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Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti review: more 4K for more of your wallet

Nvidia goes back to 4K for more than $1K Last year’s Nvidia RTX 3080 was the first GPU to make 4K gaming finally feasible. It was a card that delivered impressive performance at 4K, especially for its retail price of $699 — far less than the 2080 Ti cost a generation earlier. That was before… Read more

Elite Dangerous Odyssey launches to ‘mostly negative’ reception from players

Elite Dangerous took a big step forward with its new Odyssey expansion, introducing new planets, boots-on-ground combat missions and more. Unfortunately, the launch did not get off to a good start, leading to a lot of disappointment amongst early PC players. Over on Steam, Elite Dangerous Odyssey has quickly garnered a ‘Mostly Negative’ overall review… Read more

Nvidia’s RTX 3050 Ti can deliver 60fps gameplay in more budget-friendly laptops

Nvidia’s RTX 30-series lineup of mobile graphics chips has two new members joining today: the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti and 3050. They sit beneath the GeForce RTX 3060 in terms of specs and performance, with less video memory (4GB) and fewer dedicated Tensor AI and RT cores available to perform ray tracing and handle AI-enhanced… Read more

Samsung Galaxy Book Odyssey is the first laptop to feature the RTX 3050 Ti GPU

João Silva 18 hours ago Featured Tech News, Laptop / Mobile Samsung Unpacked just took place this week and this time around, Samsung introduced a new gaming laptop – the Galaxy Book Odyssey. While we have seen listings and rumours about laptops equipped with an RTX 3050 Ti GPU, the Galaxy Book Odyssey is the… Read more

Microsoft reveals how Halo Infinite will look on 32:9 super ultrawide monitors and other PC perks

I wish I’d had this to test with Samsung’s Odyssey G9 Microsoft has something of a history of neglecting PC gaming, but it’s trying to change that in a big way — by promising its flagship Halo Infinite will feel like a native PC game when it arrives later this year. We’ve known for many… Read more

Samsung announces a cheaper entry-level Galaxy Book with no OLED

Samsung announced two entry-level Galaxy Book laptops at its Unpacked event: the Galaxy Book and the Galaxy Book Flex2 Alpha. The former will start at around $800 (according to Samsung, that price is subject to change) and will launch in the second half of 2021, whereas the Flex2 Alpha starts at $849 and is available… Read more

Samsung’s Galaxy Book Odyssey introduces Nvidia’s new RTX 3050 Ti

Samsung is announcing its new Galaxy Book Odyssey gaming laptop today, complete with Nvidia’s unannounced GeForce RTX 3050 Ti and 3050 graphics cards. The 15.6-inch (1080p) gaming laptop starts at $1,399 and will ship with Intel’s 11th Gen Core H i5 or i7 processors, up to 32GB of RAM, and up to 2TB of SSD… Read more

Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050, 3050 Ti Appear in Samsung Galaxy Book Odyssey

Home News (Image credit: Samsung) Samsung will be among the first with a laptop featuring Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3050 and RTX 3050 Ti, as announced during its Galaxy Unpacked event today. This further confirms additional graphics cards that Nvidia has yet to formally announce. The two are listed as Max-Q variants of the graphics cards… Read more

VESA: DisplayHDR 2000 Doesn’t Exist

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) VESA released a statement today denying recent claims that two monitors are “DisplayHDR 2000” certified because, well, there’s no such thing as DisplayHDR 2000. The statement was issued in response to listings on Taobao, a popular Chinese retailer, for an updated Samsung Odyssey G9 and a new Acer EI491CRG9 monitor…. Read more

Acer planning a 49-inch Mini LED monitor to rival Samsung Odyssey G9

João Silva 5 hours ago Featured Tech News, Monitors It looks like the Samsung Odyssey G9 already has some competition. A new curved gaming monitor from Acer has been listed at a Chinese retailer, and as per the product description, it will have specs to match Samsung’s improved Odyssey G9 display. According to a Taobao listing… Read more

Xbox controller ‘stick drift’ lawsuit will not go to trial

Matthew Wilson 5 hours ago Featured Tech News, Software & Gaming Last year, we learned that Nintendo isn’t the only company facing lawsuits over gaming controller issues – there was also a case brewing against Microsoft over Xbox One controller ‘stick drift’. Now this year, Microsoft has successfully managed to remove the case from the… Read more

Cyberpunk 2077 DLC quests datamined from Patch 1.2

Matthew Wilson 5 hours ago Featured Tech News, Software & Gaming It has been a couple of weeks since CD Projekt Red began rolling out Patch 1.2 for Cyberpunk 2077. It turns out, not all the changes made to the game were mentioned in the lengthy patch notes, as dataminers have begun uncovering new content… Read more

IO Interactive confirms Hitman 3 sold 300% better than previous game

Matthew Wilson 5 hours ago Featured Tech News, Software & Gaming Earlier this year, IO Interactive released Hitman 3, the finale for the World of Assassination trilogy. This time around, IO Interactive released and published Hitman 3 fully independently and so far, this change appears to be paying off, with Hitman 3 outselling the previous… Read more

Square Enix confirms it is not looking to be acquired

Matthew Wilson 6 hours ago Featured Tech News, Software & Gaming Earlier this week, a report citing “multiple banker sources” claimed that there were several parties exploring an acquisition of Japanese mega-publisher, Square Enix. Of course, while Square Enix might be in the sights of a number of companies, there was nothing to suggest Square… Read more

A Resident Evil villain is coming to Dead by Daylight

Mustafa Mahmoud 22 hours ago Featured Tech News, Online, Software & Gaming Dead by Daylight has successfully brought in many of the horror genre’s biggest killers, including Michael Myers, Freddy Krueger, Pyramid Head and more. Now, it has been announced that the next villain to make its way to the multiplayer survival game will be… Read more