Pokémon Winds & Waves Announced For Switch 2, Launching Next Year

The organizers of E3 announce a new event called iicon, but it’s not open to the public and you probably don’t want to go anyway

E3 died in 2023 but the Entertainment Software Association is still around, and it’s just unveiled its new idea: “a first-of-its-kind event designed to connect visionaries, thought leaders and innovators from across industries to harness the power of interactive entertainment” called iicon. Two things right off the start: No, this is not a reborn E3,…

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Intel is selling its 51% stake in Altera, for presumably a few billion, to private firm with over $104 billion in investments

Intel has entered a deal to offload 51% of its stake in Altera, a specialised chipmaker focusing on programmable logic devices, to Silver Lake investment firm. Before it was owned by Intel, Altera and Intel worked together on several projects often using each other’s technologies. It wasn’t until 2015 when Intel acquired Altera for $16.7…

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Red Dead Redemption 2 Switch Rating Surfaces Online

The first entry arrived on Switch last month. Following the recent return of Rockstar’s Wild West action-adventure Red Dead Redemption, a Switch classification for the second game has now surfaced on Brazil’s rating board. This information was shared on social media, but it’s not entirely clear when the Switch version was added to the page….

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Leaked Skylake Slides Point to Significant Graphics Performance Gains

Intel is expected to unveil Skylake at next month’s Gamescom trade show Intel’s soon-to-be-unveiled Skylake microarchitecture could deliver significant performance improvements over its predecessor, particularly in the graphics department. That is if a series of purportedly leaked slides published by Fanless Tech are genuine. According to one of the slides (included above), the highest all-round…

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