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“Our ambition to democratize development of games and game-like experiences around the world and across industries depends on strong partnerships, particularly with game engines like Unity. The partnership between Microsoft and Unity will also enable Made with Unity game creators to more easily reach their players across Windows and Xbox devices and unlock new success opportunities. By engineering improved developer tools, leveraging the latest platform innovation from silicon to cloud, and simplifying the publishing experience, Unity creators will be able to realize their dreams by bringing their games to more gamers around the world....

MAWI United, who developed the impressive Conifer Forest Biome demo, recently launched a new demo built in Unreal Engine 5.1, the Nanite Redwood Forest demo, which features a square kilometer of an entirely procedurally generated forest made up of billions of Nanite triangles for trees, plants, rocks, debris, and more. The Nanite Redwood Forest demo can be downloaded by going here and here. As the demo uses experimental tech, a powerful system is required to run the demo properly, requiring an RTX 2080 GPU minimum for 1080p resolution and an RTX 3080 GPU for 4K resolution....

The tip is coming from the ever-so-reliable WABetaInfo, who has been the source for several WhatsApp-related leaks and it seems that users on macOS are finally getting something that they can use and go ahead with. Of course, the actual experience s something that might vary, and considering how the feature is not out, this can change in the future. macOS Users Can Rejoice as WhatsApp for macOS Soon to Be a Reality The source revealed the image below that you can check out....

Apple Could Potentially Announce the New iPhone SE 3, iPad Air 5, and a New Mac on March 8 Earlier in February, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported that Apple could host a special Spring event on March 8. Apple usually sends out event invites a week before the event. If Apple is scheduled to host an event on March 8, we can expect the company to send out invites tomorrow on Tuesday, March 1 at 9 am PST....

As with the last few releases, one build (22622.450, in today’s case) brings the new features and the other build (22621.450) has these features turned off by default. If you do want to get the new features but have received the build with features turned off, you can simply check for updates and choose to install the feature-full build instead. What’s being fixed with Windows 11 KB5015890 Known issues with Windows 11 Builds 22621....

Speaking to a roundtable press interview as transcribed by Gamespot, Bungie Senior Narrative Lead Guillaume Colomb explained why Witch Queen succeeded where other expansions had failed. Here’s an overview of Destiny 2: The Witch Queen story. Have you been enjoying it so far? I definitely don’t think the story of Destiny is a best-laid plan, I think it’s a story of an ongoing relationship with our players and that’s been one of the key components of a live game....

Latest Waterproof iPhone X With USB-C Port Sold for Only $3,000 on eBay The listing of the waterproof iPhone X shows that the bidding has ended, with a stamped price of $3,000. According to the information posted on eBay, there appears to have been just a single bid, with the bidding concluded on January 29. The details of the modded handset are provided below. A $3,000 sale price is significantly pale in comparison to the whopping $86,001 paid for a previous iPhone X sporting a USB-C port, and in case you did not go through our earlier info, that particular model was not waterproof....

That leaves one of the few remaining platforms without it, being the Nintendo Switch. Well, as of today, that will be changing, as Wreckfest has an official announced release date. THQ Nordic and developer Bugbear Entertainment will be releasing Wreckfest on June 21st, 2022 for Nintendo Switch. THQ Nordic also has a new trailer to go with this, and you can watch it below. The game’s core features, aside from realistic demolition and lots of car customization, include big 16-player lobbies that will make the jump to Switch, as well as offline tournament modes....

ARM RISC-V architecture has shipped 10 billion cores, reported to be more prominent than x86 & Arm architecture for the future RISC-V, pronounced as “risk five,” is an open-standard instruction set architecture (ISA) supplied under open-source licenses that are free for use. The base set of instructions has 32-bit fixed-length naturally aligned instructions, and the ISA endorses variable-length extensions, meaning that each instruction can be any numeral length within 16-bit parcels....

Here are your early-March PC and console Game Pass titles: Xbox Game Pass grants players access to more than 100 games for 10 bucks a month, while Xbox Game Pass Ultimate also gets you Xbox Live Gold and EA Play access — you can check out a full list of available console and PC games here. You can sign up for your first month of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate for $1....

So, how did we get to this point. Well, according to the investigation led by the Special Investigation Department of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office, Yuji Naka learned in January 2020 that Square Enix was going to collaborate with developer Aiming for a new Dragon Quest game named Dragon Quest Tact. With this knowledge, Yuji Naka then proceeded to purchase around 10,000 shares of Aiming for approximately 2.8 million yen (roughly $20,000 USD) before the title was announced....

