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Here’s an official overview of how cross-faction play works in World of Warcraft and where it is not allowed. The next World of Warcraft expansion, Dragonflight, was unveiled last month. It will feature a new race (Drachtyr), a new class (Evoker), and the ability to become a Dragonrider. There’s no release date yet, but it will likely launch this Fall. Players will have the ability to find Premade Groups in the Group Finder for dungeons (Normal, Heroic, Mythic, and Mythic+), raids, rated arena/RBGs, and also Torghast....

Back in May of this year, Bethesda and Microsoft made the decision to delay both upcoming titles into 2023. In a new interview with The Verge, Spencer was asked about the decision to delay these big hitters, which were both first scheduled to release during this holiday season. As pointed out by the Xbox head, the decision to delay both games surely wasn’t an easy one, but having shipped games too early in the past, it felt like the best choice with quality in mind....

The first version of the game, created by the developer PlayMagic, received scathing critic and user reviews when it launched in late 2020. The Steam page currently has Overwhelmingly Negative user reviews, as only 13% of them gave XIII Remake the thumbs up. However, this new overhaul, developed by Tower Five over the course of more than a year, will deliver improvements such as refined art style, reworked heads up display (HUD), enhanced AI, revamped sound design, 60 FPS support on next-generation consoles like Xbox Series S|X and PlayStation 5, and online multiplayer (2-13 players)....

In a recent interview with Inverse, Yoshida expressed his thoughts on the future of gaming, such as Virtual Reality and quantum computing. If we think in terms of the next decade, the development and spread of new devices — such as VR chips — may give way to revolutionary game experiences. I’d thought this could happen a bit sooner, but I believe it might’ve been delayed by several years due to the shortage of semiconductors caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and other factors....

It can be frustrating to first remove an item and then have to remove it again from the Recycle Bin, just so you can create some free space. To avoid this, you can permanently delete an item. Of course, the items that are permanently deleted are unrecoverable, but we are usually aware that certain items will never be needed again. Thus, permanently removing them won’t be an issue. One way of permanently deleting an item on a Windows PC is by pressing the Shift + Delete hotkeys simultaneously, which will permanently delete a selected item....

Apple to Launch New iPad Pro Models in Fall With M2 Chip and MagSafe Capabilities According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple will launch the next generation of its iPad Pro lineup in the fall with an ‘M2’ chip. Gurman suggests in his latest Power On newsletter that it is only reasonable to expect an even more powerful iPad this year since Apple did not upgrade its iPad Pro. Moreover, since the iPad Air and iPad Pro feature the same chip, Apple wants to keep a margin between the two when it comes to performance....

In this article, we will discuss different ways to restart Windows Explorer to fix the issues without restarting the system. What is Windows Explorer/File Explorer Windows Explorer, also known as the File Explorer is the soul of Windows. It is the User Interface through which a user connects to all the applications and the services the Windows is hosting. The process running behind Windows Explorer is Explorer.exe. It is also the process that runs the Desktop, taskbar, notification tray, Start Menu, all of the Dialog Boxes and Prompts, and controller Interfaces....

So, let’s start with the first nugget of information. Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick was successfully re-elected to the board of directors for another year as a result of the company’s annual shareholder meeting yesterday. And yes, this happened in spite of the massive protests that have been happening surrounding the company’s culture of discrimination and abuse. This also comes in spite of a few shareholders opposing the vote while calling for Kotick’s resignation....

Apple to Launch AirPods Pro 2 This Fall, New Color For AirPods Max Also Expected According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple will launch its AirPods Pro 2 this fall. Apple launched the original AirPods Pro in 2019 and multiple reports have suggested that Apple might be looking to introduce the upgraded model this year. In addition, the AirPods Max is also stated to host new color options later on. In his latest Power On newsletter, Gurman writes: Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo also mentioned the fall launch of the new AirPods Pro 2, suggesting that the upgraded technology might reach the consumer in the second half of 2022....

Disruptive Games CEO and founder Eric Ellis, who previously worked on multiplayer titles at Insomniac Games, added: Disruptive Games is an independent studio based in Berkeley, California, known for co-developing games like Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2, Diablo II: Resurrected, Godfall, and Orcs Must Die! Unchained. Their new IP is still mostly under wraps, although the press release does confirm it will be a multiplatform title built for both cooperative and competitive play....

