PC Gaming
- • 98%gamerblurb.com 63% of Gen Z Would Rather Play Video Games Than Watch a Movie — GamerBlurb
The battle between the Video Game and Movie industry continues on, driven by Generation Z's preference for video games over movies. According to a 2024 report by the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), a staggering 63% of Gen Z individuals prefer playing video games to watching films (compared
- • 89%www.techspot.com Nvidia CEO: "We can't do computer graphics anymore without artificial intelligence"
AI, in its current primitive form, is already benefiting a wide array of industries, from healthcare to energy to climate prediction, to name just a few. But...
- • 100%www.pcgamer.com Final Fantasy 16 producer Naoki Yoshida asks that modders please don't run amok with 'offensive or inappropriate' shenanigans now the game's on PC
Does Clive in a crop top count as either of those things?
- www.pcgamesn.com DDR5 gaming RAM is about to get much faster, thanks to this new tech
Using new CUDIMM technology, Asgard has announced a new 9,600MT/s memory kit and declared 10GHz (10,000MT/s) RAM is just around the corner.
- • 100%www.pcgamer.com AMD is set to finally join Nvidia with FSR 4, using AI to power frame generation, though no word on upscaling yet
Now, how long will Intel take to get in on the frame gen action?
- • 100%www.gamingonlinux.com Steam Deck Verified - your game highlights for mid-September 2024
Looking to pick up some more games for Steam Deck or Desktop Linux? Well, here's a whole bunch more that should work great.
- www.pcgamesn.com After a 13-year wait, this hugely ambitious new open-world racing MMO is a total flop
KT Racing's Test Drive Unlimited: Solar Crown is a disappointing mess of systems with barebones racing mechanics and a flat open world.
- • 93%www.pcgamer.com Deadlock has picked up some vital tools for policing bad player behavior
Probably a necessity as the number of testers ticks up.
Hi everyone, I am building a mini-ITX based pc and the motherboard I bought is Asrock B650I, which has one m.2 PCIe slot in the front and one in the back. The issue is that the back one is obviously a weird spot, that ssd will have to be the ssd that just stays there forever if I don’t want to remove the whole motherboard for it. Just needed your suggestion on which ssd you would put in the back, The 1TB WD_Black or The 2tb MSI. The back would likely not fit a heat sink.
- • 96%www.tomshardware.com AMD plans for FSR4 to be fully AI-based — designed to improve quality and maximize power efficiency
The team in charge has already been working on this for 9–12 months.
- • 95%www.tomshardware.com AMD EPYC CPU hacked onto B650 motherboard, hits 6.6 GHz with liquid nitrogen — $159 EPYC 4124P shows immense overclocking potential
Quad-core EPYC 4124P enjoys a whopping 75% overclock.
- • 100%web.archive.org All employees of Annapurna Interactive (Stray, Outer Wilds) resign en masse
Annapurna Interactive's 24 employees and president have resigned following a disagreement with the company's owner.
- store.steampowered.com Steam Deck™
Steam Deck™ is the most powerful, full-featured gaming handheld in the world.
- • 96%www.gamingonlinux.com Steam Deck SteamOS 3.6.13 Beta and a new Steam Client Beta released
We're really closing in on the stable release of SteamOS 3.6 now for Steam Deck, with this being the second release candidate. Plus another small Steam Client Beta release.
- • 94%kotaku.com Tony Hawk Confirms He And Activision Are 'Working On Something'
He also said that Tony Hawk's Pro Skater fans will 'truly appreciate' whatever is coming
- automaton-media.com PS5 Pro’s price reveal causes gaming PC retailers in Japan to go all out on competitive deals - AUTOMATON WEST
Gaming PC manufacturers in Japan have been taking advantage of gamers' dissatisfaction with Sony's pricing of the PS5 and PS5 Pro.
- • 96%www.pcgamer.com Deadlock matchmaking is now open 24/7—plus there's a new, snazzier minimap and a low priority queue for sinners
Let's go, minimap enthusiasts.
- www.pcgamesn.com Pocketpair confirms that no, Palworld isn't going free-to-play
Pocketpair confirms that Palworld is not turning into a free-to-play live service game, after an interview suggested it was possible.
- • 97%www.gamingonlinux.com STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor gets Denuvo DRM removed, plus performance improvements
Good news for DRM haters. STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor has been liberated as of the latest update which also thankfully continues improving the performance too.
- automaton-media.com Palworld dev says the indie scene is going to see more Palworld-level hits as small creators learn to meet player needs that big companies are neglecting - AUTOMATON WEST
Palworld developer's CEO Takuro Mizobe shares views on the future of the indie scene and deciding factors for breakout hits.
- www.pcgamer.com Penny's Big Breakaway studio announces layoffs: 'Evening Star has been swept up in the same turbulence that has affected so many of our peers in the games industry'
The small studio has laid off six employees after being unable to secure funding for a new game.
- • 92%www.pcgamer.com Voice actor Peter Renaday, who played Duncan in Dragon Age: Origins, has died age 89
The actor was also known for playing Master Splinter in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles TV series.
- www.pcgamesn.com This cozy vanlife crafting game has smashed past all its Kickstarter stretch goals
Outbound gives you a campervan and sets you free in an open world, letting you build your perfect rolling home in a cozy, colorful world.
- • 96%www.tomshardware.com 'Cyberpunk 2077' finally gets FSR3 frame gen for non-RTX GPUs — it's not FSR 3.1, but it works with basically any graphics card
FSR 3 is here, but it's not FSR 3.1, and there's no Anti-Lag 2 support.
- • 95%www.gamingonlinux.com Unity cancels the stupid Runtime Fee
After a complete disaster a while ago that saw many developers jump-ship, and cause a huge PR problem, Unity have now cancelled the Runtime Fee.
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[The European Consumer Organisation] "Game over: Consumers fight for fairer in-game purchases"
www.beuc.eu Game over: Consumers fight for fairer in-game purchasesBEUC and 22 of its member organisations from 17 countries have filed a complaint on 12 September 2024 to the European Commission and the network of consumer protection Authorities (CPC-Network) to denounce several deceptive practices by leading video game companies (Activision Blizzard, Electronic A...
- • 87%www.tomshardware.com Apple's A18 delivers solid performance gains, challenges Ryzen 9 9950X in single-core Geekbench
Imagine what Apple's A18 Pro could do.
- github.com duckstation/LICENSE at master · stenzek/duckstation
Fast PlayStation 1 emulator for x86-64/AArch32/AArch64/RV64 - stenzek/duckstation
GPL is still a commercial compatible license, something the team behind Duckstation, apparently, don't like.
- • 98%steamcommunity.com Steam :: Steam News :: Steam Families is here
Hello! We are excited to announce Steam Families is now available for all users. Steam Families is a collection of new and existing family-related features. It replaces both Steam Family Sharing and Steam Family View, giving you a single location to manage which games your family can access and when...
- • 97%kotaku.com Wild Bastards Is The Space-Cowboy Strategy FPS Of Your Dreams
The follow-up to Void Bastards is an elaborately involving roguelite shooter
- • 97%aftermath.site Video Game Developers Are Leaving The Industry And Doing Something, Anything Else - Aftermath
From line cooks to bike repairs, people who used to be video game developers are being forced to try something new
- • 93%www.tomshardware.com Intel Core Ultra 200 CPU specs allegedly leaked — Arrow Lake tops out at 24 cores and 5.7 GHz boost clock at 250W
Arrow Lake-S specs have reportedly been finalized.