Per Schreier, this new game began as a major expansion to Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, perhaps similar in scope to the upcoming Dawn of Ragnarok, but Ubisoft Montreal has now split it off as a standalone title. Apparently, the game will star the AC universe’s reincarnation of Loki, Basim, and will be a somewhat smaller-scale experience, casting aside the usual huge open-world for more linear stealth-based gameplay. As for why Ubisoft is opting to release a smaller-scale standalone Assassin’s Creed, the publisher is said to be concerned about the state of its release calendar....

ASUS TUF Gaming 2023 Laptops Unveiled: All-AMD TUF Gaming A16 Advantage With Ryzen 7000 CPU & RDNA 3 120W Mobility GPU ASUS is unveiling a total of 6 brand new TUF Gaming designs which include the TUF Gaming F15/17, TUF Gaming A15/17, and the TUF Gaming A16 Advantage Edition. Starting with the ASUS TUF Gaming A16, the laptop will come equipped with up to an AMD Ryzen 9 7000 CPU based on the Zen 4 core architecture and will also feature an AMD Radeon 7000 RDNA 3 Mobility GPU with a TGP of up to 120W....

In the same press release where it confirmed the Atomic Heart publishing deal signed with Mundfish, the publisher stated: The group also plans to launch Atlas Fallen, a game developed by Deck 13 Interactive, one of the Group’s studios, in the spring of 2023 to give the teams at Deck13 Interactive time to maximize the potential of this new franchise. Announced at Gamescom at the end of August during the Opening Night Live conference, it has already received an extremely positive reception from the press and gamers around the world....

Damn, I’m going to have to make sure my thumbs are in peak condition before I try out this game. Haven’t been keeping up with Atomic Heart? Do check out Wccftech’s latest Q&A with Mundfish and the following key features… The Future USSR - A global system failure happens at the Soviet Facility №3826 that leads machinery to rebel against the people. You are Major P-3 and your task is to eliminate the consequences of a large-scale accident and prevent the leakage of classified information threatening to destroy the whole world....

In a new blog post, the Battlefield team largely admits that the focus on 128-player maps was a mistake and are promising to reduce the distance between spawn points and flags and seem to be strongly considering reducing Breakthrough mode to 64 players. Thankfully, there are also plans to add cover and light-of-sight blockers to maps in order to make them less of a sniper’s paradise. You can get the rundown on the design changes being considered, below....

BLUETTI’s new EP900 solution can scale up to 79kWh and can kick in within 10ms of grid failure and reduce your electricity bill Want to know the best part? It also has advanced load management capabilities so if you are using the solar panels or have peak-pricing in your region, you can use the inverter to handle a significant chunk of your domestic power load while the rate is high or while the sun is shining....

Speaking on Twitter, former CD Projekt Red employee Bart Wronski provided some context for why the studio switched to Unreal Engine 5, revealing that for each new game, the studio basically rewrote REDEngine from scratch, hoping it would work better than the previous time, but then had to hack it due to crunch, which made it not maintainable. As this would be happening again, the studio opted for an engine with a solid base to avoid making the same mistakes of the past....

China Makes Its Most Powerful General-Purpose GPU To Date, The Birentech BR100 With 77 Billion Transistors The Birentech BR100 is the flagship General-Purpose GPU that China has to offer, featuring an in-house GPU architecture that utilizes a 7nm process node and houses 77 Billion transistors within its die. The GPU has been fabricated on TSMC’s 2.5D CoWoS design and also comes packed with 300 MB of on-chip cache, 64 GB of HBM2e with a memory bandwidth of 2....

Yesterday, the development team at Relic Entertainment had made an announcement that covered the nature of the game’s campaign missions. The game takes place in the Mediterranean regions of the world, and Relic pointed out two major mechanics to come in the newest Company of Heroes title. You can watch the new Developer Diary below, which goes into further detail about the newest gameplay additions to the third entry in the series....

