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CD Projekt Red is still a long ways off from releasing any of its new projects, but the studio has been doing a great job of keeping everyone updated on the status of its roadmap. This week, we got some surprising updates on both the next Witcher game and the next Cyberpunk game.

After launching Cyberpunk 2077 in late 2020, CD Projekt Red restructured its studios to reduce crunch and even swapped out its in-house development tools for Unreal Engine technology to smooth out development of future games. Since then, the studio has also been very open about its roadmap. In the latest …

CD Projekt Red confirmed that The Witcher 4 was ramping up, with more resources being dedicated to the project now that Cyberpunk 2077 development has wound down. At this point, the new game is being “intensively worked on”, and work on Cyberpunk 2 at CDPR's new US studio is also …

CD Projekt recently shared its recent financial results with investors, revealing strong sales for Cyberpunk 2077 following last year's updates. Beyond that though, we also got exciting news for Witcher fans, as the team working on ‘The Witcher 4' continues to grow.  As of now, around 400 developers are now …

CD Projekt Red has announced plans to begin production on the next Witcher game later this year. This title is currently called "Polaris" and is supposed to be the first of a new trilogy that will expand the medieval fantasy universe...

Many of us had assumed that CD Projekt Red would move away from Geralt being the lead character with its new trilogy. However, the game director on The Witcher 4 has now teased Geralt's return. In an interview with Italian site Lega Nerd (via insider-gaming), Witcher game director, Sebastian Kalemba …

In 2022, CD Projekt Red unveiled an ambitious lineup of projects, headlined by a new instalment in The Witcher series. The team working on the game has remained small over the past 18 months but now, with work on Cyberpunk 2077 completed, CD Projekt Red is in the process of …

AMD introduced ray-tracing support to its graphics cards with the RX 6000 series. However, older GPUs may also be able to benefit, as a developer was recently able to implement ray-tracing support for Polaris, Vega and RDNA GPUs using the Linux Mesa 3D graphics library.  Nvidia and AMD GPUs with …

It's time for battle - GTX 1060 vs RX 480 vs RX 580 in 2021 - FIGHT!

Our AMD Radeon Pro GPU competition is back for another week. Unfortunately due to a technical error, previous entrants will need to re-enter. We sincerely apologise for this error. Please see the full post for more details.

While much of this year’s focus will be on Navi, it looks like AMD might be squeezing a bit more life out of Polaris this year in addition to ushering in new architecture. Recent reports suggest that we’ll be getting a Radeon RX 640 at the low-end of the line-up, …

AMD's lineup of Polaris GPUs launched as great bang for buck components, but miners soon began snapping them up and driving prices higher. Now that the dust is starting to settle a bit, AMD is apparently looking to continue improving on Polaris, with a new series of ‘Polaris 30' graphics …

A year, almost to the day, after launching the original Radeon Pro Duo dual-chip workstation-class graphics card, AMD has announced a refresh to its professional line-up. During the NAB 2017 show (an event for the broadcasting industry) in Las Vegas yesterday, AMD announced a new version of the Radeon Pro Duo …

While we've been on a steady flow of Polaris RX 580- and 570-series reviews this week, these have been stolen the attention from other entries in AMD's line-up. AMD did launch something else on the 18th of April, only it passed by very discreetly because it was overshadowed by AMD's …

Sapphire makes the best of AMD's RX 580 refresh with its Nitro+ version.

The RX 470 is back except faster, and don't forget to swap that 4 for a 5, RX 570, that's better.

AMD's next batch of graphics cards are on the way and as we have previously heard, they are set to be based on refreshed Polaris chips. We already knew that AMD had found a way to increase the performance per watt of Polaris towards the latter half of 2016 and …

Update: A couple of weeks ago, we first began hearing rumours of an RX 500 series coming in April. At the time, the source claimed that the RX 580 and RX 570 would be arriving in the first week of April, with the lower end RX 560 and RX 550 …

We have been coming across plenty of leaks from AMD over the last week or so, not only did we get a benchmark for a previously unseen GPU and learn that Intel may license Radeon tech for future iGPUs, but now we have also found references to Polaris 10 XT2, …

Despite what the adverts would have us believe, the real fundamental differences between Windows based PCs and Macs, aren't all that stark. One area where they are though, is in graphical power and the latest generation of MacBooks continues that tradition. They pack in AMD's new Radeon Pro 4XX mobile …

While things are quiet at the moment on the Vega front, it looks like news is leaking out about Polaris 10 and Polaris 11 revisions from AMD. The new efficiency focussed GPUs launched earlier this year in the form of the RX 480, 470 and 460 but according to reports …

It looks like Apple's long-rumored dual-display Macbook Pro could be heading our way as soon as next month. A few months back, reports began suggesting that Apple's next Macbook Pro would feature a touch-sensitive display bar above the keyboard to display various shortcuts and bits of information and now this …

Right now, AMD is focusing on dominating the mid-range GPU market with the launch of the RX 480, with the RX 460 and RX 470 set to also hit the market soon. However, there will be higher-end cards on the way eventually and this week, AMD accidentally outed the RX …

It has been a while since we last heard anything regarding AMD's new Zen architecture. For now the first eight core desktop CPU is on track to launch late this year but there are also murmurs about future Zen APUs, which will launch next some time in 2017 and rumoured to …

Although cards from AMD's new Polaris line up have yet to even hit store shelves, AMD is already looking to the future. Its next-generation graphics cards, currently codenamed Vega, have just hit a new milestone, according to senior VP and chief architect at AMD, Raja Koduri, but he did warn …

We have known about the Radeon RX-series for a little while but we didn't know the full specifications for the upcoming Polaris chips until now. This week, AMD confirmed the specifications for Polaris 10 and Polaris 11, with both set to deliver up to 2.8 times performance per watt. Polaris …

AMD may have revealed its Radeon RX line-up of Polaris GPUs this week but there are still quite a few questions left to be answered. Fortunately, while we all wait for reviews, some benchmark leaks have given us a rough idea of what performance to expect from the RX 480 …

Today at E3, AMD's CEO, Lisa Su, took to the stage at the PC Gaming Show to reveal the full line-up of upcoming Radeon RX graphics cards, using the Polaris architecture. The first GPU in the line, the RX 480, was first announced earlier this month, using the power of …

While we still have a few days to wait for AMD's official Polaris unveiling at Computex, it looks like we may already have a good idea of what sort of performance to expect as some GPU benchmarks have made their way online. These benchmark results were obtained by videocardz, who …

As much as the Wii U hasn't turned out to be anywhere near as successful as Nintendo's previous generations of home-console, developers did like making games for it. The only thing they really want with the next-generation NX though, is more power. We don't know a lot about Nintendo's NX. …