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....

In one of his tweets yesterday, Miller announced that he and his team delayed the recording of this week’s ‘PS I Love You XOXO’ episode after having heard about a total of three PlayStation rumors. According to the Kinda Funny host, this week will be rather interesting for fans of the platform, even if it turns out that only one of these rumors is the real deal. As such, we’re gonna delay recording PS I Love You XOXO until Thursday....

Intel Research Fuels Moore’s Law and Paves the Way to a Trillion Transistors by 2030 Press Release: At IEDM 2022, on the 75th anniversary of the transistor, Intel targets new 10x density improvement in packaging technology and uses novel material just 3 atoms thick to advance transistor scaling. What’s New: Today, Intel unveiled research breakthroughs fueling its innovation pipeline for keeping Moore’s Law on track to a trillion transistors on a package in the next decade....

MSI’s Intel B760 Motherboard Price List Leaks Out: Lower Prices With Added Features For Budget & Mainstream PC Builders Last year, MSI’s B660 motherboard prices were leaked by chi11eddog who has earned quite a rep in the leak scene. Now a year later, the same leaker has revealed the prices of MSI’s B760 boards which will be launching alongside the Intel 13th Gen Non-K Desktop CPU family. These are official MSRPs so prices offered by retailers may vary from region to region....

MsMpEng.exe issue of taking 100% disk and CPU usage normally occurs when Windows Defender is scanning the system for malware. This should not be the case usually but if it’s being done often, this means that Windows Defender is stuck on a few files for checking malware. In that case, it should be restricted/disabled to bring back to its normal state. In this article, we will share three different ways to fix MxMpEng....

Officials from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) shared details about the Artemis 1 mission earlier today. The mission is currently on its 13th day of flight, and the spacecraft will soon make another close approach to the Moon before starting its return journey back to Earth. At a media briefing, NASA’s Artemis 1 mission manager Mr. Mike Sarafin sounded optimistic about the mission as he outlined that the space agency will now add more test objectives to the mission so that it can gain as much operational data as possible before a crewed mission takes place in the form of Artemis 2....

NBA 2K23 Championship Edition is being described as an “ultra-premium” package that will include a full year’s subscription to NBA League Pass which will let you watch over 1000 out-of-market games throughout the season. No word on what either NBA 2K23 premium package will cost, but NBA League Pass isn’t cheap (it’s around $200 a year) so expect the Championship Edition to cost a pretty penny. With Michael Jordan back on the cover, NBA 2K23 will also mark the return of The Jordan Challenge mode, which will allow you to play through key highlights from his career… It isn’t currently clear if The Jordan Challenge will be exclusive to the NBA 2K23 Michael Jordan and Championship Editions, or if standard edition owners will also get to play....

The new patch adds the “Mark of Pride” pride flag face paint for Aloy to celebrate Pride. We’re pretty sure that this face paint will lead to some discussion among players. As expected, the new face paint is also available in the game’s photo mode. Alongside the introduction of the new face paint, the update packs numerous fixes for quests, activities, weapons, machines, and more. In addition, the 1.18 patch aims to improve Temporal Anti-Aliasing (TAA) on PlayStation 5 in resolution mode and PlayStation 4....

The New Mac Pro With M1 Apple Silicon Was Ready to Ship Months Ago But Apple Decided to Wait For the M2 Extreme Chip Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman stated in an interview with Max Tech on YouTube that Apple held the Mac Pro with a variant of the M1 chip for an even more powerful M2 Extreme chip. The Mac Pro with an M2 Extreme chip is expected to arrive later this year....

It was Hladík, who has worked on every Mafia installment yet since the beginning, who confirmed the existence of a new game with the following words. I’m happy to confirm we’ve started work on an all-new Mafia project! While it’s a few years away and we can’t share anything more right now, we’re really excited to keep working on this beloved franchise and to entertain our players with new stories....

As covered by Dsogaming, YouTuber and plugin creator, Maxime Dupart, has released a new version of Epic’s City demo as a packaged executable running in Unreal Engine 5.1 main development branch. As mentioned by Dupart, in order to be able to run this demo, users will need DirectX12 Ultimate. This new City demo features the “Blueprint Settings Menu” which adds a useful settings menu containing all available Unreal Engine settings features....

On the NieR series official Twitter profile, it has also been confirmed that the game will run at 1080p resolution in Docked Mode and at 720p resolution in Handheld Mode. Unfortunately, it isn’t specified if dynamic resolution will be used. And, while expected, it is definitely disappointing that NieR Automata will run at only 30 FPS on Nintendo Switch, as the game’s intense action gameplay benefits greatly from high framerates....

NVIDIA & AMD GPUs To Get Even More Cheaper To Buy Later This Year, Green Team Readies Aggressive Price Cut Strategy It’s been just a few months and we have seen the GPU market crash in a spectacular fashion. Several factors have led to this such as the crypto crash, a declining PC market, and overall poor demand due to the anticipation of the next-gen GPUs. Currently, most AMD & NVIDIA graphics cards sit well below the MSRPs that were hard to obtain for almost two years, and now the same GPU makers are having a hard time selling them....