new Minisforum AtomMan G7 PT looks like a great tiny gaming rig, featuring an AMD Ryzen 7735HS CPU and a Radeon RX 7600M XT GPU [$1,249 barebone or $1,499 32GB ram, 1TB SSD, Win11] (www.pcgamesn.com)
Nvidia’s RTX 5090 now rumored to have superfast clock speeds – as well as being super-slim – could this GPU be too good to be true? (www.techradar.com)
Planet Coaster 2 TBA on Steam (store.steampowered.com)
Nobody Wants to Die - 10 Minutes of Exclusive Gameplay (yt.artemislena.eu)
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Double Dragon Is Getting a 3D Beat 'Em Up From Arc System Works - IGN (www.ign.com)
Valve Made A DOTA Fighting Game And It's Out Now [in a DOTA2 patch] (kotaku.com)
AMD reportedly preps Hawk Point CPU without the NPU — Ryzen 7 8745HS is a Ryzen 7 8845HS clone but with the XDNA NPU chopped off [NPU=Neural process unit==AI] (www.tomshardware.com)
OBS encoding enhancements come to Nvidia's Maxwell GPUs — GeForce GTX 900 series can now leverage the Twitch Enhanced Broadcasting feature (www.tomshardware.com)
PC and Xbox Game Pass are getting a worldwide price hike (web.archive.org)
Riot was working on a Smash Bros-style fighting game, but MultiVersus helped convince it to pull the plug (www.pcgamer.com)
DXVK 2.4 brings D8VK for Direct3D 8 support, frame rate limiter adjustments, lots of game fixes (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate on Steam in Q4 2024 (store.steampowered.com)
Nintendo Switch 2 performance boost to fall short of Valve's Steam Deck (www.tweaktown.com)
AMD Launches FidelityFX SDK v1.1 with FSR 3.1 Source Code on GPUOpen (www.guru3d.com)
An iconic series of Flash puzzle games is returning to PC in the form of Shift Legacy Collection (www.pcgamesn.com)
Shift 87, a New "Horror Observation" Game, Announced for PC - IGN (www.ign.com)
AMD's Ryzen 9000 single-core performance again impresses in early Geekbench results — 9700X, 9600X dominate previous-gen AMD and Intel CPUs (www.tomshardware.com)
Qualcomm hires former AMD ray tracing expert for its GPU team (www.tomshardware.com)
Chaotic multiplayer physics-brawler Bare Butt Boxing releases in August (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Embracer reportedly close down cult RPG maker Piranha Bytes, creators of Gothic, Risen, and Elex (web.archive.org)
Apex Legends players criticise plans to shake-up how Battle Passes works (www.videogameschronicle.com)
There will be two $10 Battle Passes per season, and they’ll only be purchasable with real money instead of earnable in-game currency
The developer of new Steam roguelike Dice and Fold is “amazed by the reception” after launch, and launches its extreme mode update early. (www.pcgamesn.com)
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