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  1. Brian_B

    Bethesda Could Soon Unveil The Elder Scrolls 6: Sentinel as the Official Title for the Next Game, as Rumors Circulate Regarding Its Location and Lore

    They just yanked the plug on Mass Effect 4 and it had also announced a name… the scythe doesn’t play favorites
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    AI PCs Will Become the “New Normal” and Capture 60% of Total PC Shipments This Year as Windows 12 Launches in 2H 2025, Analysts Say

    AI will never let it die. You must be doomed to remember
  3. Brian_B

    Best way to clean RAM slots

    I usually just try air first, and if that's not enough - electrical contact cleaner (very similar to brake cleaner for the most part, also sold in auto parts shops - it may be identical but I feel better for not using brake cleaner on my computer) Usually have a can of CRC QD on the shelf, but...
  4. Brian_B

    Bethesda Could Soon Unveil The Elder Scrolls 6: Sentinel as the Official Title for the Next Game, as Rumors Circulate Regarding Its Location and Lore

    Bethesda I can't get past two facts: Bethesda has (probably) made most of their Elder Scrolls money from their MMO and from re-releasing Oblivion and Skyrim ad nauseum, why break a good trend? Bethesda is still owned by Microsoft, and most of the id team is already gone, so ... who's next on...
  5. Brian_B

    Thousands Already Gone, and 60,000 to Go as Microsoft Offers a Voluntary Exit Offer Ahead of Next Layoffs Totaling Roughly 25% of Its Workforce

  6. Brian_B

    Thousands Already Gone, and 60,000 to Go as Microsoft Offers a Voluntary Exit Offer Ahead of Next Layoffs Totaling Roughly 25% of Its Workforce

    Jesus... That's a huge layoff. I can't help it's one of two things: AI really is that disruptive, and we are all about to lose our jobs -or- The AI bubble is about to collapse, and we are all about to lose our retirement accounts
  7. Brian_B

    Project Helix Could Cost Up to a Whopping $1,800, but May Also Offer Flagship-Tier PC Graphics Performance

    I was talking about the open storefront that runs on ... **** near everything And their hardware isn't locked - which is also nice. They don't go out of their way to help people install alternative systems on it, but they don't lock you out either.
  8. Brian_B

    Project Helix Could Cost Up to a Whopping $1,800, but May Also Offer Flagship-Tier PC Graphics Performance

    Valve got it
  9. Brian_B

    Anthropic Files for IPO, Revealing Up to $165 Billion in NVIDIA GPU Compute Deals and a Warning About Memory Supply

    Rediculous
  10. Brian_B

    Changing of the Guard at Xbox: Phil Spencer Retires, Sarah Bond Steps Down, Asha Sharma Takes Over as CEO of Microsoft Gaming

    Obviously she didn’t use CoPilot sufficiently
  11. Brian_B

    Microsoft Says That Limited Resources Prevent It from Using AMD in Surface Devices Even as It Partners with Other Vendors for Its Mobile PCs

    You know, the royalties we’ve been paying for x86 all these years hasn’t exactly been cheap either. Maybe it isn’t a dollar figure, per say, but a severe limiting of offerings and high die prices. Not like Caruso and Cyrix are still out there helping with competition…
  12. Brian_B

    Advanced Shader Delivery Reaches Every RTX GPU with GeForce 621.01, and Snapdragon X2 Joins the Party

    Sounds like it’s using cloud compute?
  13. Brian_B

    Memory and Storage Components for the PlayStation 6 Reportedly Cost More than $680, Making Its Price over $1,000 Almost a Certainty

    Gates was right - 640k is enough
  14. Brian_B

    End of an Era as EA Shuts Down BioWare, Closing 30-Year-Old Studio amid Latest Round of Layoffs and Cancelling Next Mass Effect Game

    Is that even possible?
  15. Brian_B

    Memory and Storage Components for the PlayStation 6 Reportedly Cost More than $680, Making Its Price over $1,000 Almost a Certainty

    I have noticed nothing appreciably better on my iPhone since the original jumped from Edge to 3G. Everything else - slightly incremental with an equal possibility of making things worse rather than better
  16. Brian_B

    Project Helix Could Cost Up to a Whopping $1,800, but May Also Offer Flagship-Tier PC Graphics Performance

    that’s what Sony thought too, and Microsoft proceeded to eat their lunch for several years. And the Wii became the biggest selling console ever despite potato technical capability. Also don’t forget MS and nV are still trying to push “your smart TV is a console just let us run ads while you...
  17. Brian_B

    Project Helix Could Cost Up to a Whopping $1,800, but May Also Offer Flagship-Tier PC Graphics Performance

    Console folks would do well to recall the PS3 when thinking about pricing what the market will bear. It is not an infinite well you can draw from, especially when the competition is stiff
  18. Brian_B

    End of an Era as EA Shuts Down BioWare, Closing 30-Year-Old Studio amid Latest Round of Layoffs and Cancelling Next Mass Effect Game

    As sad as it is to see them go, I have to admit, it's been a long time coming...
  19. Brian_B

    AMD’s Helion Rack Packs 32,768 Zen 6 Cores, and Lisa Su Shows Off the First EPYC with LPDDR Memory

    Sweet baby Jesus.... that die must be about 10 feet square.
  20. Brian_B

    Epic Counters an Analyst’s Claim That Players Only Use It for Free Games, Stating That It Hit an All-Time Sales Record of $400 Million in 2025

    On one hand - that is good news - more diversity the better But this is Epic - the company that went so far as to pull their software off everything except Windows because they didn't want to pay commission fees, so ... I would take news of linux support (especially Steam OS) with some healthy...
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