One of the things I noticed during the Hogwarts Legacy situation was once the boycott was obviously failing, the loudest voices pushing the boycott turned vicious in a way I had never seen before. People that I have been on the side of in the past were harassing people in a way that actually kind of scared me. I would…

Imagine how mad these people are going to be when they find out this game is Japanese...

The last year or so of PC ports has pushed me fully back to console gaming. More and more, PC gaming seems to be asking you to brute force games with overwhelming GPU power and overkill amounts of VRAM with little to no optimization. Often, the answer to get games to run well is to lower graphics settings to a point…

This is the same magazine that gave Hogwarts Legacy a 1, which regardless of your feelings about JK Rowling, that game is at least significantly better than a 1. They have become a complete clickbait and rage generation machine. It’s really sad to see them fall this far from the icon they used to be.

She’s a Senator from Washington state strongly taking the side of a company that employes over 50,000 people in Washington. Isn’t that how elected representation is supposed to work?

Just do the math on it. In December 2020 Star Citizen had 695 people on staff with 512 of them being developers. A quick search found the average game developer in the US makes $80k a year which comes out to $409.6 million over 10 years. If you figure the rest of the staff is making half of that at $40k, that’s…

Half a billion isn’t as crazy as you think when you consider a AAA budget that has been in development for over a decade. The Callisto Protocol cost over $150 million in a much smaller time period. Some of it is mismanagement and wasted money for sure, but these games really do cost hundreds of millions to make now.

Nintendo did kind of fail in this time period though. The N64 and Game Cube underperformed, and the Wii U completely flopped. If not for their handhelds and the Wii, they might not still be around as a hardware manufacturer today.

The biggest problem with the Series S is the memory reduction from the X. They are running basically the same CPU and the 1/3 as powerful GPU in the S should be able to render everything in 1080p that a Series X can do in 4k (1080p has 1/4 the pixels as 4k, it doesn’t work out to being exactly 1/4 the rendering power…

I’m personally more on the side of just play games you enjoy and try and separate the business side from the gaming side, but it’s getting harder to do that as more and more very questionable companies are getting into gaming. You also have to consider that Game Pass is probably where they are getting the biggest…

Mass Effect 2 is my favorite game of all time, and Bioware just copied Gears of War combat for that and added some RPG elements to it. So, this isn’t exactly new.

A guess it’s semantics, but to me, Microsoft holding their show during the timeframe of E3, in a building near E3 for all the reporters and guests attending E3, is them being at E3.

There is a lot they have to think about for season 2. Before they even get to the story, they have to consider that The Last of Us is more popular than they probably imagined it would be. I can’t imagine HBO being happy with a 2 season run at this point. They might be looking at trying to make this a Game of Thrones…

And they don’t want to put in any work or effort, they just want their “owed” life handed to them.

Yeah, you are right. I’m not sure why I put ESO on that list. I’m genuinely not sure what Bethesda would be cutting if its game related as I’m thinking about it more.

Just complete speculation on my part, but I wonder if they are in the process of shutting down (or significantly downsizing) 343. With all the underperforming Halo games since they took over, Microsoft could just be moving on from that studio. As for Bethesda, again a complete guess, but it wouldn’t surprise me if…

You are right, I should have said with RT on, but I personally consider RT a requirement for that game to get the artistic vison of the creators. It was the first game for me where I knew RT was the future and not a gimmick.

“For one, because the LEDs are a fraction of the size of what you’d find in a 4K TV, you get much lower levels of blooming happening when bright objects are against a dark background”

“For one, because the LEDs are a fraction of the size of what you’d find in a 4K TV, you get much lower levels of…

I feel like everyone on this site is miserable and hateful lately. Every story I read here leaves me in a worse mood than when I came here. I should probably just stop for the sake of my mental health.

So, we’ve reached the point where a 3070 gets you 30 FPS at 1440p. That’s just depressing. The one silver lining is there is no mention of DLSS or FSR, so hopefully these charts are the specs with upscaling off. Cybperpunk still can’t deliver any kind of a playable framerate without DLSS enabled on anything less than…