Here we go folks, Best Buy’s Day 1 Black Friday Doorbuster deals are now live! Yesterday we featured the brand’s Black Friday sneak peak online ad as well as some of the early Doorbuster deals as part of Best Buy’s early access sale for Plus and Total ...
Apple finally included a telephoto lens in its iPhone 15 Pro Max last year, with the upgrade extended to the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max. This is just one of the many examples of how the Cupertino firm adopts various standards much later than the competition, likely because it wants to offer the best configuration to customers. One other technology that the company is said to bring for the iPhone 18 that rivals like Samsung introduced years ago is variable aperture for the main camera, and according to one analyst, another supplier will provide these parts. Sunny […]
The use of TSMC’s second-generation 3nm process for the M4 series has made Apple’s latest chipsets more thermally efficient, but that does not mean that a capable cooling solution should be ignored from the rest of the hardware configuration. In fact, depending on how robust that solution is, we can actually get more performance from the M4, as demonstrated in the latest Premiere Pro 4K Export test, where the redesigned Mac mini is faster than Apple’s updated 14-inch MacBook Pro. However, one other hardware ends up taking the crown, and we will discuss why this is happening. The 24-inch M4 […]
If you haven’t heard, Sony announced the PlayStation 5 Pro today, September 10, and that sucker is $700. That’s before you buy a disc drive and a vertical stand, which will run you another $110. The company is asking for nearly a grand to get the full ...
An interesting tidbit found in Apple’s Game Porting Toolkit 2 was that it supports the AVX2 instruction set. For those unfamiliar with this term, modern games such as Alan Wake 2 and Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart cannot run well on hardware that does not support this instruction set. One M3 Max MacBook Pro owner has now demonstrated that one of the titles runs incredibly well, but there might be another reason why the game can obtain a solid framerate on this hardware. M3 Max sports a minimum of 36GB unified RAM, making it plentiful to run Ratchet & Clank: […]
The year may be winding down, but the news just doesn’t stop. This week, we have insights into the inner workings of a massive game studio, a glimpse into who tops people’s lists of sexytime video game fantasies, and one legendary auteur admitting he’s...
Insomniac Games quickly established itself as one of the most prolific studios within PlayStation after Sony acquired it for what seems like a bargain at $229 million four years ago. 2020's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, 2021's Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart,...
Once again, it is the giving time of year, as holiday season draws near. As such, you might be in search of some great gifts for the PS5 gamer in your life? If so, we’ve selected a few games, and some hardware and service upgrade ideas as well for the ...
A new Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart patch is now live for the recently released PC version of the game, introducing a variety of improvements and fixes that improve the […]
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 is just about a month away, as the PlayStation 5 sequel is set to launch on October 20. While both the original 2018 game and its 2020 spin-off sequel Miles Morales were also on PlayStation 4, Spider-Man 2 is being made exclusivel...
A new Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart patch has gone live today, finally enabling ray tracing on AMD GPUs, improving ray-traced reflections and shadows and more. Patch v1.808.0.0 enables all […]
Early on in the PS5’s life, Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart’s dimension hopping shenanigans were claimed to only be possible with a solid state drive (SSD). Now that the game is on another platform, one capable of using an old-school physical harddrive, ...
The first Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart PC hotfix is now live, introducing some small but welcome improvements. The v1.727.0.0 hotfix resolves visual issues with characters occurring on certain GPUs, […]
As part of its Q2 FY 2025 financial presentation, SEGA has announced the sale of Amplitude Studios, the Paris-based studio known as the developer of Endless Space, Endless Legend, Dungeon of the Endless, Endless Space 2, Humankind, and more recently, Endless Dungeon. SEGA explained this concludes its wave of restructuring the European business, which previously included the sale of Relic Entertainment and substantial layoffs. The Group recorded an extraordinary loss of approximately ¥5.9 billion ($38.7 million) in the second quarter for the fiscal year due to the sale of overseas development studio Amplitude Studios SAS through a management buyout. [...] […]
The Target 3-day early Black Friday sale is now live but we are also now onto Day 8 of its Black Friday Deals of the Day. There are now “thousands of deals” live over at Target alongside the now live Best Buy early Doorbuster sale, and the daily deals ...
If you haven’t heard, Sony announced the PlayStation 5 Pro today, September 10, and that sucker is $700. That’s before you buy a disc drive and a vertical stand, which will run you another $110. The company is asking for nearly a grand to get the full ...
An interesting tidbit found in Apple’s Game Porting Toolkit 2 was that it supports the AVX2 instruction set. For those unfamiliar with this term, modern games such as Alan Wake 2 and Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart cannot run well on hardware that does not support this instruction set. One M3 Max MacBook Pro owner has now demonstrated that one of the titles runs incredibly well, but there might be another reason why the game can obtain a solid framerate on this hardware. M3 Max sports a minimum of 36GB unified RAM, making it plentiful to run Ratchet & Clank: […]
The year may be winding down, but the news just doesn’t stop. This week, we have insights into the inner workings of a massive game studio, a glimpse into who tops people’s lists of sexytime video game fantasies, and one legendary auteur admitting he’s...
Insomniac Games quickly established itself as one of the most prolific studios within PlayStation after Sony acquired it for what seems like a bargain at $229 million four years ago. 2020's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, 2021's Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart,...
Once again, it is the giving time of year, as holiday season draws near. As such, you might be in search of some great gifts for the PS5 gamer in your life? If so, we’ve selected a few games, and some hardware and service upgrade ideas as well for the ...
A new Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart patch is now live for the recently released PC version of the game, introducing a variety of improvements and fixes that improve the […]
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 is just about a month away, as the PlayStation 5 sequel is set to launch on October 20. While both the original 2018 game and its 2020 spin-off sequel Miles Morales were also on PlayStation 4, Spider-Man 2 is being made exclusivel...
A new Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart patch has gone live today, finally enabling ray tracing on AMD GPUs, improving ray-traced reflections and shadows and more. Patch v1.808.0.0 enables all […]
Early on in the PS5’s life, Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart’s dimension hopping shenanigans were claimed to only be possible with a solid state drive (SSD). Now that the game is on another platform, one capable of using an old-school physical harddrive, ...
The first Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart PC hotfix is now live, introducing some small but welcome improvements. The v1.727.0.0 hotfix resolves visual issues with characters occurring on certain GPUs, […]