… Dubbed a “10th Anniversary Edition” in reference to how long Socket AM4 has been around, the re-released chip is slower than regular 8-core Ryzen 5000-series CPUs in general productivity tasks but comes with 64MB of extra L3 cache that disproportionately benefits games. …
… These now-routine price increases are a marked change from a decades-long period where game consoles routinely and quickly dropped in price in the years after their launch. …
… Any games that support FSR 4 should be able to support FSR 4.1 running on Radeon 7000-series cards; users will presumably be able to install a driver update in July that enables the new feature. Games that support the older FSR 3.1 can also be forced to use FSR 4 in the Radeon graphics driver. …
… Commodore also equipped the phone with some Commodore 64-era games. …
… Apple Silicon Macs will still be able to run Intel Mac apps via the Rosetta 2 compatibility layer in macOS 27, but future releases will begin to limit the technology Apple has said it will mainly be used to support older games that still use Intel code . …
… The 5800X3D was the first of AMD’s X3D releases, and it comes with the most compromises compared to standard Ryzen chips. …
… Kyle Orland has been the Senior Gaming Editor at Ars Technica since 2012, writing primarily about the business, tech, and culture behind video games. …
… Google DeepMind has a long history of using games as a proving ground for machine learning models, from enabling breakthroughs in complex board games like Go to outperforming humans in Atari VCS games and StarCraft , for example. …
… The anti-doomscrolling Pause Point that Google revealed a few weeks ago is also slated for release later in 2026. The initial Android 17 release includes native screen reaction video support. …
… And while Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass subscription once seemed like a ray of hope for the division, that service has recently been shedding millions of subscribers after massive subscription price increases last year , suggesting it had mainly succeeded by underpricing access to Microsoft’s own firs… …