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Baldur's Gate 3 has already sold over 5.2 million units on Steam alone, not counting GOG, according to the Belgian Embassy.

...Both Intel and AMD optimized their software stacks to get massive speedups in generative AI which has seen AMD's RTX 7900 XTX get higher performance per dollar than an NVIDIA RTX 4080 in generative AI (specifically Stable Diffusion with A111/Xformers). Considering Stable Diffusion accounts for the vast majority of non-SaaS, localized generative AI right now - this is a major milestone and finally offers some competition to NVIDIA.

Pat Naoum’s puzzler, The Master’s Pupil, was made by one developer over seven years and countless brush strokes.

This video talks about new tools added to the Open Source PresentMon initiative, adding the capability to monitor a new metric called "GPU Busy." In the video, we explain the rendering pipeline for frames, including discussion about game engines (e.g. Unreal Engine 5) CPU, GPU, and DirectX or API involvement in taking data and composing a frame presented to the player. This is a technical discussion with Tom Petersen, Senior Fellow (engineering) at Intel, who explains the new tools and how they can be used by end users and reviewers alike. As these are completely vendor agnostic and open source, we can apply these to reviews of all CPUs or GPUs (in Windows), and likewise the users can run PresentMon for all hardware at home. Intel hardware is not required. As background, PresentMon has already been around for many years now and is what many reviewers use for their benchmark and reviews process.

It was only a matter of time, right? While technical tricks like stacking a thousand explosive barrels or leveraging fall damage for Owlbear elbow drops are impressive in their own way, I've yet to see anything truly representing Dungeons & Dragons' frightening powergaming underbelly from Baldur's Gate 3's community. That is, until now.

This video talks about new tools added to the Open Source PresentMon initiative, adding the capability to monitor a new metric called "GPU Busy." In the video, we explain the rendering pipeline for frames, including discussion about game engines (e.g. Unreal Engine 5) CPU, GPU, and DirectX or API involvement in taking data and composing a frame presented to the player. This is a technical discussion with Tom Petersen, Senior Fellow (engineering) at Intel, who explains the new tools and how they can be used by end users and reviewers alike. As these are completely vendor agnostic and open source, we can apply these to reviews of all CPUs or GPUs (in Windows), and likewise the users can run PresentMon for all hardware at home. Intel hardware is not required. As background, PresentMon has already been around for many years now and is what many reviewers use for their benchmark and reviews process.

Since Intel launched its Arc GPU family, the company prioritized modern APIs including DX12 and Vulkan. Now that Intel has strengthened its performance within those, the blue team took a step back and focused on DX11 performance which has seen incremental updates over the quarters & at this point, Intel's DX11 performance is on par with its competitors.

The Making of Karateka, a new "interactive documentary" telling the story of Prince of Persia and The Last Express creator Jordan Mechner's classic 1984 martial arts game, is launching for PC, Xbox, and PlayStation on 29th August, with a Switch version to follow in September.

Intel has unveiled its "Gamer Days" bundle which includes a free copy of Assassin’s Creed Mirage and Nightingale with Arc GPUs & latest CPUs.

A dark new chapter begins in Modern Warfare III 🔥

💪 Blockbuster campaign featuring new Open Combat Missions
🗺️ Iconic Multiplayer maps
🧟 The largest Call of Duty Zombies map ever

Plus so much more. Ready up for #MW3 soldier

Lenovo is working on a gaming handheld called Legion Go, which might be the best on-the-go gaming device yet! And if you think this is just another rumor like Lenovo’s Legion Play from a few years back (as we also did), think again.

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At first glance, it doesn’t look that much different from its competitors, but the thing that sets it apart (we think) it’s the similarities with another huge player in this space, the Nintendo Switch.