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Unreal Engine 3 ported to Windows RT by Geoff Gasior — 10:48 AM on August 29, 2012 ARM-based Windows tablets are a couple of months off, and their gaming potential just got a nice boost from Epic. Unreal Engine 3, the basis... Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Gaming	54
Samsung widget offers pseudo Start menu in Windows 8 by Geoff Gasior — 12:47 PM on August 28, 2012 We don't always like it when system vendors layer their own user interface elements on top of the operating system. The supposed enhancements are often... Type: News story Tags: Software Operating systems	68
Leaked Valleyview slides detail next-gen Atom SoC by Geoff Gasior — 10:32 AM on August 28, 2012 Some possible details have leaked out regarding next-generation Atom processors. The information comes from an official-looking presentation deck published by EXPreview. Most of the... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Chipsets	34
Radeons take back graphics card market share by Geoff Gasior — 6:00 AM on August 28, 2012 Apart from price cuts, there hasn't been much in the way of good... Type: News story Tags: Graphics	120
Etc. by Scott Wasson — 10:16 AM on August 27, 2012 So, uh, Jr. Damage my oldest son just turned 13, and for his birthday, he requested a UT2004 LAN party. Of course, that's eminently... Type: News story Tags: Gaming	56
AMD courts servers with new FirePro cards by Geoff Gasior — 11:01 PM on August 26, 2012 Earlier this month, AMD added a bunch of new FirePro products to its lineup of workstation graphics cards. All of them employ 28-nm... Type: News story Tags: Graphics Servers	11
Is the subscription MMO model dead? by Geoff Gasior — 2:07 PM on August 24, 2012 Is there any future for MMOs that charge a monthly fee? Unless they're called World of Warcraft, maybe not. This article at Kotaku takes... Type: News story Tags: Gaming	87
Deal of the week: Discounted Radeons, SSDs, and a mechanical keyboard by Geoff Gasior — 12:38 PM on August 24, 2012 Earlier this week, AMD trimmed mid-range Radeon prices, providing plenty of fooder for this week's deals post. For the most part, the discounts... Type: News story Tags: Graphics Storage Input devices	43
Dual Tahiti GPUs team up on PowerColor Devil 13 by Geoff Gasior — 9:55 AM on August 24, 2012 Although AMD has yet to answer Nvidia's GeForce GTX 690 with a comparable dual-GPU Radeon, that hasn't stopped PowerColor from coming up with one of... Type: News story Tags: Graphics	20
Inside the second: Gaming performance with today's CPUs by Scott Wasson — 4:16 PM on August 23, 2012 We bring our signature latency-focused game testing methods to bear on the latest crop of desktop CPUs. In the process, we learn a some... Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs Gaming	357
Sleeping Dogs demo available on Steam by Geoff Gasior — 1:03 PM on August 23, 2012 Sleeping Dogs was released last week, and it seems to be pretty popular with critics and gamers. The PC version has a MetaCritic score... Type: News story Tags: Gaming	25
Stereoscopic 3D not a priority for EA games by Geoff Gasior — 10:00 AM on August 23, 2012 We took our first look at stereoscopic 3D on the PC back in 2009. At the time, we weren't sold on the technology. We... Type: News story Tags: Graphics Gaming	24
Zotac updates Zbox Nano with Brazos 2.0 by Geoff Gasior — 6:00 AM on August 23, 2012 We loved the Zotac Zbox Nano AD10 when we reviewed it last year. Into a chassis small enough to fit in the palm of... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Chipsets Systems	45
Ubisoft CEO claims PC piracy rate 93-95% by Geoff Gasior — 11:19 AM on August 22, 2012 Ubisoft has become somewhat infamous for obnoxious DRM. An increasing number of its... Type: News story Tags: Gaming	169
Nvidia details OEM version of GeForce GTX 660 by Geoff Gasior — 10:03 AM on August 22, 2012 Nvidia released the GeForce GTX 660 Ti less than one week ago. Now, the company's website has added specifications for an "OEM" derivative of... Type: News story Tags: Graphics	24
IEEE taking input on next-gen Ethernet standard by Geoff Gasior — 6:00 AM on August 21, 2012 The Ethernet standard currently tops out at a staggering 100 Gbps, which requires... Type: News story Tags: Networking Servers Workstations	112
It's on: AMD trims Radeon prices yet again by Scott Wasson — 7:36 PM on August 20, 2012 We noted in our GeForce GTX 660 Ti review that Nvidia had the advantage in terms of overall gaming performance per dollar. That... Type: News story Tags: Graphics	132
Right to resell downloaded music challenged in US court by Geoff Gasior — 2:46 PM on August 20, 2012 An EU court has already ruled that downloaded games and software can... Type: News story Tags: Multimedia Gaming Internet	42

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Jeff Kampman

I know Scott was involved in kicking off the project but it's currently maintained by a team led by Rys Sommefeldt, who TR readers will also recognize...

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GodsMadClown

Thanks Scott, wherever you are! +19

psuedonymous

But I would like some clarification on what these "RT cores" really are, and how... +11

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I agree that smoothness is king and that DLSS is a good trade-off to that end. I... +9

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