Garry Newman says his game creation platform s&box will 'probably' be priced similarly to Garry's Mod

NBA Playgrounds 2: Building a Worthy Sequel

When NBA Playgrounds launched last May, the team here at Saber was incredibly excited – but also full of nervous energy. When developing an arcade NBA-licensed game, you’re taking part in a rich history of gaming that brings with it certain expectations. On release day – and the weeks and months that followed – we…

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A capacitor ‘mix-up’ is causing some mini PCs to fail and it’s giving me flashbacks to the great capacitor plague of the early ’00s

Some Minisforum mini PCs are being recalled due to incorrect capacitor materials, but let me ease at least some people’s concerns right away. This problem doesn’t apply to Minisforum mini gaming PCs. It applies only to a specific batch of NAB9 mini PCs. Minisforum explains (via VideoCardz) that the “potential issue” affects “some NAB 9…

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I finally played Duke Nukem Forever’s unfinished 2001 build, and while it probably would have been better than Gearbox’s fiasco, it still wouldn’t hold up today

It’s one of the great ‘What ifs’ of PC gaming. What if Duke Nukem Forever had not stumbled onto Steam in 2011 looking tired and confused in a washed-out Doom 3 engine, but had released as depicted in its legendary E3 2001 trailer, where it looked set to steal Half-Life 2’s thunder with its cinematic…

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Jen-Hsun needs to up his game because we’ve run the numbers and AMD’s CES keynote hit 1.8 mentions of AI per minute—even more than Nvidia

Did you watch every CES presentation this year? If you didn’t, don’t worry, you didn’t miss much. We tend to keep a close eye on Nvidia and AMD for any news about upcoming products, but this year, it was all about AI. I’ve run the numbers, with a little help from AI-powered transcription, and the…

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