Sean Hollister

In 2021, Intel’s VP of graphics research Anton Kaplanyan tweeted that its XeSS super-resolution and framerate enhancing tech would be “open-source” and “coming soon.” Intel said it would be open-source numerous times.

The $70 Anbernic RG 34XX is my favorite new way to play Game Boy — but the new RixelHK app lets people use the handheld’s built-in Wi-Fi to browse a huge catalog of games for free. It encourages you to download Nintendo, Sony, and Sega titles, and they appear to be the real deal but unauthorized.

Embracer Group wanted to be the one video game publisher to rule them all, even buying up Lord of the Rings, until a $2 billion Saudi deal fell through and the layoffs and restructuring began. Now, Stephen Totilo has published a rare window into the rise and fall from someone in the room: Saber Interactive CEO Matt Karch, who gave Totilo a 2.5 hour airborne interview.

On March 18th, Nvidia will release a two-hour demo for Half-Life 2 owners, showing what its RTX 50 cards can do: full ray tracing, subsurface scattering for translucent skin, volumetric light through fog and smoke, physically-based materials, and Nvidia’s new neural shaders — which are also coming to DirectX for other developers in April.