The Hot Take: So many software updates, seems like they're milking current silicon or having issues with new silicon?
NVIDIA is preparing to showcase a new rendering technique that could move real-time path tracing another step closer to wider game-engine adoption. Scheduled for presentation at the ACM conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in May, the companyâs latest research focuses on improving ReSTIR PT, a ...
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By ckasprzak | TkOut | May 6, 2026 |
Gaming
The Hot Take: This just makes me sick, GPU, RAM and now gaming controllers? What is this world coming to.
Valve's new Steam Controller sold out almost immediately, and they're now being sold on eBay for as much as $399. PC gamers obviously aren't happy, but there's a good reason why scalpers feel the need to do what they do.
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By ckasprzak | TkOut | May 3, 2026 |
Gaming
The Hot Take: Movies are ALL about the remakes, why not video games and move to competitors engine tech? Sure!
Halo leaker RebsGaming reports that Halo Studios is already working on remakes for the second and third installments in the sci-fi first-person shooter franchise. Halo 2 and Halo 3 are currently in early development, presumably powered by Unreal Engine 5 like the first game's remake; this builds on a previous claim from a former Halo Studios developer, and is now backed by two additional sources, one of whom provided verification to RebsGaming and confirmed the trilogy remakes will proceed regardless of how well the upcoming Halo: Campaign Evolved performs. A separate source (the same one who leaked an unreleased Campaign [âŚ]Read full article at https://wccftech.com/halo-2-halo-3-unreal-engine-5-remakes-reportedly-in-development/
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By ckasprzak | TkOut | April 18, 2026 |
Gaming
The Hot Take: I'm all for Naval warfare, miss that from some of the other past games.
Today, Battlefield Studios unveiled the 2026 Battlefield 6 roadmap. Season 3 will begin next month, with two classic maps returning after being reimagined: Season 3 also sees the debut of BR Solos â Battle Royale Solo as an official mode, as well as BR Ranked Play & Leaderboards, launching first in Battle Royale Quads in REDSEC. Battlefield Studios plans to expand the Ranked Play experience to Battlefield 6 multiplayer in future seasons. Season 4 will launch in July, introducing the previously teased Naval Warfare to Battlefield 6. The two new maps are: Naval-specific features include aircraft carriers with operational flight [âŚ]Read full article at https://wccftech.com/battlefield-6-2026-roadmap-naval-warfare-season-4/
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The Hot Take: Whoa, now if publishing house start publishing native you might get my buy in.
Steam just released its March hardware and software survey, and it's clear that the PC gaming market is going through a massive flux as inflated prices force buyers into new (and old) areas.
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By ckasprzak | TkOut | March 28, 2026 |
Gaming
The Hot Take: I think people are rebelling against the Fortnite clones.
Call of Duty has had a rocky reception over the last few years, but arguably the best series installment in the last decade, Call of Duty: Modern Warfarefrom 2019, is undergoing a huge resurgence of players on Steam right now.
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The Hot Take: Linux is coming for Windows Gamers for sure!
Linux gamers are seeing massive performance gains with Wine's new NTSYNC support, "which is a feature that has been years in the making and rewrites how Wine handles one of the most performance-sensitive operations in modern gaming," reports XDA Developers. Not every game will see a night-and-day difference, but for the games that do benefit from these changes, "the improvements range from noticeable to absurd." Combined with improvements to Wayland, graphics, and compatibility, as well as a major WoW64 architecture overhaul, the release looks less like an incremental update and more like one of Wine's most important upgrades in years. From the report: The numbers are wild. In developer benchmarks, Dirt 3 went from 110.6 FPS to 860.7 FPS, which is an impressive 678% improvement. Resident Evil 2 jumped from 26 FPS to 77 FPS. Call of Juarez went from 99.8 FPS to 224.1 FPS. Tiny Tina's Wonderlands saw gains from 130 FPS to 360 FPS. As well, Call of Duty: Black Ops I is now actually playable on Linux, too. Those benchmarks compare Wine NTSYNC against upstream vanilla Wine, which means there's no fsync or esync either. Gamers who use fsync are not going to see such a leap in performance in most games.
