Elden Ring Official Global Release Timings Announced

Today, Bandai Namco officially confirmed when the game will be available on PC and consoles later this week all over the world. Additionally, it has been confirmed that pre-loading will start on PC and PlayStation consoles 48 hours before the game launches. Pre-loading is already possible on Xbox consoles. Elden Ring launches on February 25th worldwide on PC, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, and Xbox One worldwide....

December 11, 2022 · 2 min · 342 words · Dorothy Strobeck

Embracer Acquires Middle Earth Enterprises Tripwire Interactive Limited Run Games Tuxedo Labs Singtrix And More

The series of acquisitions were just announced as part of Embracer’s most recent financial earnings release. According to the official press releases, Embracer Group has entered various agreements to acquire the following studios: Tripwire Studios, the studio behind Maneater and Killing Floor, Limited Run Games, Tuxedo Labs, Singtrix, and another undisclosed studio that focuses on creating both PC and consoles games. In addition to these acquisitions, the holding company announced that it has entered into an agreement to the IP rights to The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit literary works by purchasing Middle-Earth Enterprises....

December 11, 2022 · 3 min · 466 words · Elmer Margo

Engineer Explains The Not So Easy Process Of Modding An Android Phone With A Lightning Port

Apple’s Lightning Cables Have Safeguards in Place That Prevent It From Being Used in Knock-off Products, Which in This Case, Was an Android Phone On his YouTube channel, Exploring the Simulation, Pillonel explains how it was difficult getting the Lightning port to play along nicely with the Galaxy A51. While it may have been a fun project, it was anything but easy, as Apple has authentication measures put in place to prevent its accessories from communicating with devices other than iPhones....

December 11, 2022 · 2 min · 311 words · Jonathan Wriedt

Epic Vs Apple Lawsuit Takes A Fresh Twist With Attorneys General For 34 U S States Claiming The Iphone Maker Stifles Competition

35 Attorneys General Have Submitted a Joint Statement to the Appeals Court, Displaying Complete Support to Epic Games The joint letter was led by the state of Utah, and joined by Colorado, Indiana, Texas, according to Reuters. In 2021, U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers’ decision mostly ruled against Epic last year. However, both the game developer and Apple decided to appeal the original ruling as neither company was satisfied with the decision....

December 11, 2022 · 1 min · 207 words · Victor Grossman

Ev Entrants Start Receiving Some Much Needed Love Again Canoo Is Up Nearly 100 Percent On Securing A Sizable Order From Walmart

Canoo (NYSE:GOEV) is one of only a handful of new EV entrants that have managed to change the narrative from one focused on merely the initial production ramp-up to that of long-term viability. Against this backdrop, the EV manufacturer has now received a major endorsement from Walmart after managing to secure an order of 4,500 Canoo Lifestyle Delivery Vehicles (LDVs). Moreover, the order entails the possibility of expanding deliveries to 10,000 units, with initial deliveries currently slated for 2023....

December 11, 2022 · 2 min · 325 words · Heather Jackson

Eve Online Uprising Update Brings Amd Fsr Dx12 Support And More Improvements With A New Story Expansion

Titled EVE: Uprising, this update takes place multiple months after construction by the Amarr Empire. An activated Prototype Stellar Transmuter in the Turnur system has destabilized, and as a consequence, the unstable technology causes the system’s sun to scorch a planet. Players are now tasked with rallying to determine the future of EVE Online’s empires. This update also brings a combat-oriented update to Factional Warfare in EVE Oline. As the battle lines are drawn and shift, players can use Frontline and Advantage features to place a greater emphasis and focus on key objectives....

December 11, 2022 · 2 min · 404 words · Vicki Carnes

Exynos 2200 Apparently Uses A Similar Graphic Chip As Steam Deck

For those wondering, the Exynos 2200 GPU subsystem has a number of names such as Voyager, Mariner, RDNA2 GPU, and it is officially known as the Xclipse 920. However, those are not only the names, the kernel data confirms that the chip is also known as MGFX0 (M0) New Information on the Exynos 2200 GPU Reveals Some Interesting Stuff The more interesting thing about the Xclipse 920 that is found in the Exynos 2200 however, is that the chip’s data is associated with the Van Gogh Lite firmware, and for those who do not know, AMD Van Gogh is a codename for the APU that goes inside Steam Deck....

