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Last week, Naughty Dog and Sony confirmed the highly-anticipated remake of 2013’s The Last of Us for both PlayStation 5 and PC. We already got a comparison video alongside some impressive-looking screenshots, and the wizards over at Naughty Dog have now shared a new comparison snippet of fan-favorite ‘Tess’. The short fragment shows a more mature, hardened ‘Tess’ around the same age as Joel. Interestingly, her original mode had her looking quite young compared to Joel, although the couple is said to be around the same age....

ApeCoin (APE), an Ethereum-based utility token that powers the NFT-focused Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) community, is finding new avenues of growth as the Otherside metaverse initiative kicks off. On the 30th of April, the holders of ApeCoin who verified their identities were able to bid on 55,000 virtual plots of land in Otherside, a metaverse-focused game being developed by Yuga Labs – the creators behind the BAYC initiative. Each NFT-based deed of virtual land – known as Otherdeed – costs around 305 ApeCoins ($5,800 at that time) plus Ethereum’s transaction processing fee....

Speaking with Kotaku, a Denuvo spokesperson confirmed that the Japanese publisher is not involved in developing the newly announced DRM, which should prevent games from being played on Switch emulators like Yuzu and Ryujinx. According to the spokesperson, there was a strong demand from a number of publishing partners: “Because of NDAs, we are not allowed to disclose company names, but we can say this solution comes from strong demand from publishing partners” One of the biggest concerns regarding this Switch emulator protection software is performance, as the Denuvo DRM is known to have an impact on it....

NVIDIA has posted a job ad for a “Game Console Developer Tools Engineer.” The job title pretty much says it all – the successful candidate would be designing the “next generation” of graphics tools to help console developers easily access and implement NVIDIA GPU tech and features. The job ad also mentions NVIDIA is specifically on the lookout for those who have a knack for “GPU low-level performance tuning/optimization” with an eye toward “enabling developers to achieve higher and more consistent frame rates....

Nothing Launches Siri and Google Assistant Support For Its Ear (1) True Wireless Earbuds Nothing’s Ear (1) is priced at $99 which comes with an in-ear design. Active Noise Cancellation, and transparency mode. It also comes with a USB-C charging case with Qi wireless charging. The Ear (1) only supports a fast pairing process when connecting with Android phones. On the iPhone, users have to pair them manually through Bluetooth settings....

Support for NVIDIA DLSS/DLAA is already available, with NVIDIA Image Scaling (NIS) support coming soon. But Intel is also working on integrating its XeSS technology into the Streamline SDK. Andre Bremer, vice president of AXG and director of game engineering at Intel, said: The Streamline framework isn’t limited to super resolution SDKs either, as game developers can also use it to add NVIDIA Real-time Denoisers (NRD) to their titles. Beyond Streamline, NVIDIA confirmed at GDC 2022 that its RTX SDKs have been updated....

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Graphics Card Pushed To 890W Power Limit With ‘XOC’ BIOS, 950W With Furmark Loaded Twitter user, MEGAsizeGPU, managed to unlock a higher power limit thanks to the XOC (Extreme Overclock) BIOS which he got his hands on. The BIOS was flashed onto an ASUS GeForce RTX 3090 Ti TUF Gaming graphics card which ships with a rated TDP of 450W which is the reference limit but once flashed, the GPU’s power limit jumped to 890W which is almost double its original power limit and super close to the 1KW barrier....

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Graphics Card Renders Give A Close Look At Dual-Slot & Dual-Fan Cooling The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 graphics card renders are once again revealed by Moore’s Law is Dead in his latest video where he talks in detail about the upcoming product. The TechTuber had previously shown off a teaser of the RTX 4070 graphics card but now gives us a better look. albeit through renders. While NVIDIA has introduced its top-end “Ada Lovelace” lineup which includes the GeForce RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 16 GB, the company didn’t reveal anything about its mid-tier offerings such as the RTX 4070 & RTX 4060....

NVIDIA’s Full-Fat GA102 GPU Powered GeForce RTX 4090 Ti Graphics Card Pictured, Massive Triple-Fan Cooler For 600W+ Powerhouse The card pictured is alleged to feature NVIDIA’s full-fat AD102 GPU based on the Ada Lovelace chip architecture. The full-fat chip is presumably going to feature a TBP of 600W (+) and as such, it will require some beefy cooling solutions such as the one pictured here. As per the leaker, this seems to be an early engineering sample that is used to test the full limit of the monstrous AD102 GPU which will land in the consumer segment in a couple of months....

