With the death of E3 last year, Gamescom in Germany has become the default conference for the entire video game industry for launching new games and hardware. My first visit to Gamescom happened to come in the same year as the last E3 conference, and it was mind-blowing to see how big Gamescom has become compared to what E3 used to be. For understandable reasons, Gamescom has traditionally had a more European and PC-centric approach.
This may not be the only area for MediaTek and Nvidia’s partnership, as rumors continue to swirl around an AI PC link-up as well. This could make sense, given that MediaTek is seemingly becoming Nvidia’s preferred partner for consumer technologies.Samsung has long been pushing the envelope with its monitor technologies. I was a big fan and user of its Odyssey G9 line of gaming monitors, even with all the bugs I had to deal with.
Zotac also smartly put a USB-4 Type-C connector at the bottom for proper docking, and it offers a very nice-looking optional dock. Storage comes in the form of a 512GB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD in a 2280 form factor, so you can easily upgrade the SSD to a larger capacity without needing to find a special 2230-sized SSD. A microSD card slot also supports UHS-II speeds if you don’t need super-fast SSDs.