Nvidia has announced the RTX 50-series, codename Blackwell, at CES 2025. The new cards come with massive improvements to AI acceleration, with CEO Jensen Huang claiming “AI is coming home to GeForce”. CEO Huang announced the entire lineup at CES 2025, from the RTX 5090 to the RTX 5070. Let’s get right into prices: $1,999…
A Helldivers 2 film adaptation is in production, Sony announced at CES 2025 today. The collaboration between Sony Productions and Sony Pictures doesn’t have a release window or any other confirmed details, other than the fact that it’s happening. PlayStation Productions head Asad Qizilbash made the announcement during Sony’s CES press conference. And because what…
It’s double trouble with Dixie and Kiddy. Nintendo has kicked off the new year with a brand new update for its ‘Nintendo Music’ app. It’s celebrating Rare’s Donkey Kong Country series once again with the released of the third game’s tracklist. All up, this soundtrack includes 40 tracks and has a runtime of 1 hour…
Following Version 19.0.1’s rollout last October. The Switch may be coming to the tail end of its life, but Nintendo is still showing support for it with new games and even updates. Following the rollout of Version 19.0.1 in October 2024, Nintendo has now rolled out a new ‘rebootless update’ for this same firmware patch….
The idea that games should center “player choice” and react meaningfully to our decisions is repeated so often it’s become a cliche, and BioShock creator Ken Levine has been a leading figure in that department—his games are all about moral decisions and meta-commentary on free will and game design. In a recent interview with GamesIndustry.biz…
The leadup to Marvel Rivals season 1 is well underway. We already know that the entire Fantastic 4 squad is coming in a Dracula-themed season called Eternal Night, but in a video published today, NetEase shared something arguably more significant: the details of its very first balancing patch. How NetEase plans to balance its popular…
Get a look at this! If you got a brand new Switch game for Christmas and it included a game cartridge inside of it, you’re apparently doing better than some others out there… As highlighted by IGN, multiple Switch users on social media and Reddit are claiming they’ve received cases with “googly eyes” inside instead…
For PC gamers, this is going to be CES 2025’s ‘big one’, the keynote that is going to deliver what we’ve all been waiting for: Nvidia’s new RTX 50-series Blackwell graphics card announcement. And I’m here, in-person, braving the queues, and the jet-lag, and the crowds, and the interminable waiting, to bring you our first…
AMD’s David McAfee and Frank Azor have explained RDNA 4’s absence from its CES press conference this year, and also spent a bit more time with us talking about its new “gamer-first” graphics card architecture. And that means making sure the cards are designed efficiently from both a performance-per-watt and manufacturing point of view. “We’ve…
In a cosy backstage chat, post-AMD CES keynote, David McAfee told us that everything you’ve heard about RDNA 4 performance is “completely inaccurate”. McAfee and fellow AMD exec, Frank Azor were explaining the absence of either new RX 9070 or RX 9070 XT graphics cards from the keynote, fielding our questions about the new GPUs,…