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Sponsor: Arctic Liquid Freezer III on Amazon - https://geni.us/NrMtDT In this hardware news episode, NVIDIA addresses the supply and demand situation by saying it has sold "2x" the amount of RTX 50 series GPUs as 40 series. Also related to NVIDIA, there have been rumors of missing ROPS on upcoming laptops, rumors of RTX 5050 and 5060 or 5060 Ti GPUs, and news of its hotfix to resolve flickering and stability issues. In other news, Meta says it's not a pirate, Thermal Grizzly is selling 9800X3D CPUs that are pre-delidded, and EA releases source code for early Command and Conquer games.  Watch the Thermal Grizzly delidding process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYLUBvISa7I  The best way to support our work is through our store: https://store.gamersnexus.net/  Like our content? Please consider becoming our Patron to support us: http://www.patreon.com/gamersnexus  Sources: https://www.one-tab.com/page/hu3MRp0KRBmo2g-I_G2New  TIMESTAMPS  00:00 - Recapping the Week 01:37 - NVIDIA Updates on Supply & GDC 05:47 - Rumor: NVIDIA RTX 5050, 5060 07:23 - NVIDIA Laptop ROPs Concern 13:44 - Thermal Grizzly Selling Delidded 9800X3D CPUs 15:52 - CPU-Z Missing ROPs Report 17:16 - Meta Employs Interesting Legal Strategy 20:52 - NVIDIA Addresses Black Screen Issues 22:14 - Rumor: Valve Working on VR Headset 24:24 - EA Releases Command and Conquer Source Code  ** Please like, comment, and subscribe for more! **  Links to Amazon and Newegg are typically monetized on our channel (affiliate links) and may return a commission of sales to us from the retailer. This is unrelated to the product manufacturer. Any advertisements or sponsorships are disclosed within the video ("this video is brought to you by") and above the fold in the description. We do not ever produce paid content or "sponsored content" (meaning that the content is our idea and is not funded externally aside from whatever ad placement is in the beginning) and we do not ever charge manufacturers for coverage.  Follow us in these locations for more gaming and hardware updates:  t: http://www.twitter.com/gamersnexus f: http://www.facebook.com/gamersnexus w: http://www.gamersnexus.net/  Our policies, processes, and ethics statements relating to review samples, advertising, travel, errors, and more are transparently and publicly available on this page: https://gamers.nexus/ethics-statements  Steve Burke: Host, Writing Mike Gaglione: Editing Vitalii Makhnovets: Editing Tim Phetdara: Editing Jimmy Thang: Writing Tannen Williams: Writing

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00:00Hey everyone, welcome back to the Hardware News Recap of the Week. It's been a crazy

00:04couple weeks lately. So we're back to news now. There's a story about maybe missing ROPs

00:10on the NVIDIA laptops coming up, but then NVIDIA said that there's not any missing ROPs,

00:15but then other people say there are missing ROPs. So anyway, we're still talking about

00:18ROPs. That's the point. In fact, we're going to talk about it twice because there's a utility

00:22to detect the missing ROPs on the desktop GPUs. Meta says that it did not illegally

00:29torrent copyrighted material to train its AI, and if it did, it didn't seed it. So that

00:35makes it okay. Additionally, on the positive side, in kind of a weird way, EA Games, that's

00:41right, EA Games followed on the positive side. EA Games has released source code for some

00:48of its Command and Conquer series that it bought from Westwood when it bought Westwood

00:53and then ran it into the ground. But on the positive side, they're releasing the source

00:56code for what was my favorite RTS series of all time up until the point they stopped

01:03making it. Actually Age of Empires is in there too. And so is Starcraft. But anyway, NVIDIA

01:08finally is also addressing the supply situation or demand situation for the 50 series. We'll

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01:36at the link in the description below. First up, NVIDIA. NVIDIA has a number of announcements

01:40for its GTC events. We've spent a couple of weeks now talking about all the GPU stuff,

01:45but there's some of that too, just a little bit though. So there were rumors that NVIDIA

01:49was briefing the press on the 5060 and 5060 Ti GPU launches. This turned out to not be

01:55the case this time. I joined the press call and I said, video cards.com says you're going

02:00to brief us on the 5060 and 5060 Ti series. So I've already read the briefing on video

