2019 feels like forever ago now, thanks to a barrage of world-changing events bludgeoning us around the proverbial heads year after year. This played out in the PC and broader tech industry to the tune of chip shortages and a general industry slowdown. Now, judging from some industry reports about motherboard shipments, it looks like the PC market (and therefore the PC gaming market) could be back in business.

Digitimes (via IT Home) reports that, according to “industry sources,” motherboard shipments are set to recover in the second half of 2024. This is based on previous shipping information and estimates for 2024. Tallying up the numbers relayed, it looks like the four major motherboard vendors (Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, and ASRock) might reach a sizeable 33,700,000 motherboards shipped by year’s end.

This coincides with other positive developments in the PC and component industry, such as PC sales steadily increasing and Q4 2023’s GPU sales seeing a 32% year-on-year inc…

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Shadows of Doubt, the noir immersive sim that we once called “Deus Ex for incorrigible snoops” has got an early access release date. You’ll be able to stalk its voxelized streets and read everyone else’s emails (but in, like, a good guy way) on April 24 this year.

I’m intrigued by this one. I’ve been following Shadows of Doubt ever since it first started making all the right noises back in 2020. Set in a procedurally generated city (that gets generated, procedurally, when you hit New Game) in an alternative, cyberpunk 1980s, the game features “a fully simulated world with hundreds of citizens” each going about their separate little lives, and all with “their own name, job, apartment and daily routine”.

Your job is to creep on just about all of them in order to catch a murderer. Using an array of gadgets and whatever warped solutions you can conjure up using the game’s systems—plus, naturally, a conspiracy cork board where you draw red string between suspects—…

The big four brands shipped 30% fewer motherboards in 2022 than 2021, according to Taiwan’s Digitimes. Overall, Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, and ASRock shipments fell from 44.5 million to 31.5 million.

ASRock was the worst hit according to Digitimes (via Tom’s Hardware), falling from around six million units in 2021 to 2.7 million in 2022, a precipitous drop of 55%. MSI took a pretty big knock, too, falling from 9.5 to 5.5 million units, or 42% down.

The two biggest brands, Asus and Gigabyte, were somewhat more resilient. Asus dropped 25% from 18 million to 13.6 million, while Gigabyte fared best sliding by 14% from 11 million motherboards in 2021 to 9.5 million in 2022. 

It’s not clear without diving behind Digitime’s paywall whether either Intel or AMD board shipments were particularly badly hit over the other. Reportedly, all of the big brands are expecting to at least match their 2022 performance in 2023 or better it, so the tide is perhaps turning.

Of cours…

When it comes to trying to experience everything a sprawling hundred-hour RPG has to offer, New Game+ can often be an essential tool for running through a game a second or third time without causing too much psychological damage. Some games, like the Persona series, even require a NG+ run if you want the full completionist adventure.

It makes it all the more baffling, then, that Sega’s upcoming Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth is locking its New Game+ mode behind its Deluxe and Ultimate editions, which cost an extra $15 and $40 on top of the base game respectively. This is a series which, traditionally, has had its own features locked behind a NG+ run such as the legendary difficulty mode.

Specifically, NG+ is being folded into the ‘Master Vacation Bundle’ which isn’t included with the game’s base version. According to the game’s official website the bundle also includes a bonus dungeon, special sujimon (from a Pokémon-like mode), resort guests, outfits “and more.”&…