Nvidia’s CFO says there’s still ‘a little geopolitical situation that we need to work through’ before shipping its AI GPUs to China, but it’s ‘a $2 billion to $5 billion potential opportunity’

Nvidia’s executive vice president and chief financial officer, Collette Kress, spoke yesterday at the Goldman Sachs Communicopea event about a variety of topics, including a discussion of its recent financial results and the ongoing situation regarding its dealings with China. When asked for an update on demand for its H20 AI GPU in the country,…

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Final Fantasy 14 director Yoshi-P says the long-awaited job redesign will change things, but also won’t—which doesn’t clear much of anything up

Final Fantasy 14, as we’ve often observed on this very site, has a bit of a design problem when it comes to its jobs—they’re pretty stale. Tanks mostly play the same, healers get like two damage buttons, DPS all try to shove their buttons into the same two-minute window: It’s a little droll. For a…

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Loot boxes could be coming to Marvel Rivals as a dataminer finds evidence of ‘multiple references to mystery box logic’, and like always, players are divided

Word on the street is that Marvel Rivals has plans for loot boxes after a dataminer uncovered evidence of mystery box logic while trawling Season 4’s files. There’s no official confirmation yet, but the speculation is enough to divide players. “Loot boxes could be coming to Marvel Rivals at some point in the future,” RivalsInfo…

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Upcoming Silksong patch will make the early game easier and the mid-game cheaper—nerfing 2 bosses and shoring up its stingy rosary economy

Silksong’s getting its first patch next week—with a playable beta branch already available on Steam, and while there’s the usual bug-fixes, one adjustment seems super interesting: Silksong’s early game is going to get easier. Well, a little bit. As the patch notes linked above read, there’ll be a “Slight difficulty reduction in early game bosses…

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Packaging for Intel’s high-performance Battlemage gaming GPU has popped up in a shipping manifest but I’m not sure I dare to hope it will really launch or actually be any good

We’ve been reporting on the hoped-for launch of Intel’s “big Battlemage” GPU for what seems like forever. The latest step towards that near-mythical eventuality is the emergence of packaging for the supposedly upcoming RTX 5070-walloping graphics card in a shipping manifest. Interpreting these shipping manifests from the NBD website is something of an art in…

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