But the 4090 is not the Ti card at all. Nvidia made it pretty clear the that AD-102 leaves enough space on the die that a proper Ti is definitely imminent. The uplift over the 3090 Ti is substantial but it’s just generational improvement... particularly when they tied so many of their statements to GPU+DLSS 3.0 gains.

My suspicion is twofold. One, they know that by pricing these cards so high they’ll definitely manage to sell some of the 3000 series backlog (especially as prices continue to crash below MSRP). And two, they’re hedging their bets going into the November arrival of RDNA3... if AMD fumbles the ball and the Radeon 7000…

I agree with your take. My company is full of people who make the same argument about CEO pay; but when you break the math down, even if the CEO took a $1 salary and just their stock options the money saved would only be like $0.06 per hour per employee. And yeah, the stock options for such a POS stock are really…

I don’t know if I’d really agree. People with a passion for games enjoy playing games, maybe even making games. Almost nobody has a passion for SELLING games. People go to work for GameStop because they think it’s something it’s not... like you’re going to spend your day teaching people about genres they don’t know…

These raises totally suck.

I don’t read Kotaku nearly as much these days as I used to-- the heavy burdens of life and getting older, I suppose-- but I will always remember Fahey’s sarcastic optimism and sense of humor in his posts. Seeing all these tributes definitely highlights how much joy he brought into the lives of all those he knew. There…

Lost Wild looks incredible. Bounty Star, however, looks like a hard pass. If the trailer makes your game look repetitive and mechanical, then I’m out already. Trailers can cherry pick ANYTHING in the game to make it look compelling... is that the best they’ve got?

Curious— why don’t you use EGS? I can’t think of any reason to not use both EGS and Steam— even if you only use EGS for the free games (they gave out the Bioshock collection last week!).

I assume if you downgraded the games simply won’t work anymore, the same way Microsoft will turn off access to downloaded games once they’re cycled out of Game Pass. You’ll just get a notification asking if you own the game disc, and to insert it in the console if you do.

While Sony says they’re not putting first-party titles on there day and date because there’s no reason to, the real reason— and it was mentioned more directly in a quote from another article— is that Sony needs that sales revenue from those exclusives. They cannot afford to put first-party titles on PS Plus day and…

The problem is that she is locked into a veeeeery punitive recording contract wherein Dr. Luke basically takes all the money she makes. She has generated enormous revenue for her label but she's been exploited from the day she signed her contract as a very young woman just doing SoundCloud. She might be able to walk…

Killing NPCs you’re obviously not supposed to is always kinda fun to try. Always was the sort to resort to a previous save after trying it, though. I do wish that I’d have attempted The Back Path after killing Vivec in Morrowind, though. At the time I didn’t even realise it was a (much harder) option.

I agree with you. I play 2042 pretty frequently and while it’s definitely a typically Battlefieldish mess right now (OMG THE STUPID UNDERBARREL VEHICLE ADS BUG ARGH), it’s pretty reliably a good time. I enjoy it. Reading the subreddit, if the community has its way the game would somehow both get fully refunded to…

Except the petition... doesn’t actually say any of those things. In fact, it explicitly says people DIDN’T heed those lessons, even though they were common sense beforehand and have been for years. The petition actually says ‘we bought this game because years and years of AAA titles launching in poor states requiring…

It’s a weird thing. The petition is sorta reasonable if you look at it through the lens of ‘EA delayed the season pass and botched the compensation for doing so’, but it’s kinda wild if you consider that the community is toxic as hell and dumb as a post. There ARE reasonable people disappointed in the game— loads of…

While I do ENORMOUSLY appreciate how utterly Swedish it is to use Robyn as a soundtrack to anything no matter how little if fits (saw Robyn at Primavera before the pandemic and Europe’s love for Robyn cannot possibly be overstated)... that trailer is really kinda boring. I’m sure it’ll handle well, but nothing about…

No way that’s going to happen, given one of the two PS5 SKUs doesn’t even have a disc drive. Like it or not, at this point backwards compatibility is going to be software emulation all the way.

I don’t see how it makes any sense to make it exclusive. There are bigger reasons why people buy one console over another than simply exclusives-- they prefer one controller over another (why I personally don’t care for the PlayStation brand so much), have a UI preference (the one reason I dislike the Xbox at times),…

It is honestly kind of astounding how much nearly ever comment on this article other than yours completely misses the point... although to be fair, the ARTICLE sort of missed the point as well. The role “dollar stores” play in the spread of food deserts in the United States and the perpetuation of generational poverty…

She’s got a whole moneymaking enterprise going— Twitch, OnlyFans, other social media. She works hard, for sure— I can’t imagine building an empire of simps is as easy as just signing up for Twitch— and appearing in hot tub stuff is just part of her brand. I don’t love the larger issues with stuff like OnlyFans— it’s…