Month: October 2024

Games News

Grab this mighty fast RTX 4080 Super and save more than $140 off the MSRP-

When Nvidia launched the GeForce RTX 4080 Super earlier this year, we were pleased to see that its MSRP was lower than the original RTX 4080’s—$999 instead of  $1,199 was a much nicer deal. But given that it was only a fraction quicker, the RTX 4080 Super still felt like it wasn’t great value for money.

But this MSI deal goes a long way to counter that and has more than $140 shaved off the Super’s suggested retail price.

So what exactly are you getting for your $856? As with all of the current Nvidia RTX 40-series, it’s powered by the Ada Lovelace architecture, which is well regarded for being light on power consumption but heavy on the gaming chops. The RTX 4080 Super sports 10,240 CUDA cores (you can just call them shaders, if you like) and this MSI model’s boos…

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Five Nights at Freddy’s Roblox game debuts by accident because series’ creator ‘approved a skin’—devs say it was a beta, then nuke its Discord over unholy NSFW content-

Five Nights at Freddy’s, a cultural gaming giant big enough to have its own movie (that was apparently Just Okay, according to critics) has come to Roblox—wait, hold on a second, it’s gone. Now it’s in beta? Oh, but the beta’s been “taken down for a few weeks.” Err.

The whole thing was a comic misunderstanding according to the series’ creator Scott Cawthon (thanks, IGN) who is otherwise retired after significant donations to right-wing parties brought him under fire from LGBTQ+ members of his fanbase. In a response on the game’s subreddit, Cawthon writes:

“Yes, there is an official Roblox game being worked on; I’m actually a big Roblox fan and play it a lot with my kids. But the fact that this was released today is one of the most baffling, insane, things to ever happe…