AMD is calling HBM a “revolution in chip design” GDDR5 will soon stall GPU performance growth, says AMD. According to the red team, GDDR5 is entering an inefficient region of the power-to-performance curve. GDDR5 will soon reach a performance bottleneck. Historically, AMD would try and solve these power-to-performance issues by shrinking chips and integrating functions,…
Dragon Age appears to have reached the end of the road, at least for now. Despite the largely positive reception, sales of Dragon Age: The Veilguard didn’t meet C-suite expectations, the game’s most recent update appears to be its last, and developers at BioWare have been scattered to the four winds as the studio focuses…
Puzzling out the Dam Battlegrounds key locations in Arc Raiders is a big part of learning the map. While it’s exciting to find a keycard when you’re out looting, you then have to work out where to actually use it on the map, as well as if it’s worth your time. Uncommon rarity keycards, for…
One thing I’ve learned in journalism is that the stupidest questions can lead to the most fascinating answers, if only because nobody else would be such a colossal dumbass to consider asking them. This proved true recently as I sought an answer to an extremely silly question: How tall is Garrett, the protagonist of the…
Ara: History Untold was a decent attempt by Microsoft to snatch some strategic territory from Firaxis’ Civilization series, but all its sabre-rattling didn’t seem to come to much when it launched last September. Perhaps this is due to the fact its pleasingly modular city construction was undermined by hefty micromanagement. Or maybe it’s because it…
Category: Responsible Gaming December 17, 2025 How to Engage with Your Kids’ Gaming – Practical Tips from Parenting Expert, Dr. Becky Xbox Wire Team One of the standout insights from our recent Culture of Play Report is that more than 70% of players want to share their love of gaming with the next generation. To help parents and caregivers navigate that journey, we partnered with clinical…
Yep, it’s true. Zuckerberg might call him “Taylor Swift, but for tech,” but back in 1978 someone was calling now-Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang “perhaps the most promising junior ever to play table tennis in the Northwest” in a letter to Sports Illustrated. Lou Bochenski wrote in to the mag (archived here), explaining: “In mentioning promising…
One of the biggest problems that Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 players have faced recently has been hit registration errors. There have been numerous reports of bullets disappearing as players take clean shots at enemies who just don’t go down. But Treyarch believes it could be a user error. “We’ve identified an issue that…
aT A GLANCE (+) Outdoor Camping Fast; customizable; solid build quality; TPM support. (-) FPS Camping Expensive; somewhat bulky; mediocre battery life. This article was published in the October 2015 issue of Maximum PC. For more trusted reviews and feature stories, subscribe here. One year later, Nvidia’s GM204 is still the king of mobile GPUs…
Your Joy-Con may also come loose… Oh dear. It seems DBrand’s Switch 2 ‘Killswitch’ accessory has been having a little bit of a rough PR week, and things aren’t about to get any better. First off, and as reported by our pals at VGC, messages from gamers on DBrand’s Reddit forum have started to note…