AMD asks what you want from RDNA 4. PC gamers reply: ‘er, just make sure we can actually buy it, oh and don’t worry about ray tracing’

New GPUs selling out in picoseconds has depressingly become the norm. That includes, inevitably, Nvidia’s latest RTX 50-series graphics cards. Maybe that’s why when AMD yesterday asked gamers to say what they were most “excited” about for the upcoming RDNA 4 GPUs, “availability would be a brilliant start,” pretty much sums up the sentiment. Of…

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Sports Interactive announces the shock cancellation of Football Manager 25, but fans are weirdly pleased: ‘Better to be honest and admit a mistake’

Sports Interactive has announced the shock cancellation of Football Manager 25, an unexpected and in the context of the series unprecedented decision. Football Manager games have been coming out like clockwork since 2004 under SI and SEGA, never missing a year in those two decades, and even the initial delays to FM25 were unheard-of for…

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Hi-Rez will only be giving ‘minor updates’ to Smite and Paladins now it’s laying off around 70 employees, but don’t worry, Smite 2 is the ‘primary focus of the newly streamlined operations’

Hi-Rez, who some of us on staff haven’t exactly forgiven for slowly dropping Tribes: Ascend way back when, has more or less proven that time is a flat circle by doing almost the exact same thing with its current games, Smite and Paladins. That’s as per both a message posted to Hi-Rez’s eSports Discord, shared…

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Vanished for a year, early access dev returns to announce a crisis taught them ‘videogames ain’t it’ and end development on ‘singleplayer EVE’ they’ve been making since 2019

I’ve always had a soft spot for Astrox Imperium, an early access game that first hit Steam all the way back in 2019, and that aimed to be, in the words of every other review on its page, a “singleplayer EVE Online“. You have a ship, a universe, and all the dreams you can fill…

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WoW has raised over $2 million for charity CureDuchenne by selling a cute little fox, after being inspired by The Remarkable Life of Ibelin documentary

Blizzard has raised over $2 million for the charity CureDuchenne, using the seemingly irresistible lure of microtransactions for good. World of Warcraft players accomplished this via The Reven Pack (a cute little fox companion and a backpack to go with it), which Blizzard donated 100% of the purchase price of to CureDuchenne. Duchenne is one…

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Final Fantasy 14 promises crackdown on stalking exploits with actual solutions now, rather than politely asking the plugin creator to stop

Final Fantasy 14 director and producer Naoki Yoshida has commented yet again on the controversial plugin that surfaced earlier this year, which exploited Dawntrail’s new-and-improved blacklist system, allowing users to read an account ID and therefore stalk a character and all of its alts. Thankfully, what Yoshi-P has to say this time is a lot…

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Nvidia is ‘investigating’ the reported issues with the RTX 50-series’ cards after RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 owners (and some RTX 40-series folk) report black screen problems

We’ve been tracking reports of problems with Nvidia’s new RTX 50-series GPUs for a little while, but they now seem to be hitting critical mass. It seems numerous owners of the new RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 cards are suffering crashes and particularly black screens, with a few arguably less substantiated reports of “bricked” cards,…

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If you installed Windows 11 with certain security updates and a USB stick, you may not get any more security updates warns Microsoft

With the public launch of Windows version 24H2 last year came a security issue that was only ‘resolved’ this week. Those who installed Windows 11 from a media file using the October or November version of the software seemingly can’t access any future security updates, and the solution is a fresh install of just the…

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A Marvel Rivals player has uncovered ‘one of the most dangerous vulnerabilities a game can have’ that’ll let cheaters take over your PC and find your passwords

Marvel Rivals has overcome a couple of difficulties since it was released at the end of last year. This mostly involved improving performance or sorting out technical issues with the breakable environment or individual hero abilities, but now it looks like its security will be the next hurdle the devs need to overcome. A YouTuber…

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Monster Hunter Wilds beta: How to beat Gypceros

Working out how to defeat Gypceros in the Monster Hunter Wilds Beta will likely be one of your first undertakings this weekend if you’re planning to log in and try the game out. Out of all of the monsters in the Windward Plains region, this bird-brained wyvern is perhaps the most annoying, mainly because it…

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