The Meta Quest 2 is powered by Qualcomm’s chipsets. The partnership between the two companies is going to continue for the next few Meta product generations. (Source: Qualcomm) Meta and Qualcomm have just announced a multi-year agreement to collaborate on virtual reality (VR) technologies for the next generations of Meta’s products. The two companies have a long history of working … Read more
Lightcycles is one of the first three Tinycade games. Inspired by TRON, players sit next to each other and try to be the last lightbike standing. (Source: ACME Lab) Arcade games are expensive to get and maintain. Some pinball machines easily climb into the thousands of dollars. Despite that, the arcade industry is still strong—because people love the tactile feel … Read more
AMD just announced the long-awaited news: Their newest CPUs are finally coming to the market. This first set of Zen 4 CPUs will be the 7950X, the 7900X, the 7700X, and the 7600X. The prices of the processors range from $299 for the 7600X to $699 for the 7950X, the new flagship model. They will all be available on September … Read more
Capcom created 1,000 Street Fighter NFT card packs and sold them on WAX. Many of the cards can be found on secondary NFT marketplaces. (Source: Capcom) Gamers hate NFTs. Consumers on any Twitter chain, any subreddit, balk when people mention adding NFTs into their games. A Twitter account titled Crypto Bros Taking Ls (for the uninitiated, “taking an L” … Read more
(Source: Coasterpedia) A number of industries have been on a roller-coaster ride of late with all the ups, downs, and loop-the-loops. The latest to ride: LCD monitors. For the first half of 2022, global shipments of LCD monitors have reached 72.3 million, roughly the same level as the first half of 2021. But that track has some deceptive turns. … Read more
First-half ’22 shipments keep pace with the number from the first half of the previous year, thanks to commercial sales. But commercial buyers cannot bridge the gap left by consumers in the second half of ’22.
The Bored Ape Yacht Club, a collection of NFTs, is the face of this new Web3 industry. (Source: BAYC) NFTs are opening huge avenues for revenue in the modern video game market. Developers are hitching a ride on this cash cab in a few different ways. As technology evolves, they are slowly getting more integrated with the market. First, … Read more
8K resolutions are drastically bigger than HD and perfect for VR. (Source: PCMag) Gaming in 8K resolution has evolved from a pipe dream to reality during the past few years. When Nvidia released their Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 in September 2020, they opened up a massive number of doors. It’s a beast of a card that can handle gaming … Read more
How procedural generation changed my life and why I die more now
