lol. 10 players. That game bombed harder than the Russian ship. I wonder how long it will be until Square decides to kill it.

And it's good to see Meta killing the whole metaverse bullsh*t before it takes off. One less thing to worry about.

Meh with the Nvidia announcement. Maybe in countries that have a Nvidia store it will work but, for the rest, it doesn't change a thing. Source: I checked it and, since there's no Nvidia store here in Spain, it redirects you to affiliated stores, with the same prices I shared the other day.

And maybe the problem with Ethereum is that they don't know how to move the whole operation to the new system, and that's why they keep delaying it.

Gentlemen...

I am ready for the 4090...

You may even be able to cool a 4090 and a 13900K with that.

No More Heroes 3 is officially coming to PC this Fall
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/no-more-heroes-3-is-officially-coming-to-pc-this-fall/
XSEED Games has just announced that No More Heroes 3 will be coming to PC this Fall. And, to be honest, we are not that surprised by this announcement. After all, both No More Heroes and No More Heroes 2 are already available on PC.

Beware: Powershell Windows Toolbox that helped install Google Play on Windows 11 is malware
https://www.neowin.net/news/beware-powershell-windows-toolbox-that-helped-install-google-play-on-windows-11-is-malware/
A third-party tool used to install the Google Play Store, among other things, has been found to be malicious. In fact, one of Neowin readers +Eli also appears to have fallen victim to the tool as it seems they installed Play Store using it.

As a cartoon/Comic villain once said:

SE deserved that kick up the arse with another bomb of a title, and FB killing metaverse before it can fully take off is an added bonus. 

Also I think it's been mentioned here before, but I'm really not fond of Epic partnering with lego to get kids into their own metaverse, even if they claim it's to "keep it safe", it still comes off as disgusting trying to get kids into the metaverse (since most corp made metaverses are designed to be giant ad-space and wallet pinchers). 

Intel Arc Alchemist desktop series including A770, A750, A580 and A380 SKUs reportedly delayed till late Q2/early Q3

https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-arc-alchemist-desktop-series-including-a770-a750-a580-and-a380-skus-reportedly-delayed-till-late-q2-early-q3

It's a rumour but imagine if Intel actually releases Arc after Lovelace/RDNA 3 while performing similar to Ampere midrange

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-core Zen3 CPU drops to 520 USD/530 EUR for the first time

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-ryzen-9-5950x-16-core-zen3-cpu-drops-to-520-usd-530-eur-for-the-first-time

Intel 13th Gen Core “Raptor Lake-P” 14-core mobile CPU performance leaked, faster than Core i9-12900HK

https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-13th-gen-core-raptor-lake-p-14-core-mobile-cpu-performance-leaked-faster-than-core-i9-12900hk

Zen 4 vs Raptor lake gonna be crazy. But I do think we are at that point where unless you do something other than gaming, getting anything over 5600 or 12400 won't really matter too much for gaming. Realistically, you can keep using 5600 or 12400 until the next console generation and then upgrade to the new CPU and instead, spend the money upgrading the GPU or monitor.

If Intel's Alchemist actually ends delayed that much, it better be damn cheap, or only OEMs will buy them.

With the release of 5800X3D taking a dump over majority of Alder Lake's 12th gen, I think it's time to acknowledge that AM4 might be the greatest platform to ever have released. The "Pascal" of CPU platforms so to speak...

AM4 allowed you to upgrade from 1700 > 2700 > 3700x > 5800x > 5800X3D.

Contrast that to Intel

Z170 allowed you to upgrade from 6700k to 7700k
Z390 allowed you to upgrade from 8700k to 9700k
Z490 allowed you to downgrade from 10900k to 11900k
Z690 allows you to upgrade from 12900k to 13900k

If you upgraded from 1700 to 5800X3D. You would be beating in gaming:

12700k
11900k
10900k
9900K
8700k
7700k

That is not to say there weren't a number of issues with AM4. RAM compatibility when Zen 1 launched, BIOS issues upgrading Zen 1 to Zen 3, preventing certain 400/300 series boards from enabling PCI-E gen 4 even though they were compatible, X570 fan nonsense and the biggest offence was AMD not supporting 5000 series CPUs with 300 series motherboards despite being on the same socket which they backtracked... After most people upgraded to 500 series... But still better than what Intel has done.

As we head towards AM5, the question will then be, will AMD pull another AM4? We have seen how greedy the company has gotten and sure, you could argue that some of it could be due to external pressure like 5000 series motherboard compatibility. But AMD is no longer in the "underdog" position. They no longer require "good will" to sell products. They are no longer in the brink of bankruptcy. They are now one of the players... And considering their recent actions... I don't think we will have another AM4 again. But I do hope to be proven wrong. Here's to the greatest platform that has been released in the CPU space. Remember it well gentlemen!

I doubt the AM5 platform will last as much as AM4, but I don't think that it will last as little as the Intel ones. Give it 3 gens of CPUs. And I hope that the shorter lifespan will mean that ther X670 mobos will support all the AM5 CPUs, but I wouldn't bet on it.

Probably. The 3 things I hate upgrading are motherboards, power supplies and cases. There's so many components you need to deal with that it's very time consuming so I certainly liked the idea of only needing to upgrade the CPU. It basically became similar to upgrading the GPU in many ways since removing the cooler and putting a new CPU in place takes like 5 minutes (including getting into the case and such) where as doing the rest can take hours.

So it is kind of lame that we probably will be going back to 2-3 gen cycle on AMD. But I think AMD is leaving AM4 in a good place where you really don't need anything more for gaming until the PS6/Series XI comes out.