Well, today Scherr announced he was leaving Naughty Dog after 21 years, saying it was “time for something new,” although he didn’t state what that is… When I was a kid, making video games was my hobby. Never dreamed I’d get to make them for a living, let alone at a studio like Naughty Dog. Last week, after 21 years & 10 shipped games, I said goodbye to my friends & c̶o̶l̶l̶i̶e̶s̶ colleagues at the kennel....

First signs of the Intel Arc A40 Pro desktop workstation GPU appear on the South Korean certification site While it has been reported earlier this month that the mobile versions of Intel’s Arc Pro series GPUs, including the A30M and A40M Pro graphics cards, this discovery hints at the A40 Pro desktop workstation GPU. Intel has not released official announcements of a workstation variant nor any A4 GPUs to be added to the company’s gaming integrated graphics series....

Apple Could Use 10 Performance Cores for the iMac Pro, With the Rest Focused on Power-Efficiency Where the M1 Max was limited to a 10-core CPU for the 2021 MacBook Pro family, Dylan comments on Twitter that Apple will move beyond this chipset and include a 12-core CPU configuration for the iMac Pro. He claims that this information was tied to a code snippet referencing the iMac Pro and according to rumors, its internal naming is the same since it is a product targeted towards professionals....

Speaking with GamesRadar, Iron Gate lead artist Robin Eyre revealed that an idea for a Greydwarf side-scrolling game has been shot down. Despite this idea getting rejected, the studio is exploring ideas for new projects related to Valheim, so it definitely seems like the world introduced by the survival game will gets expanded in the future. “They’ve said no to me, so this is not happening. This is not a sequel, but I want to make a Greydwarf game....

Last week I got to check out a hands-off preview of Warhammer 40K: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters in action, and I was fairly impressed by what I saw. While the game initially appears you be a fairly typical tactical RPG, albeit with more cinematic attacks and moments than fans of the genre may be used to, Complex Games has made a number of smart tweaks to the formula. A “precision targeting system” allows you to see exactly how much damage you can do from various vantage points, and you can destroy cover and objects in the environment to gain an advantage on the enemy....

The report comes from Variety. According to the publication’s sources, the goal is to maximize the value of DC Entertainment IPs through a more cohesive plan. While this would include doing more bets on characters like The Joker or Harley Quinn, Warner Bros. Discovery execs also want to see more of Superman, who hasn’t had a standalone movie since 2013’s Man of Steel. Beyond cinema and TV, though, Warner Bros....

ApeCoin (APE), an Ethereum-based utility token that powers the NFT-focused Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) community as well as a host of other Web3-based utility offerings, including the metaverse-focused game, Otherside, is currently near all-time lows as the declining general interest and the growing regulatory scrutiny of the entire NFT space continues to take a sizable toll. To wit, the much-hyped ApeCoin is currently trading at $6.19, just a spitting distance away from its 30-day low of $5....

Here are your late-August PC and console Game Pass titles: Coffee Talk (Cloud, Console, and PC) – Available Now Coffee Talk is a coffee brewing and heart-to-heart talking simulator about listening to the stories of alternative-Seattle’s inhabitants. From a dramatic love story between an elf and a succubus to an alien trying to understand the lives of humans, help everyone you meet by serving up a warm drink or two....

Snapchat introduced this new change in an official blog post and for those wondering, this feature means that copying and pasting is not something that you would require thanks to the fact that there is now a direct interaction in YouTube’s Share Sheet. This does mean that sending clips to friends or adding video links to Story posts is now a lot more streamlined. Snapchat Users Can Now Share YouTube Videos Seamlessly This is what Snapchat had to say....

YouTuber Shows the Nothing Phone (1)’s Front and Back in New Hands-On Video - It is All About The Accented LED Lights at The Back YouTuber MKBHD has shared a new video that showcases the front and rear design of the Nothing Phone (1). From the first look, we can easily differentiate the smartphone from the rest of the flagships. It features a clear glass back that gives you a look at the internals painted in white....

Modified Version of macOS Could Be Adjusted to Fit the New iPad Pro’s Display Size, With Slight Changes in the UI, and App Icons Size The next version of macOS is rumored to be codenamed ‘Mendocino,’ with Majin Bu claiming that a simplified version ‘should be planned’ for the M2 iPad Pro models. What is strange about this rumor is that nowhere does the tipster mention that this version of macOS will be available for the M1 iPad Pro models too....

