Gaming

GPU slowdown earns Discord weird bug of the week

A fix is coming eventually, Nvidia says

Systems02 Feb 2023 | 4

Meanwhile, in Japan, pet fish run up credit card bill on Nintendo Switch

Gaming critters wreak havoc after Pokémon attempt crashes

Offbeat30 Jan 2023 | 22

Doom QA testers form Microsoft's first labor union in the US

And the largest such group in the gaming industry, says Communications Workers of America

Offbeat04 Jan 2023 | 7

India's fix for its online gaming indust... Oh. Self-regulation

House always wins

Software04 Jan 2023 | 3

Nvidia revives canceled RTX 4080 as 'new' 12GB RTX 4070 TI

Hopefully it comes with a 'new' competitive price, too

Personal Tech30 Dec 2022 | 25

Why would a keyboard pack a GPU and run Unreal Engine? To show animations beneath the clear keys, natch

At $349 it's a cheap computer and a not-very-expensive keyboard

Systems21 Dec 2022 | 81

Microsoft patent eyes ads in streaming online games

Picture your avatar wearing a logo-emblazoned shirt driving past a billboard touting a product

Personal Tech20 Dec 2022 | 64

Microsoft launches full-court press to save $69B Activision deal

Updated Blocking us would be a big mistake. Huuuuge

Software08 Dec 2022 | 8

Creator of spec for melting RTX 4090 cables urges Nvidia, others to 'ensure user safety'

Testing is your responsibility, not ours, says PCI-SIG

Systems02 Dec 2022 | 22

China declares victory over teenage video game addiction

Suddenly discovers that game-adjacent tech has its uses – and it's a huge export industry

Personal Tech24 Nov 2022 | 27

Nvidia faces lawsuit for melting RTX 4090 cables as AMD has a laugh

Law firm wants class-action status, says issue poses 'serious electrical and fire hazard'

Systems18 Nov 2022 | 59

Nvidia's datacenter growth can't save it from gaming GPU woes

CEO says new RTX 4090 cards off to a 'great start' despite melting cable issues

Systems17 Nov 2022 | 16

Boffins grow human brain cells to play Pong

Now let’s see what happens when we get it drunk, say researchers

Science14 Oct 2022 | 30

Google kills off Stadia

We gave the cloud gaming service two years to live. It managed three

Personal Tech29 Sep 2022 | 65

Indian authorities probe Singapore gaming payments outfit Coda

Claims kids unwittingly click up huge bills in games, only for their cash to fly offshore

Legal29 Sep 2022 | 2

Autumn's GTC shows who Nvidia really cares about

GTC Hint: It’s not necessarily gamers

Systems22 Sep 2022 | 7

Google allows test of real-money gambling apps in India, but without its billing systems

Local regulators think such apps should be banned because of incidents including suicides

Software09 Sep 2022 | 3

Cybercriminals target games popular with kids to distribute malware

Kaspersky research finds Minecraft and Roblox have the most malicious files associated with them

Security07 Sep 2022 |

EA shares volatile on the back of unconfirmed rumor of Amazon bid

Somebody set us up the bomb

Personal Tech26 Aug 2022 | 9

Intel aims Flex datacenter GPUs at video, game streaming

Hot Chips Chipzilla's story Arc continues

Personal Tech24 Aug 2022 |

The silicon goldrush is coming, but chip demand is evaporating

Leave it to the economy to throw another wrench into the semiconductor supply chain

Systems10 Aug 2022 | 4

Unity game engine attracts big cash from China's tech titans

Chinese game devs targeted – maybe data protection laws too

Personal Tech10 Aug 2022 | 3

Chinese scammers target kids with promise of extra gaming hours

Cyberspace regulator's fraud report finds all is not well behind the Great Firewall

Cyber-crime09 Aug 2022 | 5

Atari Video Computer System returns in Lego form

Just as square as you remember but minus ET, the worst game of all time

Offbeat08 Aug 2022 | 10

Intel’s first discrete GPUs won't be a home run

Comment High-end Arc A750 will compete with *checks notes* a GeForce RTX 3060

Personal Tech18 Jul 2022 | 36

Teslasuit demo: Taking a crack at force feedback with the 'Glove'

A virtual world at your fingertips with the idea that you feel something gripping your hand

Personal Tech24 Jun 2022 | 9

Consultant plays Metaverse MythBuster. Here's why they're wrong

Opinion Holograms, brands, NFTs, and a 1,000-consumer survey

Offbeat16 Jun 2022 | 83

The PainStation runs Windows XP because of course it does

Retro fun and games in Berlin's ComputerSpieleMuseum

Personal Tech14 Jun 2022 | 32

Warning: Colleagues are unusually likely to 'break' their monitors soon

Wave of replacements needed as Samsung and Microsoft team to stream Xbox games to smart displays and tellies

Personal Tech10 Jun 2022 | 26

France levels up local video game slang with list of French terms to replace foreign words

