Twitch employees are concerned that the streaming platform risks becoming a “zombie brand”, and that further layoffs may lie ahead after nearly 1,000 jobs were cut from the company within the last 12 months.

A new report by The Wall Street Journal (via Eurogamer) reveals that Amazon paid $1 billion to acquire Twitch Interactive in 2014, but has received “little financial return” from the service in the ensuing decade. In brief, the report says that Twitch has always struggled to be profitable, even after significant growth following the launch of Fortnite in 2018 and again during the Covid-19 pandemic.

While Amazon doesn’t provide official revenue figures for Twitch, internal documents viewed by the WSJ state the livestreaming service generated approximately $667 million in …

The world of custom RTX 4060 graphics cards is a strange one for sure. From adorable, single-fan Mini-ITX GPUs, to unnecessary three-fan models, there’s a 4060 for everyone it seems. And with the RTX 4060 Ti 16GB having launched today to little enthusiasm, I thought it was a good time to go over just how experimental and strange some of the third-party designs for Nvidia’s recently released RTX 4060 are, and why this card in particular affords such wild design variations.

Add-in boards like Lenovo’s Mini-ITX GeForce RTX 4060, currently limited to the company’s own prebuilt PCs, could one day hit retailers and give mini-PC enthusiasts all the benefits of a 40-series card in a small form factor. We’re also seeing somewhat unnecessary experimentation, such as that of Gigabyte’s tripl…

It’s not the size of the open world that counts, it’s what’s inside it—but I’ll admit I’ve been curious to see how Ubisoft plans to tackle the open world maps for multiple Star Wars planets. This is a notoriously tough nut for space exploration games to crack. BioWare tried to make Mass Effect 1’s barren planets more interesting in Andromeda, only to fill them with generic, cookie cutter quests that went over about as well as the facial animations. Bethesda justified Starfield’s largely dull procedurally generated planets as realistic. What should we expect from Ubisoft, which has made some truly massive open world maps, bringing that scale to the whole galaxy?

Well, for one thing, we know Outlaws won’t be going down the endless procedural planets route—Ubisoft has rev…

If you’re based in the US and you’re in the market for a new GPU, Newegg has a GPU trade-in program that might be of interest to you. It’s a way to grab yourself a credit towards a new card, with the additional benefit of reducing electronic waste. Well, on paper anyway. It’s not like your ‘old’ RTX 30-series graphics card can really be considered e-waste.

The idea looks good initially. After you add a new card to your cart, you’ll get an option to enter the make of your old GPU and its condition. Only RTX 20-series and RX 5000-series cards and newer are accepted. You’ll be asked to pay the full price for the new card, and after buying it, Newegg will cover the cost of shipping the old card with a prepaid UPS shipping label. After it receives the card, checks it and approves, Newe…