Speaking on his Twitter profile, Team Ninja’s Hiroaki Morita confirmed that after the release of the sixth entry in the series, a small team was working on both the seventh entry in the series and small updates for the sixth. Just before Yohei Shinbori, one of the series directors, retired, however, this team has been disbanded, and the project has been canceled. After sharing the news, Hiroaki Morita made his Twitter profile private, so the tweet is not accessible at the moment....

As reported on the Xbox Series X subreddit, the game has appeared on the Xbox Store, suggesting that it will be released in the near future on Microsoft’s current generation consoles. Deathloop’s PlayStation 5 exclusivity period ends today, one year after its release, so it is extremely likely we will get a release date announcement very soon. As already mentioned above, Deathloop launched last year, on September 14th 2021, on PC and PlayStation 5....

Nintendo consoles have long suffered from piracy issues and the Switch is no different. Even if a game is protected against piracy on its PC version, the released version on Switch can be emulated from day one and played on PC, therefore bypassing the strong protections offered on the PC version. This can happen with any of the numerous games available on Switch. By preventing piracy on Switch while blocking unauthorized emulations on PC, studios are able to increase their revenue during the game launch window, which is the most important period in regard to monetization....

Beta 2 of iOS 15.4, iPadOS 15.4, watchOS 8.5, macOS 12.3 and tvOS 15.4 Now Available for Download It is highly likely that Apple is going to release the full and final version of its software at its rumored March event, where the company is expected to make some Mac and iPad related announcements. Today though, the company has released beta 2 of iOS 15.4 and iPadOS 15.4 for both iPhone and iPad, but only available if you’re a registered developer with Apple....

First Betas of iOS 15.6, iPadOS 15.6 are Now Available for Registered Developers as we Move Closer to iOS 16 Release Next Month Apple released a barrage of software updates earlier this week, and today Apple is stepping things up with the release of iOS 15.6 and iPadOS 15.6. The most interesting part is - iOS 6 and iPadOS 16 is just around the corner and the company is constantly working on its current public release to make it a stable as possible....

The .NET team over at Microsoft indicates that another Release Candidate is anticipated before the launch of .NET 6 and this is the first one: This release is currently available to use on Linux, Windows, and macOS. Moreover, Microsoft claims that it has been tested with Visual Studio 2022 Preview 4, and is the future for .NET. What’s new in .NET 6 Release Candidate 1 Microsoft has been working tirelessly to improve the user experience with ....

Microsoft has been working on this release for a few months now, as it is an entirely different version from .NET Framework 5. If you are running Windows 10 version 1809 or higher, you will probably have .NET Framework 4.8. You can manually upgrade to .NET Framework 6 Preview 1 using the download links provided below. However, we do not recommend upgrading devices that are in a production/live environment, as this release could still be unstable....

Today we will discuss the various security products that Avast offers and what each of these products offers, so that you know which one suits your needs and choose the right one. About Avast Avast was established in 1988 in Prague, and was formerly known as “Alwil Software.” They provide users with software to protect their devices and data from exploitation and malware. In 2016, Avast acquired AVG and has since become one of the most popular antivirus software vendors around the world....

The problem with Windows Update is that it may not always come with the full-featured drivers. If you have advanced hardware like graphics card or audio, the basic drivers will not be able to get most out of the hardware. To resolve this problem, you must install the latest device drivers for your hardware and keep it updated with each new release of the driver version. The easiest way to do this is to use a driver update utility....

iOS 16 Final is Now Available for Download - Here’s Everything New in the Update, How to Clean Install, Download IPSW, Perform OTA Update and Downgrade Back to iOS 15 You’ve been waiting for this day a long time, especially if you didn’t try out the beta or public beta of iOS 16. There are a ton of great new features to try out, including the brand new Lock Screen. But, instead of going through all of the features here, we will lay down the entire feature set of the update below....

As per the official announcement, no further security policy enforcement is required at the moment. However, this Baseline includes 6 new computer settings and 6 new user settings, which are discussed further down this post. That said, the security baseline for Edge 98 is still Microsoft’s recommended version. Download and Install Security Baseline for Microsoft Edge 106 Use the guide below to download and install the new Security Baseline for Microsoft Edge....