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Intel CEO commits to building new GPUs and has hired the engineer who designed some of AMD’s greatest graphics card hits to design them

Yesterday, I reported on claims that Intel’s hotly anticipated Arc B770 gaming graphics card is toast. Now comes news direct from Intel’s CEO that the company is committed to building future GPUs and has just hired a new Chief Architect to lead the charge. If that’s all a bit bewildering, there is, of course, a…

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HTC Enters VR Fray with SteamVR-powered Vive Headset

Finished product to debut by year-end Valve just made good on its promise of unveiling a SteamVR hardware system at the ongoing Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. Meet Vive, a virtual reality headset powered by Valve’s SteamVR platform and manufactured by Taiwanese company HTC. Born out of what HTC says is a “strategic partnership…

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ZORK – by Jon – GenX Grownup

I can still remember my Atari 800.  The screen went that deep shade of blue, and the cursor appeared, waiting for me to type something… No joystick… No sprites… Just text. Then these words appeared: “You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a…

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The next Monster Hunter Wilds update is set to launch on March 10 and will ensure that when you chop off monster parts, the right monster parts get chopped off

Monster Hunter Wilds is a major hit, and it’s also kind of a mess: It put up nearly 1.4 million concurrent players on Steam alone on launch day, a massive jump over Monster Hunter: World’s peak of 334,684, and rocketed to eight million copies sold in just three days—the fastest game to hit that mark…

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