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The second season of Amazon Prime’s live-action Fallout show arrives later this year, but before then, we have some new images of the post-apocalyptic series, and one in particular featuring a shot of Las Vegas before the bombs dropped and turned it into New Vegas is very, very intriguing.

On August 18, Amazon shared seven new images of the upcoming season of its hit Fallout TV show. The new screenshots show a variety of characters and locations, but the one that immediately caught my eye was a single shot of Howard Cooper (Walton Goggins) in a car driving down the Las Vegas Strip. (After the bombs fall, it becomes New Vegas.) In the window is a reflection of the Lucky 38’s large and iconic sign, first seen in 2010’s Fallout: New Vegas. In the show, Cooper survives the bombs falling and becomes the decaying bounty hunter known only as the Ghoul. But before that, he had a life pre-war that intersected with Vault-Tec and the company’s nefarious plans. And now it seems like he might have met Mr. House, a villain from New Vegas who was teased back in season one. Okay, Fallout season two, you have my attention.

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The other teaser images released by Amazon include looks at Ella Purnell’s loveable Lucy and Aaron Morten’s Maximus. We also see Lucy’s dad, played by Kyle MacLachlan, who was revealed to be a pretty bad guy at the end of the show’s first season. He ran off in a power suit to New Vegas, and it seems we’ll be catching up with him later this year. Of course, this isn’t actually the first time we’ve seen some of this stuff, as set leaks earlier this year hinted at some pre-war flashbacks set in Las Vegas.

Last year, after premiering in April, the Fallout series received rave reviews, big ratings, and lots of award nominations, leading to a spike in people playing old Fallout games. Amazon quickly announced a second season, which wrapped up filming in May. The highly anticipated new season of Fallout arrives on Amazon Prime this December, and the show has already been picked up for a third season. Here’s a teaser for the show’s second season:

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AMD’s share of the add-in graphics card market fell to a fairly pitiful 8% in the first quarter of 2025 according to Jon Peddie Research (JPR), a specialist in tracking PC hardware sales. Meanwhile, JPR puts Intel’s graphics market share at essentially zero, with Nvidia hoovering up the remaining 92%. Ouch.

Before we all escalate the threat level to PC gaming to DEFCON 1 and panic, it should be noted that JPR’s figures cover the period up to the end of March. AMD’s new Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT were only released on March 6. So, that’s only three and a bit weeks of RDNA 4 sales in the figures.

In other words, we’ll have to wait for the Q2 numbers to get a full picture of how much impact AMD’s new GPUs have had. Indeed, we’ll arguably have to wait even longer than that, since it’s the RX 9060 XT, which only went on sale yesterday, that’s meant to be the real volume play for AMD and that won’t have a substantial impact on market share figures until the Q3 data is out.

Overall, GPU sales were up 8.5% in Q1 2025 compared to Q4 2024. JPR says that Q1 is usually flat or down compared to the previous quarter, but that, “In Q1’25, AMD and Nvidia introduced new AIBs, which stimulated the market.”

If we’ll have to wait a little longer to see how the RX 9070 and 9060 GPUs fare for AMD, the verdict on Intel’s Arc B570 and B580 GPUs is surely in and it not good news, not good news at all.

The blip that was 1% Intel market share has vanished from the latest GPU sales figures. (Image credit: JPR)

JPR reckons Intel’s market share fell by 1.2% in the latest quarter, essentially putting it on 0% and not appearing in the data for Q1 2025. If there was already doubt over Intel’s commitment to the add-in graphics card market, this apparent total failure of Intel’s second-gen Battlemage generation of GPUs is extremely troubling.

Battlemage GPUs went on sale at the end of 2024. So, in theory Q1 2025 was a full quarter for sales of Intel’s latest graphics hardware. Obviously sales of the B570 and B580 haven’t actually been zero. But if JPR is to be believed, the volumes are so small as to effectively push Intel out of its data.

If even half a percent of sales were going to Intel, JPR would no doubt have included that in its data. So, we’re talking less than one in 200 GPUs sales being Intel cards, and quite possibly an order of magnitude or more worse than that.

It really is a grim outlook for Intel graphics and puts rumours of more powerful Battlemage GPUs into context. With sales this low, is it remotely realistic to expect Intel to wheel out that purported Nvidia RTX 4070 / 5070 killer? It doesn’t seem terribly plausible in the light of this latest data.

Still, the numbers we’re really looking forward to will be Q3 2025, when both of AMD’s new RDNA 4 GPUs will have had at least a full quarter on sale. That data probably won’t be out until the end of the year. So, check back in December and cross all your fingers and toes until then.

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