AMD has released its Q2 financials and while it is better news than estimates were predicting, it still tells a sorry story for its GPU division. The gaming segment of AMD’s business is still profitable, and all that is down to the work it has put into bagging the bragging rights to power both Microsoft and Sony’s games consoles.

Both the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S use AMD semi-custom silicon, and that’s part of the company’s gaming segment. It’s been gaining revenue consistently throughout this year, but, because of the continued decline in Radeon GPU sales, both its revenue and operating income are down compared to its Q1 results, let alone the year-on-year numbers.

We’re used to seeing things drop compared to the same period last year, which, for AMD, was the peak …

In Starfield, there’s a quest where you get to betray a major player. I’m going to keep the details vague to avoid spoilers, but in a lot of other RPGs this would be a massive story moment. If you walk down this path, you’ll never be able to interact with that faction again. You’re signing up for this life over that one.

Ultimately, bar losing access to said faction’s mission board, nothing really happens. You can still do quests for them, and only the chunk of the faction related to that questline really cares. Granted, this is borderline Bethesda tradition. In Oblivion for example you could be a master thief, head of the fighter’s guild, top of the mage’s guild, and a renowned assassin for the Dark Brotherhood, all at once.

That’s somethin…