Gaming

Baldur's Gate 3 resumes awards show dominance with GDC and BAFTA nominations

GOTY: Larian's critically acclaimed RPG dominated the Golden Joystick Awards, The Game Awards, and the DICE Awards, securing numerous accolades across all three events, including Game of the Year. This winning streak is poised to continue at the BAFTA Games Awards and the GDC Awards this spring. Other strong contenders for both upcoming events include Spider-Man 2, Alan Wake 2, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, and Cocoon.

Steam Deck OLED shows slight burn-in at 1,500 hours, or 750 hours at max HDR brightness

Facepalm: Users approaching 1,000 hours played on one game with static UI elements on the Steam Deck OLED should consider checking for burn-in and taking steps to mitigate or prevent the problem. Turning up the brightness and constantly using HDR can hasten the effect.

Helldivers 2 players liberated a mech factory in record time, causing more server capacity issues

The MSI Claw gaming handheld is ready to battle the Steam Deck

The New York Times issues DMCA takedown requests against Wordle imitators

Discord claims over 200 million monthly active users, planning an IPO

EA says generative AI will make gamers spend more, speed up development time

A hot potato: Electronic Arts is an organization that arguably only misses out on the title of "most-hated game company in the world" because Ubisoft exists. As it turns out, EA loves generative AI. CEO Andrew Wilson has been praising the technology, claiming it is set to make EA 30% more efficient while boosting monetization by 20% over the next five years. It also sounds like it will cost more game developers their jobs.

Google's new AI tool can turn images into playable mini-games

Horizon Forbidden West comes to PC on March 21, requires 150GB of storage and 16GB of RAM

Nvidia halts GeForce GTX manufacturing, signaling the brand's end

Command & Conquer price cut to $2 has got us thinking EA could announce a new series entry

Yuzu developer pays Nintendo $2.4 million to settle lawsuit, ceases all Switch and 3DS emulator operations

AMD to introduce AI-based upscaling, potentially matching DLSS

Something to look forward to: AMD's FSR image upscaling technology has avoided using AI until now, which has been a double-edged sword in its competition against Nvidia's DLSS and Intel's XeSS. A recent interview with AMD's CTO indicates that the company plans to pivot sharply toward AI in 2024, with gaming upscaling as one area of focus.

Hardware hackers manage to run GTA: Vice City on a wireless router

Steam hits a new record of over 34 million concurrent users

Windows 10 sees resurgence in Steam survey, English is no longer the top language

Mechs, recon vehicles, and armored personnel carriers are popping up in some Helldivers 2 matches

The Raspberry Pi Pico-powered Throttle Blaster brings classic games to life on modern systems

Unreal Tournament and the original Unreal receive RTX path tracing mods

Nvidia could be working on a new gaming device to rival the Steam Deck

Remedy acquires full rights for the Control franchise for $18 million

AMD RDNA4 graphics cards may only receive a minor bump in ray tracing performance

Rumor mill: Although the last few generations of AMD graphics cards have matched their Nvidia equivalents in rasterization performance and often featured more memory, Team Red has been a step behind in hardware-accelerated ray tracing ever since it debuted in consumer hardware. New information regarding the company's next GPU lineup suggests the situation won't change.