Intel Arc Battlemage “Xe2” GPUs Heading For Launch In 2024, Bring Big Performance Improvements
Intel's next-generation Arc Battlemage "Xe2" GPUs are reportedly launching in Q4 2024 & bring significant performance uplifts over Alchemist.
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Micron touts world's first PCIe Gen 6 drive with epic 26 GB/s speeds but it's not hitting your PC for years
Micron, they of Crucial SSD fame, have announced a new PCIe Gen 6 SSD capable of 26 GB/s. That's right ladies and germs, your feeble, antiquated 14GB/s Gen 5 drive is yesterday's news (even if PCIe 5.0 is as good as it gets among the best gaming SSDs today). Anybody who's anyone will soon have a Gen 6 SSD.
Xbox Next Won’t Be Hybrid, Says Corden: Handheld Will Be an Add-On; Predicts End of Paywalled Multiplayer
The next-generation Xbox console has already been featured prominently in several rumors. Over the past year, two leakers have suggested that Microsoft's upcoming console would launch in late 2026, getting ahead of Sony's PlayStation 6 in a repeat of the strategy that turned out to be successful for the Xbox 360.
AMD Ryzen 7 9700X review
Zen 5 is finally here for desktop PCs and having already tasted what it is like with six cores, in the AMD Ryzen 5 9600X review, it's time to see what difference two more cores, four more threads, and a tiny bit more clock speed all makes—that's right, it's our review of the Ryzen 7 9700X.
UK entertainment union Equity recommends minimum rates for game performers for the first time
The UK’s performing arts and entertainment trade union Equity has set recommended minimum rates for video game performers for the first time.
AMD Ryzen 5 9600X review
It's taken a while to get here—and it's honestly been a pretty bumpy road, too—but I'm pleased to present our review of the AMD Ryzen 5 9600X, the lowest-tier CPU currently on offer in AMD's Ryzen 9000 series family of Zen 5 processors. I'm not talking about the rocky situation where AMD recalled all stocks of the new Ryzen chips weeks before they were due to be sold, either—no, this is all about jumping around motherboards, updating firmware, and endlessly fiddling about with settings. All for what is actually a somewhat underwhelming new six-core CPU.
You’re going to want a squad for Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, an upcoming action game from Saber Interactive and Focus Entertainment, is shaping up to be one of the year’s biggest hits. The last look we had at the shooter was in 2023, where we glimpsed a short mission on Kadaku. This time, I went hands on with two Operations mode missions, as well as the Voidsong mission, where I primarily took part as a solo player.
'Everything's held together with duct tape': Fallout London's project lead discusses all the bugs, including the infamous train crash
Fallout: London is a truly impressive mod, according to PCG writer Joshua Wolens—that is when you're able to actually get it working and navigate all the performance issues and bugs.