The games that benefit most from NTSYNC are the ones that were struggling before, such as titles with heavy multi-threaded workloads where the synchronization overhead was a genuine bottleneck. For those games, the difference is night and day. And unlike fsync, NTSYNC is in the mainline kernel, meaning you don't need any custom patches or out-of-tree modules for it work. Any distro shipping kernel 6.14 or later, which at this point includes Fedora 42, Ubuntu 25.04, and more recent releases, will support it. Valve has already added the NTSYNC kernel driver to SteamOS 3.7.20 beta, loading the module by default, and an unofficial Proton fork, Proton GE, already has it enabled. When Valve's official Proton rebases on Wine 11, every Steam Deck owner gets this for free.
All of this is what makes NTSYNC such a big deal, as it's not simply a run-of-the-mill performance patch. Instead, it's something much bigger: this is the first time Wine's synchronization has been correct at the kernel level, implemented in the mainline Linux kernel, and available to everyone without jumping through hoops.
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The Hot Take: What happens when you have a dual-opoly between 3 major chip makers.
It doesnât sound like Crimson Desert, the recently released prequel to Black Desert Online, will support Intel Arc GPUs anytime soon, if at all. On the gameâs FAQ page, its developer Pearl Abyss advised players expecting Arc support to apply for a refund. âIf you purchased the game expecting Intel Arc support, please refer to the refund policy of the platform where the game was purchased for available options,â the company wrote. Apparently, though, itâs not from lack of guidance from Intel. The chipmaker told Wccftech that it reached out to Pearl Abyss âmany timesâ over the past several years. The Intel spokesperson said that the company has tried to help the developer âtest, validate, and optimize support for Intel graphicsâ for years. Intel also tried to provide the developer âearly hardware, drivers, and engineering resourcesâ across several generations of GPUs, âincluding Alchemist, Battlemage, Meteor Lake, and Lunar Lake.â The chipmaker said itâs âhugely disappointed that players using Intel graphics hardwareâ canât play the game, but that it remains âready to assist Pearl Abyssâ however it can. It also advised players to reach out directly to the developer for âdetails on the choice not to enable Intel support at launch.âPearl Abyss, of course, doesnât have the obligation to tweak the game so that it runs on PCs with Intel Arc GPUs. The good news is that since the title came out just a few days ago, it will still be easy to get a refund. Steam, where Crimson Desert is now one of the top-selling games, issues refunds within two weeks of purchase. This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/pc/intel-says-crimson-desert-devs-ignored-offers-of-help-to-support-arc-gpus-155514896.html?src=rss
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The Hot Take: Looks like we're all jumping on the bandwagon to out price tech....
"This year is the most severe year since the company was founded," MSI told investors.
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The Hot Take: Linux definitely seems to be gaining Gamers, as Windows 11 keeps going down the road of not listening to Customers.
<p><img src="https://a.fsdn.com/sd/topics/linux_64.png" alt="linux_64.png"></p>Linux gaming "has gotten to the point where some people claim that Linux runs their games better than Windows does," according to the Android site XDA Developers. And there's a new surprise on ProtonDB, an "unofficial" community website with crowdsourced data about videogame compatability with the Linux software/gaming compatability layer Proton:
On ProtonDB, one operating system had reigned supreme since 2021: Arch Linux. And I say 'had,' because its streak has just been ended by [Arch-based] CachyOS in an upset that has slowly grown over the past two years. As reported on Boiling Steam, the number of reports coming from CachyOS has topped that of Arch Linux, which held the crown for the most number of reports since 2021...
[T]his isn't really a statement that CachyOS is the best gaming distro out there; however, it's seemingly attracting the largest number of gamers who are invested in testing games on Proton and reporting their performance, which is a pretty big milestone if you ask me.
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