Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Goes Official With Up To A 3.30GHz Clock Speed Boost, 50% Ray Tracing Performance Bump, On-Device AI Support & More

180 employees in Amazon's video game division are being let go today, according to Aftermath's Nathan Grayson. 

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim made its debut on PC and consoles 12 years ago now, and it can still hold its own in 2023, thanks to the amazing work of modders that is constantly updating the game's visuals and gameplay.

And just like that, a new Steam Deck is here. We've been expecting a refresh of Valve's handheld gaming PC for a little while now, and it's touting this Steam Deck OLED as «the definitive first generation Steam Deck, it's the one that we would have shipped if we could have.»

Alan Wake 2 is not only a great horror game; it also looks pretty. While it’s not always about what something looks like, a recent video really hammers home just how far graphics and graphical technology have come over the years.

The MediaTek Dimensity 9300 is finally here, and it is ready to take the fight to the likes of Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and Exynos 2400. The new chipset brings a number of changes, including four big Cortex-X4 cores and four Cortex-A74 cores. MediaTek also promises Stable Defusion generation of under one second--in addition to that, the new chipset also adds support for the latest LLMs of up to 33 billion parameters, making it one of the best chipsets to have AI support.

Very little is currently known about the Nintendo Switch 2, but leaks revealed the name and some of the features of the processor that will power the console, the Tegra T239, a custom version of the T234 processor. Thanks to this, it is possible to get a rough idea of how games will actually run on the console.

Qualcomm recently posted its fourth-quarter earnings, and despite a slowing smartphone market, the San Diego firm managed to beat expectations. While the company might have narrowly avoided a pummeling in this three-month period, there are a myriad of challenges that await the chipset maker going into 2024, with Huawei likely on the top of that list. Fortunately, Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon stated in the earnings call that these events and the emergence of another player will not affect its relationship with other smartphone brands in China.

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is no longer the latest entry in the series, but thanks to the high quality of the CEMU Wii U emulator and some mods, it continues to be, by far, the best-looking entry in the franchise.

A new Starfield mod that was shared online today introduces some improvements for reflections while revealing that the game does feature a ray tracing setting.

Qualcomm is said to be charging its customers more for the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, but these price hikes are not going to stop at this chipset release because the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 has been hinted by a company executive to be even more expensive. It appears that the San Diego firm needs some way to financially make up for the custom Oyron cores since that is reportedly the magic behind next year’s chipset.

Microsoft has announced they are doing a major shakeup to management in their gaming divisions.

Zotac RTX 4070 Twin Edge | 12GB GDDR6X | 5888 shaders | 2,475MHz boost | $549.99$519.99 at Newegg (save $30 using promo code TECCX24337)Nvidia's mid-range Ada Lovelace graphics card is often discounted these days but this is the cheapest deal at the moment, as long as you use the promo card. What you're getting for your money is a GPU that's as fast as an RTX 3080, but uses far less power and runs much cooler. Plus you also get to try out all of the latest DLSS 3.5 upscaling and frame generation technology. Perfect for Alan Wake 2, which also a free gift with this purchase!