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Today, Sony finally confirmed the details of what was previously known as Spartacus. From June, PlayStation Plus will feature three different subscription tiers, with the Essential tier coming with the same benefits as the current PS Plus subscription. The second PlayStation Plus subscription tier, Extra, will offer the same benefits as the Essential tier as well as access to a catalog of up to 400 PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 games....

Newegg Customer Finds His Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4090 Box Is Filled With Weights & Not A Graphics Card Update: Newegg has told that the customer has been fully refunded and the block on his account was a formal process to identify fraud. The Redditor who goes by the username, u/NuclearInnardsBeep, recently bought a Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card at Newegg. Upon getting the package shipped to him, the user found out that instead of a graphics card, the box had two sets of weights to fake the customers into thinking that there was an actual product inside....

Supply chains and prices under pressure: new laptop with Intel, AMD, NVIDIA Chips threatened with further delay Press Release: China is reacting to new outbreaks of the Omicron variant of the Coronavirus with partial lockdowns. This could further delay the availability of laptops with 12th Gen Intel Core processors and NVIDIA’s Ti graphics cards, which debuted at the beginning of the year. The first factories have already been closed in Suzhou in the east of the country....

This misconduct is said to have mostly taken place at contractor Aston Carter (previously Aerotek), which Nintendo uses for testing. Women working at the company have reported inappropriate comments in Slack channels and harassment from superiors. There are also complaints of a two-tiered system between full Nintendo employees, or “Red Badges,” and contracted workers, with the later rarely being promoted to full employee status despite frequent promises. Per Kotaku’s report, this two-tiered system at times takes on an unseemly extra dimension, as some Red Badge employees allegedly use Aston Carter as a “dating pool,” perhaps even using the ability to get invited to the Red-Badge-only Nintendo Christmas party and other events as a +1 for leverage....

Earlier in the week (as hectic as it already was with The Game Awards 2022 and all of that), YouTube channel DidYouKnowGaming uploaded a video named “LOST Zelda Game for Nintendo DS: Heroes of Hyrule - Ft. @Zeltik”, meant to shine a light on Retro Studios project that was pitched nearly two decades ago, which ultimately got rejected. As fun as they always are with topics like this, Nintendo filed a copyright takedown, removing the video from YouTube three days ago....

Nintendo’s new sales promotion runs from today through July 6 at 11:59 p.m. PT and packs deals on a big selection of games and DLC. As said, a large number of titles have been discounted, and this isn’t limited to third-party titles (2K Interactive, Ubisoft, SEGA, Activision-Blizzard, Devolver, Annapurna Interactive) but Nintendo’s own titles as well. Down below we’ve listed some of the best deals included with the new Nintendo Switch Big Ol’ Super Sale....

The new Switch firmware version is available now and should download automatically if this option has been enabled in the Switch system settings. Of course, this new firmware version can also be downloaded manually via the system update option within the Switch system settings. In addition to the above-mentioned change to taking screen captures, the new patch also includes a change to the location of the Bluetooth Audio menu within the Switch system settings....

Apple Is Expected to Refresh Existing Hardware With Mini-LED Panels, but It May Not Happen This Year There were several devices that were due for a mini-LED upgrade, but according to TF International Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, those releases will not happen this year. This prediction comes after Kuo stated that a redesigned MacBook Air would arrive in 2022, but contrary to previous reports, it would sport an M1, not the M2, and ship without a mini-LED....

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Showcases Strong 60% CUDA Performance Uplift Over RTX 3090 Ti In Geekbench 5 Benchmark While NVIDIA has been feeding gamers with DLSS 3 and Ray Tracing performance numbers, there’s been little information regarding the rasterization performance of their next-gen parts. Now, we’ve got the first non-DLSS and non-RT benchmark leak out within the Geekbench 5 CUDA database. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090, not knowing if this was a reference Founders Edition or a custom AIB design, was tested on an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X CPU platform with 32 GB of DDR5-6000 DRAM....

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition Graphics Cards Unboxing Plus First Impressions NVIDIA sent several press outlets including us their Founders Edition of the GeForce RTX 4090 GPU (or BFGPU as they like to call it). The Founders Edition graphics cards will exist alongside the huge lineup of custom models which we also have prepped and ready for our review. But today, we can only provide you with our unboxing and first look at these cards....