Apple’s M2 Pro and M2 Max MacBook Pro Models to Launch Between The Fall of 2022 and the Spring of 2023 According to Mark Gurman’s latest Power On newsletter, Apple will launch the new M2 Pro and M2 Max MacBook Pro models as early as this fall. The company has already started working on its more powerful variants of the M2 chip. Apple only recently upgraded the design and form factor of the high-end MacBook Pro models and Gurman suggests that it is “likely to stay roughly the same”....

For those not up on their Bungie history, the Marathon games were sci-fi shooters that preceded the company’s work on Halo. Unusually, the games were released exclusively for Apple Mac computers, somewhat limiting their reach, but they’ve become cult favorites. According to Henderson, the new Marathon will be a fairly major departure from the classic games, taking the form of an Escape-from-Tarkov-style extraction shooter. The game will reportedly feature squads of three, and players will choose their loadout, complete missions and collect loot, and attempt to extract from the map safely....

The Marvel’s Midnight Suns Season Pass includes four DLCs, each dedicated to a major character addition: Deadpool, Venom, Morbius, and Storm, in this order, with the first one coming in early 2023. DLC Pack #1 - Deadpool: A foulmouthed mercenary with a heart of gold, Deadpool has a penchant for grisly violence and lighthearted, fourth-wall breaking wisecracks; DLC Pack #2 - Venom: Spider-Man’s nemesis and one of the main game’s bosses, Venom turns playable hero in DLC #2, armed with all of the same symbiote attacks that once threatened the lives of the Midnight Suns; DLC Pack #3 - Morbius: One of the original comic book Midnight Sons, Morbius is an accomplished biochemist who, in an attempt to cure his own rare blood disease, turned himself into a living vampire; DLC Pack #4 - Storm: A powerful member of the X-Men, Storm has the ability to generate and manipulate wind, lightning, rain, and other types of weather to her will....

The new video, which has been shared by NVIDIA on its GeForce YouTube channel, highlights the massive performance improvements brought by DLSS 3 with ray tracing enabled, in some cases by a hundred frames per second. As already mentioned, Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered will be just one of the many titles that will support NVIDIA DLSS 3, the new version of the upscaling technology that was revealed during yesterday’s keynote. Among the titles that will support it will be Cyberpunk 2077, Microsoft Flight Simulator, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Hogwarts Legacy, and many others....

A new video shared on YouTube by Cycu1 showcases an MGS VR fan project in development by Holydh. While the project is still a work in progress, and many things don’t work as they should yet, it definitely looks impressive. The Metal Gear Solid VR Boneworks mod can be downloaded from Nexus Mods. An overview of the mod’s features can be found below: Elevator fully functional like an IRL one with physic buttons- cameras and spotlights spotting the player and triggering NPCs aggro- custom npcs (Kinda dumb for now, I’ll tweak them as much as I can in the future)- all automatic doors functional- lasers and gaz trap functional- roamable vents- original SFX (most of them come from ps1 version, the others come from the PC version....

Micron’s DDR5 DRAM Now Available For Next-Gen AMD & Intel Server / Workstation Platforms Press Release: Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU), today announced commercial and industrial channel partner availability of Micron DDR5 server DRAM in support of industry qualification of next-generation Intel and AMD DDR5 server and workstation platforms. The move to DDR5 memory enables up to an 85% increase in system performance over DDR4 DRAM. Micron’s new server memory maximizes performance for AI, HPC, and data-intensive applications that require more CPU compute capacity and higher memory bandwidth than DDR4 technology can support....

Surface Studio 2 Plus Features The Same Design as The Original But Comes With Significant Upgrades on The Inside Microsoft originally announced the Surface Studio in 2018 with 7th-gen processors and Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 GPU. In comparison, the Surface Studio 2 Plus comes with Intel’s 11th-gen Core i7-11370H processor, which is a quad-core 35W chip. In addition, it has a lower TDP compared to the previous version, which featured 45W processors....

Dev Channel is getting Build 25115, and Beta Channel receives Preview Build 22621. Head over to this piece for details on Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25115. As for Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22621 for the Beta Channel, it brings a number of fixes, and ISO files for this build are also available for a clean installation. Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22621: Fixes and improvements Windows 11 Build 22621: Known issues For more details, head over to this blog post by the Windows development team....

Microsoft, probably refusing to take the beating they’ve been getting from Sony lying down, has stepped up and made a new website that outlines the benefits of the Activision-Blizzard purchase. The company essentially reached out to the consumers to outline benefits for players, game creators, and the gaming industry. The website includes various handy links that offer some insight on the current state of the acquisition alongside Microsoft’s commitments and even an interview with the Gaming division CEO Phil Spencer....