This update doesn’t just come with news regarding Luna’s userbase. In fact, there are some other quality of life improvements worth addressing. Some of these QoL changes also involve platforms other than Luna. The next QoL update influences the Twitch platform. With the latest Luna update on PC, Mac, and Fire TV, a new broadcast button lets you stream gameplay live with a camera feed overlaid on-screen, providing a new, simple way to broadcast to friends or the Twitch community....

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT, RX 6750 XT, RX 6650 XT Graphics Cards Based on RDNA 2 Refresh GPUs Rumored For Launch Next Month This time, the rumor comes from Enthusiast Citizen who has been highly reliable with his leaks in the past and this is a further confirmation that the red team is going to launch its RDNA 2 Refreshed graphics card next month. The leaker states that in addition to the three RDNA 2 refresh graphics cards, AMD will also introduce the Radeon RX 6500 (Non-XT) which will be similar to the Radeon RX 6400 but aimed at the DIY market whereas the former is only available in the OEM segment....

Many thanks to @Microsoft for this continued collaboration. pic.twitter.com/IX1dGcNbVt — GPUOpen (@GPUOpen) June 23, 2022 As of now, we still don’t have any information on whether FSR 2.0 will be included in Sony’s PlayStation development kits, but of course, FSR is open source, so there’s nothing stopping devs from implementing it on PS5, it might just be a bit more work. It would be nice to hear more from Sony on this subject, but they tend to keep mum about these sort of things....

Benchmarks comparing the AMD AOCC 4.0 and LLVM/Clang compiler library are put to the test on Zen 4 powered Ryzen & EPYC CPUs The new AOCC 4.0 presents the Zen 4 “zenver4” optimizations and further support for the latest architecture. AOCC 4.0 is not open-source. It is a derivative of the LLVM/Clang compiler library and is considered exclusive to AMD Zen 4. Michael Larabel of Phoronix compared the two compiler libraries with his AMD Ryzen 9 7950X processor to determine the performance differences between the two libraries....

AMD opens the Radeon Ray tracing Analyzer code to the public and the new Radeon Data File extension AMD explains that the Radeon Raytracing Analyzer will allow users to monitor the performance of applications using raytracing and locate possible issues that could arise during use. Along with the announcement of RRA code becoming available to the public, AMD has also revealed the AMD Radeon Data File, a library on GitHub under “amdrdf,” which will allow developers to open Radeon Data Files or RDFs....

AMD Radeon RX 6950XT ‘RDNA 2 Refresh’ Graphics Card Rumored For April Launch In a new rumor by Coreteks, it is reported that AMD’s Radeon RX 6950XT would be launching in mid of April. That’s at least 2 months earlier than the previously rumored June-July launch we got earlier from Greymon55. It is also reported that the Radeon RX 6950XT would be the only Navi 21 graphics card that’s being refreshed and that the Radeon RX 6850XT isn’t in the lineup....

AMD Ryzen 7000 “Zen 4” Desktop CPUs Official - Full Specifications, Performance & Pricing Unveiled The unveil today covers several aspects that users were waiting for. We had already learned the specifications earlier this month but now we get to confirm that they were indeed correct and we can also take a look at the official performance numbers and the prices from AMD itself. But before we get into that, let’s take a look at the CPUs that we will be getting during launch:...

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X CPU Offers Up To 5.2 GHz All-Core Boost Clocks, Hits 91C at Stock The latest result was discovered by TUM_APISAK and shows us another CPU-z benchmark for the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X CPU. This is definitely not the best score for the Zen 4 flagship that we have seen so far but since the result was validated, we can see how the clock speeds on the retail CPU are going to look like....

AMD Instinct MI300 To Be Red Team’s First Exascale APU Product With Zen 4 CPU, CDNA 3 GPU Cores & HBM3 Memory The first references to AMD’s Exascale APU date all the way back to 2013 with more bits and pieces being revealed in the coming year. Back in 2015, the company revealed its plan to offer the EHP, an Exascale Heteorgenous Processor, based on the then-upcoming Zen x86 cores and Greenland GPU with HBM2 memory on a 2....

AMD and The Pixelary show the collaborative powers of AMD hardware and Blender 3.0 rendering enhancements in new demonstration This year’s video differs from last year’s video from the two companies. Last year, for the 2020 championship-winning W11 EQ Performance car, the animation was created using AMD’s Radeon ProRender engine plug-in and the previous Blender version. Now, AMD and The Pixelary take the power of two AMD Radeon PRO W6800 graphics cards and utilize the new support in Blender 3....