PC Gaming
Aion 2, NCSoft’s sequel to the original Aion set 200 years after the original game, launched in November of last year to some mixed opinions about its microtransaction schemes—that doesn’t appear to’ve stopped the sequel from picking up steam, though. Literally, it’ll be coming to Steam as part of a global release later this year….
This year will be the tenth anniversary of the GeForce GTX 10-series, and since then Nvidia’s gaming GPUs have undergone some fundamental changes to bring ray tracing and AI to the PC gaming masses. While compute performance, cache levels, and VRAM bandwidth are still key to getting high frame rates in games, today’s GeForce graphics…
I wouldn’t claim to be an AI datacentre expert—good ol’ fashioned PC gaming circuitry, that’s my bread and butter—but I, along with everyone else and their collective brothers, know that those servers stack memory like nobody’s watching. That’s the reason we’re living through a veritable RAMpocalypse, after all. So I can certainly laugh along with…
A former researcher for Samsung Electronics has been sentenced to seven years in prison by a South Korean court, for leaking core DRAM semiconductor tech to a Chinese competitor, CXMT. The Korea Economic Daily reports reports that the 56-year-old defendant, identified only as Mr. Jeon, was arrested and indicted last May. According to “legal circles”,…
When you create anything, whether that be software or a short story about two characters that never meet, there’s no telling what a fresh pair of eyes will bring to the work. Once a work breaches containment, your adoring audience may reward you with a short work of fanfiction—or make you kick yourself by immediately…
Getting an Intel Arc card can be a good option in this otherwise eye-wateringly expensive market, especially as many of the GPUs’ initial wrinkles have been ironed out. But problems still remain, and they sometimes surface with the release of new games, as some Intel Arc gamers found with the launch of Pragmata. But the…
On the CRPG-developer-romance spectrum, Obsidian are at one end—generally anti-romance—while BioWare and Larian are at the other end. As is Owlcat, whose Rogue Trader and Pathfinder games all feature romanceable companions. The reasoning behind that, and the particulars of how romance works in Pathfinder, is the topic of discussion in the studio’s latest developer blog….
Valve risks fines of up to AU$825,000 a day if it fails to respond to a transparency notice issued to it by the Australian government’s eSafety Commissioner. According to a statement released by the regulator, Steam is “reportedly a hub for a number of extreme-right communities”, and must explain to Australia how it is “identifying,…
The founder of laptop company Framework did something radical on Tuesday, setting him apart from nearly every other tech company in the world: He stood on a stage and said nice things about the personal computer. “For the first time in history, more silicon is actually going into the cloud than it is into personal…
Peter Molyneux is playing the hits with Masters of Albion, returning to the god game form he helped define. Towns can be built, townsfolk can be menaced—all through the awesome, lightning-bolt throwing, boulder-dropping, peasant-flinging power of an omnipotent, hovering hand, just as tradition demands. And it’s all happening when Masters of Albion launches in early…