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After GDC 2022, we had the opportunity to have a brief chat with Technical Director Christian Holmqvist. A veteran programmer, Holmqvist previously worked at Electronic Arts, where his career was almost equally split between stints at Ghost Games (Need for Speed: Rivals and preproduction for Need for Speed 2015), Criterion (Star Wars Battlefront Rogue One: X-Wing VR Mission), and DICE (Star Wars Battlefront II, Battlefield V). When the studio started working on Ubisoft Scalar and the new game, were you there?...

Unreal Engine 5 Powered EzBench Benchmark Will Make Even The Fastest Graphics Cards From AMD & NVIDIA Sweat Developed by Eztheory AS, EzBench is a free benchmarking tool that is based on the next-gen Unreal Engine 5. It makes use of a range of high-quality assets which feature 8K textures & also adds raytracing support. According to the developers, EzBench is simply a stress test and does represent the worst-case scenario for Unreal Engine 5 apps....

Google Pixel Tablet and speaker dock are going for just $400 on Facebook Marketplace The listing was shared by Twitter user ShrimpApplePro, but he is not the one selling the Pixel Tablet and speaker dock, unfortunately. An unnamed seller managed to acquire two Google devices before their expected launch next year, and if you prefer being an early adopter, you are getting the hardware at a reasonable price of $400. The seller does not provide any details on what trouble he went through to get a hold of these, but in case you live in his proximity, you are more than welcome to approach the individual and ask him for additional details....

The EU talked back in September 2021 that it wants to force manufacturers to use a standardized charging interface for both smartphones and tablets. Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) for the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee (IMCO) have now voted 43-2 to expand the initial proposal to include additional devices such as laptops, handheld gaming consoles, cameras, and more. USB Type-C Could Potentially Become the Universal Charging Standard While many Android smartphones are already using USB Type-C ports, Apple is still split between using the Lightning port and Type-C....

The Vivo X Fold directly competes against the Galaxy Z Fold 3 by bringing a smartphone screen on the outside and a tablet-sized foldable display on the inside. The external screen is a 6.53-inch FHD+ 120Hz OLED panel while the foldable display is an 8.03-inch 120Hz LTPO OLED panel. The Vivo X Fold is an Impressive Next-Gen Foldable Vivo X Fold does bring ultra-thin glass on the folding screen for better protection and the company has also claimed that the screen is certified for up to 300,000 folds....

Windows 11 KB5017389 is bringing a handful of fixes and improvements, which should further remove any last-minute issues in this major update. KB5017389 will eventually make its way to the public through next month’s Patch Tuesday Windows 11 update. Release notes for Windows 11 KB5017389 For more details on this preview update, head over to the official blog post. Microsoft is rolling out the latest Windows 11 2022 Update in a phased rollout strategy, which means not everyone is receiving the update right now....

Following the release of Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin, a very unique take on the Soulslike formula enriched by mechanics borrowed from the Final Fantasy series, the Japanese studio revealed Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty, another action game that blends together Team Ninja’s action games’ expertise with a setting that is synonymous with publisher Koei Tecmo: the Three Kingdoms era. How well the two will blend remains to be seen, but the recently released playable demo did show how the game will be quite different from recent games made by the studio, although their trademark mechanics still play a part in the Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty experience....

Microsoft’s win comes about due to the relative availability of the Xbox Series S, the only new console that can semi-reliably be found on store shelves. That said, Microsoft’s victory is a somewhat hollow one, as console sales were down as a whole in February due to availability issues. According to the NPD Group, North American hardware sales were down 27 percent year-on-year in February, and the situation was even worse in Europe, with console sales down 32 percent....

This year, we are dedicating our booth to celebrating you, the community. And we’ll provide some small updates to our current games. Can’t wait to see you all in Cologne! pic.twitter.com/4Vu9eBsMMQ — Xbox DACH (@XboxDACH) July 7, 2022 It is unclear what Microsoft intends for current games, but chances are they might be referring to the games coming out by the first half of 2023, which is what they focused on during not-E3 2022....

Xiaomi Launches Its Latest 12S Ultra Flagship With Sony’s 1-Inch IMX989 Sensor and Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 Chip, More The new Xiaomi 12S Ultra looks very much like a professional camera with a phone attached to it. The gigantic 1-inch sensor on the back will bring significant improvements to the camera quality in low-light scenarios. The company has partnered with Leica to bring forth a 50MP main camera with Sony’s 1-inch IMX989 sensor....

