30 years ago, Ted Price founded Insomniac Games. In the decades since, the studio has created many iconic franchises, from Spyro the Dragon to Ratchet and Clank – and most recently the Marvel’s Spider-Man games. After leading the studio for more than 30 years, Price has now announced his retirement.
Taking to the PlayStation Blog, the Insomniac Games founder and CEO officially announced his retirement, saying “despite a challenging 2024, Insomniacs stayed fully focused on building games for our fans. As a result of the team's persistence and collaboration, we're in one of the strongest positions we've experienced in years, with each game in development looking beautiful and playing fantastic.”
Price continued, “Therefore, last week, I felt comfortable announcing to the Insomniac team that after having been incredibly fortunate to enjoy such a fulfilling career in games, I'll be retiring from the industry at the end of March. Today, I'm sharing this news more broadly.”
The full blog post is lengthy and goes into greater depth on what this means for Insomniac Games moving forward.
KitGuru says: What do you think of the announcement? Does this change anything for Insomniac Games, or will it be business as usual? Let us know your thoughts down below.
The nominees for the 97th Academy Awards have been announced and Apple TV+ is not going to take home another Best Picture Oscar, or anything else — because it didn't try.
"Blitz" was the only Apple production to even make it as far as the Oscars shortlist
Nobody can ever take away from Apple that it was the first-ever streamer to win a Best Picture Oscar for "CODA." It's not going to repeat that in 2025, but unlike Netflix, Apple truly didn't try very hard this time.
That's clear not from the lack of nominations, but from the Oscars shortlist — and before that, from Apple's own PR attempts. Every year studios mount campaigns known as "For Your Consideration," trying to get the Academy's voters to at least watch key films, and Apple pushed four titles.
It might not be "new year, new me" for the iPhone yet, as scattered reports across social media show that the iPhone is, yet again, failing to wake people up.
The iPhone seems to be sleeping on the job once more
Nothing starts the day off on the wrong foot like missing your alarm when you've got somewhere to be or something to do. Unfortunately for some iPhone owners, that seems to be the exact situation they've found themselves in.
Stop us if you've heard this before. A quick check on X shows plenty of iPhone owners reporting that their alarms are not going off or are going off silently. A smaller subset of people are reporting that their alarms are going off at the incorrect time.
Apple took a big swing with their iPhone 15 series of phones, introducing a renewed focus on gaming with the announcement of iOS ports for a number of major AAA titles. Unfortunately, all of these games, including multiple Resident Evil releases, underperformed pretty significantly. It seems little has changed in the months since, with Capcom’s latest mobile port for RE2 Remake reportedly bringing in just over $100k.
As reported by MobileGamer.biz, the latest AAA title to come to iOS – Capcom’s Resident Evil 2 Remake – has brought in just over $100,000 since it launched on the platform back in December of last year.
According to the publication, during the game’s first 4 weeks on sale (in which it was discounted heavily to just $10), RE2 Remake brought in a total of $95K from 9500 purchases (via Appmagic).
In the week since, the game has seen these modest sales figures drop significantly, with the return to its full $40 price tag having tempted just 175 additional players – for an extra $7k in revenue.
While it’s impressive to see these modern AAA games running on a smartphone, it seems as though a majority of players aren’t comfortable enough yet to switch to mobile as their gaming platform of choice. Perhaps in time this will change.
KitGuru says: Are you surprised by the performance of these ports? Do you think Capcom expected higher sales for these games? Could AAA gaming be viable on a smartphone? Let us know your thoughts down below.
SEGA’s been on a bit of a hot streak in recent years, with the publisher releasing a ton of critically acclaimed and strong-performing titles including but not limited to Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, Metaphor: ReFantazio and even Sonic x Shadow Generations. Wanting to capitalise on its ongoing success, the publisher has now unveiled its new ‘SEGA Account’ initiative.
Available to sign up for right now, the publisher's new account system will offer “a profile that lets you maximize SEGA's online services and offers a ton of benefits,” adding that “anyone can sign up, and it's free to use!”
As of right now, account holders can “take part in promotions with incredible rewards!” however SEGA also promised that in the future you’ll also be able to view your stats and records across the publisher’s various titles.
Currently, those who sign up for an account can – between now and the 7th of March – redeem the ‘Kazuma Kiryu Special Outfit DLC’ to be used in their upcoming title: Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii.
NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5090 is the fastest graphics card ever released. It comes with a whopping 32 GB VRAM, and support for multi-frame generation, which achieves hundreds of FPS easily. We also managed to disassemble the card, and our review includes performance testing without upscaling or frame generation, too.
The new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 is the first high-end graphics card that makes use of a PCI-Express 5.0 bus interface. Are you in trouble when try to run it on PCIe 4.0? What about x8, like when an SSD is using up some bandwidth? We've also tested various PCI-Express 3.0, 2.0 and 1.1 configs to get a feel for how FPS scales with bandwidth.
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After more than two years, NVIDIA's new flagship is here. Now, this might seem like a silly question, but did NVIDIA really need to release the GeForce RTX 5090 now? Consider that…
Announced back at CES 2025, Nvidia's RTX 50-series is here, built on the latest Blackwell architecture. First up for review is the new flagship, the RTX 5090, which hits the market at an eye-watering £1939/$1999. Packing in a total of 92.2 billion transistors, 21760 CUDA Cores and 32GB of GDDR7 memory, Nvidia claims that the RTX 5090 is ‘up to 2x' faster than the out-going RTX 4090, but is that really the case? And what's power consumption like given the rated 575W TGP? All that and more is covered in today's review…
Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:49 RTX 5090 recap, pricing + specs
02:50 Test setup
04:31 Alan Wake 2
05:11 Black Myth: Wukong
05:47 Cyberpunk 2077
06:17 Final Fantasy XVI
06:42 Forza Horizon 5
07:11 Ghost of Tsushima
07:38 Horizon Forbidden West
08:05 The Last of Us Part 1
08:30 Plague Tale: Requiem
08:53 Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2
09:22 Starfield
09:50 Total War: Warhammer III
10:37 12-game average results
11:41 Cost per frame analysis
12:47 RT Alan Wake II
13:19 RT Black Myth: Wukong
13:47 RT Cyberpunk 2077
14:14 RT F1 24
14:45 RT Ratchet & Clank
15:07 RT Returnal
15:34 RT Shadow of the Tomb Raider
16:07 RT Star Wars Outlaws
16:33 RT 8-game average
17:31 DLSS 4 – new Transformer model
19:59 DLSS 4 – Multi Frame Generation
27:09 AI & productivity benchmarks
28:33 Closer look at the Founders Edition
29:44 Thermals & acoustics (with soundest)
31:31 Power draw and efficiency
33:33 Closing thoughts
If you missed the announcement earlier in the month, the Nvidia RTX 5090 is arriving as the first of four 50-series GPUs. The RTX 5080 is the next cab off the rank, launching on January 30th, while the RTX 5070 and RTX 5070 Ti are set to arrive some time next month. This review is firmly focused on the flagship SKU, though, and there is plenty to cover. We look at raster performance, ray tracing, new upgrades made to DLSS 4, alongside AI benchmarks, power, efficiency and more.
RTX 5090
RTX 4090
RTX 4080 Super
RTX 4080
RTX 4070 Ti Super
Process
TSMC N4
TSMC N4
TSMC N4
TSMC N4
TSMC N4
SMs
170
128
80
76
66
CUDA Cores
21760
16384
10240
9728
8448
Tensor Cores
680
512
320
304
264
RT Cores
170
128
80
76
66
Texture Units
680
512
320
304
264
ROPs
176
176
112
112
96
GPU Boost Clock
2407 MHz
2520 MHz
2550 MHz
2505 MHz
2610 MHz
Memory Data Rate
28 Gbps
21 Gbps
23 Gbps
22.4 Gbps
21 Gbps
L2 Cache
98304 KB
73729 KB
65536 KB
65536 KB
49152 KB
Total Video Memory
32GB GDDR7
24GB GDDR6X
16GB GDDR6X
16GB GDDR6X
16GB GDDR6X
Memory Interface
512-bit
384-bit
256-bit
256-bit
256-bit
Memory Bandwidth
1792 GB/Sec
1008 GB/Sec
736 GB/Sec
716.8 GB/Sec
672 GB/Sec
TGP
575W
450W
320W
320W
285W
First, a quick spec recap. The RTX 5090 is built on the new GB202 die, measuring 750mm2, though it's not quite a full implementation of the silicon. Instead we find a total of 11 Graphics Processing Clusters (GPCs), each holding up to eight Texture Processing Clusters (TPC), for a total of 85. Each TPC is home to two Streaming Multiprocessors (SMs), giving us 170, and each SM still holds 256 CUDA Cores, meaning the RTX 5090 has an eye-watering total of 21760 shaders. We also find 170 RT cores, 680 Tensor cores, 680 Texture Units, and 176 ROPs.
