With its second birthday barely a month away, news that Nvidia is purportedly going to discontinue the GeForce RTX 3050 isn’t surprising, as eventually all GPUs get replaced. But the rumour here is an odd one, as it contends a ‘new’ RTX 3050 will be introduced, with less VRAM and with a much lower power…
2023 is nearly over, and, well, it’s been quite a ride, hasn’t it? There’s a strong case being made that we’ve just witnessed the best year in gaming, in fact, with both artful indie games and triple-A behemoths pulling together to deliver us memorable experiences ranging from space travel, to space horror, to city-building, by…
Hi PlayStation Blog readers! Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora will be out tomorrow on PS5, letting you to play as a Na’vi and explore a brand-new continent of Pandora: the Western Frontier. The team at Massive Entertainment – an Ubisoft Studio, in collaboration with James Cameron’s production company Lightstorm Entertainment and Disney expanded the world of…
“Ceiling tiles were displaced and light fittings were dangling by their cables”. There are a lot of common problems that tend to crop up while making a video game, but having your whole office destroyed in an explosion isn’t typically one of them. Nevertheless, that’s exactly what happened to Perfect Entertainment’s Manchester studio in 1996…
Crafting a Bloodforged Sigil is your first step in attempting the new Abattoir of Zir dungeon in Diablo 4. This seasonal endgame dungeon is supposed to provide some extra challenge to those who’ve already done everything and crave something a little harder. The Abattoir of Zir is basically a post-tier 100 continuation of Nightmare Dungeons,…
Intel has revealed the truth about AMD’s latest Ryzen 7000 mobile CPU family. Some models actually use old CPU designs with Zen 2 architecture, which dates back to 2019. Shocking, isn’t it? Except Intel’s own 14th Gen desktop CPUs are, of course, based on the same Raptor Lake architecture as its 13th Gen CPUs. Which…
We reported a few weeks ago that Apple has been rather conspicuously claiming its MacBooks with 8GB were “analogous” to a PC with 16GB. Well, that claim has been tested and found to be comprehensively found wanting. YouTube channel, Max Tech ran an 8GB MacBook Pro 14 up against a 16GB Lenovo Legion Windows laptop….
There are more than you think… The Evercade family of systems is a glorious throwback to the days when physical media was king, and there was no such thing as a lengthy online update before loading up your game – but the range harks back to the past in other ways, too, such as the…
I’m pretty certain my first ever exposure to Tom Petty came via GTA: San Andreas, whose K-DST radio station featured Runnin’ Down a Dream on its tracklist of wall-to-wall dad rock bangers. Now Mr Petty’s made a return as part of the Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer, which is soundtracked by Love Is a Long…
Twitch has announced it’s pulling its service from South Korea in less than three months, citing high operation costs as the reason why. In a blog post on its website, CEO Dan Clancy offered an explanation to the shutdown: “Ultimately, the cost to operate Twitch in Korea is prohibitively expensive and we have spent significant…