December 11, 2022 · 2 min · 270 words · Heike Miller

First Uncharted Legacy Of Thieves Collection Pc Update 1 1 Improves Performance And Stability Improves Motion Blur Visibility Updates Hdr Option More

The very first PC patch is available for download now (and should download automatically if this option has been enabled in your client, and we’ve got you covered with the release notes. Aside from the above-mentioned general performance and stability improvements, this first update also improves motion blur visibility, and updates the HDR option. In addition, it updates mouse control, and removes the frame rate dependency for mouse camera sensitivity....

December 11, 2022 · 2 min · 342 words · Charlene Roney

Forza Horizon 5 Is Adding Dlss 2 0 Fsr 2 And More Extensive Ray Tracing On Pc Next Week

“The Medium and High settings function as before, with ray tracing only rendering in Forzavista. The Ultra and Extreme options expand ray tracing to Photo Mode, Free Roam and Races. Some ray tracing settings and scenarios will render reflections at half resolution, while others render at full resolution.” As for what kind of rig you’ll need to run Forza Horizon 5 ray tracing at optimal settings, Playground Games recommends the following…...

December 11, 2022 · 2 min · 263 words · Lucy Arthur

G Skill Pushes Ddr5 Memory To The Extreme Hits Ddr5 8888 Cl88 Overclock With Asus Rog Maximus Z690 Apex Motherboard

G.Skill’s DDR5 Trident Z5 Memory Achieves DDR5-8888 CL88 Overclocking World Record With ASUS Z690 ROG Maximus Z690 APEX Motherboard Press Release: G.SKILL International Enterprise Co., Ltd., the world’s leading manufacturer of extreme performance memory and gaming peripherals is thrilled to announce the achievement of a new overclocking world record for fastest memory frequency at DDR5-8888 CL88-88-88-88, in cooperation with ASUS. This amazing frequency speed was achieved by the extreme overclocker “lupin_no_musume” with G....

December 11, 2022 · 2 min · 279 words · Dwight Liss

Gamestop Earned Just Around 0 20 Of Its Average Daily Revenue By Selling Nfts Over The Past 24 Hours Equating To About 12 Of Opensea S 24 Hour Intake

The past few hours have proven to be a critical reality-check window for the relentless hype that had encapsulated GameStop’s NFT-related push since the start of this year. Of course, had the company actually tapped the NFT hype that was running rampant in the market as late as March, the story might have been a bit different. As a refresher, GameStop officially launched its NFT marketplace on Monday. The platform is built on Loopring’s technology and harnesses the ability of Immutable X – an Ethereum Layer 2 (L2) solution – to allow for the minting and trading of NFTs in a “carbon-neutral” and zero-fee environment....

December 11, 2022 · 3 min · 476 words · Myriam Webb

Geforce Now Shows Its Top Games To Play During The Holidays

This time around, it’s more of a features update than a library update. Specifically, NVIDIA rounded up some of the games that they recommend to users NVIDIA wound up collecting data on games players would recommend, and if you want to know what the most popular games in the service are according to the GFN community, you can check them out below: Battlefield 2042 Marvel’s Midnight Suns Warhammer 40,000: Darktide Dying Light 2 Destiny 2 Genshin Impact The Witcher 3: Next-Gen Update Mass Effect Sifu Rocket League...

December 11, 2022 · 2 min · 287 words · Korey Hudson

Genshin Impact Developer Mihoyo Leads Founding Round For Experimental Fusion Reactor

Its developers, miHoYo, have been consistently updating the game since its public release back in 2020, and given all that money they’ve made, it has to go to something, right? Well, they’ve gone ahead and decided to make an investment. The development team at miHoYo went and led a funding round alongside NIO Capital, a Chinese investment firm, and a total of $63 million will be invested in a company called Energy Singularity (according to Beijing’s PanDaily) This investment will be used for the purpose of developing a “small tokamak experimental device based on high-temperature superconducting material, and advanced magnet systems that can be used for the next generation of high-performance fusion devices....