The new mod, developed by Kirbymimi, introduces a split-screen mode that allows two players to control two different Links. The mod is launching later this week, on July 29th, in beta state, so fixes and improvements are expected in the future. YouTube user Waikuteru recently shared a video showcasing the Zelda: Breath of the Wild split-screen mod in action. You can check it out below. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild modding community has been extremely active since the game became playable on PC via the Cemu Wii U emulator, releasing all sorts of mods that introduce improved visuals, new locations, new gameplay mechanics, and more....

Zotac’s ZBOX Magnus EN-Series Mini PCs Rock NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 30 GPUs For A Starting Price of $1500 US Launching on the 12th of July, the Zotac ZBOX Magnus EN-Series Mini PCs are equipped with Intel’s Tiger Lake-H CPUs and NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 30 GPUs. The Mini PCs come in three variants, their top model, the ‘ZBOX E series MAGNUS EN173080C’ is equipped with an Intel Core i7-11800H CPU & NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPU, this is followed by ‘ZBOX E series MAGNUS EN173070C’ which comes equipped with the same CPU but changes the GPU to the GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile & finally, we have the entry-level ‘ZBOX E series MAGNUS EN153060C’ which comes equipped with an Intel Core i5-11400H CPU and a GeForce RTX 3060 GPU....

Per Henderson, Overdose will star Margaret Qualley, who played the character Mama in Death Stranding. Apparently, Henderson has seen some sort of brief teaser, which shows Qualley’s character (who won’t be tied to the Death Stranding universe) making her way through a darkened corridor, eventually leading to a jump scare and the reveal of the title Overdose. The teaser shows Qualley’s character in third person, but word is, the game itself may be played in first-person....

Looking intense, just like it should! Haven’t been keeping up with A Plague Tale: Requiem? You can catch up on all the key details here and check out an official description, below. “Far across the sea, an island calls… Embark on a heartrending journey into a brutal, breathtaking world twisted by supernatural forces. After escaping their devastated homeland, Amicia and Hugo travel far south, to new regions and vibrant cities....

Apple Now Selling a New Variant of AirPods 3 with a Lightning-Only Charging Option We’re not making this up one bit. You have to pay $179 for the AirPods 3, which is not a bad price at all. You get a very nice pair of truly wireless earbuds with MagSafe Charging Case. But, if you think Apple is charging you way too much here, then you can save $10 and go for the Lightning-only option for the Charging Case....

Alleged AMD Ryzen 9 7900X Zen 3 CPU Offers Over 50% Higher Bandwidth Than Zen 3 HXL seems to have managed to get his hands on what seems to be the AIDA64 cache and memory benchmark result of an alleged AMD Ryzen 9 7900X Desktop CPU based on the Zen 4 architecture. The benchmark specifically shows the L3 bandwidth and latency figures which are seemingly going to get a much bigger performance bump than Zen 3....

AMD EPYC Milan-X 3D V-Cache CPUs For The Data Center Launching Later This Month The confirmation comes from AMD’s SVP & GM of the Server Division, Dan McNamara, who stated during the SIG (Susquehanna Financial Group) Annual Technology conference. McNamara revealed that the chip manufacturer was already sampling EPYC Milan-X CPUs and are going to launch them later this month. Dan McNamara (AMD SVP/GM Server) at SIG Annual Tech Conference via Tomshardware AMD EPYC Milan-X server CPU lineup will consist of four processors....

AMD EPYC & Arm Server CPUs To Gain Big Time By 2024 As Intel’s Server Dominance Continues To Crumble In a recent report by DigiTimes, the outlet reports that the industry is expecting AMD’s EPYC server shipment market share to see a major growth by 2024. Servers powered by AMD Server chips are expected to amount to 16.3% of the share by 2023 and up to 18% by 2024. This is an 80% gain over the 2020s 10....

AMD Isn’t Done With Threadripper, More HEDT CPUs Coming Soon, Confirms Robert Hallock The confirmation came during interviews with Forbes & HotHardware where AMD’s Director of Technical Marketing, Robert Hallock, confirmed that Threadripper isn’t going anywhere and the HEDT CPUs will be back in action sooner or later. The way Robert simply said that ‘More Coming’ during the HotHardware interview makes it seem like the next HEDT lineup is right on the horizon but that remains to be seen since AMD only announced their Ryzen 7000 Desktop CPUs during the Computex 2022 keynote with no mention of Threadripper at all....