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GPU Demand Has Been Slowly But Steadily Declining in Q1 of 2022

May 31, 2022TomsHardware

In a new report by Jon Peddie Research, it appears the GPU market is in a slow but steady recovery from the incessant supply and demand issues that have plagued the industry over the past two years. According to the report, GPU shipments in the first quarter of 2022 saw a 6.2% decrease compared to Q4 of 2021, with a total of 96 million units shipped in Q1. This includes both integrated and discrete graphics from all the major players: Intel, AMD, and Nvidia. When broken down by each company, AMD saw the slightest decline of just 1.5%, while Nvidia…

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Elden Ring secretly made its twin boss fights easier

May 31, 2022PC Gamer

Audio player loading… FromSoftware nerfed some of Elden Ring’s trickiest boss fights without telling anyone. Several twin bosses, like the twin Crystalians or Mad Pumpkin Heads, have had their aggression dialed back to make those fights much easier to manage as a solo player. The change was made in patch 1.04 but wasn’t clear in the patch notes. Dataminer king bore (opens in new tab) found the changes in April and Illusory Wall (opens in new tab) demonstrated it in their latest video. Before the changes, fighting two bosses at the same time required you to dance between their overlapping…

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These classic point-and-click adventures just got updated 25 years later

May 31, 2022PC Gamer

Audio player loading… It’s not very often that a game studio releases an update for a 25-year-old videogame, but developer 2.21 has done it for Little Big Adventure 2 (opens in new tab)—released in North America as Twinsen’s Odyssey—to mark its 25 anniversary in June. The update will bring a number of new features to the game, including: Auto-centered camera in exteriors setting on/offLanguage select in menuSteam AchievementsSteam Cloud SavingController SupportInput remappingNew Game+Windowed SupportThe original Little Big Adventure (opens in new tab), released in North America as Relentless: Twinsen’s Adventure, is getting a virtually identical update, but instead of a…

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ASRock Plans Five New X670 and X670E Motherboards

May 31, 2022TomsHardware

ASRock has revealed five upcoming X670 and X670E motherboards on its main site, including the X670E Taichi Carrara, Taichi, Steel Legend, Pro RS, and the X670 PG Lightning. All five boards will serve as ASRock’s introduction into the AM5 platform and are designed to run AMD’s upcoming Ryzen 7000 series processors. The newest entry in ASRock’s lineup is the X670E Taichi Carrara. This board appears to be nothing more than an outfit change over the vanilla X670E Taichi, with general specifications being identical between the two motherboards. The Carrara sub-variant features a rather extravagant looking white marble top spread out…

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Monument Valley: Panoramic Collections are coming to PC in July

May 31, 2022VG247

If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Both Monument Valley games are heading to Steam. iOS and Android darling Monument Valley is finally heading to PC and will be released through Steam on July 12. Both Monument Valley and Monument Valley 2 will be made available in Panoramic Editions and will be released on the same day. In Monument Valley, you will go on a quest for forgiveness through a lovely and mysterious world with Ida, the silent princess. Through impossible environments and illusionary puzzles you will…

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What To Expect From Sony’s Big Not-E3 Press Conference

May 31, 2022Kotaku

This year’s not-E3-but-basically-E3 kicks off on Thursday with Sony’s big summer State of Play showcase. PlayStation has already had a pretty banner year, thanks to a number of exclusives (Horizon Forbidden West, Gran Turismo 7, Ghostwire: Tokyo) and a forthcoming revamp of its subscription services. But there’s a lot more in the pipe.

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Xbox Games with Gold June: Super Meat Boy, The Aven Colony, Project Highrise, more

May 31, 2022VG247

Get your freebies for the month. Microsoft has announced the June Xbox Games with Gold lineup. The games for June are Aven Colony, Project Highrise: Architect’s Edition, Super Meat Boy, and Raskulls. Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members will have exclusive access to these games for a limited time as part of Games with Gold. On June 1, city-building strategy game The Aven Colony arrives and will stick around until June 30. In the game, your job is to develop Aven Colony on the strange new world of Aven Prime. You will use construction drones to help…

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Zhaoxin Glenfly Arise 1020 GPU Underperforms in Early Geekbench Score

May 31, 2022TomsHardware

A mysterious GPU from China has been spotted in the Geekbench online results browser. The benchmarking app was used to run tests on a system that appears to be mostly based on technology from Shanghai Zhaoxin Semiconductor Company. It has a Zhaoxin KaiXian CPU, Zhaoxin motherboard, and a “Zhaoxin Glenfly GPU.” That last one is a new name. Twitter’s Benchleaks surfaced this OpenCL result, which can give some indication of GPU performance. We wouldn’t put to much weight on the current score, however, as 579 for Geekbench OpenCL is quite terrible. For comparison, even the lowly GTX 1650 scores around…

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Porsche Design AOC Agon Pro PD32M review: not very Porsche-y, but a fine gaming monitor

