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Well, VentureBeat insider Jeff Grubb has now shared more details about Microsoft’s plans. The most intriguing new tidbit is that the Xbox team is working directly with Samsung to develop an Xbox streaming app for their TVs. Going with Samsung makes sense, as they’re the world’s largest TV manufacturer, and it would allow Microsoft to stick it to Sony, who’s obviously also a big player in the TV industry. Grubb also backs up previous rumors that Microsoft is working on a streaming device, which will likely be a puck similar to some early Roku devices....

Operating System Minimum: Windows 10 64 Bit (Latest Update) Recommended/Competitive/Ultra 4K: Windows 10 64 Bit (Latest Update) // Windows 11 64 Bit (Latest Update) CPU Minimum: Intel Core I3-6100 / Core I5-2500K OR AMD RYZEN 3 1200 Recommended: Intel Core I5-6600K / Core I7-4770 OR AMD RYZEN 5 1400 Competitive: Intel Core I7-8700K OR AMD RYZEN 7 1800X Ultra 4K: Intel Core I9-9900K OR AMD RYZEN 9 3900X RAM Minimum: 4 GB Recommended: 6 GB Competitive/Ultra 4K: 16 GB Storage Space Minimum/ Recommended/Competitive/Ultra 4K: 72GB at Launch Hi-Rez Assets Cache Minimum/ Recommended/Competitive: Up to 32 GBUltra 4K: Up to 64 GB Hi-Rez Assets Cache is optional disk space that can be used to stream high-resolution assets....

Check out a detailed overview and the new gameplay trailer below. The core of Mortal Rite is a fast, action-based melee combat system that allows players to trade blows with enemies and rewards strategy over button-mashing. Players choose from a variety of characters to embody, each with their own lore, fighting style, and abilities. Overcome enemies by using different skills, strategies, cooperation, collecting, and crafting items to stop the encroachment of the king....

MSI BETA BIOS For Z690 & B660 Motherboards Strengthens Memory Compatibility For Intel’s Non-K Alder Lake CPUs One of the main selling points of the B660 platform is that it supports XMP 3.0 technology while being more affordable than the Z690 motherboard options. Technically speaking, XMP 3.0 isn’t memory overclocking but allows users to run their memory modules at the rated specs by DIMM manufacturers rather than the JEDEC specs. This allows faster performance than the non-XMP platforms such as H610 which will be running at JEDEC specs of DDR4-3200 or DDR5-4800....

While we already had a broad outline of what would be included in the $80 Need for Speed Unbound Palace Edition, here’s the new, more detailed breakdown… Four stunningly intense custom rides, created in collaboration with Palace, including: Mercedes-AMG GT Black Series 2020 Volkswagen Golf GTI 1976 BMW M3 Evolution II E30 1988 Mercedes-AMG G 63 2017 Exclusive Palace Driving Effects to stand out from the competition in style Stacked Palace Clothing Pack including 20 items for players to express their true style with: 1 pair of Palace Vans Jeremy the Duck Skate Slip Ons 2 caps and a beanie including the GTX 3 Racing Cap 2 motorsports styled jackets including the Palace AMG Driving Jacket 9 curated Palace tops including polos, tshirts, hoodies, long sleeve and shirt 5 bottoms including Palace Woodland & Desert Cargo Short as well as track shorts and a selection of joggers A variety of Palace decals and ‘Palifornia’ License Plate to create your own Palace custom car....

Boss Fight Entertainment was first founded in 2013. They have since ridden the success of their IP known as Dungeon Boss. Now, as part of the Netflix family, they will be joining their in-house development team. Boss Fight Entertainment will continue to operate independently from its three studios in Allen, Austin, and Seattle. In a joint statement, CEO David Rippy and co-COOs Bill Jackson and Scott Winsett said the following: It seems like Netflix aims to have a more all-encompassing push in the realm of gaming....

As reported by Tom Henderson on Insider Gaming, a new triple-A project based on the popular franchise is in the works by Goichi Suda’s Grasshopper Manufacturer, the No More Heroes series developer. Not much else is known about this game other than the fact that it will be a survival horror game in the vein of Resident Evil and Dead Space and that it will release next year. Sources, who have provided documents and information under the condition of anonymity have shown that a new AAA Alien game is in development with a tentative holiday 2023 release....

The new broadcast mode will remove all music tracks when streaming gameplay footage of the game. This new mode helps battle copyrights infringement notice from the game’s BGM playlist when streaming on YouTube, and can be enabled from the game’s sound volume setting in the options menu. In addition to adding this new mode, the patch also offers plenty of adjustments and improvements to car settings, the game’s lobby, missions, world circuits, the garage, and more....

The PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 catalog looks quite rich, featuring plenty of high-profile games like the Demon’s Souls remake, Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut, Marvel’s Spiderman, Bloodborne, Death Stranding Director’s Cut and others. Among the third-party titles will be Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, and Red Dead Redemption 2. The new PlayStation Plus classic games catalog won’t be as rich, but it will feature plenty of great games like the first two entries in the Ape Escape series, the original Syphon Filter, and others....

Created by modder ‘Neato’, this project refines and upscales the above-mentioned content using AI-upscaling techniques. It should be noted that only video content is being upscaled, and this mod doesn’t upscale any in-game textures, environments, or models. “Since there weren’t any complete 4K movie packages available for The Witcher, I decided to make one myself”, the modder writes. “There are other movie upscale projects for The Witcher, but none are ‘complete’ and most use bad AI models that lose all sharpness and detail in the process....

Not much to go on, but I’m still intrigued. Here’s Square Enix’s official NieR: Automata announcement (translated via Google, so forgive any slightly awkward wording). The anime isn’t the only new NieR: Automata content coming up – a crossover with Platinum Games’ Babylon’s Fall is also in the works (get more detail on that collaboration here). NieR: Automata is an action RPG produced by Square Enix and developed by PlatinumGames....

NIO has rapidly transformed from a leader in the Chinese EV sector to a laggard as the company continues to struggle with its ambitious expansion plans amid escalating cost pressures and production halts due to China’s zero-COVID policy. Against this backdrop, NIO is slated to announce its Q1 2022 earnings today. NIO’s Earnings for the First Quarter of 2022 For the three months that ended on the 31st of March 2022, NIO has recorded $1....

Of course, there are still other parts of the report to address. However, the first part is that the Xbox Series has risen in March 2022 and Q1 2022 as the best-selling platform in terms of hardware dollar sales. In terms of units sold, the Nintendo Switch still reigns supreme, of course. The platform is certainly going to sell more units due to its pricing scheme. Video game hardware dollar sales dropped 24% when compared to a year ago, to $515 million....

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 & RTX 2060 SUPER Supply Coming To A Halt As Green Team Ends Production Although the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 originally launched all the way back in 2019, the GPU saw two revisions, one in 2020 as the GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER and one as the RTX 2060 12 GB, during 2021. The latter launched in December of 2021 so it’s been almost a year since the card went into full production as a means to clear the remaining Turing GPU stock and also to tackle the crisis of that time (crypto)....

Surprise! AMD Radeon & NVIDIA GeForce Graphics Cards Prices Keeps Recovering, GPU Prices Now Starting at 12% Over MSRP In the latest report by 3DCenter, we can see that the GPU prices for both NVIDIA GeForce and AMD Radeon graphics cards continue to fall which shouldn’t be a surprise as that’s the trend we have witnessed since the end of 2021. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 series prices now average at around 19% over MSRP while AMD’s Radeon RX 6000 series averages with a selling price of 12% over MSRP....

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB Graphics Card’s Gaming And 3DMark Performance Benchmarks Leak The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB graphics card has seen various leaks, beginning with its Geekbench 5 performance numbers followed by synthetic benchmarks from Chiphell & now, gaming benchmarks from Twitter leaker, MEGAsizeGPU. All these leaks give us a taste of what might one expect from the upcoming graphics card which is positioned as an ultra-enthusiast product for a starting price of $1199 US....

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 ‘Ada Lovelace’ GPU Up To 600W TGP, Ti Over 800W, Could Feature 4-Slot Coolers, Rumor Alleges We have already seen the first specifications of the NVIDIA Ada Lovelace GPU lineup that will be powering the GeForce RTX 40 series graphics cards leak out earlier. Now the latest rumor for the chips states that the AD102 and AD103 GPUs are going to be power-hungry monsters and unlike anything, we have seen before....

NVIDIA NVK Is An Open-Source Mesa Vulkan Driver Ready For Modern Green GPUs The driver was sprung to life by Jason Ekstrand, along with Karol Herbst and Dave Airlie at Red Hat. Currently, there’s only the nouveau drivers for NVIDIA in Mesa and while they are there, they don’t exactly work all that great. As Jason puts it, the nouveau drivers have several features missing, run buggy, and don’t even support certain cards....

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630 graphics card is equal in performance to the GTX 1050 Ti and is expected to be the replacement at a higher price The company was pretty silent during the launch of the new GeForce GTX 1630 graphics card. NVIDIA partners showed minor refrain, such as Inno3D, advertising new designs, and rehashing PCB and cooling technology from the predecessor GTX 1650 models from 2020. Inno3D was also one of the few companies to release performance results for the graphics card, which was found by IT Home....

The new trailer, which can be watched below, introduces two of the game’s main characters, Throné the Thief and Temenos the Cleric. The trailer also showcases the updated job system featured in the game and the higher degree of freedom players will have than in the original game. Revealing two more of the eight new protagonists - Throné, the Thief, and Temenos, the Cleric - as well as details of the updated job system that gives you even more freedom than in the previous game, and about the guilds that appear throughout the land....