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Recent content by NC37

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    Assassin's Creed Shadows Collector's Edition Gets $50 Price Cut Amid Monetization Pivot

    When it hits the $5 bin, I might care. Ubisoft could have made a truly epic ninja assassin masterpiece but instead they went with Mr.SmashyEverythingLeeroyJenkinsMode and Ms.ForgottenBecauseAdvertisingFocusedEntirelyOnSmashymodeInsteadOfTheActualKunoichi.
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    AMD Granite Ridge "Zen 5" Processor Annotated

    Great but, at this point AMD has a problem because consumers are starting to get wise to their 3D cache releases. People aren't as interested in the initial release because they know the 3D cache version is coming which will blow it out of the water. They've been pumping a lot into trying to...
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    Samsung Launches the 990 EVO Plus SSD, Comes in Sizes up to 4 TB

    Those prices...lol. You can get a pro for less one the sales.
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    Microsoft DirectX 12 Shifts to SPIR-V as Default Interchange Format

    Indeed, DX12 has stagnated for so long and it's been awhile since we had a new shader model. Any current or next gen GPU is effectively reduced in value until this is addressed.
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    AMD Ryzen 7 9700X

    Why even put an iGPU on it? That makes no sense at all.
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    Several AMD RDNA 4 Architecture Ray Tracing Hardware Features Leaked

    RDNA3 was such a stopgap. Should give RDNA3 owners a rebate. Clear RDNA3 was dead on arrival and AMD knew it.
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    Sony Announces the PlayStation VR2 PC Adapter with August Availability

    This exactly. Helldivers 2 attempts this and suddenly gamers care about their data and being monitored? More likely they never thought of it till now and suddenly realize they don't like it because their favorite influencer is throwing a fit over it.
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    Ghost of Tsushima Performance Benchmark

    nVidia GPUs don't typically age well. Always low on the VRAM and some are even gimped in other ways to which there have been class actions on. Are pretty nice for that first couple years. I've had them before. Haven't gone back since Fermi. Didn't like how they aged.
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    AMD Hits Highest-Ever x86 CPU Market Share in Q1 2024 Across Desktop and Server

    Those are HPs too. HP is the only brand I recommend people against. Have not worked on one in the last 20 yrs that had decent internals. All of them tend to suffer from similar issues too. Not to mention their printers are just as bad. Course, I don't find a lot of printers reliable these days...
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    Sony Reverses Decision of Mandatory PSN Account for Helldivers 2 After Negative Feedback

    What's disturbing is how many death threats they allegedly got. That is inexcusable. I really didn't care as I rarely log into PSN anyways. Haven't started my PS4 in over a year.
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    Apple Preparing M4 Chips with AI Capabilities to Fight Declining Mac Sales

    If they want more sales they need to finally make something that isn't brushed metal. Apple back seated Macs in favor of phones and then continued to do that over and over. Cook did that. He doesn't know how to handle Macs.
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    Ubisoft at GDC: How "Assassin's Creed Mirage" Grew from DLC to Full Game

    As one who didn't really like the Ezio story or get into it and hasn't even finished Black Flag, I just find myself wanting to play it less and less as they keep churning out more games. They're all the same gameplay and I don't even want to bother with the story any longer. Don't have time for...
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    Microsoft Introduces Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 Models for Business

    Yep, I just had a client who wanted something like it for traveling. Surface = Right performance on the high ends but priced to high to justify, abysmal performance on the low-mid end with lots of competition that is much better for the price. They ended up getting a Lenovo Yoga 2n1. Bigger...
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    Report: Apple to Use Google's Gemini AI for iPhones

    Hopefully there is a way to turn it off like there is with Siri. Such battery hogs.
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    Report Alleges Halting of PlayStation VR2 Production

    Price is an issue when you consider the original PSVR being around $300. If you put it at that price again with PC functionality, it would definitely sell and likely lead to price drops among the other VR makers. Sony has shown time and time again since the PSP era that they aren't really...
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