Speaking of privacy and another reason to never install that trash.

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/07/10/you-cant-fully-disable-microsofts-gdid-windows-11-tracker-but-these-settings-limit-what-it-captures/

Same. I’ve been happy with the move and as far as gaming is concerned, it’s been so much smoother and a much better experience even with the more limited support from vendors.

Probably not for sale since they will want to simply lock the IP in the graveyard rather than let someone else create something with it.

I mean these companies have the solution. Collude and price gouge for maximum shareholder and executive value. Just how capitalism was designed to do.

The computer is very cool what the did with a six inch cube but just now 1.4k worth of engineering for me.

If that sounds a lot like a cartel, well, you wouldn’t be the first person to point that out

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_price_fixing_scandal

Something, something history rhymes and mind you that those found guilty got slaps on the wrist and then promoted within the industry.

Not sure Star Trek: Isolation is exactly what I want in a new Star Trek game.

Just another reason for me to avoid these types of games. These systems are notorious of false positives and bricking a users system, cheating or not, is going away too far and why they should never be allowed that level of access.

I think generally it’s compatible with proton and Linux but still I’m not a fan of Denuvo so I’m not about to find out since I’ve already kind of fell out of the game.

I usually go around 7 to 10 years before building a new machine with usually one GPU upgrade in-between.

I’ll keep the computer going until the frame rate on a modern game hits less than 40 on a game I actually want to play which may be longer now since I’m not exactly clamoring to play the next AAA game.

People who haven’t gotten raises to keep up with cost of living are buying cheaper indie games that are fun and supported instead of 80 AAA games that are abandoned because they didn’t make all of the money.

Gee, shocker.

Same but you would have had to have known that there was backlash.

I personally think that these types of headlines are fine. Yes the headline is provocative with the wording but honestly they have to be a bit because if they don’t then they don’t get anyone to view their story. No views, no money and the whole cow, milk, and giving it away for free comes into play.

Click the damn link and give the journalist a some ad revenue because these guys also need to earn a living while most of us commenting, at least in this side of the world, we’re also making a living while having the luxury to read gaming news during work hours too and honestly, I don’t see anyone that’s complaining about the headline stepping up to the plate and providing any of their own original content and descriptive headlines that give you the whole story.

I guess I’m old enough to remember that there were a plethora of joysticks and game pads during the 80’s and 90’s that were designed for PC. So many options for PC back in the day.

That all changed and dried up after Doom came on the scene and M+K and the precision that it gave became the norm and there was no real need for PC gamepads and the market for that dried up plus with console controllers moving to work with PC’s there was really no need for something PC specific since for most games, M+K is still better suited or at least more than serviceable so the PC controller market is niche still at best.

Copper has already skyrocketed due to AI.

It really highlights the fragility and single source/control of the global supply chain.

That’s pretty dang cool. Just hope that Xbox and Rockstar don’t pull a Sega and call the cops on this guy for buying it and releasing what they found.

I also do hope that he donates the dev kit, intact, to the gaming preservation museum so this kind of stuff can be reserved for history.

I mean not a fan of epic but damn that sucks for the developers that the leadership had let things stagnate until massive layoffs had to happen.

Daniel Owen’s interview with the Nvidia’s Jacob Freeman which is where the analysis of this article is even more illuminating:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0EM1vKt36s

Yup, that underlying geometry is unchanged, that nose was always that deformed and big.

Considering that DLSS and DLAA are, and I would image that the FSR equivalents are too, separate processes so they could drop DLSS and just concentrate on DLAA. But that’s not where the money and ray tracing is, and part of that is also on gamers in general since there’s always such a focus on FPS, something that even I’m guilty of, and not visual quality.