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AMD brings FSR 4.1 to Radeon RX 6000 cards, with Xbox next
AMD's machine-learning upscaler now runs on Radeon cards from 2020, and Xbox Series X|S support is coming soon.
Frame data is just astrology for people with arcade sticks.
Fighting games.
Brackets, grapplers and the quiet maths of a close set.
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Ready? Start! brings two days of brackets to St Kilda this weekend
Melbourne's volunteer-run gaming and art weekend, organised by queer and femme gamers, runs FGC tournaments on 24 and 25 October.
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Riddle Order stay perfect in Street Fighter League Japan
A 40–0 sweep of Good 8 Squad keeps them unbeaten in Division F, while Itabashi Zangief helps DetonatioN FocusMe edge Reject.
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Rangchu goes unbeaten at Bronco Brawl Fall in Pomona
VARREL Rangchu went 7–0 through the Tekken 8 bracket at the Southern California TWT Dojo event.
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Phenom takes Europe North/East's Capcom Cup spot without dropping a game in the final
A 3–0 grand final over teammate JuicyJoe sends the NIP player to Capcom Cup 13 in Tokyo.
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Online worlds.
Guilds, servers and the long hours between raids.
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WoW Forever's three raids open on 9 December
The Barrow Deeps for 10, Hyjal Summit for 20 and Onyxia’s Lair for 40, with a Drakefire Amulet attunement.
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Old School RuneScape's fourth raid, the Fractured Archive, is open
Guthix's archive went live at 9pm Brisbane time on Tuesday, for teams of two to eight.
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Lost Ark's Arbiter of Death raid arrives in the West
Belgardin is the second Shadow Raid, and clearing it unlocks the new Vambrace gear slot.
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Shooters.
Maps, LANs and the last few metres to the exit.
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Riot picks its VCT partners for 2027, and some big names miss out
Eight teams per region instead of ten. Cloud9, NAVI, KOI and DetonatioN FocusMe are among those heading for the open qualifiers.
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THE FINALS Season 12 lets Scotty call your name
PRIME TIME's beta Dynamic Commentary puts players' names into live match commentary.
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Activision says a future Call of Duty will start a new sub-series
Its marketing chief says the series won't go back to back with the same sub-series again.
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AI in gaming.
AI features in games, studio policy, tools, NPCs, anti-cheat and the people it affects.
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Four Google DeepMind agents beat Minecraft on their own
They wrote 2,783 programs, died 605 times on Easy, and took 27 hours to kill the Ender Dragon.
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Moonlighter's studio pulls ReVamp's public playtest over AI cloning fears
Digital Sun is moving the first test to Discord on 29 October, with a public one hoped for around January.
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Japan's actors union sets rules for AI use of performers' voices
Consent at every stage and pay for AI-generated performances, as the voice of Goku calls unauthorised AI copies theft.
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Tech and hardware.
PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo and PC hardware: graphics cards, CPUs, RAM, handhelds, firmware, prices and launches.
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AMD brings FSR 4.1 to Radeon RX 6000 cards, with Xbox next
The machine-learning upscaler now runs on 2020's Radeon cards, Ryzen AI laptops and Z2 handhelds. Xbox Series X|S is coming soon.
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Razer's translucent green Xbox 25th anniversary gear is out
A Basilisk mouse, a BlackWidow keyboard with an Xbox key, and Hammerhead earbuds, from US$119.99.
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Intel proposes a faster XeSS path for games running through Valve's Proton
An Intel engineer has opened pull requests so XeSS can use Arc GPUs' XMX cores under Linux and SteamOS.
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Consoles, graphics cards and PC parts.
All Tech storiesOceania.
Aussie and OCE results, dates and servers. New pieces every day, plus every OCE story from the other sections.
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The DFRAG Invitational brings eight CS2 teams to Brisbane next week
Three Oceanic invites, NEXVOID from Asia and four qualifier sides, with Major invite chances riding on it.
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Oceania's way into VCT Pacific in 2027 runs through the open qualifiers
Riot's eight Pacific partner spots have been handed out. The route for ANZ teams is the new Last Chance Qualifier.
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