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Nvidia says it’s sold twice as many RTX 50-series cards as RTX 40-series in the first 5 weeks. I’d bloody well hope so given there was essentially just the RTX 4090 for competition

Some dude with a mighty ‘tache once said, “there are lies, damned lies, and statistics.” The latter is what we’ve been presented with by Nvidia and its claims of doubling the sales of its RTX Blackwell cards over its previous generation cards in the same time frame certainly look good on paper, but absolutely deserve…

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I just played Half-Life 2 RTX, a fully ray-traced overhaul of the original, and its meaty headcrabs have me hankering for more

Half-Life 2 doesn’t need improving upon, but I have to admit after a day of playing around in Orbifold Studio’s visual remaster, I’m sold. Bashing boxes to smithereens as our good pal Gordon ‘glasses’ Freeman never looked so good. I’ve been running around the demo for Half-Life 2 RTX, an unofficial and modder-led remaster of…

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WoW flexes its MMO player housing system in a new blog post, and it really might just beat FF14’s dated furniture placement into the dirt

World of Warcraft’s getting its own player housing, which’ll be dropping either on—or just a little before—the release of its next expansion, Midnight. Blizzard’s been drip-feeding details over the past few months, mostly by subtly elbowing Final Fantasy 14 for the woes of its own system. The styling-on-Square Enix is proceeding apace. In a blog…

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Ubisoft backflips, says Assassin’s Creed Shadows will support Steam Deck at launch, but I doubt I’ll actually want to play it there

Ubisoft has confirmed that Assassin’s Creed Shadows will run on Steam Deck at launch, which is great albeit unexpected news. It’s unexpected, because last month Ubisoft ruled out Steam Deck support, pointing out—quite reasonably—that Valve’s handheld is “below our minimum specs for PC“. So what’s changed? Presumably the studio has done some testing, tweaked some…

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There’s hope yet for Classic Offensive after its Steam rejection: The team behind the Counter-Strike 1.6 revival mod is in touch with Valve about its ‘concerns’

PC Gamer’s Ted Litchfield expressed hope in January that there might be room for Valve to reconsider its rejection of Classic Offensive, an eight-years-in-the-making mod for Counter Strike: Global Offensive that aims to recreate the experience of Counter-Strike 1.6. And it’s a good day for Ted, because an update posted today on X says Valve…

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