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Now that weve put Apples top-of-the-line M1 Ultra chip through some performance tests, we can begin to see how it compares against the best GPUs on the market — and the results are underwhelming.

A delayed answer is eventually good... - "A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad." How many t...

Candy Crush Saga and Words with Friends, video games that helped make gamers out of anyone with a smartphone, are up for inclusion in the World Video Game Hall of Fame, hall officials said Thursday as they announced a total of 12 finalists.

Admit it. We all love free stuff, even things we don’t need, and the same goes for gamers and our games. There is something reassuring to see an ever-growing library of games, in physical or digital forms. Since physical space is finite, and digital space is somewhat infinite (therefore, solving the age-old geek question about whether space is finite), the...

Ascension with its four days off is shaping up to be the geekiest time of the year. This time I had three big events to choose from: the LinCon gaming convention, the Kontur/SweCon scifi convention and the 45th anniversary of the Tolkien Society. Tolkienians do things in nines. I decided to spend two days at LinCon on the Linköping University campus and one day at Kontur/SweCon in an Uppsala hotel, saving the Sunday for family pastimes.

With beefy components and portable designs, these are the best laptops for engineering students you can buy right now.

Sports economist Andy Schwarz has been discussing NCAA issues for decades. Now, he's made a board game on the subject.

In this week’s newsletter: Interface design is a serious science, yet gamers have embraced FromSoftware’s dodgy menus

The developers of upcoming RTS The Fertile Crescent are taking inspiration from history - and food - to put twists on the genre.

"Resources exist to be consumed. And consumed they will be, if not by  this generation then by some future. By what right does this forgotten  future seek to deny us our birthright?" -Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri