Month: October 2024

Asus is actually going to bring us a graphics card without power connectors, and it’s going to be doing so this year. Having floated the concept at Computex 2023, it was met with such enthusiasm the company has reportedly decided to put the design into mass production this autumn (via WCCFTech). And honestly, I’m living for the idea of fewer cables showing when building my next gaming PC.

Starting with Asus’ upcoming RTX 4070, you won’t have to stare at that unsightly cable protruding from the side of your GPU, or otherwise buy a pretty cable mod to make it a more bearable sight.

The GPU itself will come in the form of a 2.3-slot triple-fan card. The design features your standard PCIe Gen 4.0 x16 interface, which sits in line with another, smaller proprietary interface (marked GC_HPWR). That feeds into a 16-pin connector, which actually connects up through the back of the motherboard for a cleaner look.

So yes, there are still cables, they’re just not visible around the front.

Of course, this calls for an entirely new motherboard which Asus will be bringing in the form of the exceptionally minimal-looking Z790 TUF Gaming motherboard, as well as the TX Gam…

The best 14-inch gaming laptops represent the pinnacle of mobile gaming. Sure, your Steam Deck and ROG Ally X are great for certain games, and certain spaces, but if you truly want to take a gaming PC on the road then a gaming laptop is where it’s at. And the absolute S Tier of the gaming laptop is the 14-inch form factor. Fight me.

You can get more cooling, beefier GPUs, and broader screen real estate in a 15- to 18-inch notebook, but the higher up the scale you go the less wieldy, the less portable they become as actual mobile devices. And you can, of course, get smaller laptops in the 13-inch scale, but as soon as you start down that road you’re really limiting what you can do with your machine.

Okay, in our best gaming laptop guide we have a 16-inch machine as the top pick, but that’s for PC gamers in general. You and I, we know better, right? We know that 14-inch is where it’s at. The 14-inch gaming laptop, then, is the perfect fulcrum point for portability and performance. They will support proper discrete graphics chips, retain enough chassis space for a quality screen and still have capacity enough for the sort of cooling a modern GPU requires to g…

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Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. You’re about 40 minutes into a Dota 2 ranked match, the enemy Techies is planning on stalling for as long as he can, and some comedy genius decides to pause the match to drag things out just a little bit longer. Bad manners? Probably, but they’ll be laughing all the way to low-priority matchmaking, I’m sure!

The novelty of this feature is probably lost on those who’ve sunk thousands of hours into Valve’s previous MOBA, but its reprisal in Deadlock has players committing heinous acts of psychological warfare for kicks. Just take it from this streamer, who took a breather mid-match to get some recreational gambling in:

To be fair, limited pauses are healthy for a good-faith game, allowing players to stop the clock if a party member’s internet cuts out for a moment or give everyone a second to grab a drink and take a breather if a match gets particularly drawn out. It’s the kind of contingency you want in a competitive MOBA, because matches can snowball out of control really fast when teams are uneven. I recall my longest match of Dota 2 was over an hour and a half (I was the Tec…

Valve is celebrating Dota 2’s tenth anniversary with a major break with tradition. Although the game has received a battle pass (originally called a Compendium) to accompany and fund the prize pool for every year’s International tournament, Valve has decided there won’t be one this year. In fact, it’s dramatically ratcheting down how much it focuses on battle pass content in general, and pledges instead to focus on other, more regular updates that can be experienced by the entire Dota 2 playerbase.

In a post to the Dota 2 blog titled “Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future,” Valve said that the Dota 2 battle pass had grown “to encompass just about any content we produce for Dota over the year”. That created “a tremendously exciting time in Dota,” but it meant “the rest of the year [felt] barren by comparison”.

So Valve ran an experiment. The studio took development resources that would, in any other year, have gone towards developing the battle pass for The International 2023 and “instead put them towards more speculative updates, including features and content that couldn’t fit into a Battle Pass”. That experiment bore fruit in the form of Dota 2’s New Fronti…

We’re seeing genuinely next-gen gaming PCs actually getting tangible discounts right now, and this RTX 4080 with $260 knocked off the standard price is looking like a great gaming PC deal today. It’s a good-looking, super-powerful rig that’s $2,300 at Newegg right now.

Of course the Nvidia RTX 4080 card—represented here by a Gigabyte Eagle OC version—is the main draw of this machine. While we may not have been bowled over by the value prospect of Nvidia’s second-tier Ada GPU as a drop-in upgrade for the DIY market, when it’s presented inside a prebuilt machine it’s a far more tantalising prospect.

That’s because its $1,200 sticker price is tough to swallow on its own. But when that makes up more than half the price of a full PC, and one that doesn’t stint on the rest of its component choices either, well, consider our interest piqued.

Unlike a lot of the ‘affordable’ RTX 4080 builds you’ll find this ABS Eurus Aqua machine isn’t relying on a last-gen CPU platform to save cash, or offer some paltry SSD storage. Its using the latest Intel Raptor Lake processor generation, with a Core i7 13700F as the CPU, an MSI Z690-A motherboard, and 16GB of DDR5-560…

The depressing, alarming, infuriating trend of videogame industry layoffs continued unabated today with news that Avalanche Studios Group, best known for the Just Cause series, is closing two of its offices, in Montreal and New York, and putting around 50 people out of work.

“Since its inception over two decades ago, Avalanche Studios Group has grown to encompass five locations worldwide: Stockholm, New York, Malmo, Liverpool, and Montreal,” Avalanche said in a message posted on its website (via GameDeveloper). “Today, we regretfully announce the closure of two of those locations: New York and Montreal. This means we’ll be parting ways with around 50 valued friends and colleagues, which represents roughly 9% of Avalanchers worldwide.

“This is an exceptionally difficult decision, but we believe it’s necessary to ensure a stable and sustainable future for the company.”

Avalanche Studios has indeed been around for more than 20 years (although Avalanche Studios Group, encompassing the original Avalanche Studios along with Expansive Worlds and Systemic Reaction, wasn’t formed until 2020) but the Montreal office didn’t even last one: It was founded in October 2023 …