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Samurai Showdown II and Fatal Fury Special... I remember reading the reviews and watching videos of those beautiful games on the Neo Geo. I even played the ports of other games on those series that launched on my Megadrive/Genesis.

Anyway, here's some more news that may be of interest to some of you:

 

Valve Updates Revenue Share Tiers, Trying to Keep Big Developers on Steam
https://wccftech.com/valve-updates-revenue-share-tiers/
Valve revealed to have updated revenue share tiers on Steam beyond certain thresholds. Beyond $10 million made in revenue, the split between the developer and Valve becomes 75%/25% instead of the usual 70%/30%. Beyond $50 million, the split becomes even more convenient for developers, adjusting to 80%/20%.

Clearly, this is an attempt to keep big developers and publishers on Steam as they are instead trying to create their own platforms. For instance, Activision released Destiny 2 and Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII exclusively on Battle.net.

>>They're scared...

 

Jon Peddie Research’s Market Watch reports GPU shipments up in Q3’18 from last quarter led by Intel
https://www.jonpeddie.com/press-releases/jon-peddie-researchs-market-watch-reports-gpu-shipments-up-in-q318-from-las
Jon Peddie Research, the market research firm for the computer graphics industry, has released its quarterly Market Watch report on worldwide GPU shipments used in PCs for Q3'18.

Quick highlights

• AMD’s overall unit shipments increased 6.51% quarter-to-quarter, Intel’s total shipments increased 13.11% from last quarter, and Nvidia’s increased 4.32%.
• The attach rate of GPUs (includes integrated and discrete GPUs) to PCs for the quarter was 141% which was up 3.08% from last quarter.
• Discrete GPUs were in 31.61% of PCs, which is down -3.54% from last quarter.
• The overall PC market increased 8.22% quarter-to-quarter and increased 0.30% year-to-year.
• Desktop graphics add-in boards (AIBs) that use discrete GPUs decreased -19.21% from last quarter.
• Q3'18 saw a decrease in tablet shipments from last quarter.

>>The decline from last year is partially because the crpto craze is over or, at least, it's less than it was.

 

AMD X570 chipset with PCIe 4.0 could launch at Computex
https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-x570-chipset-with-pcie-4-0-could-launch-at-computex
AMD Matisse

According to the slide posted at Gamer.com.tw, AMD is planning to introduce Matisse-based chipset already at Computex. The slides have Gigabyte watermarks.

This X570 chipset would be the first to support PCI Express Gen 4, a technology supported by Zen 2 and 7nm Vega. This is interesting because AMD was not very eager to confirm that consumer parts, such as Ryzen or Radeon RX, would also support PCIe 4.0. If this leak holds true, then it would be very strange if Navi and Ryzen 3000 were not capable of supporting PCIe 4.0 as well.

The slide is clearly a few months ago, as B450 and Athlon 200GE series are still marked in red. That said, it is possible that the launch could be planned for a different event now.

Intel Glacier Falls in 2H 2019

This slide indicates that Glacier Falls will be available in the third quarter of 2019. This means that Skylake Refresh will have rather a short lifespan of three quarters.

The picture also lists B365 and H310C chipsets. Both start to appear on the market with under a new motherboard SKUs.