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, […]
Every new thing I hear about Final Fantasy VII Rebirth makes the wait for its February 29, 2024 release that much harder. And Square Enix just opened the floodgates on another series of new details, hints, and teases about the upcoming “open-area” RPG ...
2023 was a rough year for a lot of people. But even a shitty year like this one can offer up tiny moments of happiness or wonderful trinkets that we can all enjoy for a bit before we go back to doomscrolling on whatever social media service we’re using...
A Cyberpunk 2077 AMD FSR 3 frame generation mod was released online over the weekend, bringing massive performance boosts without visual issues. The mod, which was developed like the ones for The Last of Us Part 1 and the Dead Space remake by LukeFZ following the release of the FSR 3 source code, allows users with an RTX GPU to use AMD's frame generation tech to boost the game's performance. The video shared by Neegzm shows how AMD FSR 3 can deliver four times the average FPS in the game's benchmark at 1440p resolution on an RTX 3080 GPU over […]
The first version of The Witcher 3 NextGen HD Reworked Project is now available for download, masterfully overhauling a specific set of textures. The first version of the modding project, which can be downloaded from Nexus Mods for free, overhauls all rock textures in the game, including those in the areas introduced by the expansions, such as Toussaint. This release also serves as a small preview of the full project, which will only release next year after the official modding tools are out, as they should allow for graphics improvement not currently possible, according to the project's creator Halk Hogan. […]
Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty is filled with plenty of memorable sequences, but if there's a boss fight that doesn't fail to impress is the Chimera boss fight, which is unlike anything found in both the base game and the expansion. What makes this epic boss fight even better is the amazing sound production, which was handled by Sound Lab in collaboration with CD Projekt Red internal team. We recently had the chance to have a quick chat about the Chimera boss fight as well as a few other topics with Masanobu ‘Tomi’ Tomita, Senior Supervising Sound Designer, and Gabriel Acosta, […]
Welp, that’s it. The casket’s shut, the nails hammered, the grave dug. The Entertainment Electronic Expo (E3) is dead, and the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) is issuing a do-not-resuscitate order for its once-annual convention. Since E3 is do...
A Cyberpunk 2077 lighting mod called E3VR was recently updated to a new version that essentially restores the lighting system used in the game's pre-release versions. The E3VR mod, which can be downloaded from Nexus Mods, combines the lighting systems from the E3 2018 and 2019 showings and the 2020 trailer using the in-game files so as to make the tweaks work in the final game lighting system and not lose the current graphical fidelity. The results are incredible and give the game a very different feel, as highlighted in the comparison video put together by Krush SG. While modders […]
It was a big week for the scantily clad at Kotaku this week, with both GTA 6 and Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth giving players plenty of skin. We’re also feeling very excited about the new Fallout show, but decidedly less enthusiastic about the minimal...
At the opening of last night’s 2023 edition of The Game Awards, host Geoff Keighley hyped the event as an evening “to recognize outstanding creative work in games in 2023.” But as the night went on, the luminaries who were being awarded for their “outs...
It’s the weekend, which is wonderful because right now that means I’m writing about something other than some small detail on that big game everyone’s talking about this week. Seriously, it’s a gift. Like, I have the freedom to talk about anything righ...
And so the dust settles on another Game Awards. Geoff Keighley’s annual trailer-a-thon once again included some game awards shoved in between all the ads and teasers. If you want to know who won what (and who lost), we’ve got you covered. Read more...
Cyberpunk 2077 is in a pretty good spot these days. After a dumpster fire of a launch, the next-gen update, 2.0 patch, and Phantom Liberty expansion have gotten CD Projekt Red’s open-world RPG to a respectable state. The 2.1 patch that launched this we...
Every new thing I hear about Final Fantasy VII Rebirth makes the wait for its February 29, 2024 release that much harder. And Square Enix just opened the floodgates on another series of new details, hints, and teases about the upcoming “open-area” RPG ...
2023 was a rough year for a lot of people. But even a shitty year like this one can offer up tiny moments of happiness or wonderful trinkets that we can all enjoy for a bit before we go back to doomscrolling on whatever social media service we’re using...
A Cyberpunk 2077 AMD FSR 3 frame generation mod was released online over the weekend, bringing massive performance boosts without visual issues. The mod, which was developed like the ones for The Last of Us Part 1 and the Dead Space remake by LukeFZ following the release of the FSR 3 source code, allows users with an RTX GPU to use AMD's frame generation tech to boost the game's performance. The video shared by Neegzm shows how AMD FSR 3 can deliver four times the average FPS in the game's benchmark at 1440p resolution on an RTX 3080 GPU over […]
The first version of The Witcher 3 NextGen HD Reworked Project is now available for download, masterfully overhauling a specific set of textures. The first version of the modding project, which can be downloaded from Nexus Mods for free, overhauls all rock textures in the game, including those in the areas introduced by the expansions, such as Toussaint. This release also serves as a small preview of the full project, which will only release next year after the official modding tools are out, as they should allow for graphics improvement not currently possible, according to the project's creator Halk Hogan. […]
Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty is filled with plenty of memorable sequences, but if there's a boss fight that doesn't fail to impress is the Chimera boss fight, which is unlike anything found in both the base game and the expansion. What makes this epic boss fight even better is the amazing sound production, which was handled by Sound Lab in collaboration with CD Projekt Red internal team. We recently had the chance to have a quick chat about the Chimera boss fight as well as a few other topics with Masanobu ‘Tomi’ Tomita, Senior Supervising Sound Designer, and Gabriel Acosta, […]
Welp, that’s it. The casket’s shut, the nails hammered, the grave dug. The Entertainment Electronic Expo (E3) is dead, and the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) is issuing a do-not-resuscitate order for its once-annual convention. Since E3 is do...
A Cyberpunk 2077 lighting mod called E3VR was recently updated to a new version that essentially restores the lighting system used in the game's pre-release versions. The E3VR mod, which can be downloaded from Nexus Mods, combines the lighting systems from the E3 2018 and 2019 showings and the 2020 trailer using the in-game files so as to make the tweaks work in the final game lighting system and not lose the current graphical fidelity. The results are incredible and give the game a very different feel, as highlighted in the comparison video put together by Krush SG. While modders […]
It was a big week for the scantily clad at Kotaku this week, with both GTA 6 and Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth giving players plenty of skin. We’re also feeling very excited about the new Fallout show, but decidedly less enthusiastic about the minimal...
At the opening of last night’s 2023 edition of The Game Awards, host Geoff Keighley hyped the event as an evening “to recognize outstanding creative work in games in 2023.” But as the night went on, the luminaries who were being awarded for their “outs...
It’s the weekend, which is wonderful because right now that means I’m writing about something other than some small detail on that big game everyone’s talking about this week. Seriously, it’s a gift. Like, I have the freedom to talk about anything righ...
And so the dust settles on another Game Awards. Geoff Keighley’s annual trailer-a-thon once again included some game awards shoved in between all the ads and teasers. If you want to know who won what (and who lost), we’ve got you covered. Read more...
Cyberpunk 2077 is in a pretty good spot these days. After a dumpster fire of a launch, the next-gen update, 2.0 patch, and Phantom Liberty expansion have gotten CD Projekt Red’s open-world RPG to a respectable state. The 2.1 patch that launched this we...