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A federal judge in Texas has stopped the state’s ban on drag performances, which was scheduled to go into place Friday, enforcing a temporary injunction on the measure in a win for LGBTQ rights advocates.

A group of drag performance groups, led by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Texas, filed a suit against the state early this month claiming that the law is overly broad and infringes on their freedom of speech.

“The Court finds there is a substantial likelihood that S.B. 12 as drafted violates the First Amendment of the United States Constitution under one or more of the legal theories put forward by the Plaintiffs,” District Judge David Hittner wrote in his opinion Thursday.

We tested 68 CPUs, with 20 units per model x 3 models, plus some extras. And this time, we invited Der8auer and Tim from Hardware Unboxed to join us. That's not to mention the fact that, ultimately, asking for more samples isn't viable for reviews. If the options are "no reviews at all" and "reviews with 1 sample but lots of reviewers," we'd always take the second. Also, it doesn't matter in our testing. At least, not for gaming. We'll talk about that.

Patch #2 for Baldur’s Gate 3 is now live, bringing bug fixes, substantial performance improvements and much more! If you missed our latest Community Update, we highly recommend you give it a read here for a glimpse at the future of Baldur’s Gate 3, and the role your feedback is playing in that.

Still here? Great! Withers has heard tales of Tavs, having requested the presence of their friends for an afternoon of adventuring, wanting to return to the lifestyle of a solo adventurer without their friends in tow. Therefore, he has come up with a solution. Introducing Withers’ Wardrobe of Wayward Friends! With this woodworked wonder, you can now dismiss co-op party members and bring your companions back into the fold. Withers’ solution only extends to custom Tavs, however - so no throwing Gale into a cupboard (although we’re sure it’s comfy in there).

AMD's Radeon boss has talked about the RDNA 3 GPU power efficiency, 12VHPWR on Radeon RX 7000 GPUs & ray tracing capabilities.

The interview is very detailed and we would like you to visit Club386 and read the full thing here but some interesting comments were made regarding a few aspects of the RDNA 3 "Radeon RX 7000" GPU family and what we can expect in the coming generation.

Back when AMD was in the process of launching its RDNA 3 GPU architecture, the company promised a monumental +54% increase in power efficiency vs. RDNA 2 GPUs through the use of chiplets and other changes. However, the launch saw little gains in the efficiency department, all the while NVIDIA took their efficiency to a whole new level with the Ada GPU architecture. Scott says that AMD believes in offering good performance per watt across their GPU lineup & that it matters more on the notebook front. So far, AMD has only introduced its non-chiplet Navi 33 to laptops.

In the release notes, AMD states that the Radeon RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT GPUs get up to a 16% performance boost versus the previous Radeon Software Adrenalin drivers at 4K resolution. That's a big boost and appreciated for users who are planning to play the game either in early or launch-day releases. The release note also mentions fixes for Baldur's Gate 3 but some users may face driver timeout issues within Starfield running Dynamic Resolution. That is an issue that'll be resolved in the coming release.

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Beyond Good and Evil 20th Anniversary Edition has received a US rating from the Entertainment Software Rating Board.

The ESRB rating was spotted by Twitter user @MACOS380 earlier today, and although the rating doesn't include any additional information about this so-called 20th Anniversary Edition, it does mention that it's coming to PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, and Xbox Series. An Xbox One version hasn't been mentioned, but since a PS4 version is being listed, it's likely that this is a mistake.

"This is an action-adventure game in which players assume the role of a reporter accompanied by a pig-like companion investigating a conspiracy on the planet of Hillys", the rating summary from the ESRB reads. "From a third-person perspective, players explore fantasy locations, take photos of evidence, solve puzzles, and fight robot and alien enemies. Combat is sometimes fast-paced, with players using melee weapons (e.g., staffs, torches) to strike stylized enemies that generally break apart or vanish into puffs of smoke. One boss battle depicts a squid-like alien stabbed in the eye, with yellow-green splatter effects."

MSI has unveiled its brand new GeForce RTX 40 "SLIM" lineup of GPUs, featuring a wide range of SKUs including the flagship RTX 4090 & 4080.

The latest data from JPR shows AMD regaining some market share from Nvidia. Don't get too excited. The new figures put AMD at 17.5% of overall desktop graphics card market share for the second quarter of 2023.

That's up from just 12% for the first quarter of the year. Wind the clock back to Q2 of 2022 and AMD was on 20%. So it's still behind its modest performance relative to Nvidia one year ago. But AMD has also improved significantly from the all-time low (at least in terms of data going back to 2002) of just a 10% share in the third quarter of last year.

Overall, desktop graphics cards shipments were up by 2% this quarter versus the first quarter of the year at 6.44 million. However, they were still down by a pretty horrendous 38% versus the same quarter in 2022.

Imagine Dragons has released its official Starfield song, called Children of the Sky (a Starfield song).

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Starfield composer Inon Zur collaborated with Imagine Dragons on Children of the Sky. He said: “The band has created an amazing, emotional, and memorable song, and I joined them in crafting the Starfield motif into the song as well as iconic elements from the Main Theme and the Starfield orchestral treatment. The outcome is a massive celebration for Starfield and I hope that the group’s fans as well as gamers from all over the world will find it as exhilarating and magnificent as we all feel.”

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Space Marine 2 has a new, explosive nine-minute gameplay video keen Warhammer 40,000 watchers are sure to get a kick out of.

Saber Interactive’s Space Marine 2 has so far shown off the relentless alien Tyranids as the primary enemy facing Lieutenant Titus and his Ultramarine brethren as they battle to save the Imperial Jungle World Kadaku from disaster. But this new gameplay video, below, teases the addition of Chaos forces to the game.

ASUS's Revolutionary Yet Proprietary "GC-HPWR" Connector Comes With A Cableless Design But Needs Adoption To Really Kick Off

Colorful Technology Company Limited, a professional manufacturer of graphics cards, motherboards, all-in-one gaming and multimedia solutions, and high-performance storage, proudly announces the new COLORFIRE MEOW Series which consists of a graphics card, motherboard, and chassis. The MEOW Series feature two designs, MEOW ORANGE featuring Bobi the orange tabby cat and MEOW PURPLE featuring A+ the British shorthair cat.

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[EDIT] : Sorry, kbin is picking up the least valuable image.

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