How do you upgrade the dead Gamescom? Right, with a hardware launch! AMD explicitly targets the “enthusiasts” among gamers with the Radeon RX 7800XT (499 USD) and RX 7700XT (449 USD) presented today and fills the remaining gap in the midfield of gaming graphics cards at the same time. Mit focuses on “1440p gaming”, i.e [...]
NVIDIA is gearing up for the release of RTX Remix, an innovative modding platform developed as part of the NVIDIA Omniverse. This platform is designed to give modders tools to create and share #RTXON mods for classic games. These mods will include upgraded materials, comprehensive ray tracing, NVIDIA DLSS, NVIDIA RTX IO, and NVIDIA Reflex [...]
Remnant 2 is another Souls game, and it actually does everything right that Souls games do well. It’s challenging, rewarding, and offers a variety of worlds to explore and battles to fight. But it’s also a game that will frustrate you from time to time. You’ll die, and die again, and die again. But when you finally manage to [...]
The Edifier M601DB 2.1 stereo speakers are a good example that appealing quality does not always have to be reflected in an exorbitant price. Equipped with several useful features and an acceptable sound quality, they are definitely an option for listening enthusiasts with a limited budget. You can read why I make slight restrictions at the [...]
The latest Steam hardware survey data reveals an exciting development: AMD CPUs are gaining market share on Linux gaming systems, overtaking Intel. According to the published statistics of Steam’s hardware survey for the month of June, AMD CPUs have further extended their lead on Linux systems. With an impressive 7.6 percent increase [...]
AMD is poking fun at the almost homeopathic memory expansion of the NVIDIA Ada mid-range, and NVIDIA feels secure enough with smart memory management, and in the end, the customer no longer knows what to buy. Although I do not question the issue of the too tightly measured memory expansion, because it is what it is and cannot be glossed over [...]
I admit, it was tempting to test the current Radeon Pro W7800 as a gaming card, because AMD’s offerings between the already launched RX 7900 XT(X) and the RX 7600 are conspicuous by their noble absence on the market. At least the Radeon RX 7800XT has been ready for a long time, only that the chip is marketed as Radeon Pro W7800. Reason [...]
CD PROJEKT RED today released a new trailer for Phantom Liberty, the upcoming spy thriller expansion for the game Cyberpunk 2077. In the video, Phantom Liberty’s Narrative Director Igor Sarzyński and Senior Communication Manager Paweł Burza give a detailed look at the story and setting of the new adventure. The trailer was first presented [...]
Actually, a more detailed game review was supposed to be published here today, but I decided against it in the end. Because even though I had already invested several hours, I cannot justify pretending that everything runs so smoothly that it can be objectively benchmarked and evaluated. As this once again confirms the trend of knowingly offering [...]
RDNA3 has been on the market for quite some time and besides AMD’s reference cards, you usually only see reviews of the RX 7900XTX and usually only of the more expensive custom models. The RX 7900 XT currently plays a kind of shadowy existence, especially the somewhat cheaper models of the respective board partners. That was reason enough [...]
As a passionate gamer and fan of post-apocalyptic scenarios, I was initially excited by the idea behind Naughty Dog’s “The Last of Us Part 1” and also bought the game myself, as I usually do by the way. This creates a little distance and you may judge a little differently, because it was your own money (and not too scarce). And [...]
Developed by Naughty Dog and originally released by Sony Computer Entertainment in 2013 exclusively for the PlayStation 3, the action-adventure game, The Last of Us, has finally made its way to the PC. Officially titled “The Last of Us Part 1: Remastered,” the PC version brings the award-winning masterpiece to a new platform, allowing [...]
The CMA is a regulatory authority in the United Kingdom responsible for overseeing competition and antitrust matters. It has given its preliminary approval to Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of the Activision Blizzard Group. This means that has no objections to the proposed merger for the time being, but will conduct further investigations [...]
Today we are testing the KFA2 GeForce RTX 4080 SG 16GB (1-Click-OC)and there is a certain reason for that. A GeForce RTX 4090 is already very expensive as such, but there is also the GeForce RTX 4080. Well, it also feels like it is in a different financial galaxy, but if you do need the performance, you can look for one of the cheaper models. [...]
The Game Developers Conference (GDC) kicks off next week and NVIDIA is announcing an expanded game list and new developer plug-ins for NVIDIA-DLSS-3, the latest version of its AI-powered Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) technology. NVIDIA is also announcing a new RTX bundle that includes Redfall from Bethesda. NVIDIA DLSS 3 Accelerates [...]
The GeForce RTX 4090 is already very expensive as such, but there are also considerable price differences between the respective models and manufacturers, so it is definitely worth looking twice financially. The KFA2 GeForce RTX 4090 SG 24GB (1-Click-OC) is one such candidate, whose clever positioning might only be recognized at second glance. At [...]
NVIDIA DLAA (Deep Learning Antialiasing) is basically DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) without the upscaling part. This algorithm enhances the details in each image in the same way as traditional antialiasing techniques, only with the power of AI. DLAA technology improves the picture quality of games that already run excellently on the existing [...]
Thanks EA for bringing up, dusting off and polishing up a classic that was once THE game par excellence for me, because Dead Space already captivated me almost 15 years ago! In the truest sense of the word, because I sunk a lot of wonderful hours into it and was virtually mentally tied to the chair. And this enormous time span is of course also [...]
Reddit user xCuri0 reports that the AMD Polaris architecture is not compatible with the game Forspoken, which requires a higher version of the API functions. While the architecture supports the DirectX12 graphics API, Forspoken requires a higher feature level. The basic DX12 specification is supported by almost all graphics cards still in use [...]
By using the GPU to decompress game content, Microsoft’s DirectStorage technology can certainly improve load times. Could, at least in theory. Consequently, the more data that is then processed via the GPU, the more likely it is that gamers will notice a loss of graphics performance. The German PC Games Hardware team demonstrated just that [...]