Urquhart, who worked on the first two Fallout games as the founder of Interplay division Black Isle Studios, as well as Fallout: New Vegas with Obsidian, said as much during a recent interview with Dualshockers as part of Fallout’s 25th anniversary. The question is, however, whether the opportunity will present itself. “Of course, if we ever got the opportunity to make another Fallout game, we’d make it”, he said. “There’s not even a question of whether or not we would do it, it’s just ‘Will the opportunity arise?...

He talked about that and more during the latest episode of the Xbox Era podcast when he was asked whether 2023 projects like Avowed, Perfect Dark, Contraband, Hellblade 2, and others were still on track. For the record, while Grubb may not always be right with his predictions and leaks, he did reveal that Microsoft’s first-party studio The Initiative would be working on the new Perfect Dark game. Now I think we can safely assume that’s not going to be the case with Everwild....

Pixel 6 Phones Can Now Start Offering Better Audio For those wondering “Direct USB Access” in Android 12 acts as a path that allows apps on smartphones to directly access an external DAC. This, in return, would open gates for more USB DACs being supported as well as better support within the apps. if you want to get more information on this feature for your Pixel 6, you can look at the Twitter thread below to get the idea....

Pixel Watch’s Competitors Like the Galaxy Watch 4 Have Higher Endurance Levels, but Usage Will Also Vary The Pixel Watch’s all-day battery comes in the form of a source that informed 9to5Google. It was not stated how this result was tested, but as stated above, the endurance of a smartwatch will depend on the user. Since Google’s presentation of its smartwatch was basic at its annual I/O 2022 keynote, there is limited information on the kind of optimizations made to Wear OS running on the Pixel Watch....

The PlayStation’s competitive expansion started with the announcement of its acquisition of the Evolution fighting game tournament (EVO). It then continued with the announcement of a partnership that would provide gaming accessories and monitors that would majorly benefit PC players. Now, we have an acquisition of a tournament holder for games that aren’t on PlayStation. Repeat.gg hosts leaderboard tournaments that are designed to make esports more accessible. It tracks how players perform in games, allowing them to participate in competitions without having to be online simultaneously....

Ubisoft has officially confirmed that the game exists, at least. After the article Tom Henderson made regarding this subject was made public, that is. Ubisoft essentially hyped up Project Q as a currently in-development title with registration for upcoming updates being the only available recourse for interested players. ‍Introducing codename “Project Q”, a team battle arena letting players truly own the experience! The game is in early development and we will keep testing, so for now all you can do is register for upcoming tests: https://t....

NetEase had already partnered with Quantic Dream a few years ago, as you might recall, and rumors of the full-fledged acquisition began swirling in late March. For its part, the French studio published a blog post dedicated to the big news. We’ve picked some highlights below. In order to continue our development and presence in the world, but also to fund other studios and become an international publisher, larger investments are needed for us to keep building our technology and infrastructure, to deliver ever more impressive next-generation games, to expand our team and to develop several projects simultaneously....

As reported by emoose on Twitter, the latest version of the fourth entry in the survival-horror series by CAPCOM features a Tyrant model lifted from Resident Evil Remake as well as functional AI that can be activated with only a tiny change. This had been known for a while, but it was not unknown that it could be activated. — emoose (@emoose) December 1, 2022 While new discoveries are being made in the original version of the game, CAPCOM is hard at work on the Resident Evil 4 remake, which will launch on March 24th, 2023, on PC and consoles....

Sony and developer Housemarque announced the update earlier this month during this month’s first PlayStation State of Play broadcast. The new 3.0 update adds the new endless “Tower Of Sisyphus” mode alongside a co-op mode, which allows players to join forces with a friend in the world of Atropos. Please note that in co-op mode, the world has also been rebalanced in order to keep the game as challenging as ever....

Variants of COVID-19 reappear in Shanghai and Kunshan, causing lockdowns and affecting significant suppliers of top products from Apple and Tesla. Last month, China’s massive Shenzhen tech center had to go into lockdown because of another flare-up of COVID-19 in the location. A considerable number of inhabitants needed to follow rigid stay-at-home limitations and go through rounds of testing. Subsequently, a few industrial computer hardware and fundamental parts facilities are required to suspend creation....