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Latest News - December 2023
- Webb Space Telescope Captures An Evasive Glowing Monster That Keeps Disappearing
- GPU Shipments Rebound In A Big Way To End The Post-Covid Black Death Phenomenon
- Logitech's Flagship Astro A50 X Wireless Gaming Headset Plays Nice With PC And Console
- OnePlus 12 Launches With A Huge Battery And Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Firepower
- Origin PC Neuron Review: Immaculate Gaming Desktop With Muscle
- This NVIDIA Hotfix GPU Driver Solves A Stuttering Issue And A Wonky Discord Bug
- Official Grand Theft Auto 6 Trailer Filled With Hints Drops Early With Launch Details
- Cyberpunk 2077's 2.1 Update Adds New Vehicles, Revamped Bosses, Metro Rides, And More
- A Meteor Lake Laptop Breaks Cover At Retail Ahead Of Intel's Next-Gen CPU Launch
- Watch An ASUS ROG Ally Get Upgraded To 32GB Of DDR5-7500 RAM With A Risky Mod
- The Latest Printer Headache Caused By A Windows Update Is A Doozy
- FIIO Releases A $150 Mechanical Keyboard For Audiophiles
- Watch Counter-Strike 2 Hit A Staggering 1000FPS On A Core i9-14900K And RTX 4090
- Spotify Spreads Holiday Jeer By Plotting Big Round Of Layoffs Ahead Of Christmas
- US Issues Apparent Warning To NVIDIA Over Redesigned Chip Shipments To China
- Amazon Joins Space Forces With Blue Origin Rival SpaceX On Kuiper Satellite Launch
- Starfield Surpasses 12M Gamers But Can It Match Skyrim's 12-Year Run? Xbox Boss Sounds Off
- Memory Chip Makers Still Plan To Hike DRAM Prices After DDR5 And DDR4 Buying Spree
- NVIDIA Celebrates 500 RTX Games With A $500 Gift Card Giveaway And More Sweet Prizes
- Retro Gamer Gift Guide, Top Deals For Glorious Old School Gaming
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All News for December 2023
Astronomers have identified an object in deep space captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) as being an elusive dusty star-forming galaxy. Object AzTECC71 first appeared as a blob from ground-based telescopes before later vanishing completely from Hubble’s view.
The image captured by Webb is not the...
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By the year 2026, there will be nearly 5 billion graphics chips sitting pretty in PC systems, a figure that includes integrated graphics as found on many AMD and Intel processors. As for discrete GPUs, including add-in boards that gamers jam into their PCI Express slots, market penetration in the PC is expected to...
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Logitech is launching a new version of its A50 series of gaming headsets with the Astro A50 X. The key selling point for the fifth-generation headset is its compatibility. Gamers will be able to use it on Xbox, PlayStation 5, PC, and Mac. This official compatibility across platforms is rarely seen in headsets, with...
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The OnePlus 12 has officially launched in China in an event celebrating the brand's 10th anniversary. As one of the most anticipated flagship phones, the OnePlus 12 doesn't disappoint, at least on paper—it will be rocking the latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 with plenty of RAM, storage, and a generous battery pack that...
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Origin PC Neuron (starts at $2,200, as tested $4,625) Origin's customizable gaming PC has lots of high-powered hardware, an attractive design, and a quiet cooling solution that's up to the challenge. Great attention to detail in build 100% industry standard parts and components Plenty of options in the...
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NVIDIA rolled out a new 'Game Ready' GPU driver for GeForce owners this week, version 546.29 WHQL, which brings optimizations to Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition (not to be confused with the 2.1 update) and some bug fixes. Since then, however, NVIDIA has made available an optional GPU hotfix—version 546.31—to squash a...
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Rockstar Games wasn't planning to unveil its highly anticipated first trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI, the next major installment in one of the most popular game franchises of all time, until Tuesday, December 5. Rather than wait, however, Rockstar has released the trailer a day early in response to a now-banned X...
