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Half-Life 2 Will Soon Have Ray-Tracing
22.8.2023
GPU manufacturer Nvidia announced its plans to remaster, with full ray-tracing, Valve’s 2004 first-person shooter Half-Life 2 on August 22. Development will be handled by myriad Half-Life 2 mod teams, including those that made Half-Life 2: VR, united under new studio Orbifold, and it’ll be released...
Half-Life 2 Will Soon Have Ray-Tracing
22.8.2023
GPU manufacturer Nvidia announced its plans to remaster, with full ray-tracing, Valve’s 2004 first-person shooter Half-Life 2 on August 22. Development will be handled by myriad Half-Life 2 mod teams, including those that made Half-Life 2: VR, united under new studio Orbifold, and it’ll be released...
Modder Makes Ridiculous Upgrade To Steam Deck To Play Witcher 3 On Max Settings
13.4.2022
Want to get The Witcher 3 and Grand Theft Auto V running at 60 fps in 4K on the Steam Deck? You can, as long as you’re willing to spend a lot of money to Frankenstein Valve’s latest PC gaming device in the process.Read more
Warehouse Employees Steal Over $35,000 Worth Of Video Cards
19.3.2022
Three men in Russia were reportedly arrested after stealing 20 Nvidia RTX 3070 TIs from a suburban warehouse. While they successfully made off with the video cards, a haul worth nearly $38,000 USD, they were arrested after trying to sell them to local pawn shops. Read more
High-End PC Graphics Cards Get A Little Cheaper As Crypto Tanks
25.1.2022
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card you’ve been after to complete your “Extreme Gaming PC” build is still in short supply but finally getting slightly cheaper. That’s thanks to a drop in crypto mining participation as the value of Bitcoin and other blockchain currencies plummet ahead of what...
RTX 3090 Owner Finds Old Glove Inside $1500 GPU
23.8.2021
Imagine this. You’ve just paid a ton for a new RTX 3090 Founders Edition GPU. You plug the card in, boot everything up and … wait, why is my super-expensive GPU running at 230 degrees?Read more
Newegg Thanks Kid For Finding Graphics Card Lottery Loophole, Closes It
27.7.2021
Buying high-end gaming hardware is a pain in the ass at the moment. New Xbox Series X/S stock sells out fast. Early access to PS5 orders are pay-gated at places like Amazon and GameStop. And the graphics card market is, well, you know how it is. In this mess of timed-out shopping carts and Ebay...
EVGA Is Replacing All RTX 3090 Cards Killed By Amazon's New World
24.7.2021
Earlier this week, folks who were playing the closed beta for New World using a high-end EVGA RTX 3090 GPU began sharing stories that the expensive cards were getting bricked by the game. Now, it’s been confirmed that EVGA, the GPU maker behind the cards that failed, is going to replace all those...
Rare Gundam Graphics Cards Wasted On Crypto Mining
14.7.2021
I can’t explain it. I can’t justify it. But I do get Gundam fans’ strange attachment to the special-edition GeForce RTX 3080 Gundam graphics cards. They’re beefy but elegant and come in a sleek titanium white. They’re also next to impossible to find, which is why some people might be crestfallen...
How Is This Even Minecraft Anymore
8.7.2021
Here’s what Minecraft—humble, low-res, blocky ol’ Minecraft—looks like in the Year Of Our Lord Two Thousand And Twenty One when it’s got a few fancy mods running over the top of it.Read more
Bitcoin Crackdown Leads To Cheaper Graphics Cards In China
22.6.2021
With graphics cards seeming harder to get than ever, China’s stricter measures against Bitcoin mining have led to lower prices online in the country. Read more
Chaotic Scenes At Nvidia GPU Restock
4.6.2021
A combination of pandemic-driven shortages and the planet’s increasingly gruesome fascination with crypto-mining means it’s hard getting your hands on a new graphics card at the moment. And if you were wondering just how hard, look at this lineup—and resulting crush of humanity—outside a Micro...
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Review: Who Is It For?
2.6.2021
It’s hard to believe it’s been almost nine months since Nvidia unveiled their first Ampere graphics card, the GeForce RTX 3080. Though I suppose it might also have felt like an eternity for those of you who have been trying to buy one for the past nine months.Read more
Nvidia's Latest Flagship Graphics Card Is The $1,200 RXT 3080 Ti
1.6.2021
On sale June 3 for a suggested retail price of $1,199, the RTX 3080 Ti is here to make older Nvidia cards look like hot garbage in comparison. Too pricey? The RTX 3070 Ti goes on sale next week for only $599. Read more
It's 2021, And Super Mario 64 Now Has Ray Tracing
9.2.2021
You might think that marrying mid-90s textures to 21st-century lighting tricks would look hideous, but this video of the Super Mario 64 PC port is looking very nice.Read more
Genshin Impact Devs Awarded PS5s, Graphics Cards Via RNG
3.2.2021
Raffles and gift give-aways aren’t uncommon at company parties, but the company behind Genshin Impact went a step further, randomly awarding hard-to-get graphics cards and PS5s to employees as thanks for helping make one of last year’s hottest new free-to-play gacha games.Read more
Lucky Winners Of Newegg's Raffle Get To Pay Full Price For PC Parts
21.1.2021
A lottery for prized graphics cards and processors went up briefly on PC part seller Newegg’s site yesterday. It’s a testament to the ongoing shortage of all things gaming during the ongoing covid-19 pandemic.Read more