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NVIDIA's Game Ready Driver for Baldur's Gate 3 is here, up to a 93% performance boost with DLSS

Kosta Andreadis | Aug 8, 2023 9:28 PM CDT

The latest NVIDIA GeForce Game Ready Driver 536.99 release is here, adding DLSS 2 support to Baldur's Gate 3 to deliver impressive performance gains on GeForce GPUs. The worldwide RPG phenomenon from developer Larian Studios is one of the biggest PC releases 2023, hitting an all-time peak concurrent player count on Steam of over 800,000.

NVIDIA's Game Ready Driver for Baldur's Gate 3 is here, up to a 93% performance boost with DLSS

NVIDIA notes that GeForce driver support for the game has been there since the game first hit Early Access three years ago, with the latest GeForce Game Ready Driver featuring "additional optimizations and enhancements" to improve performance. Baldur's Gate supports NVIDIA DLAA and DLSS 2, with the latter delivering some impressive 4K results - up to a 93% boost on average for the GeForce RTX 40 Series.

To showcase Baldur's Gate 3 with DLSS 2 enabled, NVIDIA provided a 4K benchmark graph of the game running with max settings using the DLSS 'Performance' mode. And we see every GPU from the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti and up getting a sizable boost, with the mid-range and lower-tier GeForce RTX 40 Series cards seeing the biggest benefit.

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It sounds like Grand Theft Auto 6 is still planned to release in 2024

Derek Strickland | Aug 8, 2023 6:14 PM CDT

Rockstar Games parent company Take-Two Interactive reiterates that Fiscal Year 2025 will deliver a major upward curve with significantly high earnings results.

It sounds like Grand Theft Auto 6 is still planned to release in 2024

A bit ago, Take-Two Interactive gave us clues on when GTA 6 could release. The company potentially telegraphed Grand Theft AUto VI's launch in its earnings forecast for the upcoming fiscal year. Take-Two expects to make an incredible $8 billion in net bookings in Fiscal Year 2025, which is from April 1, 2024 through March 31, 2025.

This represents a massive $2.5 billion+ increase in net bookings over the current-year projections. Analysts speculate that Grand Theft Auto 6 will be the main driver for this spike in revenues, however it's worth noting that Take-Two currently has a 52-game pipeline of titles that it expects to release by the end of Fiscal Year 2026.

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Take-Two explains benefits of putting games on subscriptions like Game Pass, PlayStation Plus

Derek Strickland | Aug 8, 2023 5:34 PM CDT

Take-Two Interactive management comments on the pros of adding catalog games to subscriptions like PlayStation Plus, saying that these services offer an economic advantage.

Take-Two explains benefits of putting games on subscriptions like Game Pass, PlayStation Plus

While Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick doesn't agree with the Xbox Game Pass day-and-date model, that doesn't mean that the publisher is anti-subscription. Quite the opposite is true: We've seen NBA 2K games regularly show up on PlayStation Plus, and Grand Theft Auto V was just included on Xbox Game Pass for the third time.

Now a recent Q1'24 earnings call, Take-Two Interactive President Karl Slatoff comments on the advantages of adding catalog games into subscription services, saying that the company wouldn't do this unless it offered a "significant economic advantage."

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Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick wary of pursuing video game film adaptations

Derek Strickland | Aug 8, 2023 5:02 PM CDT

Despite big successes from Nintendo and Sony, Take-Two Interactive will continue to be very selective on adaptations of its hit franchises.

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick wary of pursuing video game film adaptations

It may be a long time before we ever see a Grand Theft Auto movie. In a recent earnings call, Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick expressed his thoughts on TV shows and films based on video games.

Zelnick is mostly wary about expanding games into new mediums because of the incredibly high risks involved, but that being said, Take-Two has still licensed two franchises to film, including Borderlands and BioShock.

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Grand Theft Auto V sales break 185 million, pushes total GTA sales to 405 million

Derek Strickland | Aug 8, 2023 4:30 PM CDT

Grand Theft Auto V has now sold-in, or shipped, 185 million copies worldwide, Take-Two Interactive has announced.

Grand Theft Auto V sales break 185 million, pushes total GTA sales to 405 million

Today, Take-Two Interactive announced strong Q1'24 earnings and gave key updates on game sales figures. According to the latest report, Rockstar Games' landmark Grand Theft Auto V has now sold-in over 185 million copies across three console generations--Gen7, Gen8, and more recently on Gen9 with the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S versions.

