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Each month, Sony adds a number of games to its PlayStation Now game subscription service. While perhaps not as competitive as Microsoft’s Game Pass, it still offers plenty of great games. For the month of June, players can now download a number of major titles, including The Witcher 3: Wild …

As the video games industry matures, more and more older titles are left to the wayside, being largely ignored – especially if they were not revolutionary at the time. Despite digital media needing no physical space, server costs are eventually deemed too high for the product it’s hosting. Such is …

The beginning of the DDR5 era is just before us. ADATA has just announced plans to launch its first DDR5 modules in Q3 2021. The modules will come with up to 32GB capacities each and clocked at 7,400MHz, but Adata claims they can be overclocked up to 12,600MHz. The new …

Today at Computex, Nvidia announced the RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3070 Ti graphics cards. Alongside these new GPUs, the company also announced a number of games getting RTX feature support, including the likes of Doom Eternal, Red Dead Redemption 2 and Rainbow Six Siege.  This follows on from rumours …

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Today at Computex 2021, Nvidia officially announced the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti graphics card, Nvidia's new gaming flagship. Up against the last generation RTX 2080 Ti, the 3080 Ti is said to be 1.5 times faster in games.  The jump to the Ampere architecture brought about 2nd Gen RT Cores …

AMD has been working on FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) for quite some time now. Now, Radeon's open source alternative to Nvidia's DLSS is ready to go, promising up to 2.5x higher performance in some titles...

AMD is kicking off Computex with new GPU announcements. Today, AMD is launching the Radeon RX 6000M series of mobile GPUs, featuring RDNA 2 architecture, Infinity Cache and support for features like Smart Access Memory, SmartShift, Radeon Chill and the FidelityFX tool suite. This launch is part of a new …

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As mini ITX systems have become more popular in the last few years, it looks like Intel is trying to capitalise on the trend. The first render of the Intel ‘Beast Canyon' NUC 11 Extreme has been shared, showing an mITX case with enough space to pack big graphics cards. …

In April, LG officially announced that it is exiting the smartphone business and shutting down its smartphone division. While some devices will continue to be supported with software updates, Android smartphone production is reportedly ending today.  According to Korean news site, Asiae, LG has ended smartphone production today as it …

Chinese smartphone maker, Xiaomi, has been working on speeding up smartphone charging times for years now. A while ago, the company showed off a 100W system that could charge a 4,000mAh batter in 17 minutes. Now, the company has improved on this further, delivering a full phone charge in just …

While Apple updated the iPad Pro to support higher display refresh rates quite some time ago, the process of bringing this to the iPhone has been painfully slow. The end could be in sight, however, as new reports coming from supply chain sources indicate that we may finally see a …

Last week, multiple sources claimed that Nintendo would be announcing the long-rumoured Nintendo Switch Pro console ahead of E3. Shortly after, new specification details began leaking online and now, the first listing for the console has appeared on Amazon.  While the name ‘Super Nintendo Switch' has been thrown around quite …

As great as the latest version of Microsoft Flight Simulator is, the drawback is a massive 170GB download in order to get the game installed. Fortunately, the download is being chopped in half as part of a new update.  As part of the latest patch for Microsoft Flight Simulator, the …

Last month following Doom Eternal's 1-year anniversary, id Software confirmed that some major updates would be coming to the game later this year. It looks like one of those could be the long-awaited ray-tracing upgrade.  Nvidia is hosting a Computex keynote later today and Bethesda has confirmed that Doom Eternal …

The latest report on Intel Xe-HPG graphics cards includes a lot of new details about the upcoming GPU family. The PCB Intel is using for its flagship DG2 desktop graphics card has also leaked, giving us our best look yet at what to expect from Intel in the graphics card …

The next generation of AMD Ryzen Threadripper processors is on the way. Previous reports claimed an August launch, but sources now say that this is the announcement date, which will be followed by availability in September.  The rumour was shared by STH Forum member “lihp”, who also posted information about …

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As you may know, the new iPad Pro featuring Apple's M1 chip has launched. There are a few variants with different storage configurations and screen sizes, but there are only two memory configurations: 8GB and 16GB. What's interesting is that no matter which one you choose, you won't be able …

Sony held its most-watched State of Play stream earlier this week, during which we got a fresh 15 minutes of gameplay for Horizon Forbidden West, the long-awaited sequel to Horizon Zero Dawn.  Horizon Forbidden West is set to be Sony's major holiday season exclusive, although the game unfortunately does not …

Valve's Steam Controller has been discontinued for quite some time now, but it popped back up in headlines earlier this year when a judge ruled that Valve had committed patent infringement with the controller's design, ordering Valve to pay $4 million to custom gamepad company, SCUF. Valve tried to request …

Ahead of E3, Ubisoft chose to reveal some new Far Cry 6 details this week, showing off new gameplay and announcing the game's release date. While Far Cry 6 was initially due to release in early 2021, after a delay, the game will now be coming out in October instead. …

Acer is releasing three new gaming monitors: the Predator X28, the Predator X38 S and the Predator CG437K S. Each of these monitors is aimed at a specific niche of gamers, offering high refresh rates, Ultra-HD resolution, HDR support, and low response times. All of these Acer monitors will be available …

In a completely unexpected move, Intel added four new processors based on the Tiger Lake architecture to its product database. What is even more surprising is that all of them are for desktop, marking the launch of the first 10nm processors for desktop from Intel. The new processors were initially …

Thanks to modern technology, video games can accurately capture the likenesses of voice actors, bringing an added sense of reality to games. 2013’s The Last of Us took some creative liberties with characters, while others looked much closer to their real-world counterpart. Such is the case with Marlene. Played by …

With E3 just around the corner, and rumours of an imminent Switch Pro announcement, the beefed up Nintendo console is seeing more and more of its details finalised and leaked. A Chinese accessory manufacturer has gotten their hands on a significant number of details regarding the soon-to-be-announced Switch Pro. According …

A new report has revealed the PL values of the upcoming Alder Lake-P and Alder Lake-M mobile processor architecture. While Alder Lake-M comes with rather conservative values maxing at 30W, Alder Lake-P goes well beyond that, reaching up to 115W. Intel's hybrid processor architecture should be more efficient as it's …

We may still be a long way from getting our hands on Ryzen 8000 series processors, but leaks and rumours have already started to surface. Recently, a roadmap showing Strix Point was posted on social media, giving away the codename of the new Ryzen series — Granite Ridge. The roadmap …

Earlier this month, Nvidia confirmed plans to re-introduce the RTX 3060, RTX 3070 and RTX 3080 with ‘Lite Hash Rate' GPU revisions to reduce crypto-mining performance and get more graphics cards into the hands of PC gamers. Now, these LHR graphics cards are starting to land in the hands of …