[Original Story] A new NieR series-inspired action adventure game called Phantom Hellcat has been announced today during Gamescom Opening Night 2022. All in! Games, publisher of popular titles like Ghostrunner, Chernobylite, and others, has revealed today its internal development studio, Ironbird Creations, which is currently working on their new IP Phantom Hellcat. Inspired by the NieR series, NieR Automata in particular, the game will feature visceral and fast-paced combat, epic boss fights, constant switching between 3D and 2D perspectives, a unique theatrical setting, and more....

“We’ve made the difficult decision to delay Nightingale’s Early Access release to the first half of 2023. We’ll have more news on specific timing at a later stage. The move is based on two considerations: The first is an upgrade to Unreal Engine 5. After reviewing the potential UE5 has to offer, we decided on upgrading now rather than waiting until after release. Secondly, Inflexion Games is committed to delivering the best possible experience and fulfilling the promise of what Nightingale’s Universe of realms has to offer players....

In other words, there may not be a next-generation system for several years still. The Nintendo Switch launched in early 2017, which means Nintendo may strive to keep it around until 2027. Of course, there will be other revisions in the meantime, and one of them may eventually end up being slightly more powerful than the current Nintendo Switch. For brand new hardware, though, it sounds like there’s a long wait ahead....

Now that more players are progressing further in Elden Ring, various stories have surfaced that appear to suggest that the renowned author has purposely hidden his own initials in the game with players suggesting that a lot of the major characters within Elden Ring appear to have names starting with either a G, R, or M. According to the Elden Ring co-creator, however, this simply isn’t the case and he raises the question why he should even bother hiding his own name inside the game....

AMD FidelityFX 2.0 - AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2 (FSR 2) is a cutting edge open source temporal upscaling solution, providing high image quality and improved framerates. Learn more on the AMD site. All PC players, including those running integrated graphics, can enjoy the increased performance from this new technology regardless of their graphics card. Relaxed Game Mode - The new relaxed preset provides an accessible, laid-back experience of No Man’s Sky....

However, the patch notes also revealed some extra goodies for PC gamers. To begin with, Hello Games added AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) support to No Man’s Sky. According to the developer, No Man’s Sky gains 30 frames per second when enabling FSR Performance Mode at 4K resolution (High preset) with a Radeon RX Vega 56 GPU. NVIDIA users could already take advantage of DLSS, which has been available in No Man’s Sky since the Prisms update (version 3....

Nothing Phone 1 Has Over 100,00 Preorders. An Impressive Number for a Seemingly Unknown Phone Now, Carl Pei has taken it to Twitter and announced that Nothing Phone 1 has reached over 100,000 preorders. Honestly, it is a rather impressive achievement for a phone that has very little official information out in the open but considering how this Pei was responsible for taking OnePlus to the heights as well, I am not surprised....

AMD, Intel & NVIDIA Chips Power The NREL Kestrel Supercomputer: AMD EPYC Genoa, Intel Sapphire Rapids & NVIDIA H100 The US DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), announced its plans last year for Kestrel, a brand new supercomputer that will tap into the latest technologies from AMD, Intel & NVIDIA, to replace their existing Eagle supercomputer. The supercomputer will be designed by Hewlett Package Enterprise (HPE) and during a recent conference, they unveiled the first look at specs for the system....

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Reportedly Features Two PCB Designs With 16 & 12 GB Capacities, RTX 4090 Gets 14-Layer PCB According to information by MEGAsizeGPU, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 will come in one PCB flavor while the RTX 4080 will come in two flavors. The RTX 4090 will be using the same PCB for reference and AIC designs which will be equipped with up to 24 GB of GDDR6X memory and 14 layers for the PCB in total....

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 In October, RTX 4080 16 GB & 12 GB Graphics Cards In November The latest launch rumor comes from Senior Editor of Chiphell, nApoleon, who states that NVIDIA is actually ahead of schedule with its GeForce RTX 40 series graphics cards. It is reported that the RTX 4090 will indeed be showcased at GTC 2022 and that the card will be launching in October, which is something that we had stated back in June....

NVIDIA is thinking of (re)launching the RTX 4070 Ti at the $899 MSRP price point NVIDIA had previously launched the NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti as the RTX 4080 12GB and with the (re)launch of the RTX 4070 Ti coming up, AICs have started taking orders from their industry partners for the relatively affordable graphics card. Keep in mind, however, that Jensen wields the black leather jacket and all of us must submit to its power....

NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti is 5% faster than the RTX 3090 Ti in the first Octanebench aggregate score Now since we are dealing with a benchmark that maximizes the theoretical throughput of a GPU, let us look at the theoretical numbers first. The RTX 3090 Ti has 10,752 CUDA cores clocked at 1860 MHz which yields a FP32 performance of 39.99 TFLOPs. The RTX 4070 Ti on the other hand has 7680 CUDA cores clocked at 2610 MHz which yields a FP32 performance of 40....

Following the public release of Unreal Engine 5 earlier this year, numerous game concept videos using Epic’s new engine were released. One such video was the Superman flying game demo based on Epic’s The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience demo. For years, DC fans have been hoping for a new proper Superman title, and although rumors claim that Warner Bros and Rocksteady could be working on such a game, there hasn’t been an official announcement in any way....

We want it to happen. Be excited. What’s the script? What’s the story? What’s the take? But hopeful that comes to fruition because there’s so much potential for that. It’s an incredible game. It’s my favorite. The actor’s words aren’t exactly the most promising for fans, as it sounds like there has been close to no progress on the project in the last two years. Oscar Isaac was cast as protagonist Solid Snake in late 2020, according to a report by Deadline....

Worldslayer will launch on June 30th on all platforms (PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PC Steam, Epic, and Windows Store, Google Stadia, and Nvidia GeForce Now), featuring a brand new campaign, an entirely new endgame called Trial of Tarya Gratar, tons of new loot, and new game systems. While the Trial of Tarya Gratar is still under wraps, we had the chance to participate in a roundtable interview with the People Can Fly developers, who talked extensively about everything else that will be in Worldslayer....

The report, which is currently available for download, aggregates insights from Newzoo’s research involving 36 different markets. It explores how players of different generations engage with games and how they view brands. Gaming has become so big that 79% of the world’s online population now engages with games in some way or form. The Newzoo findings also state how gaming has evolved past the point of just playing games as gaming has become more social over the years....

Rewards And Progression “With the arrival of Season 2, we’ve changed up our rewards so that each event has a skin you can earn by playing, in addition to the other cosmetic rewards we already offer. We’re also going to continue our Twitch drops programs so that you can earn skins and in-game goodies by supporting your favorite creators. While we’re working on the long-term plans, we want upcoming seasons to feel more rewarding than Season 1....

Precise Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro Sales Figures Have yet to Be Shared Just like Apple, Google does not provide a breakdown of hardware product sales, and they are all a part of ‘Google Services’, which includes Android, Google Maps, Chrome, Google Play, Search, and YouTube, all merged into a single category. However, the company’s segment for the previous quarter increased significantly, generating $69 billion compared to the same period in 2020, where the company said it made $52....

Pixel 6a Features the Same Tensor SoC With 25 Percent Less Memory and Still Manages to Outpace the Pixel 6 The image below from Geekbench shows the comparison between the Pixel 6 and the Pixel 6a. It is surprising to see the upcoming mid-ranger doing slightly better than its more expensive sibling in both single-core and multi-core tests. Unfortunately, the difference in Geekbench is minimal, so it is unclear how many times the test was run....

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