02:07cards and they said, Nope, that's actually not at this time. So that does not appear

02:10to have happened. Maybe someone got briefed. I don't know. But anyway, they do have some

02:15news on the 50 series supply situation though, sort of. NVIDIA provided this slide. The company

02:20noted very clearly that quote, we've shipped two times as many GPUs compared to the 40

02:25series in the same timeframe and quote of the 50 series. And in this chart they presented,

02:30it doesn't have the units count, but the axis is just showing relative quantity shift. NVIDIA's

02:35chart is claiming that the 50 series has outpaced the 40 series across a five week period. We

02:40asked NVIDIA about the venerable 10 series and where it would land on this chart. And

02:45while the company didn't have those numbers prepared, when we asked, it did note that

02:48the 10 series would reportedly fall below both of these. NVIDIA stated to us, quote,

02:5310 series was incredible and was super popular, but the demand wasn't as big as we've seen

02:57for 20 series, 30, 40, and now 50 series, end quote. We've already said pretty much

03:01everything we want to say right now on the pricing, availability, supply, all that stuff,

03:06scalping situation, paper launch situation. It's in multiple videos now, so not going

03:11to continue contributing to that at the moment until we have something major to share. We

03:15do have another piece that's pretty interesting on this topic, but that's coming up a little

03:18bit later. Anyway, so NVIDIA is basically saying, but there was lots of supply. It's

03:25just a demand problem. Whether or not that changes anything, I'm not really sure. But

03:29either way, the company had other news during its briefing because GDC is coming up, says

03:34the Game Developers Conference that precedes GTC, which is NVIDIA's own graphics technology

03:39conference. And it has some news that's mostly targeted at developers, but there are some

03:43stuff we can convey to you all. So the company says that over 100 games will include DLSS

03:484, noting that, quote, 100 games in one and a half months is the fastest ramp of any new

03:53tech that they've deployed like this that they've seen. It's 16 times faster than the

03:58adoption for DLSS 3, end quote. We asked NVIDIA if there were any developer related reasons

04:03that the adoption might be faster than just kind of time in the market with DLSS in general.

04:09And the company stated that it's streamlined solution and some Microsoft SDK changes may

04:13have also contributed to the more rapid uptick. One other piece of news is more on RTX Remix.

04:19So despite the many negatives around the 50 series launch, NVIDIA has managed to continue

04:22iterating on one of its better received solutions, which is RTX Remix. Remix is a modding tool

04:27that makes it easier to repackage old games, such as with newer renderers, which can resolve

04:31certain issues of compatibility or resolve, for example, limitations of total amounts

04:38of VRAM addressable so that larger textures can be implemented, which allows for better

04:42compatibility on modern hardware. Maybe a little bit ironically, given the PhysX situation

04:48and the VRAM situation, but the point stands. Anyway, Remix has been used for Portal Remake

04:53mods, the upcoming Half-Life 2 Remake mod, which is supposed to be available as a demo

04:58on the 18th. NVIDIA says that it's free Remix tool for game modders will now also include

05:03a remapping solution for remapping skeleton data for models. I'm not personally particularly

05:10well trained on animations, rigging and models, but as I understood it, the company says that

05:16during the porting process from the older game to newer renderers through Remix, as

05:22that happens and the code gets adapted, Remix sometimes had broken draw calls that resulted

05:28in the wrong skeleton data being mapped to the limbs. So an example NVIDIA gave us was

05:32an arm might have attributes mapped to a leg, for example. And so the new remap tool makes

05:38it easier for the game modders to assign the skeleton data and remap it so that the

05:43models and the rigging still function properly in animation with less manual fixing. Speaking

05:47of NVIDIA, it's going to be a lot of NVIDIA this week. NVIDIA rumors. This was not in

05:52the briefing. I want to be really clear. This was a rumor for the 5060 and the 5060 Ti and

05:58the 5050, which video cards said would be in the briefing and it wasn't. Video cards.

