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The new GTA 6 trailer draws on base PS5 footage

The new Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer is graphically impressive in a way videogame trailers generally aren’t anymore. That’s to be expected: Rockstar has more resources than any other studio in the world, and nowadays, the graphics arms race favours studios with loads of money, time, and talent at their disposal rather than just, say,…

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Battlefield 6 lead producer comes back from vacation and immediately addresses a storm of feedback: ‘Need to go action on a bunch of this now’

When I come back to work after a nice long vacation, I open my email client with the sort of dread usually reserved for month-old leftovers at the back of the fridge. Not so for Battlefield 6 lead producer David Sirland, who recently returned from some PTO and immediately asked the entire Battlefield community an…

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AMD and Meta announce yet another circular megamoney GPU deal, this time for $60 billion of chips and potentially a 10% stake in AMD for Meta

Keeping up with all the megabucks deals going on right now in AI land is pretty much a full-time job. But for what it’s worth, here’s another doozy that involves silly amounts of money and a whiff of just the sort of cannibalistic circularity that makes the whole situation so unnerving. AMD and Meta have…

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Asus TUF Gaming RTX 4080 Super review

Asus latest big boi GPU is the TUF Gaming RTX 4080 Super, a reference priced, modestly overclocked card from the classic Nvidia board partner. That makes it a $999 GPU, $200 less than the original RTX 4080, but with essentially the same performance. Job done. And if you can’t get your hands on an Nvidia…

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