Month: December 2018
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DICE’s Battlefield V Apparently Getting NVIDIA DLSS Support
NVIDIA DLSS Support Incoming DICE‘s Battlefield V is the first AAA title to get full RTX ray-tracing support, but they will apparently get even more. According to DSOGaming, GeForce RTX capable video cards will soon be able to run the game with DLSS as well. DLSS stands for Deep Learning…
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Netflix Confirms More Black Mirror Episodes for 2019
Season 5 Delayed Due to ‘Bandersnatch’ Netflix has recently begun streaming Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, a full-length feature film using choose-your-own-adventure-style elements. This feature film apparently required a lot of work that it inevitably took up the entire production schedule for season 5. That is according to Executive Producer and series…
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EPIC Launching Their Own App Store to Compete with Apple
From Games Store to Mobile App Store It appears that EPIC is truly expanding faster than any company these days. Not merely content with competing directly with Valve‘s Steam platform for PC games, they are apparently also launching a mobile App store soon. The news comes from the Wall Street…
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Aquaman Has Now Earned More than Justice League Worldwide
The King of Atlantis (and the Box Office) James Wan’s Aquaman is the runaway blockbuster hit of the holiday season. In fact, after just 10 days since its debut, it has now out-earned other DC/Warner Bros movies. This is well beyond and everyone’s expectations. Furthermore, current projections will put it…
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Hand Made of Wax Used to Fool Vein Authentication Security
Biometric Security Workaround Hackers have found an ingenious way to circumvent vein authentication security, through a fake wax hand. Vein authentication is one of the latest developments when it comes to biometric security. Going beyond mere fingerprints, iris or facial recognition. As the name suggests, vein authentication uses a scan of…
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Samsung Patents Rollable OLED Television Screen
Rollable OLED Technology Heats Up Not to be left behind by their competitor LG, Samsung has now patented a rollable TV display (via LetsGoDigital). Two years ago, LG announced that they have successfully developed a massive 77″ flexible and transparent OLED display. Samsung’s patent however involves a horizontal rolling display. This sheet is held…
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Rapper Soulja Boy’s Knock-Off Consoles Removed from Sale
SouljaGame No More Rapper DeAndre Cortez Way aka Soulja Boy has stopped selling his line of SouljaGame emulator consoles. This follows less than a month after launch, under possible threat of lawsuit from other game companies. Soulja Boy’s games consoles are essentially knock offs of PlayStation and Nintendo hardware. Allegedly…
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World of Tanks Engine Get Massive Multi-Thread Overhaul
More Efficiency Updates Coming in 2019 World of Tanks has been around for a while and in fact, its developers have announced they plan to support it for the next three decades. Which is why last year’s massive graphics overhaul did not come as a surprise. In fact, that is…
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Thermaltake V-RTX 2070 Block for ASUS ROG Now Available
RGB LED Waterblock for RTX 2070 ASUS ROG Cards Thermaltake has now begun listing a full cover water block for NVIDIA‘s latest GeForce RTX 2070 video card. Specifically, for the ASUS ROG RTX 2070 graphics cards. According to Thermaltake, the Pacific V-RTX 2070 Plus for ASUS ROG combines style with…
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Super Meat Boy Free from EPIC Games Store Until January 10
Free to Own via EPIC Games Store EPIC recently announced that they are launching their EPIC Games store as a serious contender to Valve‘s Steam platform. In order to increase their userbase, EPIC is giving away a free game every two weeks (every fortnight if you will). Their first free…
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Steam Ends Windows XP and Vista Support on January 1, 2019
Long Overdue OS Upgrade According to the latest Steam Hardware and Software survey, 66.15% of users are now running Windows 10 64-bit OS. However, there are still 0.12% still running Windows XP 32-bit. Unfortunately for those users, Valve will officially end support for the now 17-year old OS starting January…
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Nohzdyve from Black Mirror: Bandersnatch is Now Playable
From Fiction to Reality The latest choose-your-own-adventure feature of Black Mirror: Bandersnatch is now available for streaming on Netflix. It revolves around a fictional game developer from 1984 working for a fictional company called Tuckersoft. So naturally, it features a lot of video games set during that era. Aside from…
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Assassin’s Creed Crosses Over in to Monster Hunter: World
A CAPCOM and Ubisoft Collaboration Three weeks ago, CAPCOM revealed that they will be collaborating with CD-Projekt RED for Geralt, the Witcher’s appearance in Monster Hunter: World. Now they have one more treat for gaming fans with the announcement of a collaboration with Ubisoft. While Ubisoft has plenty of properties…
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Netgear Nighthawk XR700 10GBASE-T Router Now Available
High-Performance Gaming Router from Netgear One more Netgear router for their Nighthawk family is finally available for purchase. This time it is the Nighthawk XR700, a 10GBASE-T gaming router with AD7200 Quad Stream Wave2 WiFi. This is a big step above their previously available Nighthawk XR500. The review of which…
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Intel May Be Killing Custom Fab Business
Intel Custom Foundry May Be No More Nearly 5 years ago, Intel made a surprising announcement. After decades of only allowing their cutting-edge fabs to be used in-house, the company started up a custom foundry business. By opening up its fabs, the company hoped to better utilize them and recoup…
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