherhood had so well cultivated with their Stasis point-and-click adventure series, but worries that shifting to a real-time, first-person perspective would ruin the perfectly unpleasant vibes the…

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Today’s Wordle answer for Friday, March 21

Our flexible clue for today’s Wordle is here to help and ready whenever you are. Read it before your first row to supercharge your opener and then work out the rest from there. Or save it for later if the clues you’ve found aren’t making much sense, or maybe haven’t turned up at all. And…

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Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders is getting a new mountain next month and a whole bunch more throughout the year, including a game editor

Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders is getting lots of new content in 2025, studio Megagon Industries announced today. The wait won’t be long either: a new mountain will be added on April 9 in a free update, bringing the total to four. Like the existing slopes it’ll boast four trails, each with harder variations and challenges….

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‘The Middle East’s answer to Marvel Rivals’ is an ‘AI-powered’, crypto-infused hero shooter that looks like hot garbage

If Farcana is “the Middle East’s answer to the acclaimed Marvel Rivals,” as its developer claims, I don’t see Disney quivering in its boots anytime soon. Developed by 160-person Abu Dhabi-based studio Dizzaract—which apparently makes it the largest game studio in the region—Farcana is a 5v5 hero shooter packing the noxious double whammy of AI…

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