Flagship arrives It was around this time last month when Asus announced its new flagship Z170 motherboard for enthusiasts, the ROG Maximus VIII Extreme. We were allowed to drool over the spec sheet and some press photos, but weren’t able to buy it or even anticipate when it would be available. Well, that’s changed. The…
“The heart of the matter lies in production costs”. Ex-Sony and PlayStation veteran Shuhei Yoshida has been talking a fair amount about the video game industry since his retirement earlier this year. But he’s had a few things to say about the Switch 2 in particular in recent weeks. And the former president of SIE…
Not so fuzzy math If you look at Valve’s most recent hardware and software audit for Steam (February 2016), you’ll see that Linux is represented by 0.91 percent of Steam gamers. That’s less than 1 percent, and considering that it was at 2 percent two years ago (March 2013), it would appear that Linux is…
Partners in crime. After weeks of rumours, predictions, and general chit-chat, Nintendo has officially announced that the first Nintendo Direct of the year will be a Partner Showcase, taking place on Wednesday 21st February 2024. The Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase February 2024 will be broadcast on YouTube and is set to last for approximately 25…
AI has been in a funny place for some time. Growing exponentially, and sucking up much of the world’s supply of memory, GPUs, and energy in the process, we’ve seen countless examples of models being released with few guardrails and being reigned in after the fact. This week, Google published its “responsible AI progress report”…
Intel has finally taken the last wraps off its Panther Lake-based Core Ultra Series 3 range of mobile chips, and it’s making some pretty impressive claims about their performance. Before the expected AI NPU TOPS figures, Intel’s VP of PC products, Dan Rogers, dedicated a fair chunk of the company’s CES 2026 presentation to the…
“Your input and opinions are incredibly valuable to us”. Spike Chunsoft, the Japanese developer and publisher behind series like the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon games, Danganronpa series and ANONYMOUS;CODE wants fans to take its 2023 video game survey, so it can learn more about what they’re interested in. If you have any of this company’s games…
Back when I was a kid in the 1980s, I distinctly remember three rumors spreading around at school: Mikey from the Life cereal commercials died from eating Pop Rocks and Coke In the next Friday the 13th movie, Freddy Kruger from the Elm Street movies would fight Jason In the next Alien movie, the aliens…
While the first Nvidia RTX 50-series GPUs are now with us in the form of mighty (and perhaps melty?) graphics cards, some of us have been looking towards mobile versions of the GPUs for our slice of the Blackwell pie. We’ve been waiting until a March launch for RTX 50-series laptops, and now Nvidia has…
Larian recently streamed Divinity: Original Sin 2, the studio’s last RPG in the Divinity series before it made Baldur’s Gate 3. During the stream, communications developer Aoife Wilson brought up the topic of hints in D:OS2 about what Larian was working on next. “Originally the reference to BG3 was very explicit,” Larian CEO Swen Vincke…