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‘We win… and it’s your fault!'—Dwarf Fortress hits almost half a million sold in under a month Dwarf Fortress struck the Earth and found gold. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. The storming success of Dwarf Fortress continues apace. DF programmer and co-designer, Tarn Adams, announced this week that the game’s “premium” Steam versionsold almost half a million copieslast month after its December 6 release....

2022 was the year the dam broke on major videogame unions A Call of Duty dev’s strike at the end of 2021 snowballed into a series of studio unionizations. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. 2022 was a banner year for labor organizing in the games industry, with a wave of successful union drives at major studios. As labor issues in gaming became more public and widely discussed, workers in the industry have advocated for collective bargaining and union protections as a key component in battling endemic burnout and exploitation, as well as acute management abuses like the ones documented atActivision Blizzard, Riot, andUbisoft....

7 times potentially awesome content was cut from a game during development The cutting room floor of the games industry is littered with half-designed characters, sidequests, and X-Wings. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Cut content is an inevitability in the business of making videogames. A studio might generate a million ideas over the course of a five-year development cycle, but as the release date looms, the casualties start piling up....

AMD crams 16 Zen 4 cores into gaming laptops with the Ryzen 7045 Series Zen 4 blazing away with all 16 cores… in a laptop. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. AMD has announced its newRyzen7045 mobile CPU family. Codenamed Dragon Range, it’s AMD’s new flagship chip for high performance laptops extending all the way to 16 cores. Essentially a repackaged version of theRyzen 7000-seriesalready seen on the desktop, it comes complete with Zen 4 architecture and chiplet engineering, with an I/O die and up to two CPU core dies....

AMD just put a whole Zen 4 CPU inside an absolutely massive GPU Chiplets are so frickin' cool. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. One of the most awesome developments in chipmaking in recent years has to be chiplets and stacking said chiplets on top of one another. The possibilities, as they say, are endless. AMD showed how gaming frame rates can be bolstered by stacking more cache onto a processor with theRyzen 7000X3D CPUsat CES 2023, but it also had something equally as impressive for the data centre folks....

AMD RDNA 3 heads to gaming laptops with cheaper GPUs first to arrive AMD’s Radeon RX 7600M XT brings RDNA 3 into gaming laptops. Here’s what we know. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. AMD has announced the first RDNA 3 GPUs for gaming laptops, and surprisingly it’s the more entry-level GPUs of the generation that are out the gate first....

AMD’s new 3D V-Cache CPUs are hella quick but there’s no clear pick for gamers For the highest clock speeds you’re going to have to spend big on the Ryzen 9 7950X3D. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. AMD has wheeled out its latest gaming CPUs at CES in Las Vegas and they’re both better and worse than we’d hoped for....