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MAWI United, who developed the impressive Birch Forest Map released online last year, released today a new version of their Conifer Forest Biome from 2016, which runs on the new version of the engine by Epic. The new forest map uses custom scanned assets and procedural generation within UE5, and looks rather impressive, as showcased in the videos below. The Unreal Engine 5 Conifer Forest Biome demo can be downloaded by going here....

The good news is that the patch will be big. Stunlock provided plenty of details on what will be added and improved to the game ahead of the full release. One feature that we’re exploring is adding multiple floors (two or more!) to the castle. Castle servants is another popular feature we wish to explore further. We heard you desire new lands to explore, and we’re excited to bring more of Vardoran to you....

VESA Certified DisplayPort UHBR products are ensured to sustain the higher bit rates advocated by DisplayPort version 2.0 standards VESA also introduced VESA certified DP40 and DP80 UHBR cables, which assure display connectivity and operation at the most elevated implementation levels presented with DisplayPort 2.0. VESA certified DP40 cables must endow up to the UHBR10 link rate (10 Gigabits per second or Gbps) determined by DisplayPort 2.0, and support the complete four-lane operation, delivering a total throughput of 40 Gbps....

Samsung Clearly Did Not Want the Galaxy Watch 4 to Run on iPhones by Cutting off the Wear OS 3 Support Now, in a surprising turn of events, we now have confirmation that Wear OS 3 will have support for iOS, and users will be able to use it without any issues. Speaking to Wareable, Qualcomm has indeed confirmed that the upcoming Montblanc Summit 3 will indeed be compatible with iPhone, and for those wondering, the Summit 3 is the first non-Samsung smartwatch to run Wear OS 3....

According to the latest tip from WABetaInfo, WhatsApp is preparing a new feature that will let you hide your online status from your contacts. The feature was first spotted on the beta build of WhatsApp for iOS a few weeks ago and now it is available on the Android beta channel, as well. However, it is not live in the latest beta release v2.22.16.12. The source has managed to get their hands on a screenshot of the in-development feature....

WhatsApp Brings Granula Control to Handle Your Privacy Settings In a recent tweet, WhatsApp has announced that they are rolling out comprehensive privacy control settings to all users. Up until now, you could choose to have your WhatsApp status, last seen, and about info visible to either everyone, your contacts, or completely hidden. However, now, you have one more option called My contacts except. With this option, users will be able to create a list of contacts that will not be able to see your profile picture, status, and other information, while it will be visible to everyone else....

NIO (NYSE:NIO), a major Chinese EV player that continues to expand its geographical footprint, seems poised to add a substantial tech premium to its valuation. As per a Weibo post that cited internal sources, the company is apparently in the research stage of full-fledged smartphone business to complement its NIO Life brand. Should this development materialize, NIO would be following in the footsteps of the EV manufacturer Geely which is also looking to launch its own branded smartphones....

Here’s a selection of games currently on sale via the Microsoft Store… Assassin’s Creed Valhalla - 67% off Battlefield 2042 - 60% off Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II - 15% off Cyberpunk 2077 - 50% off Dying Light 2 - 50% off Elden Ring - 30% off Far Cry 6 - 60% off FIFA 23 - 50% off Forza Horizon 5 - 35% off Grounded - 33% off Gungrave GORE - 30% off Halo Infinite - 50% off Just Dance 2023 – 50% off Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga - 50% off MLB The Show 22 - 85% off Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord - 20% off NBA 2K23 - 60% off Resident Evil Village - 50% off Saints Row - 33% off The Quarry - 50% off The Witcher 3: Complete Edition - 40% off Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands - 50% off WWE 2K22 - 67%...

Alan Wake Remastered - 25 percent off Call of Duty: Vanguard - 40 percent off Destiny 2: The Witch Queen - 20 percent off Forza Horizon 5 - 15 percent off Godfall Ultimate Edition - 25 percent off Grand Theft Auto Online - 50 percent off Grid Legends - 33 percent off Guardians of the Galaxy - 50 percent off Halo Infinite - 20 percent off King of Fighters XV - 25 percent off Life is Strange: True Colors - 50 percent off Microsoft Flight Simulator - 20 percent off NBA 2K22 - 67 percent off Ori: The Collection - 67 percent off Psychonauts 2 - 40 percent off Resident Evil Village - 50 percent off Riders Republic - 50 percent off Tales of Arise - 30 percent off The Dark Pictures: House of Ashes - 33 percent off WWE 2K22 - 25 percent off...

XMG NEO 17 & NEO 15: High-end laptops with Ryzen 9 6900HX, RTX 3080 Ti, CHERRY MX switches, 16:10 display, and optional liquid cooling Press Release: Leipzig, Germany, August 12th, 2022 – Designed for maximum performance, XMG adds two models with AMD’s Ryzen 6900HX to its NEO series. The NEO 17 has been completely redesigned and features a keyboard with CHERRY’s MX ULP Tactile switches, a 16:10 display with 2,560 x 1,600 pixels, a 99 Wh battery, and a revised cooling system that can fully exploit the power limits of the graphics card (up to the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti)....

