AMD’s spoiling Intel’s Arrow Lake party with Ryzen 9000-series price cuts and the promise of ‘next-gen gaming’ X3D chips arriving November 7

AMD is looking to play party pooper by today announcing an ‘early holiday promotion’ for its latest Zen 5 processors as well as a Ryzen 9000X3D tease, announcing the availability of its first 3D V-cache CPUs from November 7 this year. Intel is set to launch its brand new desktop CPU platform, codenamed Arrow Lake, … Read more

Former Bethesda lead is sceptical of The Elder Scrolls’ return to ‘fiddly stat sheets’, even in the face of Baldur’s Gate 3’s success

Baldur’s Gate 3 was one of last year’s biggest critical and commercial successes—selling bonkers numbers and taking the crown of our annual top 100 list. We rather liked it, in case you couldn’t tell. What’s more, it did so against what big-budget companies making RPGs would like you to believe is convention. It’s a turn-based … Read more

The Snapdragon X dev kit that we thought looked pretty cool turned out to be so bad that Qualcomm ended up cancelling it

Earlier this year, we told you about the launch of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X developer’s kit and while the mini PC was never intended for home users, we still wanted to get hold of one, if only to see how good an Arm-based gaming machine we could make it. Alas, that’s never going to happen now … Read more

Squadron 42, which was ‘feature-complete’ and just needed ‘polish’ in 2023, is now targeting a 2026 launch

Star Citizen’s Kickstarter campaign happened so long ago that some of the alpha’s younger players weren’t even born when it first appeared, 12 years ago. And we still don’t have a clue when it will be released. But apparently the singleplayer component, Squadron 42, will actually launch in a future that isn’t too far off: … Read more