06:03I was so disappointed I had I had already I read the leak and I was like, OK, I can

06:09get to this briefing so fast because I've read the leaks and I'll be ready with questions

06:14and then nope. But anyway, let's look at the leaks from a week or two ago. So the last

06:19minute rumor at the end of the week, leaker Megasize GPU on Twitter, who actually has

06:23a pretty good track record with leaks so far. If I remember correctly, Megasize GPU is the

06:28one who was tweeting about the prototype we ended up getting like a year or two later

06:32and that turned out to be true. But Megasize tweeted this, quote, RTX 5060 family will

06:36be released in about 10 days, but will be on the shelf a month later, end quote, which

06:40would put it into April. WCCF Tech also wrote a story about the rumored 5050, which it says

06:46will launch in April. But they're wrong. The RTX 5050 already launched.

06:53It's called the RTX 5070. The rumor states that the 5050 will have eight gigabytes of

06:58memory, which WCCF Tech suggests will also be found on the 5060Ti and 5060. The report

07:03appears to maybe have a conflict in it where it refers to the 5050's power target twice.

07:08It says once that it's 145 watts and then it says 135 watts. But somewhere in there

07:12they say it claims that the 5060Ti will launch before the 5060 and WCCF Tech postulates that

07:18the 5050 would target Intel's B580 for price point. But this appears to just be speculation.

07:24Up next, German-language publications Heise and HardwareLux have both reported missing

07:28ROPs again, this time in laptop GPUs for RTX 50 series NVIDIA laptops that are coming out

07:35soon. NVIDIA's responded to that as well. We'll cover that too. But the publications

07:40stated this.

08:01The publications, in addition to making me try and recall my Hochschule Deutsch classes, wrote the following via translation.

08:08Heise said, quote, the launch of the RTX 50 cards was and is a debacle.

08:14Da liegt der Hund begraben. It really helped to have a translator to translate the German

08:20articles into my American vocabulary. Where is der der Bauer, wenn man ihn braucht?

08:28What a clusterfuck.

08:30Now that, that I can understand. Thanks, der Bauer.

08:34So the German one you want to say is, da liegt der Hund begraben. And English, I would say,

08:40what a shitshow.

08:41Heise wrote, quote, as CT has now learned from several notebook manufacturers, they

08:46are currently working extra shifts in Asia so that the drama does not go into the next

08:51act. I love the way German translates into English. NVIDIA has asked, they say, manufacturers

08:56to check notebooks that have already been produced with the new mobile GeForce RTX 5000

09:02graphics chips. Here, too, the focus is on GPUs that have fewer ROPs active than the

09:06datasheet specifies. This leads to potentially significant losses in 3D performance, end

09:12quote.

09:13In our own testing of missing ROPs on the desktop GPUs, we previously found that an

09:16RTX 5080 with all the ROPs performed around 10 to 12 percent faster than a 5080 with missing

09:22ROPs. So it can be a significant cut down in performance. Heise said, quote, the aim

09:27of the campaign is to ensure that systems with faulty mobile GPUs, some of which, like

09:31the desktop versions, have apparently slipped through NVIDIA's quality assurance, are intercepted

09:35before they are even delivered to customers. The current testing procedure is still likely

09:39to mean less effort from manufacturers than later exchanges from customers, not to mention

09:45frustrated customers.

09:46It's pretty clear here the two German language publications are both talking about missing

09:50ROPs on the laptop GPUs. They seem very clear and firm about that and noted that NVIDIA

09:56is working with partners to try and rectify the issue. The Verge contacted NVIDIA and

10:01asked them the following, quote, did we just go from no other GPUs are affected to some

10:06laptop GPUs are also affected?

10:09The Verge says the answer was nope. The Verge says it asked NVIDIA just to triple check

10:14the nope means that no laptop GPUs are affected by the missing ROPs issue. Yes. The Verge

10:20says that NVIDIA says, quote, correct. No further issues. NVIDIA further clarified since

10:25the Verge's article also to say this, quote, no further issues, as in nothing further from

10:30what we previously announced on desktop GeForce RTX 5090, 5080 and 5070 Ti. We encourage all

10:37partners to run checks as part of our standard testing procedure, end quote.

10:41And Jared's Tech, who we think is one of the top laptop reviewers on YouTube and actually

10:44recently helped with a laptop purchasing decision, so thanks to him for that, posted his own

10:49commentary on the matter. He noted that there may be units that shipped and are now being

10:53checked for missing ROPs, basically saying similar things to Hyzer. He also noted that

10:58some partners and retailers are opening laptop boxes to check for ROPs and then repackaging

11:03them. Here's an interesting clip from his video report.

