‘Even with a 9800X3D and a 5090 it runs like absolute buttcheeks’: 2K Games posts Nvidia’s Borderlands 4 optimised settings guide, but the community is already in open revolt

In case you missed it, Borderlands 4 was released yesterday. Actually, I’m pretty sure you didn’t miss it, because your newsfeeds are now likely full of positive reviews for the game itself, but a seemingly equal amount of backlash towards its poor performance. The game currently sits at a “Mixed” rating on Steam, with the…

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AI, take the wheel: Gigabyte’s latest motherboards will ‘intelligently dynamically’ improve performance of Ryzen chips by up to 25% in games through a built-in AI model

Gigabyte has just released three new motherboards with on-board AI to tune your Ryzen processor for top performance in games, even promising up to a 25% improvement. Thanks, bot. Back at Computex, Taiwan’s biggest tech show, we heard about the latest version of Gigabyte’s X3D Turbo Mode, a technology that would squeeze the ever-loving heck…

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GOG wants to revive more classic Japanese games on PC: ‘Working with Japanese partners often requires demonstrating both technical capability and cultural understanding’

They may not officially be called Good Old Games any more, but GOG still sells plenty of games that are both old and good alongside new releases like Hollow Knight: Silksong. Speaking to Automaton, senior PR rep Piotr Gnyp emphasized that by saying, “GOG has been doing this for well over a decade, and we’re…

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French Lara Croft actor issues C&D to Tomb Raider Remaster studio as multiple foreign dubs of the game are accused of adding AI voiceovers

As reported by TheGamer and Le Parisien, the former French voice of Lara Croft, Françoise Cadol, has reportedly issued a cease and desist to Aspyr over what seem to be AI-generated voice lines imitating her in the remasters of Tomb Raiders 4, 5, and 6. Lara Croft’s Brazilian Portuguese actor for this portion of the…

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Gearbox responds to worries about Borderlands 4’s terms of service: ‘Take-Two does not use spyware in its games’

Borderlands 4 got off to a rough start on Steam today, mostly because of performance and crash problems—you can read more about that in Nick Evanson’s heroic launch-day performance report. As I write this, there’s been no official response from Gearbox about the game’s technical issues, but it has put out a statement on another…

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I’ve tested Borderlands 4 on a minimum spec PC and a monster RTX 5090 rig, and it runs just as ‘Borderlands-at-launch’ as you’d expect

When it comes to the Borderland series, some things never change: The cel-shaded look Gearbox settled on all those years ago, the love-it-or-hate-it humour. And on PC, there’s one more thing you can throw into the mix: every major Borderlands game has run like a bag of frogs juggling bowling balls on release. Which is…

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