NVIDIA GH100 GPU, The Next-Gen Flagship Data Center Chip, To Measure Around 1000mm2 Currently, the biggest GPU under production is the NVIDIA Ampere GA100 which measures 826 mm2. If the rumor is correct, then NVIDIA’s Hopper GH100 will go on to become the largest GPU design ever conceived, measuring around 1000mm2, easily topping the current monster GPUs by at least 100mm2. But that’s not all, the die size in question is for a singular GH100 GPU die and we have heard rumors that Hopper will be NVIDIA’s first MCM chip design so considering that we get at least two Hopper GH100 GPUs on the same interposer, the dies alone would measure 2000mm2....

The NVIDIA Jetson line includes the company’s proprietary Orin-referenced modules that will be used in all NVIDIA Jetson models, from the Jetson Orin Nano to the Jetson AGX Orin, allowing more clients to scale their projects with ease using the company’s Jetson AGX Orin Developer Kit. As AI evolves, requiring immediate processing in several industries, NVIDIA recognizes the demands for high-level edge computing with lower-latency levels while remaining efficient, inexpensive, and more minute....

In a new podcast interview with the YouTube channel Xbox Expansion Pass, though, Oddworld Inhabitants president and co-founder Lorne Lanning explained that the PS Plus deal for Oddworld: Soulstorm ended up being devastating for the studio, albeit through no fault of Sony. Oddworld: Soulstorm then launched an Enhanced Edition late last year which included Xbox platforms, too. As for PS Plus, Sony just announced a big restructure of its subscription service that will go live in June....

The OnePlus 10T High-Resolution Renders Give Us a Look at Jade Green and Moonstone Black Colorways The new leak is coming from Pricebaba, and they have given us a complete glimpse of the high-resolution renders along with the specifications of the OnePlus 10T. The device is going to ship with a 6.7-inch FHD+ display, 10-bit color support, HDR10+ compliant, and 120Hz refresh rate. Furthermore, you are looking at two configurations starting with the 8/128GB and the more expensive 12/256GB....

OnePlus Ace Looks a Lot Like the Phone No One Asked For The leak is coming from Digital Chat Station and according to the renowned tipster, the first device in the OnePlus Ace series is going to bring a MediaTek Dimensity 8100 chip, 150W fast wired charging as well as a Sony IMX766 primary camera sensor. On the other hand, there is another leak that suggests that OnePlus Ace will have the model number PGKM10, and will also have a 6....

As Twitter took Elon Musk to court earlier in July for walking away from the purchase agreement, we had published a non-consensus call that the overarching goal of the CEO of Tesla was to reduce the purchase price of Twitter. Well, that view is now gaining broader acceptance. As a refresher, Twitter has now initiated legal proceedings against Elon Musk for abandoning the agreement to take the social media giant private in a $44 billion deal....

After players defeat Ereshkigal, the villain of the Outriders: Worldslayer story, the Trial of Tarya Gratar opens up. Deeply rooted in the legacy of planet Enoch’s mysterious natives, it’s a reportedly huge area that even features changing weather, daytime, enemy types, and boss mechanics. There will also be fresh enemies to Outriders, such as the assassin Shadowbeasts that can cloak themselves and pounce on players as well as silence them for a time....

The comparison, which has been put together by ElAnalistaDeBits, reveals how the display modes in the PlayStation 5 version of the game only affect resolution and framerate, with Balanced Mode providing the best performance stability. The Nintendo Switch version obviously cannot compare with all the others due to the 30FPS framerate limit, lack of screen space reflections, and more. Switch has cutbacks in all settings, but still feels acceptable in the visuals thanks to the game’s art direction....

Lenovo blamed for fear placed on clients not exclusive with AMD, especially with the new Threadripper Pro 5000 CPUs Rumors of the pool being the lowest in all of Threadripper’s history. Readers will remember that AMD introduced the Threadripper line in 2017, advertising the processors as a premium, high-performing CPU capable of better processing power compared to Intel’s products, especially in demanding workflows, such as video editing. The executives and IT distributors’ woes in accessing AMD Threadripper processors, including the newest Threadripper Pro 5000, are due to a lack of access to the latest chips from AMD’s exclusive Threadripper partner, Lenovo....

Major Thibodeau, a clinical coordinator and chief of the medical readiness service line at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri, said the following: According to the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service’s press release, the reason behind this weaker skeleton structure is due to a more sedentary life that the soldiers from Generation Z have taken. Today’s recruits are coming from a far more sedentary lifestyle compared to previous generations, making their skeletons more prone to injuries because they’re not used to the kind of intense activity they will face at basic training....

Finally unveiled last year, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is coming to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC as well as Stadia and Luna, but it’s possible that Sony has secured the exclusive marketing rights for the Ubisoft Massive-developed first-person, action-adventure. Although not directly confirmed just yet by either Sony or Ubisoft, the title was shown during Sony’s Corporate Strategy Meeting for FY2022. During this meeting, Sony’s Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer, Kenichiro Yoshida, talked about relationships with third-party publishers, after which logos of various heavily-promoted titles were shown....