Daily Tech News 17 September 2025

• Randy Pitchford, CEO of Gearbox Games, creator of the Borderlands franchise, has responded to criticism of the performance of the latest game in the series... Badly. (TechSpot)
  
  Pitchford claimed the title is "a premium game made for premium gamers" and told customers to stop being poor if they couldn't afford the latest top-of-the-line hardware needed to run it acceptably.
  
  He then told customers who were complaining about Borderlands 4's miserable performance compared to, say, Borderlands 3, "code your own engine and show us how it's done".
  
  Meanwhile Silksong will run perfectly well on a GTX 1050 with just 2GB of VRAM.

• AMD has announced four new CPUs that are all cut-down versions of existing models. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Two 9000 series chips with the integrated graphics disabled, one 7000 series chip with half the L3 cache disabled - and also a 400MHz lower clock speed than the most directly comparable model, and one 5000 series chip with just the lower clock speed.
  
  
  
• Meanwhile Intel has filled in the bottom of its 200-series desktop chips with the Core Ultra 3 205. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  4 P cores and 4 E cores, and reportedly better performance than recent low-midrange chips like the i5 14400.
  
  Remember though that there will be no new CPU generation that uses compatible motherboards; next year's Nova Lake will come with a new socket.
  
  
  
• I like trains. (Nature)
  
  Well, that's nice for you, Timmy, but who told you that you could use the photocopier in the staff room?
  
  
  

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