Today we are back with another extensive performance analysis, as we check out the recently-released Days Gone. As the latest formerly PlayStation-exclusive title to come to the PC, we test thirty graphics cards in this game to find out exactly what sort of GPU you need to play at maximum image quality settings. Has this… Read more
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Days Gone PC Performance Benchmark – 30 GPUs tested!
Google rediscovers RSS: tests new feature to ‘follow’ sites in Chrome on Android
Google is testing a new feature for its Chrome browser on Android that lets users “follow” sites to create an updating list of new content they publish. The feature is based on RSS, an open web standard that’s been the backbone of many popular web aggregation tools in the past. That includes Google’s own, much… Read more
read more...Android 12 preview: first look at Google’s radical new design
There are new features, but it’s the biggest design update in years Google is announcing the latest beta for Android 12 today at Google I/O. It has an entirely new design based on a system called “Material You,” featuring big, bubbly buttons, shifting colors, and smoother animations. It is “the biggest design change in Android’s… Read more
read more...New Trailers: The Green Knight, Wish Dragon, Venom 2, and more
So since The Handmaid’s Tale isn’t dark enough (honestly give us something, show writers), I also started watching Mare of Easttown (HBO Max) and over the weekend watched The Woman in the Window (fine, gritty anti-heroines are my thing, I guess). Mare is so far reminding me a lot of Broadchurch, another not-very-uplifting but great… Read more
read more...Radeon RX 6600 XT, RX 6600 Specifications Emerge In New Leak
Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) A Chiphell forum user has shared two GPU-Z screenshots that reportedly reveal the Radeon RX 6600 XT and RX 6600’s specifications. GPU-Z recently added support for both unannounced RDNA 2 graphics cards so the information should be accurate. Nevertheless, we recommend you approach the specifications with caution for now. The… Read more
read more...Target will stop selling Pokémon cards in stores
Target has decided that it’s had enough: the company has officially confirmed to Bleeding Cool that it will halt the sales of Pokémon cards throughout the US, starting Friday, May 14th. The retailer cities “an abundance of caution” for the safety of both guests and store employees and notes that it will still be selling… Read more
read more...The original Xbox background is here to haunt the Xbox Series X / S
The Xbox has gone through several visual periods during its life span, from an edgy and yet somehow dorky green alien thing, to a modern look that could be described as “I know how to use Excel but I can still have fun.” But like stumbling on a Facebook album from high school, you can… Read more
read more...Phison Says SSD Hikes Coming Due to Chia, Supply Issues
Home News (Image credit: Phison) Phison expects SSD pricing to increase by at least 10% in the coming months due to rising demand driven by Chia cryptocurrency mining coupled with supply constraints. Furthermore, the company expects a currently short supply of SSD controllers to persist through 2022 and 2023. Phison sells SSDs and other NAND… Read more
read more...Meet the real Alexa: voice actor reportedly responsible for Amazon’s AI assistant revealed
Amazon’s Alexa has a voice familiar to millions: calm, warm, and measured. But like most synthetic speech, its tones have a human origin. There was someone whose voice had to be recorded, analyzed, and algorithmically reproduced to create Alexa as we know it now. Amazon has never revealed who this “original Alexa” is, but journalist… Read more
read more...Asus Zenfone 8 specs surface in full, detailing all of the hardware
Asus will be introducing the Zenfone 8 and Zenfone 8 Flip in just a few days, on May 12. Thanks to some pretty-extensive leaks, we already have a pretty good idea what to expect, as well as how the two phones will look. Even more so now that a very detailed specs sheet for the… Read more
read more...Watch Elon Musk play Wario, parody SpaceX, and hype dogecoin on Saturday Night Live
As you’ve surely heard, last night’s guest host on Saturday Night Live was not a charismatic movie actor promoting a new project but instead an endlessly hyped CEO named Elon Musk. Over the course of an hour and a half, SNL had Musk dress up as a misunderstood Wario, mock some of his more questionable… Read more
read more...RTX 3060 Appears on Steam’s Hardware Survey, RX 6000 Series Still Nowhere in Sight
Home News (Image credit: AMD) Valve’s Steam hardware survey was just updated, and one of Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3060, one of the best graphics cards, showed up on the charts for the first time. Sure, it has a very minute 0.17% market share at the time of this writing, but the card only launched in… Read more
read more...The final trailer for A Quiet Place Part II drops over a year after I thought it came out
Over a year after A Quiet Place Part II was set to release, Paramount has dropped the final trailer for it. It looks pretty good! Paramount made the decision to pull the movie from the schedule back in March 2020 due to concerns over the pandemic. At the time, director and star of the first… Read more
read more...The art of making simple but tough rhythm games
Unbeatable.Image: D-Cell Games Unbeatable and Rhythm Doctor make the genre more accessible — and challenging By Alan Wen May 6, 2021, 10:00am EDT From the trailer’s opening, with its striking, pastel-colored anime visuals, loud rock guitar riffs, and energetic vocals, Unbeatable looks and sounds incredible. Wrapped in turn-of-the-millennium influences in both its anime and rock… Read more
read more...Resident Evil Village Benchmarks and System Requirements
Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Reviews for Capcom’s Resident Evil Village have gone live, and we’re taking the opportunity to look at how the game runs on the best graphics cards. We’re running the PC version on Steam, and while patches and future driver updates could change things a bit, both AMD and Nvidia… Read more
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