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When Cyberpunk 2077 got its Phantom Liberty expansion and 2.0 update, CD Projekt Red said that was the end of the line for major content updates to the title. Well, the company appears to have done a little fibbing, because a new trailer just dropped for Update 2.1, and it's coming along with a whole pack of new...
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With Intel's upcoming Meteor Lake-based mobile processors launching soon, various design wins are started to leak. This time, an upcoming Samsung laptop was spotted -- the Galaxy Book 4 Ultra --featuring a Core Ultra 7 155H CPU and GeForce RTX 4050 graphics. Samsung’s new laptop will be the successor to the outgoing...
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There's a whole bunch of PC gaming handhelds on the market now, and just about every one has its advantages and disadvantages. The Steam Deck has the most varied inputs (and now with the OLED model, arguably the best screen), the Lenovo Legion Go has the biggest screen and detachable controls, and the various Ayaneo...
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After numberous printing related bugs this year, you'd think Microsoft would be particuarly cautious and do some additional Q&A on its latest printing-related patches, but that doesn't appear to be the case. A newly discovered bug affecting Windows 10 and 11 seems to be renaming all printers on a system “HP...
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Headphone jacks can be hard to come by in 2023, as smartphones, tablets, and even laptops drop the legacy port to save space. The new Fiio KB3 keyboard is going the other way, however, with not one but two headphone jacks. The KB3 isn't just a keyboard—it's also a HiFi amp.
You might not know Fiio, but it's a popular manufacturer of portable
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Out in the wild, you'll typically find a few types of gamers. The first one is a fan of boosting the visual eye candy to the max—we're talking ultra settings at a 4K resolution, with path tracing to boot. Alan Wake 2 is a great example of leading edge technology that focuses on the visual aspect of the game. The next...
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While Spotify fills everyone’s Twitter/X timeline with users posting their most played songs of 2023, the company announced it will be laying off 1,500 workers ahead of Christmas. The number equates to a not-insignificant 17% of Spotify’s total workforce, and follows layoffs of 600 employees in January, plus an...
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The United States government seems to be sending a message to NVIDIA about the company’s chip exports to China. Gina Raimondo, US Commerce Secretary, spoke about the importance of her department’s work in keeping China from gaining access to the cutting-edge chips it needs to continue its AI development.
While...
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Amazon has inked a deal with Blue Origin rival SpaceX for three Falcon 9 launches to support deployment of Project Kuiper, Amazon’s low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite broadband network. The company previously secured 77 heavy-lift rockets from Arianespace, Blue Origin, and United Launch Alliance, which should be enough...
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Microsoft's Head of Gaming, Phil Spencer, recently commented about the desire Xbox and Bethesda Game Studios have for Starfield to be a hit similar to Skyrim during an interview at CCXP23 in Brazil. “Skyrim is such an amazing hit from Bethesda Game Studios, and talking to Todd Howard and the team, really what they...
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The threat of rising PC memory prices has been looming for several months now and, despite a recent surge in supply-side revenue, is still something to be on the lookout for as we head into 2024. That's according to TrendForce and its recent investigations into the state of DRAM, which found a "significant leap in the...
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NVIDIA has reached a fairly impressive milestone with its RTX technologies—there are now over 500 games and applications that support RTX in some form or another. The achievement arrives five years after the introduction of the very first GeForce RTX graphics cards, the GeForce RTX 20 series based on Turing, which...
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In an age where video games look near photo-realistic, it is easy to forget where it all began. The days when arcades were where kids hung out for hours on end and Atari was king. Thankfully, there are still ways to go back in time, virtually at least, and feel the nostalgia of those early games with retro...
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In case it bears repeating, the end of the year is when retailers aggressively push out bargains and discounts, which by no coincidence lines up with the holiday shopping season. Did you miss out on Black Friday and Cyber Monday? No worries—Best Buy is hosting a "20 Days of Deals" event that runs through December 17...
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Let's talk about Grand Theft Auto for a bit. Despite only having five mainline games in the series since the breakout hit Grand Theft Auto III moved millions of PlayStation 2s in 2001, the "GTA" franchise has continued to be one of the most important in all of gaming. If you need evidence for that claim, look no...
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