Microsoft moves away from gaming excusives
Beware of Voles baring gifts
Software King of the World Microsoft is significantly shifting its Xbox strategy, moving away from console exclusives in a bid to reach gamers across all platforms,
Electronic Arts wants more adverts in games
Probably time to go back playing battleship
Having not learnt anything about how media streaming companies have destroyed their business model with advertising, Electronic Arts is mulling over putting adverts inside its games.
Nvidia RTX TrueHDR comes soon
Converting SDR games to HDR in real-time with AI
Nvidia is apparently making final tweaks to its new feature called the RTX TrueHDR, which can convert SDR games to HRD in real-time by using Tensor cores on its RTX graphics cards.
Nvidia announces 14 new games with RTX at CES 2024
Geforce NOW getting G-SYNC, 24 new G-SYNC gaming monitors, displays and TVs, and more
In addition to its RTX 40 SUPER series lineup announcement at CES 2024, Nvidia also announced some other updates, including a list of games that will be getting RTX updates, including DLSS and/or ray tracing. Nvidia Geforce is also getting a few updates including G-Sync support, and Nvidia was keen to note that there are 24 new G-SYNC monitors, displays, and TVs coming soon.
Squid In A Box leaves games to world
Not as if he can play or update them now
Indie game Squid In A Box developer Rob Hale, who died in August, has left games on Steam as a free farewell gift.
Games monetisation risks losing gamers
Sid Meier warning
Speaking to the BBC on the 30th anniversary of his legendary Civilization game, US developer Sid Meier warned that if major companies continue to focus on monetisation or other things that are not gameplay-focused, they risk losing the audience.
Computer games are spying on you
Data gathering
It turns out that computer game’s companies are collecting shedloads of psychological data on players and there is concern about its use.
China closing games companies
Holding off on game licences
China is continuing to hold off from issuing new game licenses to app developers, in regulatory inaction that has led to the shuttering of around 140,000 small game studios and related companies in the country.
Linux can play 75 percent of the top games
2022 is the year of Linux on the desktop
After years of complaints that the reason people had to stick with Windows was there were no games for Linux, Steam has released figures which say that 75 percent of the top 1,000 games run on Linux now, and the figure is even higher, at 80 percent, for the top 100 games.
Alder Lake incompatible with some games
DRM software breaks Valhalla
Intel has posted a release that the hybrid CPU core architecture on Alder Lake can be incompatible with certain games, specifically some protected by the anti-piracy DRM software from Denuvo.