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The tech sector is suffering a bit of a down. This much we already knew, what with Intel bleeding cash and Google, Dell and others bleeding, well, people. But according to Mercury Research when it comes to the CPU market specifically, things aren’t just bad, they’re likely the “worst in PC market history on both a unit and revenue basis.” Ouch.

In its latest market report, Mercury says PC unit sales in 2022 excluding systems running ARM chips totalled 374 million, down 21% on the previous year. That’s the worst performance in the 30-year period that Mercury Research has been tracking PC sales volumes.

Mercury says that Intel’s desktop sales fell particularly precipitously at the end of 2022, leading AMD to pick up market share, which is something of a surprise given the broader narrative that Ryzen 7000 series hasn’t been a huge success.

Overall, Mercury reckons AMD gained 2.8 points of market share including server CPUs and IoT chips in the fourth quarter of 2022 to reach 31.3 percent. For the year as a whole, AMD achieved 29.6% market share. Intel is still the bigger fish, then. But no longer is AMD a minnow in comparison. 

That said, Intel is stil…

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We mere humans are destined, one day, to be no more. For our robot friends however, death comes in the form of retirement, and Boston Dynamics has announced that its original Atlas robot has finally been put out to greener pastures, or in this case, probably boxed up in a crate at the back of the lab.

The good news is, there’s a replacement. And the bad news is, it’s the sort of thing that haunts my post-apocalyptic dreams at night.

Boston Dynamics first revealed its Atlas humanoid robot back in 2013, created as a contest entry for the US Department of Defence (via The Verge). Standing at 6 feet two inches tall and weighing in at 330 pounds, this hydraulically powered machine kept us entertained over the years with its various improvements and iterations, eventually ending up as not only an impressive parkour enthusiast, but as a robot depicted as a friendly, if perhaps slightly show-off human helping hand.

There’s no need for a robot fetching your tools on a construction site to finish off with a twist-flip, but by golly we all liked to see it. Thanks Atlas. Now make the tea, if you’re so bloody clever.

The new model, however, doesn’t seem quite so frien…

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In January of this year, AMD updated its Adrenalin software for RX 7000 and RX 6000 series GPUs to include a driver-based frame generation system called AMD Fluid Motion Frames (AFMF), which didn’t require any support from a game to use it. Now, six months on, AMD’s coding wizards are back at it again, this time launching a preview version of AFMF 2.

So, what’s new? Well, it’s mostly about fine-tuning what was already there but reading through the dev blog on AFMF 2 suggests that quite a lot has been tweaked and twiddled with.

First up are some ‘AI-optimized enhancements’ in the form of a smoother fallback system, which temporarily disables AFMF 2 in high-motion scenes to preserve image quality and an updated frame generation algorithm. It’s worth noting that, unlike Nvidia, AMD’s frame gen tech doesn’t use AI directly to do, just that AMD have used it to tweak the system.

Next up, the whole system is now far more adjustable. Up to now, AFMF has simply been an on-off toggle in the Adrenalin software, but now you can choose a resolution-appropriate fallback system (High for 1440p or greater, Standard for 1080p), and you can lower how much shader power is require…

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Baldur’s Gate 3 released about this time last year, and even though Larian’s gearing up for what’s next the studio is still monitoring what people do and don’t do in the hit RPG. Much like it did a couple times late last year, Larian has compiled some strange and interesting bits of data about how you all managed to get surprisingly weird in a game that’s surprising and weird even when you don’t go out of your way to get turned into cheese—which 1.9 million people did. 

Seriously, people: When something says it’s an immortal being with incredible wishing powers, why do you choose to antagonize it? (Chaotic Neutral players do not answer.)

Other stats noted how few people have actually beaten Honour Mode, the extra-hard ironman challenge Larian added after launch: A mere 141,660 of you. That’s compared to a whopping 1.2 million defeats, 76% of which then deleted their save.

As was a surprise to Larian at launch the vast majority of people—93%—chose to play as a custom character. What is interesting to note is that Astarion has just barely pushed past Gale as the most-played origin character, which is honestly kin…

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A playtest for 2024’s upcoming revised 5e ruleset dropped, and it’s got some juicy implications—alongside a whole new Fighter subclass that’s cool in concept but wimpy in practice. 

For the uninitiated, these playtests have generated a lot of buzz for something that’s ostensibly a beta—while D&D’s habit of publically sense-checking their stuff has been overall good for game balance, it does create a certain sense of anxiety. Players now have a direct hand in deciding which min-maxing headaches we’ll all be dealing with for the next however many years.

