Monthly Archives: December 2022

Regulatory filings suggest Nvidia’s scrapped RTX 4080 will return as the “4070 Ti”

Enlarge (credit: Nvidia) Last month, Nvidia took the unusual step of “unlaunching” a previously announced product. The 12GB version of the GeForce RTX 4080 graphics card was, by the company’s admission, “not named right” and was delayed and rebranded to avoid confusion with the 16GB version of the RTX 4080 that launched. Besides having less…

Nintendo addresses controversial Smash World Tour fan competition closure in lengthy statement

Nintendo has shared a lengthy statement in response to recent claims it told organisers of the unofficial Smash World Tour that the popular fan competition, including this month’s concluding Smash World Tour Championships, could “no longer operate”. The Smash World Tour, an “international tournament circuit in which competitors for both Ultimate and Melee can qualify…