Goodbye cloudy retro-gaming, bonjour ‘rétrojeu video en nuage’

Personal Tech31 May 2022 | 168

Despite global uncertainty, $500m hit doesn't rattle Nvidia execs

CEO acknowledges impact of war, pandemic but says fundamentals ‘are really good’

Systems27 May 2022 | 1

As Microsoft's $70b takeover of Activision nears, workers step up their organizing

This week: Subsidiary's QA staff officially unionize, $18m settlement disputed, and more

Personal Tech26 May 2022 | 3

AMD reveals 5nm Ryzen 7000 powered by Zen 4 cores

AM5 socket to bring desktop CPUs to life in late 2022, mid-range laptop CPU to follow

Personal Tech23 May 2022 | 15

AMD claims its GPUs beat Nvidia on performance per dollar

* Terms, conditions, hardware specs and software may vary – a lot

Personal Tech17 May 2022 | 8

Google's Flutter app development framework now stable across platforms

Google I/O v3.0 has also gained a Casual Games Toolkit

Software11 May 2022 | 3

Intel forms graphics lab to make games look more real

x86 giant hopes for 'open, collaborative and forward-looking' relationship with (checks notes) Nvidia and AMD

Personal Tech21 Apr 2022 | 9

Beijing approves first new video games in nine months

14,000 small developers reported to have gone out of business during approval hiatus

Personal Tech12 Apr 2022 | 15

The Souls noob's guide to Elden Ring

The RPG FromSoftware's magnum opus, made with input from George R R Martin, invites new and veteran players alike

Offbeat09 Apr 2022 | 23

Intel counters AMD’s big-cache PC chip with 5.5GHz 16-core rival

CPU clock versus cache

Personal Tech28 Mar 2022 | 55

Doom comes to the Pi Pico

A $4 microcontroller, you say? Will it run you-know-what?

Personal Tech16 Mar 2022 | 12

AMD unveils first CPU with 3D V-Cache tech, cheaper Ryzens

Sub-$299 Zen 3 desktop chips throw wrench into Intel wheelhouse

Systems15 Mar 2022 | 15

Sony Interactive Entertainment pulls PlayStation from Russia

Ukraine's digital transformation minister asked for action to bore Russians into protest – he has his wish

Personal Tech10 Mar 2022 | 20

Lost Ark: A pulpy Korean MMO-lite for idle hands

The RPG Approach with caution

Offbeat26 Feb 2022 | 6

Fancy some new features? Try general-purpose Linux alternative Liquorix

Friday FOSS Fest Lock, stock and one smoking kernel: YMMV on performance boost, but either way, it's a bit of fun

Software25 Feb 2022 | 17

Russian 'Minecraft bomb plot' teen jailed for five years

Military court sends 16-year-old and his pals down for homemade terror training

Bootnotes14 Feb 2022 | 37

Nobara Project brings whole bunch of extensions so you can frag noobs on Fedora 35

Brand new and a bit wobbly, but it says good things about Linux's maturity

OSes07 Feb 2022 | 15

God of War: How do you improve on perfection? You port it to PC, obviously

The RPG The migration of PlayStation exclusives continues to be a great idea

Bootnotes29 Jan 2022 | 39

Joe Danger rides to the rescue as ageing title tugs at the heartstrings

Hobby project sees Hello Games' first baby return at the request of a dedicated dad

Offbeat28 Jan 2022 | 11

China orders web operators to spring clean its entire internet

Purveyors of rumours, flirty teens, dodgy infomercials, or bloody violence all told to get in the bin – yet again

Security27 Jan 2022 | 22

Microsoft seems intent on buying the gaming industry with $68.7bn purchase of troubled Activision Blizzard

'Creative success and autonomy go hand-in-hand with treating every person with dignity and respect'

Software18 Jan 2022 | 88

LAPD cops who preferred playing Pokémon Go to tackling robbery can be fired, appeals court rules

Call of duty? Not when there's a Snorlax about

Personal Tech11 Jan 2022 | 33

Feeling virtuous with a good old paperback? Well, don't. Switching to traditional media does not improve mood

Study hopes to take the elitism out media consumption

Science07 Jan 2022 | 53

Halo Infinite ups the nostalgia factor for fans of the originals, but it's not without limits

The RPG 343 Industries brings open world to the long-running military sci-fi epic

Columnists05 Jan 2022 | 11

ASUS recalls motherboards that flame out thanks to backwards capacitors

Z690 Hero motherboards recalled because batch is borked, design itself is fine

Personal Tech04 Jan 2022 | 82

Battlefield 2042: Please don't be the death knell of the franchise, please don't be the death knell of the franchise

The RPG Another terrible launch, but DICE is already working on improvements

Bootnotes04 Dec 2021 | 31

Qualcomm makes its own mobile gaming rig, hypes new Windows 11 chips

Snapdragon Tech Summit G3x Handheld Developer Kit born from hookup with Razer

Personal Tech01 Dec 2021 | 5