Apple is increasingly focusing on building its own devices and expanding its ecosystem by taking steps towards a more native experience for users and relying less on third-party accessories. While the Cupertino-based tech giant's HomePod and AppleTV have left quite the mark in the smart home category, it generally relies more on outsourcing cameras and other hardware for smart homes. Now, a new report suggests that the company intends to create a fully integrated experience by developing its own smart home accessories. Gurman hints about Apple working on making smart home products like security cameras for a more integrated experience […]
We’re continuing our Best of Black Friday posts today with a look at the best current deals on power stations and their respective bundle options. Folks across the country and beyond have been steadily investing more and more in the industry for a vari...
Blizzard has announced that two decades after its release, World of Warcraft is finally going to let players build a home and live in it. The feature has long been requested by WoW players and now it’s finally coming in the game’s next expansion.Read m...
Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds will receive the Godspawn update, adding a new 50-player boss battle, a new 10-player raid, and a legendary spear. Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds is getting the first major update "Godspawn" on November 19th, expanding the story with new story chapters The MMORPG Guild Wars 2 by ArenaNet is receiving its first major update for the Janthir Wilds expansion soon. It's the first of three major updates, and it'll land on November 19. The update will add new content to the game for the players. The Janthir Wilds expansion DLC was released in August this year, […]
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is a pretty impressive visual package on PC, with its highest “Unobtanium” settings challenging even the beefiest of GPUs, but how does the game fare on consoles? Thankfully, the answer is “pretty darn well!” I can confirm this from my own play testing, but the folks at Digital Foundry has given the game a full analysis on Xbox Series X/S and PS5, and the results are fairly impressive. You can check out their full video below, provided you have around 20 minutes to spare, or you can scroll on down for our rundown of the salient […]
A new Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora mod released today promises to bring performance improvements on a variety of system configurations while also making the game playable on a mechanical hard drive. The Disk Cache Enabler mod, which can be downloaded from Nexus Mods, promises to improve loading times and reduce pop-in issues with SSDs, especially if they are not particularly fast. Additionally, the mod makes the game playable on mechanical hard drives, although that is still not advisable, especially for a huge open-world game like the Massive Entertainment title. Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora has been receiving plenty of love from […]
An NVIDIA DLSS 3 Frame Generation mod is now available for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, bringing around 40% performance boost without some of the issues brought by AMD FSR 3 frame generation. The mod was developed by well-known developer PureDark, who showcased the mod in a new video shared today. Used in conjunction with FSR 3 at the Quality preset, the mod brings around a 40% performance boost. With DLSS, the performance boost is a little below that offered by FSR 3 frame generation, but frame pacing seems to be more solid, reducing the interface stuttering issues seen with AMD […]
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is setting out to be the modern-day Crysis, as its secret Unobtainium ultra high graphics setting can make even an RTX 4090 GPu struggle. The Unobtanium graphics settings, which can be unlocked by entering "-unlockmaxsettings" in the Add Launch Arguments menu in the Ubisoft Connect client, push the settings beyond ultra, with better quality ray tracing, shadow and reflection resolution, and more. These settings are so demanding that even an RTX 4090 GPU barely manages to run the game at slightly above 60 frames per second at 4K with DLSS Performance Mode, which upscales the image […]
Intel has released its latest Arc BETA GPU driver which continues the tradition of bringing huge performance uplifts while adding new game support. You Can Get Up To 34% Better Performance With The Latest Intel Arc GPU Drivers, Also Get Support For Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora Intel has been optimizing and fixing its software ecosystem since the release of the Arc GPUs. The last update saw up to a massive 750% improvement in games and this time, we are getting up to 34% performance improvement in a range of DX12 and FX11 titles. The driver also brings a range of […]
NVIDIA has announced the latest list of games to be added to its GeForce NOW cloud platform. After the debut of the first Activision Blizzard game (Call of Duty) last week, GFN users can look forward to streaming 17 new titles this week, highlighted by three that are launching today: Ubisoft Massive's first-person open world action/adventure game Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Owlcat Games' cRPG Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader, and Fntastic's zombie survival MMO The Day Before. Whereas Rogue Trader's low system requirements make it easily accessible to nearly everyone, The Day Before and especially Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora have way […]
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, the soon-to-be-released new open-world game by Ubisoft Massive, is going to show how good AMD FSR 3 frame generation can be, as its implementation in the game is the best yet. A new tech analysis of the game by German publication Computer Base highlights how AMD FSR 3 frame generation works much better in the new game by Ubisoft compared to its earlier implementations in Forspoken and Immortals of Aveum. The implementation is so good that it is hardly distinguishable, according to the analysis. As AMD's tech can be used on any GPU, all PC players […]
A redditor who received their PS5 copy of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora before launch has claimed the game will not work without an online connection.Read more...
