The bad news bears just keeps coming lately in the world of PC hardware, and according to new report from TrendForce we can expect to see a 20% increase in DRAM prices this year. It’s by no means a secret…
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Articles on various aspects of video games, from their development to design and more.
RX 6700 XT SLOWER Than RX 5700 XT in Ethereum Mining
Shortages and availability issues are, sadly, a huge theme of this current generation of graphics cards, and while the cause of this is complex – cryptocurrency mining is definitely one of the culprits. But, some good news today – as…
Nintendo Switch To End Production & Switch Pro is a DLSS Monster
After the lacklustre hardware sales of the Wii U, Nintendo’s Switch has marked an incredible turnaround for the company and the system has been incredibly popular, bolstered by an impressive library of exclusive titles and ports, despite the fairly meagre…
Elden Ring – More Details on Leaked Trailer, Locations & More
Well, it finally happened… kind of. The internet erupted recently as a series of short clips from an internal Elden Ring trailer were leaked online. This naturally set the Soulsborne community alight, especially given recent rumours that we can probably…
RTX 3060 Performance Leak – 3D Mark & Superposition Benchmarks & 8GB Variant Surfaces
There is a fair amount of anticipation surrounding the release of the RTX 3060, as it’s Nvidia’s first desktop GA106 graphics card, and of course a fresh entrance into a very strained GPU market. Today, we have a nice set…
Nintendo Switch Pro Features 4K & Nvidia DLSS Support
Nintendo’s Switch console has been a runaway success for the company, but even when the system launched it wasn’t a graphical powerhouse, despite punching well above its weight-class with titles such as Doom. Rumors for an upgraded Switch Pro have…
Xbox Series X / S Backwards Compatibility Upgrade Incoming – Rumour
According to the latest rumours, we will be seeing an upgrade to the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S backwards compatibility, and we will be seeing an announcement next week. These rumours came from Reddit user Babu1993, who shared…
AMD Warhol Release Date, RDNA 3 Chiplet Info & Performance Targets (EXCLUSIVE)
Despite Nvidia’s RTX 30 series of cards launching, and AMD taking the CPU performance crown with Ryzen 5000 series and being very competitive with their Radeon RX 6000 series, the hardware shortages have left a lot of people still without…
How Variable Rate Shading Changes Xbox & PC | The Huge Performance Impact of VRS & DX12 Ultimate
Next-generation consoles bring with them a myriad of improvements, an assortment of raw spec upgrades (such as more GPU grunt, additional RAM and such things), but new hardware features and optimization is just as important. The Xbox Series X and…
Intel Alder Lake-P Mobile CPU Spotted – Specs
Even though Intel’s Rocket Lake S is expected in Q1 2021, there’s already quite the buzz surrounding the follow-up processor, Intel’s Alder Lake. Today, we have news on Alder Lake-P, the mobile CPU for this particular architecture. A benchmark for…
Ubisoft Working On Open World Star Wars Game
Today brings a very interesting announcement, thanks to a report from Wired, it seems that EA no longer has an exclusivity contract to develop games set in the Star Wars universe and that an open-world game is in the works.…
AMD Ryzen Zen 3 & Zen 2 Demolish Sales Records
I’ve spoken a few times on Youtube about how AMD has been absolutely crushing it against Intel when it came to the the sales and revenue at Germany’s biggest tech retailer, Mind Factory. Now we have a new report for…
Nintendo Switch Pro Still Coming in 2021, Say Analysts
Last year, we heard a lot about the Nintendo Switch Pro, with leaks, rumours and trusted sources all pointing to Nintendo doing a more powerful variant of their hugely successful Switch. Now of course, Nintendo haven’t commented officially on this…
NVIDIA RTX 3080 Max-Q Specs Surface
There’s no argument that there has been a ton of leaks from Nvidia lately. If you missed our latest video, give it a watch as we had leaks for an RTX 3080 12GB and RTX 3060 ULTRA. But today, we…
RX 6800 XT & Intel i9 10900K Smart Access Memory Benchmarks & Analysis
Smart Access Memory or SAM if you prefer, was a feature AMD touted heavily as it marketed both its Radeon RX 6000 series of graphics cards, and the Ryzen 5000 series processors. This feature AMD claimed, offered a nice bump…