If you don’t recognize Codemasters, the company is known for developing and publishing various racing games, including the GRID series, DIRT series, and F1 series, to name a few. A subsidiary studio of theirs, Slightly Mad Studios, could be one you recognize as well, more directly from the Project CARS games. Codemasters finally regained the license after 18 years, and the newest venture with the WRC series is believed to release in 2023 at some point....

Patch v1.824.1.0’s biggest additions are two sharpness sliders, one that can be used when NVIDIA DLSS or AMD FSR 2.0 are activated and another general slider that works independently from the one used in conjunction with either upscaling technique. The new update also adds an option that forces the aspect ratio of the game to set values on any screen. The new Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered patch also introduces a variety of fixes, such as fixes for some ray tracing crashes and more....

Unfortunately, meeting that 2022 launch window will no longer be a reality, as developer Best Way announced its delay to sometime in 2023 earlier today. The primary reasoning behind this is to accommodate new features and content, among various other adjustments. Either way, the development team also released a new trailer today, which you can watch below. The conflict in Ukraine is another big contributor to the game’s delay; back in February of this year, Best Way had to help staff and families relocate after the attacks on Ukraine, essentially pausing the game’s development (which wasn’t in their control)....

Your role in Miasma Chronicles? You are Elvis (not that one) with your brother, Diggs. Only Diggs is a giant robot; the developer told me the game will explain how a giant robot becomes the, somehow more charismatic, brother of a young man. As to why the story we’re going to play started, Elvis’ mother left and never returned, abandoning him, but before she did, she left him with a special glove....

Microsoft Azure will use AMD Instinct MI200 GPUs to conduct extensive AI training in the cloud-based platform Forrest Norrod, senior vice president and general manager of data center and embedded solutions at AMD, assures that the next-gen chips are close to five times more efficient than NVIDIA’s top-level A100 GPU. This calculation regards FP64 measures that the company felt were “highly precise.” In FP16 workloads, the gap was primarily narrowed in standard workloads, even though AMD stated the chips were up to 20 percent more instantaneous than the current NVIDIA A100, where the company remains the data center GPU leader....

Some slightly odd choices for landmarks, but as a Winnipegger, I appreciate that they actually paid some attention to the middle and northern parts of the country (most things that focus on Canada ignores anything outside of Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver). Here’s a full list of the new sights included in the Microsoft Flight Simulator Canada update… TIN Detailed Cities Halifax Sherbrooke Abbotsford Saskatoon Toronto Montreal Regina Calgary Victoria St....

Released back in 2018, Kingdom Come Deliverance was one of the best-looking, and most hardware-punishing, open-world games at that time. Some might even say that the title remains one of the best-looking recent open-world entries. So how would a heavily-modded version of Warhorse Studios’ story-driven open-world RPG look in 8K resolution running on beefy hardware, complete with ReShade-powered Ray Tracing? Well, as can be seen in this new video from German YouTuber ‘Digital Dreams’, pretty spectacular....

Meanwhile, the developers at Infinity Ward have addressed initial Modern Warfare II beta feedback in a blog post published on their official site. There will be changes to footsteps sounds, target tracking and UI elements, while mini-map dot rules will stay the same for the time being. Infinity Ward also talked about Perks. Mini-Map Dot Rules Currently in the Modern Warfare II Beta, we only show enemy player dots when a UAV is active....

The new digital event, as announced on the series’ official Twitter profile, will air on August 9th at 7:00 am PDT, 3:00 pm BST. During the event, Producer Ryozo Tsujimoto and Game Director Yoshitake Suzuki will reveal new information on Title Update 1, such as new information on Lucent Nargacuga and Seething Bazelguese and more. 📆 Aug 9🕖 7:00 PDT / 15:00 BST🎤 Hosts: Producer Ryozo Tsujimoto & Game Director Yoshitake Suzuki📺 https://t....

The 3.9.0 update, which is scheduled to go live next week on February 23rd, will introduce the Black Belt armor set, the Defender weapon set, and the Veteran’s Talisman. These are releasing in preparation for the Sunbreak expansion, and are meant to make the life of hunters easier, especially the Defender weapons, which are considerably more powerful than all other starting weapons. Capcom has also released a new trailer to showcase the new gear coming to Monster Hunter Rise with next week’s update....