Fighters, Barbarians, Warlocks, Sorcerers, and Wizards had a remix this time around. You can read the full materials yourself, but I’m going to sum up my gut responses as a casual theorycrafter.

 Barbarians—bad news, bears

The suggested tweaks to barbarians strike a major blow to one of its most beloved subclasses—the Totem Barbarian, which has been sensibly renamed to the Path of the Wild Heart. This subclass lets you choose an animal to draw power from, and bear used to be the go-to pick.

Under the current rules, when raging, a bear-flavoured Barbarian gains re…

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Witches, atmospheric guitar tunes, terrifying ghoulish creations to hunt, possum familiars… Yeah, I’m in. What I’m exactly signing up for, I don’t know, but South of Midnight certainly had an alluring vibe during its cinematic trailer over at the Xbox Games Showcase.

The trailer only set the stage for the eventual game, focusing on a couple of supernatural characters in what appears to be a fantastical American South. But that’s not all we have to go on. I can also tell you this is a third-person action-adventure from Compulsion Games, the studio behind We Happy Few.

“As Hazel, you will explore the mythos and encounter creatures of Southern folklore in a macabre and fantastical world,” the game’s Steam page notes. “When disaster strikes her hometown, Hazel is called to become a Weaver: a magical mender of broken bonds and spirits. Imbued with these new abilities, Hazel will confront and subdue dangerous creatures, untangle the webs of her own family’s shared past and—if she’s lucky—find her way to a place that feels like home.”

The only images on the Steam page are ripped right out of that initial trailer—no sight of the actual gameplay just…

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The long-troubled production of a Minecraft movie looks to finally be underway, with a report from film industry outlet Productionlist saying that it’s scheduled to start principal photography—that is, start making the movie proper—on August 7th, 2023 in New Zealand.

The film will be directed by Napoleon Dynamite and Masterminds director Jared Hess. Perhaps more surprising is that it’ll star Jason Momoa, though we don’t know as who, with other rumors saying that Pedro Pascal will star as Steve. Supposedly very funny man Matt Berry, of TV series Toast of London and What We Do in The Shadows, will also make an appearance.

That’s right though, folks: Joel from The Last of Us, aka The Mandalorian, could also be Minecraft Steve. Talk about multiverse movie potential right there.

We don’t know the plot of this film adaptation, though many outlets are reporting the plot to be that of one of the two earlier, cancelled attempts at a Minecraft movie. I expect at the very least a repeating jumpscare gag involving the hissing noise of a Creeper about to explode.

Not that Minecraft really has a plot in the first place, which is probably why it has been so …

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Windows updates often feel like a necessary evil, but an evil nonetheless. Who among us hasn’t been waylaid by a huge update package download—or chosen the “update and shutdown” option at the end of a long day only to sit watching a painfully slow percentage indicator lurch forward? Now Microsoft has announced it’s changing things up, with “checkpoint cumulative updates” that promise to speed up the process considerably.

Windows 11 version 24H2 has been available in the Windows Insider program for a while now but is scheduled for a main release at some point towards the end of this year. Microsoft says that as part of the update, it’s introducing update features and security enhancements through smaller, incremental download packages that only contain the changes since the previous update.

Essentially, up until now Windows updates have tended to grow in size, with a download package that contains files you may not necessarily need (via Windows Latest). Provided you’ve been incremental updating your system (as you really should, to maintain a safe OS), from 24H2’s release you’ll only need to download and install updates with exactly what’s needed, rather than th…

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I’m sometimes asked why we don’t often recommend Gen 5 NVMe drives (although, to be fair, we do recommend one). Alright, I don’t get asked it that often I guess, but the answer remains the same as it was when they first came out—they’re very fast, but so are Gen 4 drives, at least for gaming. 

More than that, they’re pricey, again compared to Gen 4. And then there’s the kicker—they also have a tendency to run very, very hot.

Team Group’s Computex 2024 booth had some fresh examples of the speedy little drives, including a T-Force Pro SSD with a quoted 14,173 MB/s read and 12,757 write rate, apparently soon to be available in 8 TB configuration. I asked how much it might potentially cost, and one of the booth reps laughed knowingly, before shaking their head.

That’ll be rather expensive then. Just a hunch. Anyway, speedy, pricey. Same old story, really. But what about the heat?

Well, Team Group does appear to have been iterating on cooler designs to beat the heat from Gen 5 drives, with some potential pre-production ideas on display. The problem is, none of them really get around the fact that to get the most out of a top spec Gen 5 drive, …

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