2021 ESA Winter Has Begun!
2021 ESA Winter by European Speedrunner Assembly started this morning (although there was a 20-hour speedrun of Skies of Arcadia: Legends yesterday as a pre-show). As expected, for pandemic reasons, this…
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Author: Scott Michaud
Awesome Games Done Quick (AGDQ 2021) Raises $2.76 Million USD
The online-only Awesome Games Done Quick 2021 (AGDQ 2021) wrapped up early Sunday morning with an official total of $2,758,847 USD for the Prevent Cancer Foundation. This is slightly lower...
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Awesome Games Done Quick 2021 Online (AGDQ 2021) Begins Sunday!
It’s time for what is likely to be the year’s largest speedrun-for-charity event! Awesome Games Done Quick 2021 Online (AGDQ 2021) will have the same format as Summer Games Done Quick 2020…
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Summer Games Done Quick 2020 Online (SGDQ 2020) Begins!
The big speedrun marathon of the summer has just begun. Like the European Speedrunner Assembly a few weeks ago, SGDQ 2020 is online-only due to the pandemic, but I...
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The Khronos Group Announces Major Milestone in OpenXR
The Khronos Group has just announced that conformance tests have been released for OpenXR. They are open-source and available to all. Possibly a more important point is that two separate companies…
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ESA Summer Online 2020 Started Today!
Until the afternoon of Sunday, August 2nd, the European Speedrunner Assembly will be hosting ESA Summer Online 2020. According to their donation tracker, this is their twentieth event, and its schedule is…
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Microsoft Highlights Visual C++ Progress on C++17/20
Even though Visual C++ is very popular on Windows, the compiler has received some criticism about things like its standards conformance and code generation. It has been getting better, though,...
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NVIDIA GeForce 451.67 Game Ready Drivers Released
New graphics drivers have been published by NVIDIA. The 451.67 Game Ready version is timed with the release of Death Stranding, which is coming to Steam on July 14th, plus...
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NVIDIA A100 GPUs Private Alpha on Google Compute Engine
Google Cloud has added NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU to their Accelerator-Optimized VM (A2) instances. They are currently only available as a private alpha, but they will be released...
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Charles Chiang, MSI CEO and President, Passes Away at 56
MSI CEO, Charles Chiang, has passed away due to injuries after falling from their office in Taipei, Taiwan. He was promoted to this position in January 2019 after running their Desktop Platform…
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Microsoft Publishes Windows 10 May 2020 Update
The latest Windows 10 refresh has been published. Windows 10 May 2020 Update is now available in ISO format and by clicking Check for updates in Windows Update. Like...
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NVIDIA Releases GeForce 446.14 Game Ready Drivers
A new set of NVIDIA graphics drivers have been released. GeForce 446.14 Game Ready Drivers focus on optimizations for Valorant, Minecraft Dungeons, Disintegration, and Crucible. Valorant is a free-to-play first-person...
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