11:06But it's kind of weird that in public NVIDIA is saying, no problems here, all good, while

11:10on the back end with their partners it's more like, hey, actually, check those GPUs

11:15out. If there are laptops with missing ROPs, finding them in advance would allow NVIDIA

11:19to claim there was never an issue.

11:21And the rest of the report is excellent and worth watching, so we'll add that link to

11:24our sources document below, you should check it out.

11:27So the current story suggests that NVIDIA is trying to fix this before launch. If you

11:30and our audience end up with a laptop that has missing ROPs and those specs will be published

11:35once the laptops launch, then we'd be happy to buy it from you. If it's got to finish

11:40with ROPs count, I'll pay an extra $1,000 on top of whatever you paid retail. You'd

11:45send us the receipt, you'd send us proof that it's missing the ROPs, we'd tell you how to

11:48do that. You'd basically check GPU-Z, check the TechPowerUp database for the GPUs once

11:53they launch, and just look at the ROPs count between the two. If yours is missing ROPs,

11:59we'll pay the extra grand on top of it, I don't care what model it is, it could be a

12:02$1,000 laptop, I don't care. So that's all we'd be looking for. If you're a store manager

12:07dealing with this problem, same applies to you, we'd be happy to pay for the inventory

12:11at full retail plus the bounty there. So you can email tips, T-I-P-S, at gamersaccess.net

12:17if that happens. Now, we don't open all these, we get a lot of emails there, so we'll do

12:23our best to kind of open and reply to ones, obviously, but if I don't reply or if we

12:29stop replying after we buy one, then just sorry in advance, we get hundreds of emails

12:34there per day sometimes. So anyway, the thing we'd like to do here is apply or continue

12:40to apply pressure to Nvidia to do what's right, which is not just like, oopsies, if it's defective

12:48send it in and we'll fix it for you, like that's not good enough. Because Nvidia has

12:53control over the entire start to finish pipeline here, including after sales control, where

12:59Nvidia has been pushing for years, people to use their web attached applications like

13:04GeForce Experience, and now NV app or Nvidia app. And so they have a means through their

13:10own software to detect the ROPS count as GPU Z can do it, which is a third party tool,

13:17then Nvidia can absolutely do it. So they have a way to detect it, they should do that

13:20and they should pop up a giant red disclaimer that basically says like, sorry, your GPU

13:28is defective. And here's a fast tracked link to like a specialized ROPS replacement line,

13:35and we'll replace it for you or something like that. Some way to basically because most

13:39people aren't they're not going to know to check for this stuff. It's just they're going

13:41to get screwed. And they're gonna lose performance and they won't know it. All right, up next

13:45Speaking of Der Bauer, Thermal Grizzly is selling 9800 X3Ds but delidded. Delidding

13:51a CPU can bolster thermal performance in big ways. It does come at the cost of avoiding

13:55warranties though if you buy it from typical channels. Thermal Grizzly just started a program

14:00in an attempt to circumvent that issue for customers. The company will purchase the CPUs,

14:05delid them and provide customers with their own two year warranty. Thermal Grizzly is

14:09starting with the 9800 X3D but stated in a press release that it intends to expand to

14:14the 9950 X3D. The company also stated that it may be open to offering this service on

14:19Intel CPUs if there's demand for it. But let's be real, there probably won't be at least

14:23not for the Ultra 200 series CPUs. Thermal Grizzly CEO and NVIDIA disaster translator

14:29on call for GN, Roman Der Bauer Hartoon said a delidded 9800 X3D from the company will

14:36cost roughly 700 euros within the EU and outside the EU, it should cost about 585 euros. Looking

14:42at the company's product page, the current price in US dollars is 713 dollars or so,

14:48which also covers the price of tax and shipping costs. This represents a 234 dollar markup

14:53from the 9800 X3D's base MSRP of 480 dollars. As we noted earlier though, that price is

15:00often higher if it's not available abundantly in stock. Thermal Grizzly in the video put

15:05out on Der Bauer's channel noted that the extra cost comes from the service provided

15:09and the warranty provided on top of that. Logistically, Thermal Grizzly purchases the

15:16CPUs and then does the delidding in house. They show the process, which is actually pretty

15:20fun to watch even if you're not buying one, it's worth checking out. Der Bauer stated