Nearly seven years after the game's announcement, Ubisoft Massive is finally about to release Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. The first-person open world action/adventure game will launch on Thursday, December 7, for PC (Ubisoft Connect, Epic Games Store), PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series S|X. It's the second game set in James Cameron's sci-fi universe after 2009's Avatar: The Game (which, interestingly enough, was also made by Ubisoft, albeit at the Montréal studio). That game was a mere tie-in, though, and was largely panned by critics when it came out despite selling over 2.7 million copies on brand name alone. Avatar: Frontiers […]
Keeping track of all the latest video games coming out is an increasingly complex task, what with multiple PC storefronts, Xbox One, PS4, Switch, mobile, and more to keep track of, but don’t worry, I’m here to help. Every month I'll be running down the games you need to be keeping an eye on, from the big triple-A headliners, to the intriguing indies you might overlook. As is usually the case, the release calendar thins out in December, but there are still a few last worthwhile 2023 games to come. December sees the release of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Warhammer […]
AMD has released a new Radeon BETA GPU driver which adds support for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and marks the return of the HAGS feature. AMD's New Radeon Adrenaline "BETA" GPU Driver Supports Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling Returns! AMD's new Adrenalin Edition 23.30.13.01 has brought in support for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, which launches on the 7th of December and is an AMD-sponsored title that will get exclusive optimizations for Radeon GPUs and Ryzen CPUs. The game also comes bundled with the latest Ryzen 7000 CPUs and Radeon 7000 GPUs as reported here. Here is the […]
The upcoming Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora may not be quite as live-service-focused as some other Ubisoft titles, but make no mistake, the game will still offer the expected season pass and today we got the first details on what it will include. The main focus of the season pass are two new story expansions, “The Sky Breaker,” which arrives in the summer of 2024, and “Secrets of the Spires,” which drops in fall of 2024. The first of these updates will feature a new “festival of games” to participate in and a new RDA threat, while the second will introduce […]
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is a pretty impressive visual package on PC, with its highest “Unobtanium” settings challenging even the beefiest of GPUs, but how does the game fare on consoles? Thankfully, the answer is “pretty darn well!” I can confirm this from my own play testing, but the folks at Digital Foundry has given the game a full analysis on Xbox Series X/S and PS5, and the results are fairly impressive. You can check out their full video below, provided you have around 20 minutes to spare, or you can scroll on down for our rundown of the salient […]
A new Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora mod released today promises to bring performance improvements on a variety of system configurations while also making the game playable on a mechanical hard drive. The Disk Cache Enabler mod, which can be downloaded from Nexus Mods, promises to improve loading times and reduce pop-in issues with SSDs, especially if they are not particularly fast. Additionally, the mod makes the game playable on mechanical hard drives, although that is still not advisable, especially for a huge open-world game like the Massive Entertainment title. Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora has been receiving plenty of love from […]
An NVIDIA DLSS 3 Frame Generation mod is now available for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, bringing around 40% performance boost without some of the issues brought by AMD FSR 3 frame generation. The mod was developed by well-known developer PureDark, who showcased the mod in a new video shared today. Used in conjunction with FSR 3 at the Quality preset, the mod brings around a 40% performance boost. With DLSS, the performance boost is a little below that offered by FSR 3 frame generation, but frame pacing seems to be more solid, reducing the interface stuttering issues seen with AMD […]
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is setting out to be the modern-day Crysis, as its secret Unobtainium ultra high graphics setting can make even an RTX 4090 GPu struggle. The Unobtanium graphics settings, which can be unlocked by entering "-unlockmaxsettings" in the Add Launch Arguments menu in the Ubisoft Connect client, push the settings beyond ultra, with better quality ray tracing, shadow and reflection resolution, and more. These settings are so demanding that even an RTX 4090 GPU barely manages to run the game at slightly above 60 frames per second at 4K with DLSS Performance Mode, which upscales the image […]
