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Atari VCS going through 'Engineering Validation Testing' on the road to release

By Liam Dawe, 10 Dec 2019

Another update on the Linux-powered little console the Atari VCS, which is now going through Engineering Validation Testing (EVT) as it's on the road to release next year.

Atari VCS enters the final stages of pre-production as it heads towards mass production

By Liam Dawe, 29 Nov 2019

Ah yes, Atari VCS, the delayed Linux-powered gaming box that was crowdfunded on IndieGoGo. It's still a thing and the team seem to think it's all going well.

AMD announce their third-gen Threadripper processors and a 16 core flagship Ryzen 9

By Liam Dawe, 7 Nov 2019

Today, AMD announced when you will be able to get your hands on their third-generation Threadripper processors if you're after a crazy amount of cores. On top of a new 16 core flagship Ryzen 9.

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AMD has the highest quarterly revenue since 2005, Zen 3 is design complete

By Liam Dawe, 30 Oct 2019

Things seem to be going quite well for AMD lately, as they just posted up their financial results for Q3 and thanks to 7nm Ryzen, Radeon and EPYC processor sales they're looking good.

NVIDIA announce the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER and the GeForce 1650 SUPER

By Liam Dawe, 29 Oct 2019

Today, NVIDIA officially lifted the lid on two new GPUs with the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER and the GeForce 1650 SUPER.

System76 have put Coreboot into two of their main Intel-powered laptops

By Liam Dawe, 11 Oct 2019

Want your next laptop to be a bit more open? System76 have announced their Galago Pro and Darter Pro now come with Coreboot, the open source boot firmware.

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Things are going downhill for the Atari VCS as Rob Wyatt quits

By Liam Dawe, 8 Oct 2019

It's now confirmed that Rob Wyatt, someone who Atari made a big thing over joining them has quit citing non payment of invoices for at least six months.

AMD have announced the Radeon RX 5500 available later this year

By Liam Dawe, 7 Oct 2019

AMD have now formally lifted the lid on their next GPU with the announcement of the Radeon RX 5500 coming later this year.

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Intel giving hints at a possible Intel Xe dedicated GPU release in June 2020

By Liam Dawe, 7 Oct 2019

Raja Koduri from Intel put out a bit of a teaser on Twitter recently for for their upcoming dedicated GPU.

The Atari VCS team is finally talking about games as they're partnering with Antstream Arcade

By Liam Dawe, 30 Sep 2019

The team doing the Linux-powered Atari VCS gaming console are finally talking about games. After a lot of silence, they've announced a partnership with Antstream Arcade to bring tons of classics to it.

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Testing the Gioteck WX-4 Wireless gamepad on Linux, pretty good for the price

By Liam Dawe, 27 Sep 2019

Always on the look out for new hardware that's good and cheap, I recently came across the Gioteck WX-4 Wireless gamepad.

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AMD have delayed the Ryzen 9 3950X and 3rd generation Threadripper until November

By Liam Dawe, 20 Sep 2019

Today, AMD sent out a brief statement about a delay in their 16 core Ryzen 9 3950X and the 3rd generation Threadripper.

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You may want to hold off on Linux Kernel 5.3 and systemd 243 if you use a gamepad

By Liam Dawe, 16 Sep 2019

Did you do a big system upgrade recently and notice you're having gamepad issues? You're not alone. Time to downgrade perhaps.

Looks like the Smach Z handheld gaming unit is getting an upgrade

By Liam Dawe, 23 Aug 2019

The Smach Z team attended this year's Gamescom and is appears they're not done tweaking this gaming handheld.

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NVIDIA have released the 435.17 beta driver with Vulkan and OpenGL support for PRIME render offload

By Liam Dawe, 13 Aug 2019

NVIDIA have a little present available for Linux fans today, with the release of the 435.17 beta driver now being available.

System76 are prepping a powerful new Linux laptop, the "Adder WS"

By Liam Dawe, 2 Aug 2019

System76 sent word earlier about something new. A new (and rather powerful) Linux laptop named the Adder WS.

Good news for VR fans in the US, the full Valve Index bundle is back in stock

By Liam Dawe, 24 Jul 2019

Valve emailed a press release today, to mention that the full bundle of the Valve Index kit is back in stock for those in the US looking to pick it up.

The Linux-powered Atari VCS sounds like it's coming along

By Liam Dawe, 24 Jul 2019

The team behind the retro-inspired and Linux-powered gaming box, the Atari VCS, have put out an "Early Summer Update" of what's going on with the project.