15:24that the delidding process takes about 30 to 45 minutes and the company batch bakes

15:28CPUs in an oven at around 170 degrees Celsius to delid them. We'll include that link in

15:34our sources doc below. The company then tests every processor to ensure they work before

15:38shipping them out. In terms of warranty, Der Bauer states that Thermal Grizzly's warranty

15:43covers normal overclocking damage except for mechanical damage, citing an example of a

15:48user having cracking from bad mounting processes. Now we heard you like missing ROPs, so we've

15:54put some missing ROPs into the missing ROPs. Back to the missing ROPs topic found via video

15:59cards at DocTV posted on Twitter stating quote, the CPU-Z validator can tell you immediately

16:05if your brand new GPU is flawed or not. In regards to missing ROPs in NVIDIA's 50 series

16:10cards, he also shared this image of what the warning message appears like. This system

16:14report can be accessed in the latest version of CPU-Z by selecting the validate option

16:20located towards the bottom right of the screen in between the tools and close buttons. From

16:24there you can submit and then access your own results. If you're affected, the missing

16:28ROPs warning would appear next to the GPU units in the graphics card section of the

16:33report which is actually awesome. So we really appreciate that somebody gave enough of a

16:39shit to actually try and help end users identify if they're missing the ROPs or not. I mean

16:43GPU-Z is an excellent tool, you should absolutely install it on your system just because it's

16:49useful for monitoring and things. Having something even simpler with just a does have all ROPs

16:56yes or no is even better as just a quick check for anyone who's maybe less technical or doesn't

17:01need or understand all the other information. Now again if third party software like this

17:05can do such a simple check, NvApp absolutely can, and NVIDIA like come on, just get on

17:12it, it's so easy. So anyway, up next, Meta. So we previously reported on Meta has been

17:20sued for illegally, allegedly downloading 81.7 terabytes of copyrighted books to train

17:28its AI, and there's been updates. So we had discussed previously how employees initially

17:33showed reluctance to torrent books from sites like LibGen or LibraryGen with one Meta employee

17:39stating, quote, using pirated material should be beyond our ethical threshold. Sci-Hub,

17:44ResearchGate, LibGen are basically like Pirate Bay or something like that. They're distributing

17:48content that is protected by copyright and they're infringing it. And again in the last

17:52report we also talked about how another Meta employee stated, quote, I don't think we should

17:55use pirated material, I really need to draw a line there, end quote. But Meta has an unexpected

18:01and interesting defense. In a new filing in court documents it said, quote, Meta took

18:06precautions not to cede any downloaded files. Plaintiffs thus far plead no facts to show

18:12that Meta ceded plaintiffs' books. Ah yes, the classic, it's just for personal use, it's

18:18not for distribution. Excellent. Works every time. Can't wait to see how that works out.

18:24It would imply that Meta downloaded copyrighted material, but it's okay because they didn't

18:30give the stolen stuff to other people. Anyway, additionally, according to previous documents

18:35while torrenting, Meta allegedly, quote, modified the config settings so that the smallest amounts

18:40of ceding possible could occur, end quote. The company also allegedly didn't use Facebook's

18:45infrastructure for the purpose of data downloading to, quote, avoid risk of tracing back the

18:50cedar downloader from FB servers, end quote, as we reported previously. Now for this story

18:54we're going to play into the Meta again. Did you see what I? Jimmy on the team asked Meta

19:01AI, quote, is it legal to torrent copyrighted books as long as you don't cede it back out

19:08to the torrenting community? That's what he asked Facebook's AI. Meta AI responded, quote,

19:13torrenting copyrighted materials including books without permission from the copyright

19:16holder is generally considered illegal regardless of whether you cede it back out to the community

19:21or not. While not ceding the torrent back out to the community may reduce the likelihood

19:25of detection, it does not make the act of downloading the copyrighted material legal,

19:30end quote. Well, uh, that seems, that seems pretty clear then. Can't wait to see how Meta

19:36changes the AI answer in the future to just say, it's probably fine. And this, by the

19:41way, getting into the Steve's realization of the future dystopian hellscape in which

19:46we'll all live if we're so lucky or unlucky, the comments I have here is what if we think

19:53about for a second, large, gigantic, possibly evil mega corporations control all of these

