AMD and Nvidia to join Qualcomm in the Windows Arm(s) race

The x86 CPU architecture has dominated the PC market since dinosaurs roamed the land but there’s been a flurry of rumours concerning efforts by AMD and Nvidia to battle Qualcomm head-on, preparing Arm-powered CPUs for Windows computers in 2025. As things currently stand, Qualcomm has an exclusive deal with Microsoft, ensuring that any computer using…

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Squadron 42 looks like it cost the millions it should have, but we’re not sold on it yet

Over a decade after announcing Star Citizen, mastermind Chris Roberts has finally declared that its Squadron 42 singleplayer campaign—just a piece of the bigger Star Citizen “persistent universe,” which has raised over $600 million in crowdfunding—is feature complete and entering the “polish” phase. No release date has been announced, and polishing may take “some time,”…

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The official Bloodlines 2 theme song is giving me a minor existential crisis over how old the first game is, and how much older I am now

Paradox Interactive has revealed the official theme song for Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, a dark, moody piece called Midnight that’s really quite good. Also, I don’t think I like it. Let me explain. Written by Michel Zitron, Paulina Palmgren, and Jarly, Midnight is an interesting tune: Slow, electronic, forcibly gloomy. In many ways,…

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