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Gina Carano, who used to play Cara Dune in Disney’s The Mandalorian before being dropped by the show following “abhorrent and unacceptable” posts on social media, is taking Disney subsidiary Lucasfilm to court to get her job back, and (via Kotaku) Elon Musk is funding the suit. Carano was dropped from The Mandalorian in 2021,…

Expected release date: Q4 2024 – Q1 2025Codename: BlackwellNaming scheme: Expected to be the RTX 50-seriesProcess: Rumoured to be TSMC 3nm Nothing stirs up the internet rumour mill quite like the speculation around a new generation of graphics cards, and Nvidia’s next generation GPU architecture, believed to be codenamed Blackwell, is currently the source of…

When AMD’s Athlon K7 CPU was launched way back in 1999, it turned out to be something of an Intel-killer, smashing the heavyweight’s Pentium III CPU. Now it turns out those K7 chips were actual gun slingers, at least insofar as they had bullet-blasting guns etched right into their silicon dies. That’s the discovery made…

Like I’m sure many other PC gamers have done, I read our Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League review with a sense of inescapable inevitability and frustrated, profound disappointment. Here we are again, another previously celebrated game developer seeing its reputation tarnished by a flawed, middling game-as-a-service release that places grind and ongoing play/monetization right…

A private equity company behind the Six Nations Rugby tournament is on the verge of buying RuneScape developer Jagex for a cool £900 million, according to a report by Sky News. CVC Capital Partners is a Luxembourg-based “private equity platform” that “manages €118 billion of assets”. Its investment portfolio includes the Six Nations Rugby Tournament,…

When you picture Nvidia and AI together, how often do you include Iceland and web browsers in the same image? If you’re like me, then probably never, but there’s a first time for everything and that’s what Opera has announced today: It’s very own Nvidia DGX SuperPOD cluster, based entirely in Iceland, for handling requests…

Palworld players are working smarter, not harder by letting gravity do the work of killing bosses for them. Specifically, they’re constructing enormous stairways into the sky, luring bosses up, then deleting them, leaving poor foes to plummet helplessly to a sticky end on the ground below. It’s a bit like the bowl of petunias from…

In 2009, Infinity Ward heads Jason West and Vince Zampella were abruptly fired by the company’s owner Activision. West and Zampella had directed the original Call of Duty, and brought the series to superstardom through Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Their sacking just before the release of Modern Warfare 2 shocked the industry, and…

Sapphire Pulse RX 7900 XT | 20GB | 5,376 shaders | 2,450MHz boost  | $899 $699 at Newegg (save $200) At fully $200 below its original launch price just over a year ago, the 7900 XT now looks like a very decent deal. For pure raster performance, it has the edge on the more expensive…

You hear that? That’s the sound of people everywhere saying ‘they can do that?’ after reading how researchers used imaging, computer vision, and machine learning to read ancient Roman text within what most would think amounts to little more than a stick of charcoal by looking at it. The 2000-year-old scroll is one of more…