Gamer Fridge

Microsoft has announced DirectX Raytracing 1.2 at the GDC conference with claims of “game changing” performance benefits. But the newly revised API looks an awful lot like it has incorporated some key Nvidia technologies rather than introducing new features and so may not be the ray-tracing performance panacea we’ve all been waiting for. Microsoft is…

We’re all a bit iffy about flying Boeings ever since that plane had its door ripped off, so why not try an alternative? For instance, the gargantuan mechanical dragonflies that dotted the skies above the Butlerian Jihad of 200 BG to 108 BG? Those have so many moving parts that could go horribly wrong that…

My first thought upon learning that Quake had been inducted into the World Videogame Hall of Fame was that it was very weird Quake wasn’t already in the World Videogame Hall of Fame. I mean, you’ve had Halo in there since 2017, and not Quake? What? What are we even doing here? It’s the sort…

From a testing point of view, it’s been a busy couple of weeks with Avowed. I spent numerous hours running benchmark after benchmark with the review code that Obsidian Entertainment provided, and the results showed that Avowed’s PC performance is sometimes good, sometimes bad, but frequently odd. Now, after a week of being publicly available…

Fast and capacious storage It’s been a couple of months since Mushkin first trotted out its Striker line of solid state drives. First announced at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas earlier this year, the Striker line drew interest for its rated speeds, which can reach up to 565MB/s for read and up…

A Digitimes report on the ongoing CPU shortage says that industry sources have described the situation as ‘more acute for processors than memory’. While memory is still available in limited quantities (and with massive price increases, thanks to the ongoing RAMpocalypse), several models of chips made by both AMD and Intel are said to be…