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The new screenshots, which have been shared on Twitter by the project’s developer @Acoulte93, showcase the amazing lighting improvements featured in the project. Sadly, developers still haven’t gotten access to the AI Texture Super Resolution tool, so the textures haven’t been improved yet, but even with the old ones, there’s no denying that the project is looking impressive. — Alex (@Acoulte93) December 23, 2022 While work continues on Max Payne With RTX, Remedy Entertainment, the developer behind the Alan Wake series and Control, is currently working on remakes of the first and second entries in the series by Rockstar Games....

Today’s is the regular monthly “C” release, which means it isn’t a mandatory update. If you are excited about the new features, you can get this update right away through Windows Update or the Microsoft Update Catalog. But, if you don’t, you will get these improvements through the Patch Tuesday updates next month. These new features aren’t coming through a new version of the operating system. Panay promises that Windows 11 will continue to receive new features throughout the year, in addition to the annual feature update....

Meanwhile, Ace Combat 7’s Top Gun content will set you back $20, and includes four new aircraft, callsigns, and the ability to rock out to Danger Zone while cruising. Check out a trailer and a rundown of the new content, below. Microsoft Flight Simulator is available on PC and Xbox Series X/S and Ace Combat 7 is available on PC, Xbox One, and PS4, and playable via backward compatibility on Xbox Series X/S and PS5....

Exclusivity strategies are not uncommon in the games industry and other market participants have access to their own content. Both Sony’s and Nintendo’s exclusive first-party games rank among the best-selling in Europe and worldwide. Current Sony exclusive content includes prominent first-party titles such as The Last of Us, Ghosts of Tsushima, God of War, and Spiderman. In addition to having outright exclusive content, Sony has also entered into arrangements with third-party publishers which require the “exclusion” of Xbox from the set of platforms these publishers can distribute their games on....

MODDIY is one such company that has done its best to not only recognize the need for cable solutions for the new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 graphics cards but also deal with the overwhelming demand from its consumers. Today, the company on its “Help Center” page has made a statement about the struggle to keep up with orders. In the question, “Are there any delays in processing 12VHPWR orders at this moment?...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) DART mission has captured rare images of the Earth before it makes its fateful journey of smashing into an asteroid’s moon. The DART mission uses an impactor spacecraft and a reconnaissance satellite developed by the Italian Space Agency (Agenzia Spaziale Italiana) that will send photographs of the mission back to Earth. As part of a test run for tomorrow’s impact, the monitoring CubeSat beamed back a rare image of Earth from a distance of roughly 11 million kilometers....

Naughty Dog rose to fame with Crash Bandicoot, released for the original PlayStation in 1996. The game’s success spawned an entire franchise (and even spin-offs like Crash Team Racing), persuading publisher Sony Computer Entertainment to purchase the company in 2001. At that point, the PlayStation 2 had launched, and Naughty Dog switched to a brand new IP: Jak & Daxter. After three installments and another spin-off racing game, Naughty Dog was once again ready to move on to something entirely different and more serious: Uncharted....

A total of three new visuals were released, showing what the Ukrainian developer can do within Epic’s new game engine, Unreal Engine 5. “Many different life stories proceed in the Zone — the most dangerous and mysterious place on Earth”, the developer writes on Twitter. “But what are you looking for here, stalker? Tell us why you’re so eager to go beyond the Perimeter!” Below, you can check out the new high-quality screenshots for the upcoming first-person shooter survival horror game....

CEO and chairman Juergen Stark said as much during Turtle Beach’s most recent financial earnings call with its investors. “In the U.S. per NPD three of the top five best selling Xbox headsets, and five of the top 10 best-selling PlayStation headsets by dollars in the first half of 2022 were Turtle Beach headsets”, the CEO said. Later in the call, Stark added, “This success is driven by great products, valuable and patented innovations of go to brand and strong execution....

Tekken franchise lead Katsuhiro Harada later talked about the project in a lengthy interview with IGN, where he also said that next-gen consoles like PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S|X are unfairly capable at their price point compared to the PC platform. It’s unfair that they’re so capable…I’m a huge PC gamer. I actually like to build my own PC. So for me, building a tricked out PC and having that graphical edge or performance edge to play a game is always something that I like to experience....

