NVIDIA Reportedly Kills RTX 5050 9 GB Before Launch As Its Own RTX 3060 12 GB Makes It Pointless

The new variant is said to have been cancelled as the RTX 3060 12 GB has already entered the market.

The budget segment doesn't have many options from the current-gen NVIDIA and AMD series, which is why NVIDIA wanted to expand the RTX 50 series lineup with another variant of the GeForce RTX 5050 . If you have been following reports surrounding the RTX 5050 with 9 GB VRAM, you might be aware that the GPU was supposedly delayed , but was


Samsung Ready To Tackle Intel & TSMC With Its 1.4nm Process Tech, Aiming Mass Production For 2029

Samsung Electronics is all set to tackle Intel 14A and TSMC A14 with its own 1.4nm process technology, which should be ready in 2029.

Intel and TSMC are one of the leading firms working on 1.4nm class process technologies. Although each technology is fundamentally different than one another, both are officially designated as 1.4nm products. TSMC's A14 fabs are expected to come online next year & competitor Intel is also set to accelerate its 1

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US Bill that Could’ve Required Paid Games to Have Offline Modes Post-Server Shutdowns Fails to Pass a Vote in the Senate

At the beginning of June, a bill proposed in the California State Assembly in the United States seemed poised to make massive waves in the video game industry . The bill would've required game developers to have offline modes for their games, so that players weren't losing something they paid for when servers got shut down. The Protect Our Games Act passed its vote at the congress level, but unfortunately, as spotted by VGC , it did not make it further.

After passing its initial vote, it was tossed

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Sony’s PlayStation 6 Handheld Gains Credibility, As AMD Zen 6 Leak Lines Up With Its Rumored Specs

We have known for quite some time that Sony may be preparing to launch a next-generation PlayStation 6 handheld system alongside the flagship home console, to possibly deliver a cheaper entry-point in the next generation of consoles. As the home system has yet to be formally announced by Sony , we do not know whether the portable system is indeed in active development or whether the leaked specifications are real. However, with a new hardware leak related to the AMD Zen 6 architecture , we have received the very first indication that


Arbitration Rules Give Affected T-Mobile Users A Real Path To Compensation After The Carrier Just Retired Every Legacy Plan, Hiking Bills By ~$4 Per Line

T-Mobile created a sizable upheaval in the US telecom sphere on Monday when it decided to retire all legacy plans , including grandfathered Sprint bundles, resulting in an average increase of $4 per line.

Yet, you might have a potent recourse under the US arbitration rules, especially if your T-Mobile plan either had explicit price guarantees or those implied via advertisements.

As we noted on Monday, T-Mobile is now retiring almost the entirety of its legacy plans, including Simple Choice, ONE, ONE Plus,


PlayStation PC Retreat Is A Mistake, As 18+ Months Late Ports Made Money Without Costing a Single Console Sale

In the past few years, former PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 exclusives like God of War , The Last of Us , Marvel's Spider-Man , and Ghost of Tsushima made their way to PC. But with a recent pivot which was finally officially confirmed by SIE 's current president Hideaki Nishino last week, it will only be multiplayer and live-service games that will get ported from now on. The man behind the previous strategy, Shawn Layden , recently commented on the reasons behind the company's original


The Relic: First Guardian Hands-On Preview – When Your Worst Enemy’s Name Is Vignette

Although the number of soulslike games has slightly decreased in the past few months, development studios across the world are still attempting to capture the formula created by FromSoftware with its Souls series. Among these studios is South Korean developer Project Cloud Games, which is gearing up to release The Relic: First Guardian on July 31, following a two-month delay .

I have to admit I wasn't aware of the game until earlier this month, when the release date announcement traile r was shared online. The short showcase

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A Laptop Hunter Was Willing To Pay 50% More For Windows Notebooks To Avoid Apple’s Locked Ecosystem, Ended Up Getting An M5 MacBook Air Because Of Its Value

The myriad of notebook options available means there is no shortage of alternatives in a multitude of markets, and it’s just the price that’ll determine your purchase. For someone living in Europe, the decision wasn’t difficult as the individual had three requirements; avoiding Apple, having a laptop that would easily last five years, and a machine that’s not overpriced.

Just to steer clear of the locked software ecosystem that is macOS, the laptop hunter was willing to pay 50 percent more for a


New Turok: Origins Gameplay Trailer Shows Off More Intense Combat but Still Lacks a Release Date

Turok: Origins marks the return of the classic dino-shooting franchise, though this time it arrives as a co-op experience with a mixture of third-person and first-person action. As well as a major sci-fi spin, or at least, a bigger sci-fi spin than what was already seen in previous Turok games. Now, after its initial reveal back at The Game Awards 2024, its latest gameplay trailer shows off more of the intense combat and gameplay players can expect

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Cloudpunk Creators ION LANDS Reveal Nivalis Nights and Add Another Release to September 2026’s Packed Schedule

When German developer ION LANDS released Cloudpunk in 2020, it probably wasn't betting on being one of the best cyberpunk-themed games that year. But it was, especially with the backdrop of Cyberpunk 2077 making a name for itself due to its abysmal launch. Now, six years later, Cyberpunk 2077 is much improved, and ION LANDS is working on a return to its fictional city of Nivalis with a game that is now officially titled Nivalis Nights , and it finally

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