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Rhonin the wizard said:

 

Almost every game from State of Play is coming to PC, too
https://www.pcgamesn.com/exoprimal/pc-state-of-play
Sony gave PlayStation fans a new edition of its regular State of Play broadcast, highlighting a selection of new games coming to PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5. However, most of those games are not actually exclusive to Sony’s platform, and as the press releases roll in, we’re starting to learn just how many are coming to PC, too.

• Exoprimal – Steam in 2023
• Ghostwire: Tokyo – Steam and Epic on March 25, 2022
• Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin – Epic on March 17, 2022 (no PC demo)
• Forspoken – Steam and Epic on October 11, 2022
• Gundam Evolution – Steam in 2022
• TMNT: The Cowabunga Collection – Steam in 2022
• GigaBash – Steam in 2022
• JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle R – Steam in autumn 2022
• Trek to Yomi – Steam in 2022
• Returnal: Ascension – PlayStation 5 exclusive
• The DioField Chronicle – Steam in 2022
• Valkyrie Elysium – Steam in 2022

PC builder that drew fury of small Twitch streamers shuts down indefinitely
https://www.pcgamer.com/artesian-builds-shuts-down/
Custom PC builder Artesian Builds got demolished on Twitter last week after a small streamer complained that the company denied her a sweepstakes prize based on the size of her Twitch following. Giveaway sponsor Intel was displeased with Artesian, as was a considerable portion of the internet: The streamer's complaint was retweeted over 8,000 times. Artesian's CEO later apologized, but the company may nevertheless have sold its last PC.

These days, very few games remain exclusive to consoles. thankfully for us.

And it's a shame how that Twitch fiasco has been so poorly managed, to the point of so many people losing their jobs because the mouth of their boss is bigger than his brain.

Chazore said:

Is...is that a fan held by an arm bracket, inside the case?.

I've never really seen that done before for a case design. Makes me wonder if it actually makes any difference, but it does seem to be aiming for where the GPU fan intake is going at least. 

It's not easy to see nowadays, but it's nothing new. Some older cases were so big that they actually put them because, oftherwise, the amount of air that reached the GPU was too low.

Captain_Yuri said:

AMD to discuss ‘next-generation image upscaling’ at GDC 2022

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-to-discuss-next-generation-image-upscaling-at-gdc-2022

This will affect Intel the most as they are the new player in the GPU space. Nvidia has DLSS, AMD will most likely have their Ai upscaling presentation soon so Intel's XeSS will be used by basically no one other than themselves. And because their market share is so low, the adoption will also be low.

AMD just proved they're not your friend

The new Threadripper is OEM only thus the people who bought the new socket for the last Threadripper got screwed because they got only one generation of CPU support. Even Intel didn't pull that awful of a move with their HEDT line.

It will be interesting to see how AMD will handle that "image upscaling" tech and if they make it open source or not. Because that will, most likely, be the key to the success or failure of it. Let's hope they keep their good manners on this aspect and make it open so it can be used on Nvidia and Intel hardware.

Of course, it doesn't matter how open it is if it doesn't work well, but we'll have to wait to make any comment until they show it to us and reviewers test it.

And it's a shame their CPU side is pulling this kind of dick moves.