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Google has been teasing a new look for its services for weeks and now it’s finally here. It’s a new Google sign-in page unlike anything you’ve ever seen. I mean, there are some changes. Okay, it’s very, very slightly different.

The new entry portal to Google’s services has the “Sign in” text moved to the left of the username login field to create a landscape format instead of having everything stacked in a single portrait-style column. This, ladies and germs, is the future.

There’s even a Google blog post to help you get over the world-changing impact of this change. Here it details the how’s and, importantly, the why. Basically because it now can adjust to the size of your screen. Y’know, for those new-fangled mobile phones.

“Why the page changed. The new sign-in page has a better layout for all screen types, which includes large and wide screens. The sign-in page adjusts to your screen’s size.”

For several weeks Google was running a b…

There are things you don’t expect to find in an affordable gaming laptop; there are after all, compromises you have to make to find a mobile machine that fits into a tight budget. But this Acer Predator Triton 14 with a $700 saving, for $1,300 at Amazon, has literally everything that I would want in a new gaming laptop.

For a start, I love 14-inch machines. They’re absolutely my jam. I’ve got a desktop PC with a decently sized screen if I want to game at scale, so if I’m going mobile then I want a small gaming laptop, and I find the 14-inch form factor the ideal size for me. You get enough space in the chassis to deliver enough cooling to pretty powerful components, and a frame that will house a proper screen, too.

That’s important because I’m also a little bit of a screen snob. The latest mini-LED panels I’ve seen in the latest notebooks have been outstanding and the Triton 14 comes with a 1600p version. Now, with a peak luminance of 600cd/m² it’s not going to be o…

Intel says it has completed development of its upcoming 20A and 18A chip production processes. The first chips built on the first of these new nodes—the 20A node—will be made in the first half of next year.

At least, that’s what Intel is claiming. Several months into 2023 and we’re yet to see any CPUs built on Intel 4, the node preceding Intel 20A. However, according to UDN (via Tom’s Hardware), Intel China President Wang Rui says the company has ironed out all the specifications and performance targets for 20A and 18A.

Highlights for 20A include gate-all-around transistors and backside power delivery, both of which are big advances and should help to shrink transistor size and keep power consumption under control. 18A will build on those refinements and is reportedly going so well that Intel rescheduled it from 2025 to the second half of 2024.

If Intel can pull that off, it will very much be back in the game, fully competitive with TSMC in ter…

At GDC this year, PC Gamer hosted a roundtable in which a group of veteran RPG designers came together to discuss topics ranging from whether the cinematic BioWare-style RPG is dead to the impact of Elden Ring’s success. When the conversation came around to the subject of how much their games were based on what the RPG audience was looking for, versus their own personal taste, Obsidian’s design director Josh Sawyer—whose design credits include Fallout: New Vegas, Pentiment, Alpha Protocol, and plenty more—went all the way back to the beginning of his career.

“I’ve been playing D&D since 1985,” Sawyer said, “and other tabletop roleplaying games along the way. When I got into the industry in 1999 the first game that I got to work on was Icewind Dale, and so I was like, ‘Yeah!’ I was so stoked.” He describes working on Icewind Dale and its sequel, official D&D adaptations made in the Infinity Engine just like Baldur’s Gate had been before them, as an opportuni…

Late in 2022, the mod team behind Fallout: London uploaded some songs from their in-game radio station to YouTube, including one called I Just Can’t Wait (For Tomorrow). When the team’s project manager, Prilladog, reposted that song in the Fallout: London Discord server’s announcements channel, fans quickly realized what was up.

The mod team has since confirmed to Inverse that July 25 will indeed be the release date, ‘Unless nuclear war happens’.

Fallout: London will give us an unofficial look at what somewhere outside the USA might look like in the post-apocalypse, with a London full of factions like the aristocratic Gentry and their army of Tommies, the Arthurian cosplayers who call themselves Camelot, and the Fifth Column, who are just a wee bit fascist. There are also smaller gangs like the Isle of Dogs Syndicate, the Vagabonds, the Beefeaters, and various squads of skinheads and other oiks.

Fallout: London will be fully compatible with the GOG version of Fallo…