19:59AI tools and perhaps just maybe they might change the way these answers are enumerated

20:08if it is not beneficial for them. Does that seem problematic? Might that create a feedback

20:15loop of this dystopian hellscape and damn all of us to be under even further control

20:21by gigantic trillionaire mega corporations? The answer is, uh, the answer is yes. The

20:30answer is yes. That is, that is a problem actually. Anyway, existentialism aside, Tom's

20:34Harbor reports that when Meta was asked why it decided to minimize seeding in the first

20:38place, Meta asserted attorney client privilege. Why did you break into that bank and rob the

20:43vault? Well, I used the money that I might not have robbed to pay my attorney. So attorney

20:51client privilege. Anyway, up next Nvidia, some RTX 50 series owners have been reporting

20:57black screen issues, flickering or instability. And Nvidia says it has a fix. One Reddit user

21:03took to the Nvidia subreddit and wrote this quote, if you have a gaming trio 5090 download

21:08the new BIOS update in the MSI center, it fixed all my black screen issues and it managed

21:12to squeeze in a few extra performance out of my card. End quote. Another Reddit user

21:17chimed into the thread to say, quote, Nvidia will be releasing a driver update this week

21:21that will fix the issues, which got a reply from Nvidia form representative Pidge2k that

21:26reads, quote, yes, for users whose graphics card hasn't received the VBIOS update, they

21:31can install the driver that will be releasing later this week that applies the same fix

21:35and quote. This story is a week or two old now. So that driver updates actually out and

21:39we've been following up on it. And we've seen a mix where some people are saying that their

21:44issues are resolved from either the driver update or from a BIOS update. And we actually

21:48had a number of viewer emails reporting that they are still having flickering or black

21:53screen or some kind of instability issue. One user emailed us and reported that they

21:58had to force shut down the system and struggled to get display out after the driver update

22:03rebooted back in eventually with, I guess, an IGP or something, clean the driver, installed

22:07an old version. So sounds hit and miss. It might be a combination of a couple issues here.

22:11But if you're having that problem, it sounds like VBIOS and drivers will be the place to

22:14look first. Up next, a leaker by the name of Gabe Follower recently took to Twitter to post

22:19this quote. Several people have confirmed that Valve is aiming to release a new standalone

22:24wireless VR headset named Deckard by the end of 2025. The current price for the full

22:29bundle is set to be twelve hundred dollars, including some in-house games or demos that

22:33are already done. Valve wants to give the user the best possible experience without

22:37cutting any cost, the leaker says. Even at the current price, it will be sold at a loss.

22:42A few months ago, they say, we saw leaked models of controllers codenamed Roy in the

22:47Steam VR update. It will be using the same Steam OS from Steam Deck, but adapted for

22:52virtual reality. One of the core features is the ability to play flat-screen games

22:56that are already playable on the Steam Deck, but in VR on a big screen without a PC. The

23:01first behind-closed-doors presentations could start soon, end quote.

23:05Valve's been working on VR for a long time, and we've been covering their VR for a long

23:09time. Long enough that Patrick Stone and I looked like this when we first did. Valve

23:14notably started with Steam VR and its Lighthouse base stations with the emergence of the HTC

23:20Vive, which launched in 2016. The company later released its Valve Index in 2019. If

23:25this rumor is true, and the price is accurate, it would be two hundred dollars more expensive

23:29than the Valve Index VR kit, which costs one thousand dollars, though it's currently out

23:33of stock.

23:34Looking at the supposed leaked imagery, the Descartes headset looks similar to the Index

23:38in ways, though it's missing the drop-down headphones that the Index has, and looks to

23:43have slits for audio above the ears, similar to MetaQuest headsets. An illustration of

23:47the headset also shows what looks like two knobs on the back, whereas the Index only

23:52has one, which is used to tighten the headset. The company's alleged Roy controller prototypes

23:57also look different from the Valve Index controllers, and are more in line with, again, Meta's solution.

24:04They also seem to lack the band around the user's knuckles, which allow players to grip

24:09and drop in-game objects.

24:10Previous Valve headsets have been more of the original approach to headsets where you

24:13hook it up to a computer, it's wired. The wireless approach that you can, quote, use

24:18without a PC sounds like it might be a stand-alone headset, may have internal processing, which

24:22would make it a little more portable, if the rumors are to be believed.

