GDC 2025: Celebrating Innovation in Gaming and Our Communities
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Nvidia has cut the MSRP of RTX 50-series FE cards in the UK and Europe and that means… not a whole lot right now
To call the Nvidia RTX 50-series launch a disappointment would be a gross understatement, what with low stocks, high prices, and promised performance that’s only kind-of, maybe, if-you-squint-really-hard true. So it’s with a little reluctance that I’m bringing seemingly glad tidings of an RTX 50-series price reduction. Yes, the RTX 50-series cards have had a…
Eight Months After GameStop Shut It Down, Game Informer Is Teasing A Comeback
Continue? After 33 years in the biz, the iconic publication Game Informer closed its doors last August with all of its staff laid off in the process. But now, eight months on, it seems that a comeback may be on the cards. At least, that’s what is being teased by a recent video from the…
Microsoft’s Adaptive Joystick is geared towards ‘players with limited mobility’ and is available now for just $30
Gaming is often an exclusionary hobby. To begin with, if you’re not putting a hefty chunk of change down on a fresh AAA game, you’re somewhere in the eternal cycle of pondering a pricey PC upgrade. Besides the obvious expense, a lot of that kit is highly specialised too, with standard gamepads often presenting one…
Silksong’s weary hollows tossed another scrap of hope from Xbox on high, as a blog post namedrops it next to other ‘upcoming games’
At this point, I’m wondering if we should be asking our world leaders if there’s anything that can be done for our poor Silksong fans. Some kind of support program, maybe the memory-eraser from Men in Black—or a time machine so they can go to the year 9998, which was an (accidentally) projected release date…
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…
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…
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,…
This New Atari Watch Sets Out To Combine The Worlds Of Retro Gaming & Fitness Tracking
The ‘Atari 2600 My Play Watch’ is available to pre-order now. Atari has revealed a brand-new $79.99 watch that aims to combine the worlds of retro gaming and fitness tracking (h/t: Retro Dodo). The “Atari 2600 My Play Watch” features a design reminiscent of the classic Atari console, first released in 1977, and comes with…
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…