Author: Nick Evanson

CEOs of big tech companies often get together for promotional duties and PR events. Such meetings usually involve talking about a new project they’re working on or an investment of some kind worth billions of dollars. So, when Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and Jen-Hsun Huang of Nvidia got together for a recent “jersey-swap” on Instagram, you…

Nick Evanson, Hardware writer (Image credit: Nicholas Evanson) This month I’ve been benchmarking: Endless benchmarking. Hours upon hours, run after run. All in the name of seeing exactly one game performs on a range of different PCs. And I’d do it all again in a flash, as I adore benchmarking. Yes, I am a little…

There have been some major PC games released these past couple of months. In February, we got Helldivers 2, Pacific Drive, and Sons of the Forest came out of Early Access. This month, it’s been Dragon’s Dogma 2 and the PC-port of Horizon Forbidden West that have garnered all the headlines. They’re as varied as…

Legendary game developer John Carmack recently stated on Twitter that competing against TSMC head on was pretty much impossible. But he then asked his followers how less impossible it would be for a big tech company to make its own bespoke chips, rather than competing against the general purpose companies. Cue one small reply from…

Microsoft’s research division has been hard at work trying to make ray tracing a more accessible feature for games of the future. A new patent from one of the team’s senior architects describes how the memory and cache load for bounding volume hierarchies (BVH)— structures used to speed up ray tracing—can be reduced by using…

You’re probably aware that the music industry makes a pretty penny or two from music streaming services, though the artists themselves get a fraction of that from each stream. Not so in the case of an unnamed 53-year-old man from Denmark, who’s just been convicted of fraud to the tune of two million Kroner (roughly…

It’s not every day that you read that a five-year investigation to crack an illegal operation involving billions of pounds worth of bitcoin was solved thanks to the excessive spending habits of an ex-takeaway worker, but that’s exactly what’s recently happened. The person in question has been found guilty of laundering 150 bitcoins, worth a…

There hardly goes a day without news of cyberattacks taking place at banks, tech companies, or government agencies. From targeting the individual to the masses, hackers are getting ever more creative in what they strike at, in order to compromise systems and gain sensitive information. Well, the US White House and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)…

Unless you’ve been purposely ignoring all of the news surrounding Dragon’s Dogma 2, you can’t have missed the fact that the game’s performance is somewhat poor. Although it’s almost entirely CPU-limited in the main city, the open world is still pretty demanding on graphics cards and it’s begging for a spot of upscaling and frame…