May 31, 2022RockPaperShotgun

Here we have another AOC gaming monitor, except it’s not just by AOC, but by posh car makers Porsche? It’s the Porsche Design AOC Agon Pro PD32M, a premium 4K / 144Hz beast of a display, and is in fact the second hardware collaboration between these unlikely bedfellows. It’s also far more ambitious (and expensive) than 2020’s AOC Agon PD27. It’s flat rather than curved, but goes for both a higher resolution and a larger 31.5in IPS panel. Its DisplayHDR certification also rises from 400 to 1400, fuelled largely by a switch to more advanced Mini LED backlighting: the same…

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AMD’s budget laptop chip might not be game-ready on its own

May 31, 2022PC Gamer

Audio player loading… AMD announced its Mendocino program during its Computex 2022 keynote (opens in new tab). By the end of it, we were hoping for a new kind of budget laptop. A budget laptop that could actually game. Boasting a Zen 2 APU with 4-cores and 8-threads alongside an RDNA 2-based iGPU we couldn’t help but draw parallels with the chip at the heart of the Steam Deck (opens in new tab). And given Mendocino is designed for machines that cost between $399-$699 we were understandably stoked about the possibilities. Unfortunately, the latest leaks have pulled the rug out…

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Pokemon Scarlet and Violet is getting a new trailer tomorrow

May 31, 2022VG247

Tune in for the latest on the game. If you are looking forward to Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, you’ll want to keep an eye on the official Pokemon YouTube channel tomorrow, June 1. That’s because a new trailer will drop at 6am PT, 9am ET, 2pm UK. Hopefully, this means some new gameplay and more information on the game in general, as we still don’t know too much about it and late-2022 will be here before you know it. The announcement of Pokemon Scarlet and Violet came during Pokemon Day 2022’s Pokemon Presents, where it was revealed the Game Freak-developed…

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How to use Great Runes in Elden Ring

May 31, 2022PC Gamer

If you’ve picked up an Elden Ring Great Rune in the Lands Between, you might want to know what to do with it. The main bosses (opens in new tab) drop them, alongside Remembrances (opens in new tab), and they can offer a handy boost to your Tarnished—provided you take the steps needed to activate them. You can equip a Great Rune at a Site of Grace once it’s been activated, but you’ll need to use a Rune Arc for it to give you its passive bonus effects. You can only equip one at a time, too, so you should…

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Diablo Immortal seemingly skipping release in Belgium and the Netherlands because of loot boxes

May 31, 2022VG247

It looks like Belgium and the Netherlands will miss out on yet another major release. Diablo Immortal will reportedly not be released in two major European countries. Immortal is set to arrive this Thursday, June 2 on Android and iOS, with a PC open beta kicking off on the same day. But players in Belgium and the Netherlands won’t be able to join the fun. The reason has to do with the two countries’ regulations about loot boxes. The news was first reported by Dutch site Tweakers, which received a comment from an Activision Blizzard Benelux communication manager confirming that…

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Today’s Wordle answer #346: Tuesday, May 31

May 31, 2022PC Gamer

Have you been looking for the Wordle May 31 (346) answer? Not every day can be a winner (not without a little help from a certain daily guide, anyway), and it’s on days like these I have to remind myself that defeat is temporary, but Wordle is forever (New York Times willing). There’s no reason why tomorrow won’t be the start of an incredible winning streak that stretches all the way to the end of the year.  Maybe you’ve sailed through today’s puzzle, and came by to look through our Wordle archive (opens in new tab) instead? No matter why…

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AMD Mendocino APU’s Leaked Slide Alleges Just Two CUs

May 31, 2022TomsHardware

AMD’s Mendocino APU, launched at Computex with just the briefest of technical details, doesn’t seem to be as exciting as many had hoped. One of the major omissions of the Mendocino Computex briefing was any talk about the number of RDNA 2 graphics compute units (CUs) it would come packing. Now a leaked slide via Olrak seems to indicate that the best Mendocino APU device buyers can hope for is two CUs, which means 128 stream processors (SPs). As this is a leak, take the news with a pinch of salt. Putting the above CU and SP counts into perspective,…

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The AyaNeo Air is the latest Steam Deck rival, starting at $289

May 31, 2022VG247

Valve kicked the door down; now an increasing number of impressive PC handhelds are hitting the market. The latest is the AyaNeo Air. While you can’t get a Steam Deck off Valve directly without joining a hefty waitlist, the market for handheld gaming PCs is becoming increasingly crowded, in part driven by the success of Valve’s machine. We’ve now got eyes on yet another new competitor – the AyaNeo Air. For those unfamiliar with the company and device, the AyaNeo brand has been peddling these sorts of handheld gaming products for a while now, though it has typically specialized in…

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Zotac is still making even weirder VR PC backpacks

May 31, 2022PC Gamer

Audio player loading… So far 2022 has had a focus on lightweight portable gaming. We’ve seen the successful launch and continued support of Valve’s Steam Deck (opens in new tab) as well as some lovely looking little gaming laptops announced. Streaming games has also seen a tonne of attention (opens in new tab) to make gaming even easier on the go, no matter your hardware.  Then there’s even specialised accessories like these cool wearable glasses screens (opens in new tab) to go with all that. But apparently none of this is quite enough for PC maker Zotac. Zotac is usually…

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