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After releasing a series of high-performance GPUs earlier this year, AMD Radeon is now introducing a more budget-friendly option for those looking to build a more humble PC with the unveiling of its RX 6600 XT graphics card. A direct successor RX 5600 XT, the new offering has been labeled by AMD as its “new standard for 1080p,” although like its predecessor, it can probably also push out a decent 1440p gaming experience. RDNA 2 performance has been upgraded to 9.6 teraflops over the previous 7.19 teraflops, and the GDDR6 RAM now comes in at a more reasonable 8GB instead of 6GB. Other features include 2,359 MHz clocking, 32 compute units, 160W power supply and potential ray-tracing, although don’t expect it to perform too well at this budget level.  All of this allows the RX 6600 XT to...

Last year, SEGA closed its Akihabara landmark arcade after almost two decades. Since then, the Japanese gaming giant has been hit with a turbulent year amid the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic, at one point even requesting 650 employees to voluntarily retire, and now the company is forced to close yet another one of its iconic arcade centers in Tokyo. Located in Toshima, the SEGA Ikebukuro Gigo arcade opened its business 28 years ago, catering to both local and international gaming enthusiasts who’d visit the branch as part of a must-see tourist attraction. The center would often feature new and innovative games to test their market appeal and subsequently opened a taiyaki stand on its first floor in order to give hungry tourists and gamers somewhere to eat. Unfortunately, due to a lack of to...

Bungie and Ubisoft have now taken Ring-1 to court over the latter’s manufacturing of cheats for numerous games. According to new reports, Ring-1 creates cheats for players online and makes them accessible through subscription-based memberships. The cheats span across a number of games — including AAA titles — such as Bungie’s Destiny 2, Ubisoft’s Rainbow Six Siege, PUBG, Escape From Tarkov, and even Dead by Daylight, and offers hacks like infinite ammo and aimbots. To make things worse, subscriptions also come with access to hardware ID spoofers so in-game anti-hacking systems won’t be able to trace and ban players employing those cheats. “Defendants’ sale and distribution of the Cheating Software therefore has caused Plaintiffs to suffer irreparable damage to their goo...