NVIDIA Control Panel’s in the Windows Store
My opinions about curated app stores has not really changed. Do not give up platforms, such as Win32, that allow you to publish without the approval of one or more organized bodies.…
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Author: Scott Michaud
Microsoft Releases Windows 10 October 2018 Update
While the April 2018 update barely made it out before May, Microsoft has published the Windows 10 October 2018 update on just October 2nd. From an aesthetics standpoint, this release...
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GOG.com Celebrated 10 Years with a Free Game
But which one will it be? So this is an interesting promotion. To honor their ten years of existing, GOG.com is planning to give away a free game. The twist is that…
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Huge Lay-offs at Telltale Games (“Majority Studio Closure”)
This afternoon, Telltale Games announced that they have laid off all but 25 employees; those who remain are there to “fulfill the company’s obligations to its board and partners”. Various...
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Availability Slips
There are two changes to the launch of NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 20-series of cards. The first change is that the general availability, as in the first possible moment to purchase a GeForce…
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Realtime Raytracing Commit Spotted in Unity GitHub
As Ken wrote up his take in a separate post, NVIDIA has made Turing architecture details public, which will bring real-time ray tracing to PC gaming later this month. When...
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Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey Specs. They Are Interesting.
Once again, we’re entering the fall and winter rushes of video games, which will provide several months of AAA releases. One of the earlier entries, launching October 5th, will be Ubisoft’s Assassin’s…
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GOG Back-to-School Sale 2018 Begins!
After summer comes back-to-school. What is the relevance for video games? Well, students will probably need to cut back on them, so might as well use it as an excuse for big…
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Turing vs Volta: Two Chips Enter. No One Dies.
In the past, when NVIDIA launched a new GPU architecture, they would make a few designs for each of their market segments. All SKUs would be one of those chips, with varying…
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The Khronos Group at SIGGRAPH 2018
SIGGRAPH 2018 is a huge computer graphics expo that occurs in a seemingly random host city around North America. (Asia has a sister event, called SIGGRAPH Asia, which…
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GamersNexus vs The Thermal Paste Cabal
A couple of weeks ago, GamersNexus published a video and article that benchmarked CPU performance across various thermal paste patterns. It’s well established that the best method of applying the...
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Blender Benchmark / Blender Open Data Announced
The Blender Foundation is wrapping up development on Blender 2.8, “The Workflow Update”. We have been following it for a while, but today’s announcement caught me by surprise: a benchmark database. It…
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