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Apple Might Launch Its Own Smart Home Camera As It Focuses On Providing A More Integrated Product Experience For Its Users

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 […]

Best of Black Friday 2024 – power stations and bundles: Anker SOLIX, Bluetti, EcoFlow, Jackery

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...

World Of Warcraft Is Finally Getting Player Homes After 20 Years

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...

ArenaNet To Release ‘Godspawn’ Update for Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds on November 19, Featuring New 50-Player Titan Battle and More

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, […]

Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero’s First Update Is Live, Bringing Bean Daddies Everywhere To Their Knees

The first patch for Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero is out and it has demolished Yajirobe players even more ruthlessly than that Saibaman wasted Yamcha. There is no coming back from this nerf, bean daddies. But at least the game runs better now due to some ...

Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree Drives Up Bandai Namco’s Earnings Forecast

The Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree expansion has significantly increased publisher Bandai Namco's earnings forecast. As confirmed today by the Japanese publisher today, the success of the expansion of the latest game by FromSoftware and repeat sales of the base game have increased the earnings forecast for the current fiscal year, with significant increases in sales, operating, recurring, and net profit. The expansion, in particular, is considered to have become a hit in markets worldwide, according to the publisher, while the base game is continuing to perform well. It's no surprise that Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree has […]

Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO New Mod Enhances Visuals, Introduces Ray Tracing

A new Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO mod introduces visual improvements to the recently released new entry in the series by Spike Chunsoft, including ray tracing support. The Ultimate Sparking Zero - Graphic Mod, which can be downloaded right now from Nexus Mods, introduces more detailed shadows and textures, better lighting, better anti-aliasing, improved view distance and foliage distance, reduced input latency, as well as SSGI and ray tracing. While the differences aren't massive, they do make a difference and definitely improve the game's visuals, as highlighted in the screenshots and videos below. Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO is now available on […]

I Have A Complicated Relationship With Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero

I’ve been a grumpy old man about all things Dragon Ball for far too long. As your typical non-manga-reading, mainstream-anime-watching child of Toonami, I drew a line in the sand a few episodes into Dragon Ball Super when I first gave it a chance. I wa...

Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO Review – An Explosive Love Letter

2024 will go down in history as the saddest year for every Dragon Ball fan, as it was the year the series' legendary creator Akira Toriyama passed away. Without this tragic event, however, the year would have been remembered as a great one for the franchise as a whole, not only thanks to the release of the Dragon Ball Daima series but also to the return of the beloved Budokai Tenkaichi franchise. Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO is one of the best games based on the works of Toriyama-sensei ever made. Right from the start, it is clear how Dragon Ball: […]

Tekken 8 Will Give Every Player $5 Amid DLC Controversy And Steam Review Bombing

The Tekken 8 community has been on fire this month after players learned a new stage coming to the acclaimed fighting game wouldn’t be included in the $110 Deluxe version they purchased at launch. Instead, the DLC level would be sold separately for $5....

Bandai Namco Reportedly Cancels Nintendo Project And Other Games

Bandai Namco may be the latest big gaming company to face cutbacks. According to a new report by Bloomberg, the Japanese publisher behind the fresh hit Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero, which sold 3 million copies in its first day,recently canceled a project...

Bandai Namco Begins Laying Off Employees After Cancellation of Several Titles

Japanese publisher Bandai Namco recently started reducing its workforce following the cancellation of several titles due to low demand, and it is doing so using a very Japanese method. As reported by Bloomberg, the company is attempting to reduce staff by sending workers to rooms where they are given nothing to do so as to put pressure on them and make them leave voluntarily. Since April, 200 employees have been moved to such rooms, and 100 have already resigned, with more expecting to leave the publisher in the coming months, according to people familiar with the matter who wished not […]

Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO Has Sold 3 Million Units in One Day

Today, Bandai Namco announced that its latest game, Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO, has already sold three million units in the span of just twenty-four hours across PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series S and X. On Steam, the game has peaked at 122.5K concurrent users, which isn't bad at all for a fighting game. In a hands-on preview, Kai Tatsumoto wrote about Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO: No matter who you pick to back in Sparking! ZERO, they'll have a few tricks up their sleeve when it comes to melee combat. There's a lot going on at once onscreen and that's […]

Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO New Mod Removes 60 FPS Cap on PC

A new Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero mod was released online today promises to make the experience much smoother, at least in offline play. The mod developed by Zetto, which can be downloaded for free from Nexus Mods, removes the 60 FPS cap in the PC version of the game, allowing the game to run at an unlocked framerate without speeding up the game. For the mod to work properly, the Sparking Zero UTOC Signature Bypass patch is required. Considering how undemanding the Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO PC system requirements are, many players should be able to take advantage of this mod to […]

Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO Undemanding PC System Requirements Revealed

The Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO PC system requirements were revealed, and they are surprisingly undemanding, given that the game is powered by Unreal Engine 5. According to the game's Steam store page, an Intel i5-9600K or AMD Ryzen 5 2600 CPU, an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 or AMD Radeon RX 590 or Intel Arc A750, and 8 GB RAM will be required to run the game at 1080p resolution and 60 FPS at low settings. Frame rate drops are also expected with the minimum system requirements. The Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO recommended system requirements are obviously higher than the minimum, […]

Tekken 8 Heihachi Mishima and Unforgotten Echoes Story DLC Hands-On Preview

Somehow, Heihachi Mishima has returned. No veteran to throwing members of the Mishima family into volcanoes, Bandai Namco and Katsuhiro Harada have made a big show about Heihachi having finally died after being thrown into one himself following a staggering loss to his son Kazuya. Much like the stock price of NVIDIA this week, he just can’t stay down for long. We recently got a sneak peek at the fighter’s new story chapters and got to take the Mishima family head for our spin ourselves with a recent hands-on with Tekken 8.  In a candid chat with Michael Murray between […]

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Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero’s First Update Is Live, Bringing Bean Daddies Everywhere To Their Knees

The first patch for Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero is out and it has demolished Yajirobe players even more ruthlessly than that Saibaman wasted Yamcha. There is no coming back from this nerf, bean daddies. But at least the game runs better now due to some ...

Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree Drives Up Bandai Namco’s Earnings Forecast

The Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree expansion has significantly increased publisher Bandai Namco's earnings forecast. As confirmed today by the Japanese publisher today, the success of the expansion of the latest game by FromSoftware and repeat sales of the base game have increased the earnings forecast for the current fiscal year, with significant increases in sales, operating, recurring, and net profit. The expansion, in particular, is considered to have become a hit in markets worldwide, according to the publisher, while the base game is continuing to perform well. It's no surprise that Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree has […]

Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO New Mod Enhances Visuals, Introduces Ray Tracing

A new Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO mod introduces visual improvements to the recently released new entry in the series by Spike Chunsoft, including ray tracing support. The Ultimate Sparking Zero - Graphic Mod, which can be downloaded right now from Nexus Mods, introduces more detailed shadows and textures, better lighting, better anti-aliasing, improved view distance and foliage distance, reduced input latency, as well as SSGI and ray tracing. While the differences aren't massive, they do make a difference and definitely improve the game's visuals, as highlighted in the screenshots and videos below. Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO is now available on […]

I Have A Complicated Relationship With Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero

I’ve been a grumpy old man about all things Dragon Ball for far too long. As your typical non-manga-reading, mainstream-anime-watching child of Toonami, I drew a line in the sand a few episodes into Dragon Ball Super when I first gave it a chance. I wa...

Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO Review – An Explosive Love Letter

2024 will go down in history as the saddest year for every Dragon Ball fan, as it was the year the series' legendary creator Akira Toriyama passed away. Without this tragic event, however, the year would have been remembered as a great one for the franchise as a whole, not only thanks to the release of the Dragon Ball Daima series but also to the return of the beloved Budokai Tenkaichi franchise. Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO is one of the best games based on the works of Toriyama-sensei ever made. Right from the start, it is clear how Dragon Ball: […]

Tekken 8 Will Give Every Player $5 Amid DLC Controversy And Steam Review Bombing

The Tekken 8 community has been on fire this month after players learned a new stage coming to the acclaimed fighting game wouldn’t be included in the $110 Deluxe version they purchased at launch. Instead, the DLC level would be sold separately for $5....

Bandai Namco Reportedly Cancels Nintendo Project And Other Games

Bandai Namco may be the latest big gaming company to face cutbacks. According to a new report by Bloomberg, the Japanese publisher behind the fresh hit Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero, which sold 3 million copies in its first day,recently canceled a project...

Bandai Namco Begins Laying Off Employees After Cancellation of Several Titles

Japanese publisher Bandai Namco recently started reducing its workforce following the cancellation of several titles due to low demand, and it is doing so using a very Japanese method. As reported by Bloomberg, the company is attempting to reduce staff by sending workers to rooms where they are given nothing to do so as to put pressure on them and make them leave voluntarily. Since April, 200 employees have been moved to such rooms, and 100 have already resigned, with more expecting to leave the publisher in the coming months, according to people familiar with the matter who wished not […]

Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO Has Sold 3 Million Units in One Day

Today, Bandai Namco announced that its latest game, Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO, has already sold three million units in the span of just twenty-four hours across PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series S and X. On Steam, the game has peaked at 122.5K concurrent users, which isn't bad at all for a fighting game. In a hands-on preview, Kai Tatsumoto wrote about Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO: No matter who you pick to back in Sparking! ZERO, they'll have a few tricks up their sleeve when it comes to melee combat. There's a lot going on at once onscreen and that's […]

Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO New Mod Removes 60 FPS Cap on PC

A new Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero mod was released online today promises to make the experience much smoother, at least in offline play. The mod developed by Zetto, which can be downloaded for free from Nexus Mods, removes the 60 FPS cap in the PC version of the game, allowing the game to run at an unlocked framerate without speeding up the game. For the mod to work properly, the Sparking Zero UTOC Signature Bypass patch is required. Considering how undemanding the Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO PC system requirements are, many players should be able to take advantage of this mod to […]

Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO Undemanding PC System Requirements Revealed

The Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO PC system requirements were revealed, and they are surprisingly undemanding, given that the game is powered by Unreal Engine 5. According to the game's Steam store page, an Intel i5-9600K or AMD Ryzen 5 2600 CPU, an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 or AMD Radeon RX 590 or Intel Arc A750, and 8 GB RAM will be required to run the game at 1080p resolution and 60 FPS at low settings. Frame rate drops are also expected with the minimum system requirements. The Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO recommended system requirements are obviously higher than the minimum, […]

Tekken 8 Heihachi Mishima and Unforgotten Echoes Story DLC Hands-On Preview

Somehow, Heihachi Mishima has returned. No veteran to throwing members of the Mishima family into volcanoes, Bandai Namco and Katsuhiro Harada have made a big show about Heihachi having finally died after being thrown into one himself following a staggering loss to his son Kazuya. Much like the stock price of NVIDIA this week, he just can’t stay down for long. We recently got a sneak peek at the fighter’s new story chapters and got to take the Mishima family head for our spin ourselves with a recent hands-on with Tekken 8.  In a candid chat with Michael Murray between […]

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