Lord of the Rings Online’s revamped Midsummer Festival returns this week with a tropical vacay
OK, technically, it’s not even summer at all yet, but the Midsummer Festival does arrive to Lord of the Rings Online this week. Today’s 44.3...
After 10 years, we’re past peak RGB — but don’t celebrate yet, stealth PC purists
It’s hard to say when RGB lighting in PCs, components, and peripherals hit its peak. But after a decade of RGB everything, it’s nice to see lights in fewer cases, components, and peripherals.
AMD Scores Chip Deal To Power Microsoft’s Next-Gen Xbox And More Gaming Devices
At this point, we’ve pretty much come to expect that AMD will power living room consoles from Microsoft and Sony, but that’s not necessarily how it will always be (just ask Intel about its past relationship with Apple). However, AMD will indeed power Microsoft’s first-party gaming systems for the foreseeable future, with the company announcing
Expert asserts Mario Kart World is a ‘fake HDR’ Nintendo Switch 2 title — ‘Mario Kart World reveals that even the highest caliber of developers aren’t taking HDR seriously’
Mario Kart World appears to have been developed using ‘an SDR-first content pipeline with a last-minute HDR tonemap.’
Bungie delays Marathon from its original September 23 release date
September 23rd might seem like it’s a long way away, but it gets closer one day at a time, and it was getting closer than...
$1.4 million worth of Switch 2 consoles stolen from semi-truck — 2,800 consoles were en route from Nintendo of America HQ to a GameStop store in Texas
A $1.4-million Nintendo Switch 2 shipment has been stolen off the back of a semi-truck.
VRAM-friendly neural texture compression inches closer to reality – enthusiast shows massive compression benefits with Nvidia and Intel demos
AI texture decompression promises better image quality, lower resource usage
The Daily Grind: Are you pro-cape or anti-cape in MMOs?
One of the fascinating bits of City of Heroes’ history is that this superhero MMO originally launched without the ability to equip capes to your...
Nvidia planning new RTX 5090 ‘DD’ variant for China — 24GB card with tweaked GPU latest attempt to comply with strict export restrictions
Following the alleged ban of the RTX 5090D in China, Nvidia is reportedly preparing a further cut-down alternative, dubbed the RTX 5090DD.
Sam Altman says Meta is offering obscene $100M bonuses to poach AI employees and even bigger salaries — OpenAI CEO says ‘none of our best people decided to take them up on that’
Meta is reportedly offering a $100 million signing bonus to senior OpenAI talents, but none have taken it yet.