Canadian Gary Bowser was indicted in 2020 before being jailed last year for his involvement with a Nintendo hacking group called Team-Xecuter. The charges related to his role as a salesperson and promoter of Team-Xecuter’s hardware and hacking tools, and Bowser pleaded guilty to his involvement. The US government requested a sentence of five years but, in probably the only bit of leniency Bowser received, he was jailed for 40 months in February 2022, and has now been granted early release 12 months later. He is currently in a US processing centre, and should be returned to Toronto in the next week.

But things are not going to end there. A large part of the case against Team-Xecutor was the financial damage it caused Nintendo, and the court slapped Bowser with an astronomical restitution amount totalling $14.5 million. 

Bowser recently granted a video interview to journalist Nick Moses (thanks Torrentfreak), though unfortunately the fact he’s sti…

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Riot Games vice president Greg Street, the executive producer of the studio’s in-development League of Legends MMO, is leaving the company. Street said that he wants to spend more time with his family, and that after nine years with Riot, “it’s time for something new.”

Street said in December 2022 that he was stepping away from Twitter following the death of his brother and expected loss of his father. Yesterday he returned, expressing gratitude for the support he’s been shown during his absence and announced that he is stepping down from his position at Riot.

“A combo of personal and professional considerations led me down this path,” Street tweeted. “We experienced some devastating personal losses last year and I want to be closer to my surviving family.

“But while I was on break I got to think a lot about my career. Grief has a way of really bringing into focus what matters the most to you (still don’t recommend it overall though). And after nine years at …

RAM chip manufacturer Micron has recently been making some interesting claims about its next generation of ultra-fast memory for graphics cards, GDDR7. Compared to what’s currently being used (GDDR6X and GDDR6), Micron says its forthcoming tech is “expected to achieve greater than 30% improvement in frames per second for ray tracing and rasterization workloads.”

That’s a remarkable performance boost, no matter how you look at it, and it’s normally the preserve of the significant architectural changes a new GPU design brings in. However, while it’s certainly true that the data transfer rate and bandwidth of GDDR7 will be at least 30% greater than the fastest GDDR6/6X on offer right now, it’s a different story altogether when it comes to actual games and applications.

Micron supplies all the GDDR6X chips used in Nvidia’s graphics cards and the fastest it offers is rated to 24 GT/s (24 billion transfers per second). It also sells 18 GT/s GDDR6, though Samsung has 20 GT/s GD…

PC hardware leak culture is out of control. So say no lesser luminaries of the PC hardware scene than Gordon Mah Ung of PC World and Steve Burke of Gamer’s Nexus.

“Internet, we need to talk about your addiction to the leak culture,” Gordon begins in a recent Youtube video. And he’s got a point. The pace and frequency of stories, videos and other coverage of rumours concerning upcoming hardware, mainly CPUs and GPUs, from Intel, AMD and Nvidia is surely greater now than ever before.

Ung and Burke cover the impact that leaks can have on these companies, the biggest problem being inaccurate leaks leading to unrealistic expectations. That can mean an actually decent new product can receive a frosty reception simply because it’s not as good as unrealistic and incorrect details in “leaks” leading up to the launch.

One example here is AMD’s Ryzen 3000 not hitting the rumoured 5GHz. That disappointed some enthusiasts, despite the fact that it was a very competitive CPU by …

Hunt Showdown is currently celebrating its five-year anniversary with a big sale and a new DLC hunter. While there’s much to look back on, Crytek’s eyes are fixed on the future with plans to update Hunt from an aging 5.6 legacy version of CryEngine to the latest 5.11 build. 

“The game currently runs on a legacy version of CryEngine from four years ago,” David Fifield, general manager at Crytek, explained to PC Gamer. “So one of our major talking points across 2023 is gonna be about updating to the latest 5.11 version of CryEngine which is four years newer.”  

Upgrading an engine from one decimal to a slightly higher decimal doesn’t sound like a significant change, but it’s a much larger undertaking than updating the firmware on your phone. It’s exceedingly rare for a years-old game with an established development pipeline to replace the base on which it sits—it’s the game dev equivalent of swapping out your car’s chassis for a new one that’s theoret…

Fallout: London, a full conversion mod for Fallout 4 that transports players across the pond to the capital of the UK, has been delayed. Instead of releasing in Q3 of this year—that’s the Q after this one, if you’re not sure—it will now release sometime in Q4, meaning October or after.

“Now you might be wondering, ‘Why so late?'” said Fallout: London project lead Prilladog, “well, initially, we had hoped for it to be in the third quarter … however, a certain space game got delayed and is now scheduled to come out around the same time we had planned”.

That game, of course, is Starfield. Bethesda’s RPG has, appropriately enough, become a bit of a black hole lurking at the heart of September, prompting all sorts of studios to scramble out of its orbit. “This not only gives you all more time to play Starfield,” said Prilladog, “but also allows us more time for playtesting and bug fixing, so it’s a win/win situation”.

Generally, the projects that want…

It’s official: Barbarians and sorcerers won’t rule Sanctuary in Diablo 4’s next season, at least not using the same builds that absolutely crushed season 2. On a developer stream today, Blizzard said tomorrow’s patch notes will include fixes to the bugs that fuel the strongest builds in the game, as well as changes that elevate the weakest ones.

Barbarians who spent the Season 2 in Diablo 4 bonking bosses to death with a single hammer blow were actually benefiting from a skill upgrade whether or not they put a point in it. Any brbarian using Hammer of the Ancients had a big 30% multiplicative damage boost for free. That will be fixed when season 3 launches on January 23, which might dethrone HotA as the best skill in the game. Likewise, the orbiting lighting balls of destruction that almost every sorcerer abused this season won’t tear through enemies quite as fast when Blizzard fixes a bug related to the attack speed bonus from the Enhanced Ball Lightning skill upgrade.

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