This time around, however, there's no node-shrink, and GB202 remains fabricated on TSMC's N4 node, as per the RTX 40-series. As such, rated clock speed is not increased this generation and is actually touted slightly below that of the RTX 4090, with the RTX 5090 delivering a rated 2407MHz boost clock, compared to its predecessor's 2520MHz boost.
The memory configuration has seen significant upgrades, though.The RTX 5090 now comes equipped with a super-wide 512-bit memory interface, paired with 32GB GDDR7 memory running at 28Gbps, and that puts total memory bandwidth at a staggering 1792 GB/s. L2 cache is also increased to 98MB, up from the 74MB of the RTX 4090.
Considering the large increases to die size and core count, but with no node shrink, it's perhaps unsurprising to see power draw has increased, this time boasting a 575W TGP. This is something we focus on closely in this review, using our enhanced GPU power testing methodology, so read on for our most detailed power and efficiency testing yet.
The United Kingdom's competition regulator is investigating Apple and Google once again, with the CMA assessing the "strategic market status" of the two companies in mobile ecosystems.
UK Houses of Parliament - Image Credit: David Zherdenovsky/Pexels
The Competition and Markets Authority is launching an investigation into the mobile business, once again taking on the dominance of Apple and Google in the smartphone market. As it flexes its new powers to investigate big tech companies like Apple, it's taking on the two companies responsible for the two biggest mobile operating systems.
According to Statcounter, iOS has 47.7% of the mobile operating system market share in the UK as of December 2024. Android is reported at 51.9%.
A class action lawsuit has been filed against Apple over the use of fluoroelastomer in several Apple Watch bands, saying the company is hiding how it is using dangerous chemicals.
The Apple Watch Sport Band is among those said to contain harmful chemicals — image credit: Apple
As long ago as 2015, when it filed a patent regarding Apple Watch bands, Apple has been aware of health concerns over the fluoroelastomer material it uses in some bands such as the basic Sport Band. At the time, it was claimed that the particular fluoroelastomer recipe used had been strenuously tested to prevent rashes and other skin reactions.
Ten years later, the company is being sued for the use of this material, and accused of promoting a health device that is unhealthy. The suit targets Apple's Sport Band — which comes as standard with an Apple Watch — plus the Ocean Band, and the Nike Sport Band.
With the GeForce RTX 5090 having a whopping 575W TDP, concerns about potential power connector meltdowns, similar to those experienced with the RTX 4090, are understandably high. However, Nvidia has assured gamers that it has taken steps to prevent that from happening again.
During a recent Q&A session in South Korea (via QuasarZone), Nvidia addressed these concerns head-on. The company acknowledged the previous issues with the RTX 4090's 12VHPWR connector, which sometimes led to overheating and melting, likely due to improper installation or faulty third-party adapters.
To prevent similar issues with the RTX 5090, Nvidia has implemented the updated 12V-2×6 connector, which features a more robust design and improved contact points. The company also emphasised the importance of proper connector installation, highlighting that user error was the primary cause of the RTX 4090 meltdowns.
While the updated connector and increased awareness should significantly reduce the risk of similar incidents with the RTX 5090, Nvidia and AIB partners aren't taking any chances. For example, companies like Zotac (safety light) and MSI (coloured cable connectors) have implemented additional safety measures in their custom RTX 50 series designs.
