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AMD has made itself quite a reputation with its bundling campaigns over the years, and every new season we can be sure that the company will be giving away free games with the purchase of its hardware. This summer will certainly not be exception as AMD will be bundling Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 and Unknown 9: Awakening titles with its Ryzen 7000 CPUs and Radeon RX 7000 video cards. The latest bundle offer essentially covers all of AMD's existing mid-range and high-end consumer desktop products, sans the to-be-launched Ryzen 9000 series. That includes not only AMD's desktop parts, such as the Ryzen 9 7800X3D, but also virtually their entire stack of Radeon RX 7000 video cards, right on down to the 7600 XT. AMD's laptop...
Update: AMD Re-Releases Catalyst Preview Driver For Rage
With the release of id Software's Rage this morning, AMD has pushed out a new preview driver specifically for the game. Unlike last week's 11.10 preview driver, AMD has...
10 by Ryan Smith on 10/4/2011Modded Battlefield 3 Beta Servers Could Result in Bans
Intrepid players of the Battlefield 3 beta (which began last week) have taken to hacking servers to boost the player count from 32 up to 128. Joining such a...
18 by Craig Getting on 10/3/2011Game Review: The Binding of Isaac
There is some special alchemy at the heart of The Binding of Isaac. Developer Edmund McMillen (Super Meat Boy) has combined biblical monsters, scatological humor, and tense twin-stick shooting...
11 by Craig Getting on 9/30/2011AMD Releases Catalyst 11.9 Drivers
Following up yesterday's release of the Catalyst 11.10 beta package, AMD has made the final version of the Catalyst 11.9 package available for users of 32-bit and 64-bit Windows...
16 by Andrew Cunningham on 9/29/2011DisplayLink Shows Off USB 3.0 Video Adapters
Although IDF 2011 ended two weeks ago, not everything has been covered yet. One thing we missed was DisplayLink's announcement of their first USB 3.0 video adapters. There will...
8 by Kristian Vättö on 9/29/2011L.A. Noire Coming to PCs This November
L.A. Noire, Rockstar’s gritty 1940s crime drama adventure from developer Team Bondi, is headed to PCs next month. It will release in North America on November 8 and in...
15 by Craig Getting on 9/28/2011AMD Releases Catalyst 11.10 Preview for Battlefield 3
With today's launch of the Battlefield 3 early beta, AMD has released a preview build of their Catalyst 11.10 drivers specifically for Battlefield 3. The Catalyst 11.10 Preview driver...
8 by Ryan Smith on 9/27/2011NVIDIA Releases Beta Drivers Specified for Battlefield 3
NVIDIA has released beta drivers which have been coded with Battlefield 3 in mind. The drivers are named as GeForce R285.38 and are available immediately from NVIDIA's site. Supported...
14 by Kristian Vättö on 9/26/2011Star Wars: The Old Republic Dated and Priced
Concrete details on the release of BioWare’s Star Wars MMO have finally surfaced. Star Wars: The Old Republic will release in North America on December 20 and Europe on...
27 by Craig Getting on 9/24/2011Diablo III Delayed Until 'Early 2012'
Holding true to their design ethos of Ship It When It’s Ready, Blizzard just changed the launch window for Diablo III from the end of 2011 to early 2012. “While...
24 by Craig Getting on 9/23/2011Battlefield 3 Beta Opens Sept. 29
Fans of DICE’s large-scale FPS rejoice: the open beta for Battlefield 3 launches on September 29. Anyone who preordered BF3 via EA’s Origin service or purchased the Limited Edition...
26 by Craig Getting on 9/20/2011Ivy Bridge GPU to Support Resolutions of up to 4096x4096
Thanks VR-Zone for the image! IDF 2011 ended on last Thursday but there is still lots of data showing up because sites are processing the data they have gathered. VR-Zone...
33 by Kristian Vättö on 9/19/2011Portal Now Free Until Sept. 20
If you’ve yet to try Valve’s mind-bending first-person puzzler Portal, you now have no excuse. The original Portal is currently free on Steam until September 20th. Valve was inspired by...
10 by Craig Getting on 9/17/2011AMD's 28nm GPU Demoed, Release Later This Year
In another demonstration of silicon health AMD was showing working 28nm mobile GPU silicon running Dirt 3. It's too early to talk about performance or specifications, but AMD is...
26 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/14/2011BUILD: Details On Direct3D 11.1
We're currently sitting in a Microsoft session on DirectX in Metro, where Microsoft is discussing the improvements they've made to DirectX for use with Metro. Every individual DirectX graphics...
18 by Ryan Smith on 9/14/2011AMD Shows Off Mobility Radeon HD 7000
Thanks X-bit labs for the image Intel's Developer Forum and Microsoft's BUILD conference are both underway but to not make this week any quieter, AMD is also having their own...
8 by Kristian Vättö on 9/14/2011IDF 2011: Lucid Announces Virtu Universal MVP Featuring HyperFormance Technology (Update)
At the start of 2011 Lucid announced their Virtu software to go with Intel’s Sandy Bridge CPUs. With Virtu users would be able to use a discrete GPU and...
14 by Ryan Smith on 9/14/2011And Now: Ivy Bridge GPU Architectures Detailed
We just finished going over the GPU portion of Ivy Bridge in Intel's IVB tech session. If you're interested, the slides are below.
12 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/13/2011AMD's First Dual-Core Llano APUs: A4-3400 & A4-3300 Launched
Today AMD introduced its first dual-core Llano APUs: the A4-3400 and A4-3300. These APUs have only 758M active transistors, a bit over half of the transistors in the bigger...
14 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/7/2011AMD Releases Catalyst 11.8 Drivers
AMD today released version 11.8 of its Calalyst driver package for Windows. As with previous releases, version 11.8 is available for all 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows XP...
14 by Andrew Cunningham on 8/17/2011