Speaking to the Sony Interactive Entertainment blog, co-studio heads Stuart Whyte and Tara Saunders discussed the project and how it came to be. Saunders said: It’s a modern fantasy London, it’s cooperative action. And what we really love about this project is that it’s giving us an opportunity to showcase a lot of wonder and magic. It’s our home city, and the idea of bringing fantasy into a believable, modern London world fills us with a lot of excitement....

Polkadot (DOT), a decentralized protocol that allows unrelated blockchains to interact with each other in a secure manner, is currently the greenest major cryptocurrency on the market, as per a tabulation by Crypto Carbon Ratings Institute. Before delving into this subject, let’s take a look at Polkadot’s unique architecture. Polkadot Aims to be “the Blockchain of Blockchains” Polkadot’s architecture consists of two main elements: the relay chain and parachains/parathreads. The relay chain is the bedrock of the network....

According to the report, three people who are involved in the plans said Sony is doing testing with ad tech partners to help game developers create in-game ads through a software developer program. The idea is to encourage developers to keep building free-to-play games, which have increased in popularity thanks to the pandemic, by giving them the means to monetize them. This new effort is expected to launch by the end of 2022 and it would put ads inside PlayStation games themselves....

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS OS: Windows 10 64-bit (version 1903) Processor: Intel Core i5-6400 (4 core 2.7GHz) AMD Ryzen 5 1500X (4 core 3.5GHz) Memory: 16 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (6 GB) AMD Radeon RX 580 (8 GB) Storage: 60 GB available space Additional Notes: SSD Recommended OS: Windows 10 64-bit (version 1903) Processor: Intel i7-8700 (6 core 3.7 GHz) AMD Ryzen 7 2700X (8 core 3.7 GHz) Memory: 32 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA RTX 2070 SUPER (8 GB) AMD RX 6700 XT (12 GB) Storage: 60 GB available space...

Samsung introduces AMD-Powered Computational SSD With Xilinx FPGA to help improve data throughput between the SSD & CPU Utilizing AMD’s Versal FPGA that they received from the acquisition of Xilinx, Samsung ensures clients that they will receive half the amount of computational times and significantly lower power consumption (by close to 70%). Also, the new CSD will offer less utilization of the system’s processor — by ninety-seven percent compared to the identical amount of standard SSDs consistently accessing data....

Samsung’s Galaxy Buds 2 Also Won an Award in Its Respective Category Jinsoo Kim, Vice President of Samsung Electronics Design Management Center, was present at the iF Design Awards 2022 and spoke on the company’s current direction. Out of 11,000 submissions coming in from 57 countries, Samsung won 71 awards, making it the most by any company in the competition. One of the company’s products, the Freestyle projector, won a gold medal for its portability features....

With Tesla’s much-hyped AI Day event concluded now, critics are coming out in droves to pan the company for what they consider was an underwhelming conclusion to days of media-led frenzy. However, such an attitude ignores the extraordinary pace of advancement that Tesla just demonstrated in realizing its vision for the Optimus robot. Before going further, readers should note that the Tesla AI Day event was primarily geared toward attracting new engineering talent and was not a demonstration of a finished product....

We have a lot of ideas on the game we want to try out and give fans a way to tell us which ideas work and which don’t. The goal is to take the feedback we get and iterate the game with monthly public updates. This early access will be much more like an old-school-style beta program. We really want players to be able to give feedback early enough so that we can act on it, which frees us to try out ideas that may be worthy of further development or alternatively need to be scrapped....

The new video, which can be watched below, highlights the latest development updates, showcasing an amazing recreation of the Oblivion Goblins, pieces of clothing, Daedric Artifacts, and more. More information for the Skyblivion mod can be found on its official website. A release date has yet to be confirmed. Upon release, our mod will be completely modular which means that the player will be able to choose what components he/she wants to have installed....

