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1 week ago | 
eteknix.com | Solomon Thompson
Market analyst Mat Piscatella has weighed in on the potentially very low sales of third-party games released on Nintendo Switch 2, emphasizing that, in any case, the numbers are noticeably higher than those recorded in the first month of the original Switch’s life cycle. In recent hours, a report published by The Game Business highlighted that third-party games—except for Cyberpunk 2077—have experienced relatively modest sales on Nintendo Switch 2.
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1 week ago | 
eteknix.com | Solomon Thompson
According to the information from the latest AMD drivers, new desktop processors from the Ryzen 9000 series will be arriving soon. Among the confirmed models are the Ryzen 5 9600X3D, Ryzen 5 9600, and a series of Ryzen 9000 PRO CPUs. These processors are expected to initially be available through system integrators in the second half of 2025.
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1 week ago | 
eteknix.com | Solomon Thompson
Techland is one of the third-party publishers that has decided to support Nintendo Switch, releasing both the first and second installments of the Dying Light series. Could the story repeat itself with a future version of Dying Light: The Beast for Nintendo Switch 2? The question was asked by Wccftech to Tymon Smektała, the director of the franchise, during an interview at the Summer Game Fest.
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1 week ago | 
eteknix.com | Solomon Thompson
Intel is betting on its next manufacturing node, Intel 18A, which will be used to manufacture upcoming processors such as Intel Panther Lake and Intel Xeon 7, which we might see later this year. During the VLSI Symposium held in Japan, Intel revealed that mass production of this node is expected in the second half of this year, with figures showing up to a 25% increase in performance, along with a 40% reduction in power consumption.
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1 week ago | 
eteknix.com | Solomon Thompson
After surpassing the number of monthly users of the PS4, Sony has also revealed that the PS5 generation has already generated over 13 billion dollars in operating profit in less than five years, easily exceeding the cumulative total of the previous PS1, PS2, PS3, and the already mentioned PS4 models. Since its debut in November 2020, the console has achieved approximately 136 billion dollars in sales, compared to the 107 billion dollars recorded by the PS4 generation.
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1 week ago | 
eteknix.com | Solomon Thompson
With Mario Kart World, Nintendo has created the most ambitious chapter in its famous racing series, and this is reflected in a production scale never seen before. According to Automaton, the development team was significantly expanded compared to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe from 2017, increasing from 163 to about 300 members. The most noticeable growth occurred in the artistic department, which saw the number of artists rise from 73 to an impressive 192.
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1 week ago | 
eteknix.com | Solomon Thompson
According to Bloomberg, Microsoft is preparing to carry out thousands of layoffs, focusing especially on its sales departments. This new round will add to the one already executed in May, when the company reduced approximately 3% of its global workforce—citing a necessary restructuring to better position the company for success. The report also notes that Microsoft is outsourcing part of its commercial functions, relying on external companies to manage sales with most of its clients.
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1 week ago | 
eteknix.com | Solomon Thompson
Sony is developing several video games, some officially confirmed and others still rumors. Among these rumored projects is a new God of War game, which has been speculated to be in development for some time. This is not a new entry in the main series, but rather a minor title with a Metroidvania style that is expected to take us back to Greece. Rumors do not reveal much else, nor do they clarify when it will be officially unveiled, but the latest reports suggest we might have to wait a bit longer.
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1 week ago | 
eteknix.com | Solomon Thompson
It seems that scaling and frame generation technologies from GPU manufacturers are here to stay. As a result, it has become necessary to adapt to these innovations. Valve has taken the lead by updating the performance overlay in Steam, now including metrics for Frame Generation and DLSS in the information available when monitoring your PC’s stats while gaming. Steam's In-Game FPS counter is now expanded to become the In-Game Overlay Performance monitor.
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1 week ago | 
eteknix.com | Solomon Thompson
More information is emerging about the upcoming Intel Nova Lake-S, a platform that will not see the light of day until at least 2026. After learning that it will come in configurations with up to 52 cores and that its native memory speed will start at 8,000 MT/s, we now know that it will include enough PCIe 5.0 lanes to install one graphics card along with 4 M.2 SSD storage units using this faster interface.
