First of all, I have to apologize a little, because in the end I also played Allen Wake 2 through to the end with growing enthusiasm. This may also have been due to the fact that patches and driver updates turned the performance from “Can it run Crysis?” to “Can you play it?”, even if the protagonists’ motor skills [...]
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It has only recently become known that Zotac is launching a gaming handheld, the Zotac Zone. Now VideoCardz is revealing the first technical specifications of this product so that customers can take a first look at it. An APU from AMD will be used. More precisely, it is the AMD Ryzen 7 8840U APU. This is equipped with the Zen 4 architecture and [...]
When normal sales are no longer enough, companies naturally like to look for other lucrative sources of income. Today’s article will show you how this can easily be done and proves once again that companies like Asus or Samsung are just the tip of the iceberg that can cause your wallet to sink with a big crash. Let’s say you have a [...]
You may remember the big AMD “scandal” that made headlines among gamers. Because of Anti-Lag, anti-cheat systems raised the alarm and recognized it as positive. As a result, players were unintentionally banned from various games. But there were also some other problems for players. Now they are returning with Anti Lag 2 and want to [...]
There is new news for MSI Claw handheld fans. The company MSI has rolled out a new firmware update that should bring you a lot of speed and fans can benefit from it. However, this update is also intended to set an example against the ROG Ally from Asus. According to this, the latest BIOS update, version s E1T41IMS.109 BIOS (referred to as 109) and [...]
If you take a closer look at the handheld console market, there really isn’t much choice. At least among the better-known companies. There is the Nintendo Switch or the well-known Steam Deck, which many fans also celebrate. However, Asus is also in the race and has its Asus Rog Ally, for example, but this probably has some problems in terms [...]
There are now thousands and thousands of games and the choice is almost endless for what you could and would like to play. This year, too, there are some games that have become very popular. Be it “Palworld” or “Helldivers 2”, which was released in February 2024. The game has enjoyed great popularity and has received mostly [...]
One lapse of attention and there it was, the so-called “Next Gen” update for Fallout 4. Hurray for Steam as the cold-blooded executor of a digital outrage that is probably unparalleled in this form. What was supposed to be a grand reunion with the Commonwealth quickly turned out to be a tired copy of earlier promises. Bethesda, the [...]
Unreal Engine 5.4 is finally here, bringing a range of improvements and new features that are exciting for both developers and gamers alike. With a focus on performance enhancements, visual improvements and advanced AI integration, this latest version takes the already impressive engine to a new level, enabling the creation of even more realistic [...]
Who wouldn’t want to play games with a GeForce RTX 4080 in a deeply relaxed manner and at the same time save themselves the expensive purchase of a powerful computer with a suitable CPU substructure that they don’t need around the clock anyway? Today’s article is based on an experience report by our community member Olligo and [...]
Sapphire had already launched a white Radeon RX 7900GRE Pure 16GB shortly after the launch of the GRE in Germany, which I will test again today. Now that availability, prices and drivers have stabilized somewhat, today’s test was practically a must. Firstly, this GRE card lacks the drinker gene, as was the case with the Nitro, and secondly [...]
Gaming has become an important part of life for many people. Be it on a PC, console or cell phone. Everyone has something they like to spend their time with. Many developers go to great lengths to offer their customers something. However, there are also illegal ways to push their games, for example. This is precisely why the Japanese company KOEI [...]
In an era where new PC games often consume more resources than a black hole consumes its neighborhood, the PC port of “Horizon Forbidden West” shines like a Gallic village in a world occupied by Roman legions – unbending, unshakable and sturdy as an oak tree. Meanwhile, elsewhere, the latest blockbusters, led by [...]
Our colleagues at TomsHardware report that Microsoft has published a new patent that is intended to make ray tracing graphics more efficient. The patent describes a method to reduce the memory requirements of ray tracing, which can be particularly advantageous for GPUs with limited VRAM. The solution uses a detail level system that dynamically [...]
It’s clear to everyone that, for the most part, a laptop doesn’t come close to a desktop PC. This is particularly noticeable when you want to play games or use more powerful applications. Here you can clearly see that performance and quality are already limited. A gaming laptop can help, but even here there are severe limitations in [...]
After all the reviews of various models of the GeForce RTX 4070 Super, today I have the PNY RTX 4070 SUPER Verto OC Dual Fan 12GB, currently the cheapest RTX 4070 Super OC card for you in the test, whose street price is currently at 598 euros, but has also been found significantly below that in the past. As the GeForce RTX 4070 Super is selling [...]
Ubisoft is venturing into the unknown, reported the colleagues from TechPowerUP With the NEO NPC project, the Paris-based studio is exploring the possibilities of generative AI to revolutionize NPC storylines in video games. Working with Nvidia’s Audio2Face application and Inworld’s Large Language Model (LLM), the team is breathing [...]
We recently reported on the blocking of Epic Games’ developer account with Apple. However, it has since been unblocked again, Apple is on a direct confrontation course against Epic Games A brief summary: Apple has blocked Epic Games’ Swedish developer account on their platform, which was supposed to bring the Epic Game Store to IOS [...]
The fact that Epic Games and Apple are not good friends is nothing new and has been clear since the legal dispute with the in-game purchases of the game Fortnite on IOS devices. Nevertheless, Epic Games was working on its own app, directly for IOS devices. Now the developers’ account has been blocked. Epic Games has known for some time that [...]
Some should have heard of Yuzu or even used it. This is an emulator that could emulate Nintendo Switch games on another device. Unfortunately, after a lawsuit from Nintendo, the whole project and a final agreement between Nintendo and the Tropic Haze group has now been scrapped. With Yuzu you could emulate the Nintendo Switch on your PC thanks to [...]
As David Hollingworth from Cyber Daily announced, the game developer Epic Games was probably hacked by the ram software group Mogilevich. Epic Games initially refused to comment, even in response to requests from other websites, and kept a rather low profile. But what had actually happened? The young ram software group Mogilevich (Russian: Mogila [...]
RDNA3 has been on the market for some time and the story seemed to be completely over. But one card is still possible and so today AMD is pushing a card that was originally intended for system integrators into the retail market with a slight delay. The “launch” is somewhat strange in that this card is already available in a few [...]
In the absence of genuine AAA titles, I’ve tried squeezing some form of light relief into my stressful daily grind amidst stacks of graphics cards and other power-hungry gadgets. “RoboCop: Rogue City”, the latest endeavor meant to overshadow the golden days of PC gaming, turns out to be more shadow than entertaining enlightenment [...]
After yesterday’s review of the GeForce RTX 4070 Super Founders Edition (and the other so-called MSRP cards without factory OC), today I have one of the cheaper OC cards for you in the form of the Palit GeForce RTX 4070 Super Jetstream OC, which has an RRP of 699 euros. Of course, I’m not going to repeat the whole thing about the AD104 [...]
It is well known that you can use tools such as MSI Afterburner to increase or decrease the maximum power consumption of a graphics card (within the specifications). In addition, the 12V-2×6 connection (formerly 12VHPWR) also offers different power levels. But what are the differences between the two options and what happens if you use both [...]