The new firmware update for Nintendo’s hybrid platform is a minor one and should fix an issue related to playing DLC from a Switch console other than a user’s primary console. In addition, this system update resolves a screenshot issue that prevented users from taking screenshots within some titles. As is common with Switch system updates, this new software version also further improves the platform’s general system stability in order to further enhance the user experience....

An Engineering Student Has Modified the AirPods Charging Case to Offer a USB-C Port, Something That Apple is Reluctant to Introduce An engineer showed the world its first-ever iPhone with a USB-C port. Now, an engineering student Ken Pillonel has managed to create the world’s first AirPods charging case with a USB-C port. Pillonel explains in an interview that his motivation was derived from Apple products that still use Apple’s proprietary Lightning cable....

NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3080 20 GB Graphics Card Is Real & Being Sold in China For Less Than $600 US Eventually, it was confirmed to be real by Gigabyte’s sub-brand AORUS to be the Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB GDDR6X. Before the listing and pictures from Russian retailer ZSCOM, the card was heavily discussed but was reported as canceled. Outside of the model that made it to Russia, no other discussion afterward was brought to light....

NVIDIA Reportedly Preps GeForce RTX 4080 Price Cuts For Mid-December, AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Threat Reconsidered? The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 graphics card has been a miss so far when it comes to performance per dollar value. The graphics card has been the largest price bump for an 80 series card that we’ve ever seen at $1199 US and despite shipping lower quantities than the higher-end RTX 4090 cards, the new graphics card doesn’t seem to be selling well and is still available in abundance at retailers....

NVIDIA GPUs Goes Open-Source Starting With Its R515 Linux Graphics Drivers Press Release: NVIDIA is now publishing Linux GPU kernel modules as open-source with a dual GPL/MIT license, starting with the R515 driver release. You can find the source code for these kernel modules in the NVIDIA Open GPU Kernel Modules repo on GitHub. This release is a significant step toward improving the experience of using NVIDIA GPUs in Linux, for tighter integration with the OS, and for developers to debug, integrate, and contribute back....

OneXPlayer 2 just announced, set for sale on Black Friday with AMD Ryzen 7 6800U and Intel Raptor Lake Core i7 CPUs OneXPlayer has previously designed handhelds, utilizing the AMD Ryzen 5800U and Intel Core processors in a few different flavors and two different aesthetic designs. Today, the company launched the below video, signaling the newest handheld design next year. — OneXPlayer_Official (@OnexPlayer_) November 21, 2022 The newest series will begin launch on November 25, 2022, to coincide with the holidays, and will ship in the first quarter of 2023....

All the fixes and improvements that are released through these preview releases are packaged with next month’s mandatory Patch Tuesday updates for Windows. Today’s optional updates are available for Windows 10 21H2, 21H2, and 20H2. KB5011543 (Builds 19042.1620 for v20H2, Build 19043.1620 for v21H1, and Build 19044.1620 for v21H2) introduces Search highlights (something from Windows 11. released earlier for Insiders), along with several other improvements. Release notes for Windows 10 KB5011543 Preview Today’s Windows 10 update is available via Windows Update or Microsoft Update and Microsoft Update Catalog....

The developer known for great action titles like the Bayonetta series, NieR: Automata, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, and many others confirmed today it has hired well-known industry veteran Takao Yamane as new vice president. Takao Yamane has worked with Nintendo for 27 years, having served, over the years, as Nintendo France vice president and Nintendo of Europe Managing Director of Sales. In a new video shared on Twitter, Takao Yamane joining PlatinumGames marks a significant change for the studio....

As reported on Twitter by Lance McDonald, a well-known hacker who developed the Bloodborne unofficial 60 FPS patch, the console has been jailbroken. The exploit uses Webkit vulnerability and can only be used on consoles running firmware 4.03, as the vulnerability has been patched in higher versions of the system software. The current PlayStation 5 exploit, however, is quite limited, as it basically only grants access to the console’s debug settings, other than granting root privileges....

Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 Also Fails to Beat the M1, Showing How Far Behind the Competition Is Compared to Apple’s ARM-Based Silicon The Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 currently only powers the Lenovo ThinkPad X13s, a $1,200 ARM notebook that runs Windows. Likely due to the lack of availability of the chipset, Lenovo could not bring the ThinkPad X13s faster to the market, but now that it is here, one Twitter user with the handle SkyJuice shared how fast the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 actually is....