24:25Up next, I'm really excited about this one, so this is about Command & Conquer, which

24:29is dear to me. The company that was once voted worst company in America several times, they've,

24:36I'm sure, got a whole wall of trophies when you walk in with worst company of the year,

24:432019, 2020, EA Games. That's right. Challenge the will of your players to buy your product.

24:51EA Games has actually done something good, which is release the source code for several

24:57Command & Conquer games. Command & Conquer Reddit, goddammit, Reddit. Command & Conquer

25:02Red Alert. Reddit has ruined everything. Command & Conquer Reddit would be the worst possible

25:06game. It'd be like when you, the bases are actually just subreddits, so you place down

25:10a barracks and it's a new subreddit, and then when you push the unit button, an asshole

25:15comes out of it. So anyway, Command & Conquer Red Alert was the first real-time strategy

25:25game that I played, and a fun side note here, I guess, for nobody but me, but I don't care,

25:32it's my story time now, so fun side note, is I had to install Red Alert with compatibility

25:38mode for one reason or the other, and at the time, I didn't know that choosing the bit

25:44depth of the colors was an option, and it defaulted to black and white. It was grayscale.

25:50And I thought the game was just black and white. I thought that's like how the games

25:55were made or something for technological reasons. Turns out, a couple years later when I reinstalled

26:00it and knew more about computers, nope, has colors and could have the whole time. But

26:05Red Alert, you can get the remaster on Steam. I highly recommend it. It's still awesome.

26:12I actually have played the remaster regularly on the web server, so you might see me on

26:16there if you play it ever. I normally play on all that Glitter's maps or something. But

26:21anyway, really fun RTS. And so here's the news. They've released the source code for

26:26Command & Conquer Tiberian Dawn, great game, Red Alert, great game, Command & Conquer Renegade

26:32Generals, also a great game, shout out to Pure Ownage, and Command & Conquer Generals

26:37Zero Hour. PC Gamer notes that the games are being released under the GPL license, meaning

26:42folks can mix, match, and redistribute them to their heart's content without EA lawyers

26:47smashing down the door. The publication also notes that Steam Workshop support is coming

26:52for C&C Renegade, which is a really interesting one. They tried something new with that. C&C

26:58Generals and Zero Hour, C&C 3 Tiberium Wars, and Kane's Wrath, and C&C 4 Tiberium Twilight.

27:05They also state that EA has, quote, updated all the mission editor and world builder tools,

27:09which is awesome, so you can publish maps directly to the Steam Workshop, end quote.

27:13So I'm really excited about this. I want to see what comes out of it. Command & Conquer

27:17was one of the greatest series of all time. RTS is like my home genre. It's unfortunate

27:23what's kind of happened to the genre, but Command & Conquer eventually got me to Starcraft

27:28and Brood War. I played those for years. I actually still play it. And Starcraft 2, which

27:33I don't play anymore. But yeah, this is awesome. It's cool. EA, good job. Good job, EA. I'm

27:42looking forward to seeing how you lever this to do something evil in the future. But for

27:47this one, credit where it's due. And for the Command & Conquer fans in our audience, whenever

27:53this video goes up, I'm going to hop on to the remaster of Red Alert. I'll play for a

27:57couple hours online. Maybe I'll see you there in one of the servers. I am not very good

28:02at it anymore. I was a lot better like 20, oh man, like 25 years ago. So anyway, that's

28:10it for this one. It's nice to have some positive news at the end of the, what did Der Bauer

28:15call it? Blusterfuck. Right. Nice to have some positive news after that. And this is

28:21cool. It's kind of like the end game of the Stop Killing Games initiative or something.

28:26But yeah, thanks for watching. Subscribe for more. Go to store.gamerzaxis.net to support

28:29us directly and help fund our reporting. And you can go to patreon.com slash gamers access

28:34to throw a few bucks our way if you want to help us out. And if you missed it, we've got

28:38that fan tester video up from about three or four weeks ago now. And it's absolutely

28:42worth watching. If you haven't seen it, we have more coming on that. So that's it. Thanks

28:46for watching. See you all next time.

28:47So the German one you want to say is Da liegt der Hund begraben. And English I would say

28:54what a clusterfuck. Wow. What a clusterfuck. What a shit show. What a shit show.

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