Alanah Pearce, game writer for Sony Santa Monica and former journalist for IGN, among other publications, revealed at the end of a recent livestream that the next Nintendo Direct will air on June 29th. The confirmation, she added, didn’t come from Nintendo, but likely from an insider. NateDrake, who proved to be reliable when it comes to leaks, added that the information shared by Alanah Pearce on the next Nintendo Direct is accurate, and it will air on either June 28th or June 29th....

NVIDIA Highlights Hopper H100 Availability, Ada Lovelace L40 GPU, IGX/OVX Systems & Grace CPU Superchips at GTC 2022 Starting with the flagship Hopper chip, NVIDIA has confirmed that the H100 GPU is now under full production and that its partners will be rolling out the first wave of products in October this year. It was also confirmed that the global rollout for Hopper will include three phases, the first will be pre-orders for NVIDIA DGX H100 systems & free hands of labs to customers directly from NVIDIA with systems such as Dell’s Power Edge servers which are now available on NVIDIA LaunchPad....

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Pushed Back Indefinitely, Rep Confirms No New Information To Share Regarding Flagship Graphics Card The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti aimed to be the flagship Ampere graphics card, featuring the best performance, the highest power consumption, & the highest price of any graphics card to date. But NVIDIA went real silent regarding the card after its teaser at CES 2022 by Jeff Fischer. Talking to The Verge, it looks like NVIDIA’s rep, Jen Andersson, has pretty much revealed that there’s currently no new information to share regarding the card....

Is this the beginning of the end for dirt-cheap pre-mined GPUs? In a story we wrote just a few weeks ago, you could still buy NVIDIA Ampere GPUs at ridiculously cheap rates. An RTX 3060 could be bought for $150 (November 4, 2022) and an RTX 3080 Ti could be bought for as low as $369 (November 7, 2022). These are the prices which have been slowly ticking upwards since the GPU crash a few months ago - when you could buy an RTX 3060 for just $99, direct from a Chinese crypto-mine presumably....

NVIDIA’s SUPERCHIP Platforms Powered By Grace CPU & Hopper GPU Architecture Unveiled, Up To 600 GB of Memory, 144 ARM Neoverse CPU Cores, & 2x Perf/Watt Versus Existing Servers NVIDIA has devised a 3 Chip Data Center Strategy where it wants its Hopper GPU, Grace CPU, and a combination of both its IPs to leverage the whole AI and data center ecosystem. For the more non-traditional workloads, NVIDIA has two platforms cooked up....

Office 2021 is more inclined to traditional office needs, which helps users feel a more efficient office experience. And Microsoft 365, with a large number of unique AI functions, is more friendly to users who are not familiar with the advanced usage of Office. In terms of purchase method, Office 2021 adopts a one-time buyout method, which supports offline use and permanent activation, and you can use it in any scenario....

The new trailer, which has been shown during the Summer Game Fest 2022 show yesterday, sadly doesn’t feature any actual gameplay, only providing, as already mentioned, a new look at the game’s main characters. You can check out the new trailer below. While the latest One Piece Odyssey trailer doesn’t show any gameplay, we do have some idea on how the upcoming JRPG by ILCA will play, thanks to some screenshots that have been shared last month on the game’s official Japanese website....

Not deciding to sit this one out, OnePlus decided to comment on the situation regarding the OnePLus 10T. Once Known as the Flagship Killer, OnePlus is Slowly Killing Itself with Disappointing Durability of OnePlus 10T, and the OnePlus 10 Pro Before That Here is what the company has to say. The durability test done by Zack showed the plastic frame of the phone cleanly breaks under increasing pressure. The break occurred just below the camera island but above the batteries....

Phison Readies PCIe Gen 4-Based E25 & E20 Controllers For Consumers & Servers, To Exist Along Side Gen 5 SSD Controllers Phison knows that while PCIe Gen 5 controllers will be featured in the premium SSD category at the launch, they need to come up with solutions that are more robust than their existing products and not as pricey. The solution will come in the form of upgraded consumer and server designs based on the PCIe Gen 4 standard....

Pixel 6a May Be Sold for $600, Which Is the Same Starting Price of the Pixel 6 The Pixel 6a is said to feature a 6.2-inch OLED panel, according to Sam. Initially, he claims that the OLED will support a 120Hz refresh rate, which would make a ton of future adopters happy, but he immediately retracts his statement in the Twitter thread. The innards will apparently include Google’s custom Tensor chip, along with 6GB RAM and 8GB RAM configurations coupled with 128GB of onboard storage, which will not be expandable....

Taking to Twitter, known MST Financial analyst David Gibson has said that import data appears to suggest that Sony Interactive has been increasing its imports in the US over the last couple of months with imports for September 2022 having increased by 400% Year on Year. Going by the chart that the analyst shared, Sony imported roughly 1.5million kgs in September 2021, whereas imports last month surpassed 7 million kgs....

Mass Effect: Legendary Edition Biomutant Divine Knockout According to them, this batch of games will be available for PlayStation Plus Essential users. The games will be available from December 6, 2022, to January 3, 2023. Players can continue to play these games even after they’re no longer available to claim at the end of the monthly period. So, make sure to keep claiming the games for your service. As for which games are going to be included with the service, Mass Effect: Legendary Edition allows players to relive the Commander Shepard story with a remaster of the original trilogy....

Portal RTX is ripe with easter eggs, & several nods to NVIDIA’s technology through the use of scannable QR codes YouTuber 2kliksphilip recently uploaded a video to his channel, “The Cheats and Secrets of Portal RTX.” While the video shows the various QR codes he found, he also tried many cheats from the first two Portal games. Interestingly, he noticed some of the ray tracings were broken to some degree. This isn’t surprising, as the new RTX version was upgraded from the original game released in 2007....

Return to Castle Wolfenstein Quake 4 Wolfenstein 3D An Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard A number of Bethesda titles have also been added to the Microsoft Store, including… Heretic: Serpent Riders Hexen: Beyond Heretic Hexen: Deathkings The following Microsoft Store additions are also free-to-play. The Elder Scrolls: Arena The Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall Quake Champions Bethesda also announced the classic mod Threewave CTF is officially coming to the Quake Remaster....

With Nuvia Acquisition, Qualcomm is Hoping to Take on Apple’s M2 Chipsets In an interview, Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said the following, However, there is a catch and that is that you will not be seeing these ultra-fast processors any time soon as they should make an appearance somewhere at the end of 2023. Qualcomm is best known for making chips for high-end as well as affordable smartphones. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 is one of the best chips that you can find and is powering most of the flagship smartphones....

Speaking on Twitter, French journalist Chris Klippel, who proved to be reliable in the past when it comes to Rockstar Games’ unannounced projects, recently revealed that the yet to be announced remaster of the first entry in the series and the next-gen version of the second had been in the works for several months already back at the end 2020. The announcement of the next-gen version of the second entry in the series has been apparently changed due to the remaster of the first game, but the project is still relevant and won’t be named the Outlaws Collection....

This report comes from Business Insider and, in essence, says that we’re going to get ads inside of F2P titles at some point in the future as Microsoft is developing technologies to do so. This new program will boost Xbox’s limited ad inventory by adding more games that brands can advertise in and allowing more developers to sell ad space. According to BI’s sources, Microsoft could implement this feature as soon as this year’s third quarter....

For those of you not as crazy about robovacs as some of us (ahem…), or if you missed this mega piece of news last month, Roborock S7 MaxV Ultra isn’t your regular smart floor cleaner. The product can empty its dustbin, refill the mop tank, and wash its mop. This means no more hassle-full chore of maintaining, emptying, and cleaning the vacuum or washing its mops. One of the biggest everyday problems with a 2-in-1 vacuum cleaner is carpets… If you have an area covered with a rug or a carpet and no way for the robovac to bypass it, it will just vacuum the area until the carpet boundary, and for the rest of the area to be cleaned, you will need to manually lift the vacuum and place it on the other side of the carpet-island (as we call it)....

According to a tip from Yogesh Brar, the Galaxy Z Fold 4 is going to be as powerful as you would expect. The device is expected to ship with a Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1, 12 to 16 gigs of RAM, and a choice between 256 or 512GB of storage. Safe to say, you are going to have an impressive device with powerful specs all around. The Galaxy Z Fold 4 Feels a Lot Similar to the Predecessor Additionally, the Galaxy Z Fold 4 is said to have a 4,400 mAh battery and just 25W fast charging, which might be a disappointment for a lot of people....

Samsung Likely Wants to Maintain Market Share of Exynos Chipsets, Choosing MediaTek’s Solutions May Diminish Samsung’s Capabilities as a Chip Maker Though the Dimensity 9000 is a better solution than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 and Exynos 2200 since it is made on a better architecture, Samsung reportedly has no intentions of using it in the upcoming Galaxy S22 FE according to @chunvn8888 on Twitter. Shortly after, Yogesh Brar replied on the thread that the South Korean giant would not use future MediaTek chipsets in upcoming devices, implying that the Galaxy S23 will ship with either an Exynos or Snapdragon solution....