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Indie game contest tasks devs with fitting their entire game on to a 1.44 MB floppy disk

1,474,560 bytes may sound like a lot for those unfamiliar with the realities of modern data storage, but it amounts to a single 3.5-inch floppy disk. The hey-day of such a relic of physical media has long since passed, but floppy disks obviously still hold a certain allure for some judging by a certain Korean

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‘Far beyond anything we had predicted’: Framework says its supplier’s memory prices are ‘more than double’ its previous shipment

Over the last few months, Framework has been doing a pretty good job of keeping RAM prices for its modular laptops/mainboards/desktops from climbing too high as a result of the global memory shortage, though storage hasn’t fared quite so well. And now, RAM unfortunately isn’t faring so well, either. The company explains in its monthly

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Xbox version of Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game delayed by over a month, less than 24 hours before launch

For Xbox players keen to jump in later today, they’ll have to wait a while longer. According to PM Studios they have been “forced” to delay the release to the 3rd September. This is due to “unforeseen circumstances on a backend feature.” Xbox players will not have their pre-orders cancelled automatically, and will have to

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Stalker 2 developer refutes claims by studio founder that Xbox paid more than game’s development cost to make it exclusive

According to Grygorovych, Microsoft paid the Ukrainian studio more than it cost to develop the game in order to release it on Xbox, and not PlayStation. “It paid for itself before the first day,” Grygorovych said, via machine translation. GSC has now itself responded to those claims, saying they don’t paint an accurate picture. In

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Someone has already got a regular Nvidia graphics card working on Windows on Arm thanks to RTX Spark drivers, though gaming performance doesn’t yet look ideal

For the longest time, Windows on Arm has been the purview of Snapdragon processors with Adreno CPUs (and occasionally some repurposed Mac silicon). A couple of months ago, though, Nvidia finally announced RTX Spark, an Arm processor with some real GPU grunt. And it seems that might have sparked (sorry) the onset of being able

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Nvidia Rubin will ‘soak up NAND supply like a sponge absorbs water’ says one analyst, thanks to the AI server’s new way of using SSDs

Any time there’s potentially positive news about storage and memory supply—such as increasing supply from China—I can’t help but think ‘sure, but the AI industry will guzzle through it regardless.’ Not only is demand seemingly insatiable, but sometimes new developments that encourage even more memory use come along. Case in point here with Nvidia Rubin.

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Steam Deck sales are estimated to have plummeted by around 80% since the massive price hikes earlier this year, back of the napkin maths suggests

The Steam Deck was once a budget champion, but no longer. Ever since the price hikes earlier this year, Valve’s handheld has become difficult to argue for as a value proposition—and according to recent sales estimates by Boiling Steam, it appears that consumers may agree. The site has attempted to estimate the number of Steam

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Blizzard’s calling time on Overwatch’s hero customising Stadium mode, and I may well be the only person that’s sad about that

Stadium isn’t a MOBA – don’t be fooled by that. There are no lanes or PvE enemies or anything of the kind. The MOBA link relates to abilities and equipment you buy for your character between rounds in order to power them up. That’s especially notable because you don’t do this anywhere else in Overwatch;

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