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  1. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition Video Card Review

    Orange Box flashbacks

  2. Hideo Kojima Feels That Too Many Games Look Alike These Days and Wants to Be the First to Make Games in Space

    He's not wrong... too many copy cat clones of whatever just recently got hot. I can't even begin to count the trends, and most of them are just filled with garbage. A result of corporate money wanting to chase "safe" investments, not fund anything groundbreaking or innovative. And the more...

  3. The More You Buy, the More You Enjoy, as Ubisoft Claims That Microtransactions Allow Players to Have More Fun

    There was a point when I was neck deep in MMOs that I would be running 2, 3, or 4 subscription accounts simultaneously (for the same game), at like $15 a pop. And wouldn’t blink an eye at that. I still contend, in my younger days, all my money I spent on MMOs was much less than had I spent even...

  4. The More You Buy, the More You Enjoy, as Ubisoft Claims That Microtransactions Allow Players to Have More Fun

    Well, for whales, I don't think they are wrong. It's just that's a small subset of players who outlay a disproportionate amount of the cash. But yeah, they enjoy being at the top of the game moreso than actually playing the game.

  5. OptiScaler Update Brings AMD FSR 4 to Any DX 11/12 Title and Upcoming RDNA 5 GPU Is Rumored to Feature 96 CUs with 384-Bit VRAM Bus

    I'm kinda in this camp, except for a different reason == how many 12VHPWR lines is the APU gonna require? No way that's happening in a console form factor where people will complain about it needing external power bricks and sounding like a jet plane. Physics is a bitch, and I don't think there...

  6. DDR4 Isn’t Dead Yet, as Chip Manufacturers Are Now Rumored to Delay Product Phase-Out amid Skyrocketing Prices

    That's when the hurricane/landslide/tsunami/earthquake/Taiwan invasion/Tariffs/bed bugs/walkout/famine/plaque/alien invasion will happen and hit 2 of the only 4 factories capable of making this stuff in the world. At the same time.

  7. Microsoft Lays Off Another 9,000 Employees, Bringing Its Two-Year Job Cuts Total to Nearly 27,000 as It Invests in Building AI Infrastructure

    Already starting to see some of the blow black from license plate readers tracking cars, and the loose legal requirements on obtaining that metadata. One side saying there's a right to privacy and data like this should only be obtainable with a warrant, and the other side saying your license...

  8. Microsoft Lays Off Another 9,000 Employees, Bringing Its Two-Year Job Cuts Total to Nearly 27,000 as It Invests in Building AI Infrastructure

    Work already put them in all the work trucks. It yells if you raise your hand up - thinking you are yawning and need to pull over. It complains if you have a drink from a can, thinking it's gotta be beer. It complains if you change lanes too aggressively.

  9. Next PlayStation and Xbox Consoles Are Rumored to Feature AMD UDNA/RNDA 5 Graphics

    I think at $1k, console gaming goes entirely to Nintendo. That, or the Xbox S edition makes a comeback. I know inflation is a thing and stuff costs more, but hitting that 4-digit barrier, when consoles used to cost half that... I don't think it will do well. Just look at how the PS3 did when it...

  10. Microsoft Lays Off Another 9,000 Employees, Bringing Its Two-Year Job Cuts Total to Nearly 27,000 as It Invests in Building AI Infrastructure

    Why can't we use AI for something useful - like programming traffic lights so I don't have to sit at a red light, with a bunch of other people also sitting at the red light, and absolutely no one is moving at all? Seems like some of that "climate change" money and revolutionary "AI compute"...

  11. NVIDIA Trots past Microsoft and Apple to Become the World’s First Company Valued at More than $4 Trillion

    It's not about gamers. It's about shareholders.

  12. AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Gets a Major 9% Performance Uptick with Latest Drivers, New Testing Shows It Besting NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti in Some Games

    I was just being a smartass but all you guys jumped on it literally hah

  13. From Cancelled Games to Closed Studios, There’s a Trail of Carnage in the Wake of Microsoft’s Layoffs

    9000 this go 6000 employees one month ago The carnage with the gaming studios is legendary: https://www.polygon.com/analysis/610779/microsoft-layoffs-perfect-dark-everwild-mismanagement Last year they shuttered 4 studios, including one that had a breakout hit This page hasn’t been updated...

  14. AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Gets a Major 9% Performance Uptick with Latest Drivers, New Testing Shows It Besting NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti in Some Games

    I would not be surprised if this is the case at all Also It takes a ton of resources to put together a card that’s not going to sell big numbers - mostly it’s just there as a halo product and bragging rights. Even at the margins it may get, I think AMD knows they likely wouldn’t be able to...

  15. From Cancelled Games to Closed Studios, There’s a Trail of Carnage in the Wake of Microsoft’s Layoffs

    It was always a matter of when, not if, with Microsoft I feel sorry for those involved, and hopefully it’s clear now - if you get acquired by Microsoft, if you get any buyout cash or severance offer, take it and run. If you don’t, get your resume polished up and start hunting immediately
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