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For those of you who have been keeping count, prior to this week there had been eight patches for the PC version of The Last of Us Part I, a game that got off to a rocky start to say the least. Developer Naughty Dog is now pushing out a ninth patch for the PC port, version 1.0.5.0, and with it comes a bunch more...
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It's only been around six months since MediaTek rolled out its Dimensity 9200 system-on-chip (SoC) for flagship 5G smartphones. But as has become somewhat customary, chip designers sprinkle in iterative upgrades in between major new silicon launches. That's what we have here with MediaTek introducing the Dimensity...
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Electronic Arts made it very clear before Star Wars Jedi: Survivor even released that there would be multiple game patches over the course of several weeks, the first of which dropped on launch day across all platforms. Starting today, EA plans to push out its fourth patch, which will deploy first to PlayStation 5 and...
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Nintendo Switch console sales took a turn for the worse with Nintendo reporting a sizable year-over-year decline in units sold for its fiscal year.. This in turn contributed to a 5.5 percent drop in Nintendo's overall revenue for the year, and a 9.4 percent dip in profit. All of which raises the question, is a Switch...
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Microsoft has either teamed up with AMD to design custom processors for artificial intelligence tasks, or it has not. Yeah, we're not exactly going out on a limb there. But there are conflicting reports and the situation brings up an interesting question—should NVIDIA be at all nervous about a potential collaboration...
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Flagship processors are always going to command premium prices, but that doesn't mean you can't score a deal on the latest and greatest chips available. Now that AMD's Ryzen 9 7950X3D and Ryzen 9 7900X3D processors have been on the market for a minute, they're ripe for discounts that's exactly the situation right now...
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Security researchers at Kaspersky are ringing the alarm bells on a trojan that's managed to infiltrate Google Play and infect well over half a million Android devices. Dubbed "Fleckpe," the malware strain has been active since last year and has been detected in eleven Android apps (so far). The good news is they've...
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It's fair to say that the release of Redfall, one of the most anticipated game launches of the year so far, does not represent Microsoft's finest hour. It's also fair to question why Microsoft would allow a high-profile game to ship in such a buggy state rather than delay the launch, especially with so much effort and...
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So now that you've built yourself a fancy gaming PC around Intel's Raptor Lake or AMD's Zen 4 platform, you might find yourself wondering where the heck all the Gen 5 solid state drives are hiding out. After all, having all that extra PCIe throughput (2x that of PCIe 4.0) was one of the selling points, and that's even...
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AMD and NVIDIA both have yet to really hit the ground running with more affordable mainstream GPUs with their current-generation product stacks. Make no mistake, though, neither outfit is finished adding SKUs to their respective lineups. As a possible hint of what lies around the bend, Gigabyte has registered several...
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Authorities in Hong Kong sniffed out something fishy as two men driving a white van attempted to pass through the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, a 34-mile bridge and tunnel system spanning the Lingding and Jiuzhous channels. What they discovered is an alleged smuggling operation with the van packed to the gills with...
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AMD has posted its earnings report for the first quarter of 2023 and in it the company divulges some notable losses, including a 9 percent year-over-year decline in revenue to $5.35 billion. This resulted in a net loss of $139 million, compared to a $786 million profit in the same quarter a year ago. Nevertheless, AMD...
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While we may not have concrete details on NVIDIA's exact plans when it comes to unreleased hardware, we can make at least one safe assumption—it's not yet finished fleshing out its lineup of GeForce RTX 40 series graphics cards based on Ada Lovelace. Logic dictates that the next addition will be the GeForce RTX 4060...
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Perhaps as a sign of things to come, several retailers have discounted AMD's Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5000WX series processors based on the company's Zen 3 architecture. What about the Zen 4 lineup? AMD hasn't yet applied its latest-generation CPU architecture to the high-end desktop (HEDT) scene, though it's expected...
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If you play The Elder Scrolls V: Skryim long enough, you'll inevitably run into repetitive dialogue, such as every guard with a sob story about having taken an arrow to the knee. Beyond that, however, it's easy to plow through the rich story and dialogue trees to where conversations become less interesting. That could...
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For the second time in about a four-week span, you can score a factory-overclocked Intel Arc A770 graphics card with 16GB of video memory for $60 below its list price. It's one of the best values in gaming GPUs right now, and while the Arc A770 is obviously not in the same league as a GeForce RTX 4090 or Radeon RX...
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Shots fired! In a Twitter post, AMD's Senior Director of Marketing for Gaming, Sasa Marinkovic, continued a salvo against NVIDIA over the bang-for-your-buck proposition of each company's current and previous-generation graphics cards, and specifically in regards to how much video memory (otherwise known as VRAM)...
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The numbers are in for Intel's first quarter of 2023 and, at a glance, they look brutal (again). Intel's Q1 revenue settled at $11.7 billion, which is down 36 percent from the same quarter a year ago. But what really stands out is the staggering 133 percent year-over-year decline in net earnings. That's the largest...
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The big day is here. We're of course talking about the release of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, the relatively short-awaited sequel to Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. Unfortunately, it's release on PC is hampered by performance issues, which thus far have earned it a 'Mostly Negative' rating on Steam. However, EA has...
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Sony Interactive released The Last of Us Part I on Windows right around a month ago and in that time, developer Naughty Dog has issued no less than seven patches specific to the PC port. The latest one—version 1.0.4.0—addresses a bunch of issues across a variety of hardware, including AMD systems and the Steam Deck...
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You'd be hard pressed to find a PC gamer who has not heard of Cherry, especially if they've ever shopped for a mechanical keyboard. Cherry MX key switches are in a plethora of planks from a wide range of manufacturers, including Corsair, HyperX, Razer, and others. What you may not be aware of, however, is that Cherry...
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The rush by big tech to push out AI chatbots before they're fully cooked has it feeling a little bit like the Wild West. This comes with a plethora of concerns, not of the least of which is the spread of misinformation, but there are safety and security issues at play as well. To help wrangle the suddenly rapid...
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