Month: October 2024

A new roadmap from AMD confirms both its next-gen Ryzen 8000 CPUs with Zen 5 technology and an updated “Navi 3.5” graphics architecture will arrive next year. Some rumours suggest Navi 3.5 could enable integrated graphics with performance on par with an Nvidia RTX 3070.

AMD has mentioned Zen 5 previously, but this is the first mention of Ryzen 8000 (via Videocardz). It’s also the first official listing of a new Navi 3.5 graphics architecture.

The official roadmap doesn’t go into any details regards Navi 3.5. But a recent Twitter post from serial leaker Kepler_L2 suggests that it’s largely the RDNA 3 architecture with a few bits from RDNA 4.

More specifically, it’s said to have revised shader ALUs with support for new FP32 instructions and improvements to the geometry engine, but not new RDNA 4 scheduler and improved RT cores. What does all that mean for actual performance? Frankly, who knows.

Arguably the bigger news associated with this new Navi 3.5 graphics is that it’s rumoured by several sources including RedGamingTech to feature in a new mega APU variously referred to as Strix Halo or Sarlak that we’ve touched on previously. What everyone agrees on i…

As far as gaming peripherals go, I’m a fan of a well-delivered gimmick. The market is so oversaturated with good gamer accessories that without a standout feature many fade into the crowd. Some gimmicks are just there for the headline, like some of these offensively ugly mice, but often there are solid ideas hidden in there. It’s just a shame that sometimes the ridiculous ideas are the ones that survive, while the good ones are lost to time.

The one loss that has me questioning humanity is the wireless mouse charging pad. Mouse pads have been around ever since we needed balls to roll around on them and have survived thanks to delivering smooth and certain surfaces we can rely on. Not that long ago, genius gaming peripheral innovators realised we could stick RGB lights in these things, and some even went the extra mile to add charging facilities.

The risky nature of the gimmick makes it all the more pleasing when one of these little touches stands out, and actually feels like an improvement over the standard form. Charging pads for wireless mice are a prime example of this, a great way to keep mouse weight down and battery levels up. So why is it that RGB-lit mouse ma…

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As spotted by GamesRadar yesterday, a Starfield fan has spent over 200 hours on the game without even playing it—by assembling a full 44-page speculative document on its skill trees.

“Below is the result of around 200 hours of painstakingly reverse-engineering Starfield’s skill system,” writes Reddit user asd8dhd on the document, which they released via a Reddit thread earlier this week. “I am fairly confident that this is as close as we will get [before release].” They then go on to unravel the game’s skill system with a level of specificity that’d make Sherlock Holmes blush. 

Asd8dhd speculates that Starfield’ll have a rough level cap of 326. While this astronomical number might seem far fetched, it’s not unprecedented for Bethesda games to let you reach absurd levels of character power. Skyrim’s level cap sits at 252, and Fallout 4 just doesn’t have one, though the game allegedly crashes at level 65,535.

They’ve also put together a rough map of the challenges you need to do to unlock skill ranks. For example, they suggest you’ll need to sneak attack over 160 enemies to get to the highest ranks of the Stealth skill—that’s a lot of crouc…

Dragon’s Dogma 2 received its first proper patch earlier today, following its popular yet controversial launch last week. It’s a small update that likely won’t do much to quell the extensive reports of performance issues with the PC version, but it nonetheless makes a few notable improvements to Capcom’s eccentric fantasy RPG.

The headline change is the introduction of a new “New Game” option, which lets players “start a new game when save data already exists”. It is, frankly, wild that Dragon’s Dogma 2 launched without this feature. Restarting an RPG a few hours in to tweak your character and class is practically a tradition at this point. But better late than never, I suppose.

After this, the most important change makes “the quest that allows players to acquire their own dwelling (where they can save and rest) available earlier in the game.” Purely on principle, I’m all for making it easier for people to own their own house. Presumably though, the reason for this is less to do with progressive housing policy, and more that players were getting frustrated at the length of time they had wait before having control over their own saving.

Aside from this, Capcom h…

The Epic Games Store is bleeding money, but it’s also still bleeding free games, and a couple of good ones are on the line right now. This week you can pick up The Evil Within, the hit survival horror game headed up by original Resident Evil director Shinji Mikami, and next week it’ll be the sequel, The Evil Within 2. This is the first time that either of The Evil Within games have gone free on Epic, so you’ll probably want to grab them while you can.

The Evil Within “[goes] all-in with the awful quite early,” PC Gamer brand director Tim Clark said during a “first impressions” gameplay video that’s now nearly a decade old. (Man, time flies.) Former associate editor Tom Marks, who joined him on the journey, concurred: “Tyler and I played Alien: Isolation before, and it was an hour long of not much happening and really slow, subtle build-up,” he said. “This is three minutes and we’re already in a slaughterhouse.”

So that’s what you can expect from The Evil Within: awfulness, fast—but in a good way, if you’re into that sort of thing.

The Evil Within 2—which was actually not directed by Mikami, but rather his Tango Gameworks cohort John Johanas—is…

While Google’s AI assistant Bard is currently available in 180 countries across the globe, the European Union and Canada still aren’t invited to the AI party. Almost two months after Google launched its friendly AI chatbot, Bard, the company is still withholding access to certain regions, but there’s no official statement on the matter.

The best guess is that Google may not see eye-to-eye with certain incoming regulations, not to mention that up against current GDPR rules, its processes may already be a little bit illegal.

The EU’s incoming AI Act is currently making its way through European Parliament in a bid to push current and would-be AI developers into making their products more transparent, and safer for the general public. Having spoken to some experts on the matter, Wired seems to be under the impression that Google is out there silently stomping its feet over the details of the act.

Even in its current state, Bard doesn’t quite fit the bill when it comes to the EU’s laws surrounding internet safety. As Access Now senior policy analyst, Daniel Leufer, says in the Wired piece, “There’s a lingering question whether these very large data sets, th…