Game developers launch North America’s first industry-wide union ‘to build worker power irrespective of studio and current job status’

Videogame workers throughout North America have launched a new union as part of the Communications Workers of America called “United Videogame Workers—CWA,” a “direct-join organization” that enables “artists, writers, designers, QA testers, programmers, freelancers and beyond to build worker power irrespective of studio and current job status.” UVW-CWA said in its announcement that the union’s…

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Rejoice! PCI Express 7.0 hits ‘final draft’ status enabling bandwidth that you probably won’t notice on devices that won’t appear for years

Non plussed by PCI Express 5.0? Apathetic about its 6.0 successor? Then prepare to be even more underwhelmed by PCIe Express 7.0, which has just achieved ‘final draft’ status (via Overclock3D). In really simple terms, final draft status means that PCIe 7.0 is a done deal unless a member company of the PCI-SIG organisation responsible…

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American Truck Simulator’s latest teaser is just a sound effect and no one seems to agree on what exactly it means

In the latest teaser for American Truck Simulator, SCS Software asks you to simply hear them out. More precisely, hear out the roughly thirty seconds of out-of-context engine revving followed by a mysterious tagline: “The future sounds a little bit different, right?” I’m not exactly a gearhead—I couldn’t tell you a carburetor from an alternator,…

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Microsoft is finally rolling out its controller-friendly virtual keyboard for a better Windows handheld gaming PC experience

In September last year I reported that Microsoft had started testing a virtual keyboard layout for controllers. This controller-oriented keyboard layout is now out of beta and launching in the latest Insider Release Preview build on Windows 11 24H2 Build 26100.3613. Microsoft says: “We have enabled the Gamepad keyboard layout for the touch keyboard in…

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Expelled! review

As a horrible person, I was delighted when I found out we were getting another Overboard game. Overboard was a delightfully nasty reverse-murder mystery, a timeloop adventure where each run began with you tossing your screaming husband off a cruise ship. You then had to cover up your crime by framing others, outsmarting a Poirot-wannabe,…

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Palworld’s Crossplay Update does far more than let you play with console buddies, adding photo mode, a drafting table and ‘dimensional Pal Storage’

Pocketpair’s survival megahit Palworld received a new update earlier today. Titled the Crossplay Update, its main addition is, unsurprisingly, the ability to farm and shoot the game’s Pokémon-like “Pals” with players from all other platforms. But that’s hardly the only feature the Crossplay Update adds, with this headline addition followed by a flock of smaller…

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While we despair of RTX 50-series supplies and wait on next-gen Rubin, Nvidia reveals its next-next GPU architecture will be known as Feynman and is due in 2028

Nvidia has revealed the name and planned launch date of its GPU architecture two generations hence. Give it up for Feynman, named after physicist Richard Feynman, and due out in 2028. Well, it’s due out in AI GPU format in 2028, more on which in a moment. Richard Feynman, of course, won the Nobel prize…

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