Wait, there's even more Steam events going on at the moment? What a mess...

The Fest events? Yea, those are at least announced through a long list but every now and then there's some special sale events such as from a specific region or nation. I forgot which country but one of the EU nations developer sales. Those are nowhere near advertised lol.

The Fests are usually easy enough to notice, especially with the Steam notification, but I had completely missed the two JEMC posted.

Yeah, it sucks that they dont advertise all of the sales events.

Goodbye reasonably priced GPUs.

NVIDIA need to cut back on avocado toast.

Well. Sucks to be American at the moment.

As for "Chip Manufacturing" it was always a world wide business.

Just TSMC got ahead of everyone and took marketshare because Intel, Texas Instruments, AMD, IBM, Samsung and more fumbled and stagnated... Had nothing to do with companies moving manufacturing elsewhere to save costs. American fabs refused or couldn't compete on leading-edge nodes for a very long time.

TSMC today on a leading edge node is more expensive than it has ever been in the past and more expensive than it's competitors, it's not about saving money, it's about the best process node to make the most competitive chips.

American companies just didn't invest in R&D and didn't innovate and got left behind technologically... And then refused to open up their foundries for 3rd parties until companies like TSMC took marketshare and started to make a crap ton of cash.

And potentially we are seeing history repeat itself with A.I. right now.
American companies are being slow to innovate with large, expensive, bureaucratic solutions... China, Taiwan and South Korea -will- swoop in as they have much more nimble tech markets.

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On another note, I don't mind seeing nVidia getting slammed at the moment, if this MAKES companies pause for a few seconds and start to think about their investment in A.I. and specifically nVidia chips... Then that should place some downward pressure on nVidia, which then hopefully means nVidia needs to be a little more tactful in the PC marketspace.
Or at the very least increase GPU supply.

Honestly I just want lower god damn prices. And I am not ashamed to hide my frustration over the current situation.

DOOM's a game I'd wait a year or two before buying, as the prices come down strongly after a while:

As you can see, you can get DOOM (2016) for the same price as the original or the 2003 right now, and DOOM Eternal for less than 10 bucks. So just wait a bit and the price will come down quickly enough.

AMD FSR4 DLL spotted in unofficial Radeon drivers, support for RDNA4 only

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-fsr4-dll-spotted-in-unofficial-radeon-drivers-support-for-rdna4-only

I really hope they can port it to RDNA 3 eventually. While RDNA 3 seems to lack dedicated FP8 cores which RDNA 4 has, I am sure they can still use their enhanced FP16 and WMMA if they really tried. Otherwise it will be awkward as they will be selling RDNA 3.5 products such as Strix Halo without FSR4 along side RDNA 4 products with FSR4.

GeForce RTX 5070 Ti launches February 20, first reviews drop February 19

https://videocardz.com/newz/geforce-rtx-5070-ti-launches-february-20-first-reviews-drop-february-19

Pretty much the only GPU that I like in the lineup.

MaxSun preparing GeForce RTX 5060 Ti with 16GB and 8GB memory

https://videocardz.com/newz/maxsun-preparing-geforce-rtx-5060-ti-with-16gb-and-8gb-memory

NVIDIA confirms GeForce RTX 5090/5080 “stock-outs may happen”

https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-confirms-geforce-rtx-5090-5080-stock-outs-may-happen

DLSS Swapper Gets A Huge Update: FSR 3.1 & XeSS Added Along With Tons of New Options

https://wccftech.com/dlss-swapper-huge-update-fsr-3-1-xess-support-new-options/

8GB again, for the 5060.

Bet they're gonna overcharge like hell for the 16GB Ti version.

The Tuesday news:

SALES/PLAYER COUNTS & DEALS

Steam’s Top 10

(Click here for the Top 100).

By the way, the data from last week was incorrect. They’ve have since fixed it and you can check the real results from the week ending Jan 21st, from here.

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth debuts to the highest peak concurrent users of the series on Steam—except for the MMO, naturally
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/final-fantasy/final-fantasy-7-rebirth-debuts-to-the-highest-peak-concurrent-users-of-the-series-on-steam-except-for-the-mmo-naturally/
Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth has finally ambled its way over to PC, and it's landing with—hold your breath—moderate to solid success! Please imagine me firing some party poppers at your leisure. As seen on the game's SteamDB page, Rebirth has thus far enjoyed a peak concurrent player count of around 40,000, which is none too shabby.
While "big franchise does solid" is not super interesting in itself, it's a curiouser number when lined up against other entries in the franchise. It is (aside from Final Fantasy 14, which is an MMO and enjoyed an exodus of WoW players during Shadowlands) the highest-ranking peak concurrent player count in the series (via VGC).
That puts it a clean 13,056 hype measurements above Final Fantasy 16, the latest game in the series, that pulled in 27,508 players at its peak. It's an actually downright impressive leap when compared to the first FF7 remake, though—which you'd expect to be higher, given how pessimistic Square has been about Rebirth's comparative performance. But, no, that peaked at a considerably humble 13,803 players on Steam.

GOG has launched the Capcom Fire Deals, consisting of three games with 20, 66 and 84% discounts for the next 14 days: https://www.gog.com/en/promo/20250128_capcom_fire_deals.

Steam has these deals:

• Publisher Devolver Digital has launched its End of Winter Sale with up to 90% deals until the 3rd of February: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/6638525/sale/endofwintersale2025
• Motorcycle Mechanic Simulator 2021 will be 90% off until the 5th of February: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1078760/Motorcycle_Mechanic_Simulator_2021/
• Sea of Stars has a 30% discount until February 10: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1244090/Sea_of_Stars/
• For fans of trains and dioramas, Train Yard Builder is going to be 35% off until the 10th of February: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1674900/Train_Yard_Builder/
• To prove once again that there’s a simulator game for everything, Hairdresser Simulator is here with a 50% discount until the 10th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1330560/Hairdresser_Simulator/
• To celebrate its 10th anniversary, the Dying Light franchise is on sale with up to 75% deals until the 10th: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/dyinglightanniversary
• And last, but not least, there are the weeklong deals.

And Fanatical's new Star Deal is Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, with a 30% deal during 48 hours: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/warhammer-40000-space-marine-2.

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

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MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

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GAMING NEWS

STALKER 2 Update 1.1.4 Released, Is 13GB, Full Patch Notes
https://www.dsogaming.com/patches/stalker-2-update-1-1-4-released-is-13gb-full-patch-notes/
GSC GameWorld has just released the first title update of the year 2025 for STALKER 2, and shared its full patch notes. This update is 13GB in size, so let’s see what it brings to the table.

Doom: The Dark Ages will use the Denuvo anti-tamper tech
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/doom-the-dark-ages-will-use-the-denuvo-anti-tamper-tech/
Doom: The Dark Ages is a game that a lot of PC gamers are looking forward to. However, it appears that the game will be using the controversial Denuvo anti-tamper tech.