Microsoft’s update for Direct3D, with opacity micromaps and shader execution reordering now official features, will probably mean little to gamers but graphics devs are going to be happy

When it comes to games on PCs, there’s one thing that thousands of them have in common: the graphics API used to tell the GPU what to do. Specifically, I’m talking about Microsoft’s Direct3D and I’m telling you about this because D3D12, for short, has now been updated with a new shader model and a…

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ThunderX3 Solo 360 review

A reasonable price, something actually comfortable, a range of adjustability options, a small-ish box and an easy build. When it comes to a number of budget gaming chairs, it can feel like a case of ‘pick two—and be thankful you got two’. The ThunderX3 Solo 360 is different. Instead it asks, ‘why choose?’ But before…

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ConcernedApe finds out not everyone will be hot for the blacksmith in Stardew Valley’s upcoming 1.7 update: ‘You’ve all been dying to marry Clint… right? …guys?’

Stardew Valley creator Eric ‘ConcernedApe’ Barone celebrated the farming sim’s 10-year anniversary last night with a fantastic video that dives into the game’s past and looks ahead to its future. What shocked me most was how much the bones of Pelican Town have remained the same. What everyone else is talking about are the two…

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DeepSeek has reportedly denied Nvidia and AMD early access to its new V4 AI model, giving Huawei and other Chinese chipmakers a head start

Sources speaking to Reuters have claimed that DeepSeek, the Chinese AI company that gave the US AI market a scare last year with its surprisingly-competitive AI models, has withheld both Nvidia and AMD from early access to its upcoming V4 update. However, early access is said to have been granted to domestic suppliers, including Huawei….

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OpenAI announces another $110 billion in investment funding including $30 billion from Nvidia, but says Microsoft is still its best friend forever

More money for the money god. OpenAI has announced a new $110 billion investment in its business, which breaks down to include $30 billion from Nvidia, $30 billion from Japanese investment titan SoftBank, and $50 billion from everything-else-giant, Amazon. “We’ve also signed a strategic partnership with Amazon and secured next-generation inference compute with Nvidia”, says…

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PS5 Pro owners will soon get an improved PSSR AI upscaler, while PC gamers with RDNA 2 and 3 GPUs are still praying for AMD to add official support for FSR 4

You might not be fully aware of this, but PC gamers with RDNA-based GPUs in their graphics cards share quite a lot in common with anyone who has a PlayStation 5 or PS5 Pro. That’s because there are quite a few architectural features common to both. However, while only RDNA 4 users officially get FSR…

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Wooting 60HE v2 review

There’s no doubt in my mind that the Wooting 60HE v2 is the best keyboard that Wooting has ever made. I’ve used the lot, from the original Wooting One through to the Wooting 80HE I use today, and while each one has improved on the last, the Wooting 60HE v2 is the first that can…

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