December 11, 2022 · 2 min · 318 words · Dina Frazer

George R R Martin Hasn T Played Elden Ring Due To His Addictive Personality

On The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the successful author revealed that he hasn’t played the game he has worked on because “people really seem to want this Winds of Winter book,” which should be hardly surprising, considering the latest book in the A Song of Ice and Fire series was released back in 2011. His addictive personality would get him hooked, preventing him from doing anything else, as it happened when he was younger....

December 11, 2022 · 3 min · 472 words · Craig Nevills

Gungrave Gore Introduces Its Cast And Locks In A November Release Date In A New Trailer

Looks like the perfect thing if you’re in the mood for some mayhem. Haven’t been keeping up with Gungrave GORE? Here’s the game’s official description… “In Gungrave GORE, play the gun-wielding badass anti-hero of your dreams as you mow down tons of enemies in a gory ballet of bullets and experience a story of vengeance, love and loyalty, all in a beautiful third-person action shooter, combining the best that Eastern and Western game design have to offer....

December 11, 2022 · 2 min · 280 words · Sandra Varney

Halo The Master Chief Collection May Be Getting Microtransactions As An Additive Feature

343 is certainly trying to make adding microtransactions sound like a benign, even helpful, feature, but let’s be real about what this is. After years of updates 343 finally got Halo MCC into a place where people are happy with it and are moving onto new things, so they’re quietly installing a new way to keep the cash flowing on the way out the door. Kudos to them for at least announcing it beforehand I suppose, but it is what it is....

December 11, 2022 · 2 min · 273 words · Frank Goettle

Halo Infinite Axes Local Co Op Forge To Be Released On November 8

Local co-op will not be a reality anymore, and instead, the resources meant for that will be put into other aspects of the project. This news comes from 343 Industries’ monthly Halo Infinite update, and at about 11:45 in this month’s iteration, Joseph Staten (creative lead on Halo Infinite) breaks the news. Local co-op being axed when previous Halo games had them is quite a baffling thought when you really think about it....

December 11, 2022 · 2 min · 261 words · Jonathan Newport

Halo Infinite Co Op Campaign Mode Officially Delayed

At the same time, the developer confirmed that the co-op Campaign mode won’t be added to Halo Infinite at the beginning of Season 2 as initially planned. 343 Industries is now planning to introduce co-op to the Campaign later in Season 2. The good news is that Forge doesn’t seem to have been affected by the aforementioned delay. 343 Industries said it is already flighting Forge with a small group of community creators to ensure a smooth experience creating, sharing, browsing, and playing Forge content....

December 11, 2022 · 1 min · 160 words · Alexandra Grober

Horizon Zero Dawn Looks Quite Next Gen With Ray Tracing And Camera Mod With Increased Lod In New 8K Video

A new 8K video shared on YouTube by Digital Dreams shows how beautiful Aloy’s first adventure can look with the Beyond All Limits Raytracing global illumination preset, a camera mod that, among other things, improves LOD, and NVIDIA DLSS to smooth out performance. The PC version of Horizon Zero Dawn has been recently updated to version 1.11.2. The new update improves VRAM management and addresses some DLSS and AMD FSR issues....

December 11, 2022 · 1 min · 195 words · Jay Otto

Intel 14Th Gen Meteor Lake P Mobility Cpu Pictured Gets Close Up Die Shot With 6 P Cores 8 E Cores

Intel Meteor Lake-P CPU With 6 P-Cores & 8 E-Cores Gets Pictured, Die Shots & First Details Revealed The slides from the event were leaked by Twitter user @phobiaphilia, who has since removed his post however, Computerbase managed to get hold of those slides. The slides talk about the Intel next-generation process node known as ‘Intel 4’ which is essentially a rebranded 7nm technology. The 14th Gen Meteor Lake CPUs will be utilizing the ‘Intel 4’ process node and offer twice the HPL (High-Performance Library) scaling, EUV for process simplification, 20% higher frequency at ISO vs Intel 7 node (used by Alder Lake & Raptor Lake CPUs) and offering compatibility with the advanced packaging technologies such as EMIB and FOVEROS....

December 11, 2022 · 3 min · 563 words · Lloyd Strickland