KitGuru says: With the RTX 5090's launch just around the corner, gamers can breathe a sigh of relief knowing that Nvidia has taken steps to address the power connector concerns and ensure a safe and stable experience with its next-generation flagship GPU.
It's been a few months since Apple launched the black Apple Watch Ultra 2 and the all-new Apple Watch Series 10. Here's how they compare after three months of daily use.
Let's compare the Apple Watch Series 10 to the Apple Watch Ultra 2
We wore the Apple Watch Ultra 2 for an entire year. Once the new Apple Watch Series 10 was released, we made a chance to the new wearable instead.
This has given us lots of insight into the two models and how they actually compare after prolonged use. We'll go beyond just the specs on a website.
Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5070 Ti cards have been expected to be released in February since the 50-series was announced at CES 2025, but we've not had a specific date – until now. A retailer listing might have spilled the beans on the upcoming release of the Nvidia RTX 50 series card, pointing the launch date to February 20th.
While the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 are stealing the spotlight with their imminent launches, gamers eager for a more budget-friendly option anxiously await news about the RTX 5070 series. Proshop (via VideoCardz), a German retailer, has seemingly shared the RTX 5070 Ti's release date, listing it for availability on February 20th. However, Nvidia hasn't confirmed this, so it could also be a placeholder date.
The RTX 5070 Ti is expected to feature the GB203-300 GPU with 8,960 CUDA cores and 16 GB of GDDR7 memory on a 256-bit bus. It's rumoured to consume around 300W of power. Proshop hasn't yet listed a release date for the standard RTX 5070, suggesting that the non-Ti variant might launch later.
The RTX 50 series launch is underway, with the RTX 5090 reviews dropping today. Next week, the RTX 5080 takes centre stage, with reviews expected to go live on January 29th and the official launch on January 30th.
KitGuru says: Are you planning to get an Nvidia RTX 50 series graphics card? If so, which one are you getting?
The Indian government wants its own state-backed apps to be pre-installed on every iPhone and Android phone, but Apple and Google are expected to refuse.
India says Apple has abused its dominant market share of iOS apps
India's government has a thing about pre-installed apps, having previously told Apple it should let its experts examine them before any updates are allowed. That was reportedly in a private discussion in 2023, and appears to have gone nowhere — which might be what happens with the new demand too.
According to Bloomberg, India's latest private discussions with Apple and Google revolve around the government's own apps. It wants its own state-backed suite of apps to be supplied pre-installed on all phones, and also to be downloadable from third-party App Stores without "untrusted source" warnings.
Gamesir has been quite active in the recent years, releasing newer and refreshed gaming controllers. Having used and tested a few of Gamesir's controllers, I can say that I am a bit more impressed with their mid-range offerings, like Gamesir Tarantula Pro than the budget ones, like GameSir T7. The company is back again with another controller, the "Gamesir Cyclone 2", a successor to the first Cyclone controller. There are already some visible changes when you keep both side by side but apparently, the layout isn't changed. There are some small changes on the outside but some are significant, which […]
Season 2 for Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is finally set to arrive in just a week’s time, and as such, the team at Treyarch have now given players their first proper look at what to expect when Season 2 goes live on the 28th of January. Alongside 5 new maps, 4 additional guns and the new Zombies experience ‘The Tomb’, Season 2 is set to reintroduce a few fan-favourite game modes and much more.
Making the announcement via a lengthy blog post, the team at Treyarch gave fans their first proper look at Black Ops 6 Season 2, writing “Season 02 arrives next week, upending the new order of Avalon. Engage with a massive amount of new content, including five Multiplayer maps, more than six new weapons, a new Zombies map, limited time Valentine’s Day-themed modes, and more. Gear up, train up, and deploy to Season 02 arriving Tuesday, January 28.”
As previously announced, Zombies players will be able to enjoy the new map ‘The Tomb’ right from the launch of Season 2; introducing a new (returning) Wonder Weapon the ‘Staff of Ice’ as well as a reimagining of the perk Death Perception from Cold War – refreshed with a bunch of new Augments.
Last but certainly not least, Treyarch announced some of the weapons and attachments set to be made available throughout Season 2, including but not limited to:
KitGuru says: What do you think of the Season 2 announcements? Will you be hopping in on the 28th of January? Which new weapon are you most excited for? Let us know down below.