This milestone has also pushed total Grand Theft Auto franchise sales past 405 million lifetime-to-date.

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Mario game sales jump after Super Mario Bros film success

Derek Strickland | Aug 8, 2023 2:29 PM CDT

The new Super Mario Bros. movie caused sales of Nintendo's Mario games to jump.

Mario game sales jump after Super Mario Bros film success

Following the huge success of the star-studded film, Nintendo has enjoyed a strong rise in Super Mario game sales on its Switch handheld-console hybrid. Not only has the film helped rise Nintendo's IP royalty revenue to an incredibly high $131 million, but the movie is also sparking more game and hardware sales for Nintendo's Switch ecosystem.

According to sales data released by Nintendo, the Switch saw a strong 3.91 million shipments worldwide, with the bulk of consumers opting for the more expensive OLED model. This helped Nintendo reach a new all-time Q1 high in yen earnings. It's especially noteworthy that all of the models in the Nintendo Switch family are sold at a profit.

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Dreaming of a Steam Deck with more RAM? This modder has equipped their Deck with 32GB

Darren Allan | Aug 8, 2023 1:05 PM CDT

Valve's Steam Deck comes with 16GB of RAM, and you can't upgrade that - at least not in theory, but where there's a will...

Dreaming of a Steam Deck with more RAM? This modder has equipped their Deck with 32GB

Balázs Triszka achieved this feat just as you'd expect, using a BGA rework station, desoldering and removing the existing RAM modules inside the Steam Deck, and replacing them with beefier ones.

While this is clearly a trickier prospect than simply upgrading the storage on the Steam Deck, the modder notes on Twitter (as spotted by OC3D) that the task isn't that difficult "if you have the skills needed for bga rework" (naturally), adding that "there is no glue under the chips."

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Zelda Tears of the Kingdom sells 18.51 million copies, made up 35% of total Q1 software sales

Derek Strickland | Aug 8, 2023 12:32 PM CDT

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has amassed nearly 19 million sales in its first quarter on the market.

Zelda Tears of the Kingdom sells 18.51 million copies, made up 35% of total Q1 software sales

Tears of the Kingdom is a staggering success on the Switch. According to Nintendo's latest earnings report, the new landmark RPG has sold 18.51 million units in little over a month. To put that number into perspective, that's more than Elden Ring's total sales in its first six months and almost as much as Elden Ring's total-year sales of 20 million.

The new Zelda did so well that it helped Nintendo hit a new Q1 record for first-party game sales, with 15.7 million copies sold in its first weeks on the market. Our figures indicate that The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom made up 35% of Nintendo's total Q1 software sales.

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FromSoftware made $152 million last year with a 60% profit margin

Derek Strickland | Aug 8, 2023 11:28 AM CDT

FromSoftware is pulling in stellar revenues and profits on the heels of Elden Ring's breakout success.

FromSoftware made $152 million last year with a 60% profit margin

According to games industry analyst Serkan Toto, who keeps a close eye on the Japanese games market under his Kantan Games fim, the Dark Souls and Elden Ring developer FromSoftware is doing incredibly well right now.

Kantan Games' Serkan Toto notes that FromSoftware generated $125 million in total sales throughout the last fiscal year, which ran from April 2022 to March 2023. The Japanese game developer apparently managed to keep costs of goods and total expenses on the low side and made $91 million in operating income during the period. This represents an astronomically high 60% operating profit margin--something that we rarely ever see in the video games industry.

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Want a Steam Deck on the cheap? It looks like Valve may sell officially refurbished handhelds

Darren Allan | Aug 8, 2023 8:58 AM CDT

Valve could have plans in the works to refurbish Steam Deck portables and sell them, if fresh clues spotted online are anything to go by.

Want a Steam Deck on the cheap? It looks like Valve may sell officially refurbished handhelds

PC Gamer reports that Pavel Djundik, creator of SteamDB, spotted that Valve had concocted some listings for 'Certified Refurbished' Steam Deck models in all sizes (64GB, 256GB, and 512GB).

Those listings in the Steam database have since been removed, as expected with leaks such as this, but it's a pretty solid suggestion that this is Valve's plan in the future. Or at least that the company is exploring this as a possibility.

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