Speaking with German publication 4Players, the Japanese developer commented on what we should expect to see in his next game, the first one after splitting with SEGA last year. The game, which has yet to be formally announced, will be more like a Quentin Tarantino movie, featuring violence as a gameplay element but plenty of humor. Something that is only violent doesn’t suit Nagoshi’s tastes too much, as fans of the Yakuza series already know: 4Players: Let’s get right to it: What passion of yours will we meet in Nagoshi Studio’s first game?...

Apparently, YouTube Originals Is Being Shut Down in Favor of Other Investment Opportunities YouTube Originals’ Chief Business Officer Robert Kyncl explained the closure via Twitter, while also announcing that the platform’s head Susanne Daniels would be leaving the company in March. This new form of content was expected to take the fight directly to Netflix and other major streaming platforms. Unfortunately, the cracks started appearing in its armor because, in 2019, YouTube Originals started moving away from the paid show model after canceling two upcoming series....

Apple iPhone XR Smartphone with 64GB Storage, A12 Bionic, Wireless Charging and More Going for Just $299 This is an extremely limited time deal and will likely go out of stock soon. If that doesn’t happen then there is a chance that the price will be revised to something else. Whether it’s higher or lower, is entirely our luck. Featuring the A12 Bionic chip, this phone is fast and will get everyday job done regardless you’re dealing with apps or games....

According to a new report by Deadline, PlayStation Productions is working with Scott Free Productions to develop a movie based upon one of PlayStation Japan Studio’s most unique franchises. Anna Mastro will be the movie’s director, with a script written by Emily Jerome. Not much else is currently known about the Gravity Rush movie, and it will probably be a while until we hear more about it. As reportedly by Deadline, who will produce the movie is unclear at this point, so it’s clear that it is still in early production....

AMD EPYC CPUs & Instinct GPUs Create History By Powering The World’s First True Exascale Supercomputer, Frontier ORNL’s Frontier supercomputer has been designed from the ground up with AMD’s 3rd Gen EPYC Trento CPUs and Instinct MI250X GPU accelerators. We already got to see a preview of the system through the ‘Crusher’ system earlier this year but now, with Frontier fully activated, we can talk of the real thing. Frontier is the new No....

AMC Preferred Equity (NYSE:APE) was launched with much fanfare back in August amid expectations that the security would serve as a watershed moment by once and for all exposing the manipulative practices that allegedly keep a lid on AMC’s (NYSE:AMC) stock price, as per the belief of the meme stock’s bulls. Alas, APE has failed to live up to its hype, with the preferred equity now underperforming the AMC ordinary shares by a whopping 56 percent....

AMD RDNA 3 GPU Compute Units Confirmed: Navi 31 With 96, Navi 32 With 60, Navi 33 With 32 The number of Compute Units for the AMD RDNA 3 GPU lineup have not been a mystery ever since the leak from Angstronomics but this leak comes directly from AMD in the form of an update to the ROCm Software which was discovered by @Kepler_L2. The update mentions the peak core count of the three RDNA 3 chips which is as follows:...

AMD Ryzen 7 7700 8 Core & Ryzen 5 7600 6 Core CPUs Spotted Within SiSoftware, Bringing Higher Performance Per Watt To The AM5 Platform AMD has so far only introduced its “X” series SKUs in the Raphael “Zen 4” family. These parts aim towards enthusiasts and extreme gamers but like all generations that came before it, the Ryzen 7000 CPUs are bound to get Non-X parts. Although the company hasn’t officially confirmed the release of any Non-X chips yet, we know that there are more chips coming to consumers soon in addition to the 3D V-Cache parts which are expected to be introduced at CES 2023....

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Hits 110C Junction Temps & Downclocks, User Asks For RMA, Red Team Declines & Tells Him It’s Normal It’s been a few weeks since the AMD Radeon RX 7900 series launched and most users are finally getting their cards in their hands after a long wait. However, there have recently been reports of high temperatures (standard and junction) on the reference MBA design. One such issue has now been reported by a Reddit user who bought the reference version of the card yet his card doesn’t seem to be working as intended....

AMD 4nm Phoenix Point APUs With Zen 4 & RDNA 3 In 2023, Strix Point With Zen 5 & RDNA 3+ Cores In 2024 For Laptops AMD confirmed that its Phoenix Point and Strix Point APUs will be powering the next-gen laptops with a diverse portfolio of core IPs. The Phoenix Point APUs will utilize a combination of Zen 4 CPU and RDNA 3 GPU cores on the 4nm process node while Strix Point APUs will utilize a combination of Zen 5 CPU and RDNA 3+ GPU cores on an advanced process node (most probably 3nm)....