Each month, Sony updates its PlayStation Plus Extra/Premium libraries with a new line-up of titles. Similarly, every month a number of games are also removed from the service. With God of War Ragnarök, Like a Dragon Gaiden and more recently being added, Sony has now announced exactly which games will be leaving soon.
In going to the PlayStation Plus tab on your PS5, you’ll find a list of 8 titles under the ‘Last Chance to Play’ section. Leaving the service at some point in February (likely mid-month) are the following:
The Outer Worlds: Spacers Choice Edition
Tales of Arise
Tales of Zestiria
Tales of Symphonia Remastered
Tales of Vesperia
Outriders
Scarlet Nexus
Bulletstorn
While a shorter list of departees than some months, fans of the Tales of series will be disappointed to see so many of the franchise’s entries set to be removed – especially the most recent release: Tales of Arise.
As mentioned however, the blow of these losses are somewhat alleviated by the recent additions to PS Plus Extra/Premium, including the likes of God of War: Ragnarök; Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name; Citizen Sleeper; Sayonara Wild Hearts and more. The full list of games added can be found HERE.
KitGuru says: Are you disappointed by the list of titles leaving? Will you try to squeeze in a playthrough of any of these games before they’re gone? What’s your favourite ‘Tales of’ entry? Let us know down below.
2025 marks the 10th anniversary of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, generally agreed upon as being one of the best Western RPGs perhaps of all time. One of the game’s strongest aspects is of course its music. In celebration of the game’s 10th birthday, a Witcher Concert will be touring Europe later this year – tickets for which have now gone live.
Throughout the month of November 2025, fans of The Witcher 3 will be able to experience “a one-of-a-kind live event that transforms the lasting legacy and emotional storytelling of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt into an immersive concert.”
Described as featuring “an innovative blend of cutting-edge visuals & gameplay from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt combined with a stirring orchestral performance,” the concert will take fans on “an immersive emotional tour through the game’s story brought to life with traditional and modern instruments.”
The Witcher 3’s OST is iconic and beautiful, and to hear it performed live by folk band Percival in-concert would be an amazing experience.
KitGuru says: When did you first play The Witcher 3? What’s your favourite song in the game and why is it ‘The Fields of Ard Skellig’? Let us know down below.
Having Safari be able to open the same tabs on all your Apple devices is hugely convenient, yet Apple hides the feature away. Here's how to find and make use of it.
What did we do before tabs? And now you can automatically share them across your devices
This is specifically about what are called iCloud tabs — and they are not the same as Tab Groups. If you use Tab Groups in Safari on one Apple device, the feature is on with the same tabs on all your devices.
In theory, iCloud tabs is always on too, but you have to dig further to find it, and you have to make sure that it is enabled.
A proposed class-action lawsuit against Apple, which alleges that the company underpays its female staff, is going forward after all.
A proposed class-action lawsuit against Apple is moving forward.
Even though Apple claims it takes the issue of gender discrimination seriously, with the company even having an entire webpage dedicated to diversity, the iPhone maker has faced serious criticism. In June 2024, a class-action lawsuit against Apple alleged that the company systematically underpays its female employees across multiple divisions, including AppleCare, engineering, and marketing.
According to the class-action lawsuit, Apple based its employee pay on "prior pay and pay expectations to set starting salaries," meaning that women are paid less from the get-go. The company's performance evaluations are also said to favor men, who are often rewarded with bonuses and raises based on talent, while their female coworkers are not provided with the same treatment.
The purported specifications of the iPad 11, iPhone SE 4, and 2025 iPad Air models have appeared online, and contradictions include the iPad 11 not getting Apple Intelligence support.
The availability of Apple Intelligence on iPad 11 is still in question
On Wednesday, an anonymous social media account with a verifiable track record published detailed information on multiple unreleased Apple products. Earlier in the day, the leaker claimed that the fourth-generation iPhone SE, the iPad 11, and the 2025 iPad Air models would all ship with iOS 18.3 preinstalled.
The leaker has since returned with even more information on these devices, but some of their recent claims raise more questions than answers.
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