SIE president and CEO Jim Ryan stated: For his part, Bungie CEO and chairman Pete Parsons added: Parsons’ statement makes it clear that the deal with Sony wasn’t just about gaming. After all, Bungie did announce a strong push into TV and film for its IPs last year, and Sony does appear to be the best partner for that purpose. This year alone, we’ll see Naughty Dog’s two most prized IPs adapted to film (Uncharted, due in a couple of weeks) and TV (The Last of Us, distributed via HBO Max), though that’s just the tip of the iceberg....

The Redmond-based giant made the largest splash when it announced the intention to acquire Activision Blizzard, the biggest Western third-party publisher, for nearly $70 billion. Never before had the gaming industry recorded such a massive deal. Earlier in January, Take-Two surprised everyone when they revealed their deal with Zynga for $12.7 billion in an effort to push into the ever-growing mobile market. Last but not least, Sony acquired Bungie, known as the original creators of Halo and Destiny, for $3....

The new footage, which can be watched below complete with English subtitles, is the second volume of the Summoners Guide series which provides details on the game’s story, characters and mechanics. Today’s video shows, among other things, dungeon exploration and combat. Soul Hackers 2 is the second entry in the Shin Megami Tensei spin-off series. The upcoming game, which will come with features inspired by the first entry in the series as well as brand new mechanics, is launching on consoles and PC this August....

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Spillover is described by the developers as the ultimate defense experience in Rainbow Six Extraction, putting an emphasis on properly preparing defenses (reinforcing walls, doors and windows, placing traps, etc.) just like in a Rainbow Six Siege match. These incursions, limited to a single submap, will feature nine so-called Sprawl Colonies to decontaminate with the new Dissolution Agent canisters in any order you want. When a canister is activated, players will need to defend it for 90 seconds from waves of Archæans assaults....

Alongside this expected news, though, we also learned of two additional Star Wars projects in the works at Respawn. One is a first-person shooter game whose development team is directed by Peter Hirschmann, previously VP of development at LucasArts and executive producer on the original Star Wars Battlefront games. The other is actually a strategy game made in collaboration with Bit Reactor, a new independent triple-A studio founded recently by former XCOM veterans such as Greg Foerstch....

Space Exploration Technologies Corporation’s (SpaceX) Starlink satellite internet constellation is the fastest satellite internet service in several regions of the world according to a fresh report from Ookla. Within a handful of years after opening its services, Starlink has rapidly built its low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation by launching more than 2,000 satellites. In the process, it has managed to gain an upper hand over several rivals that will use similar spacecraft but are yet to launch the satellites....

As part of its orbital flight test for the Starship platform, SpaceX will use Starlink internet terminals to connect with its satellite constellation as both rockets are in the air. SpaceX is currently heading towards conducting the first orbital flight test of Starship from Boca Chica, Texas, with the rocket being the largest that the company has built to date. It will be powered by 33 engines and is designed to significantly increase the tonnage that the company can ship to low Earth orbit (LEO) ad provide it with a platform to send crewed and cargo missions to Mars....

Super Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto revealed the news via Twitter with the following message. The animated film is being made by Illumination, the studio behind Despicable Me, The Secret Life of Pets, Sing, and the adaptations of Dr. Seuss books like The Lorax and How the Grinch Stole Christmas. The Super Mario Bros. movie is directed by Aaron Horvath (Teen Titans Go!) and Michael Jelenic (The Batman), with Illumination’s Chris Meledandri and Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto listed as producers....

It was important for us to achieve a physically consistent lighting and shadow model in the game. Contrast and occlusion make great horror. Using our corridor-based scale of around 20 meters, we found that around eight lights could be affecting a surface of the environment. Unfortunately, we found that UE4 was limited to four shadow-generating lights, so first we worked on modifying the engine so that we could support a higher number of lights at a lower cost per light....

The Chant is a brand-new project being announced today, and its premise is a simple one; enjoy your time on a remote island and seek peace, enlightenment, and tranquility; but not everything is as it seems. The announcement also comes with a brand-new teaser trailer, the first for this game, which you can watch below. The game’s basis is set on the darker side of spirituality and breaking the confines of normality....