Intel has released its latest Arc BETA GPU driver which continues the tradition of bringing huge performance uplifts while adding new game support. You Can Get Up To 34% Better Performance With The Latest Intel Arc GPU Drivers, Also Get Support For Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora Intel has been optimizing and fixing its software ecosystem since the release of the Arc GPUs. The last update saw up to a massive 750% improvement in games and this time, we are getting up to 34% performance improvement in a range of DX12 and FX11 titles. The driver also brings a range of […]
NVIDIA has announced the latest list of games to be added to its GeForce NOW cloud platform. After the debut of the first Activision Blizzard game (Call of Duty) last week, GFN users can look forward to streaming 17 new titles this week, highlighted by three that are launching today: Ubisoft Massive's first-person open world action/adventure game Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Owlcat Games' cRPG Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader, and Fntastic's zombie survival MMO The Day Before. Whereas Rogue Trader's low system requirements make it easily accessible to nearly everyone, The Day Before and especially Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora have way […]
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, the soon-to-be-released new open-world game by Ubisoft Massive, is going to show how good AMD FSR 3 frame generation can be, as its implementation in the game is the best yet. A new tech analysis of the game by German publication Computer Base highlights how AMD FSR 3 frame generation works much better in the new game by Ubisoft compared to its earlier implementations in Forspoken and Immortals of Aveum. The implementation is so good that it is hardly distinguishable, according to the analysis. As AMD's tech can be used on any GPU, all PC players […]
A redditor who received their PS5 copy of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora before launch has claimed the game will not work without an online connection.Read more...
Nearly seven years after the game's announcement, Ubisoft Massive is finally about to release Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. The first-person open world action/adventure game will launch on Thursday, December 7, for PC (Ubisoft Connect, Epic Games Store), PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series S|X. It's the second game set in James Cameron's sci-fi universe after 2009's Avatar: The Game (which, interestingly enough, was also made by Ubisoft, albeit at the Montréal studio). That game was a mere tie-in, though, and was largely panned by critics when it came out despite selling over 2.7 million copies on brand name alone. Avatar: Frontiers […]
Keeping track of all the latest video games coming out is an increasingly complex task, what with multiple PC storefronts, Xbox One, PS4, Switch, mobile, and more to keep track of, but don’t worry, I’m here to help. Every month I'll be running down the games you need to be keeping an eye on, from the big triple-A headliners, to the intriguing indies you might overlook. As is usually the case, the release calendar thins out in December, but there are still a few last worthwhile 2023 games to come. December sees the release of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Warhammer […]
AMD has released a new Radeon BETA GPU driver which adds support for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and marks the return of the HAGS feature. AMD's New Radeon Adrenaline "BETA" GPU Driver Supports Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling Returns! AMD's new Adrenalin Edition 23.30.13.01 has brought in support for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, which launches on the 7th of December and is an AMD-sponsored title that will get exclusive optimizations for Radeon GPUs and Ryzen CPUs. The game also comes bundled with the latest Ryzen 7000 CPUs and Radeon 7000 GPUs as reported here. Here is the […]
The upcoming Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora may not be quite as live-service-focused as some other Ubisoft titles, but make no mistake, the game will still offer the expected season pass and today we got the first details on what it will include. The main focus of the season pass are two new story expansions, “The Sky Breaker,” which arrives in the summer of 2024, and “Secrets of the Spires,” which drops in fall of 2024. The first of these updates will feature a new “festival of games” to participate in and a new RDA threat, while the second will introduce […]