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, […]
Cyberpunk 2077 continues to be one of the best-looking open-world games released in recent years, thanks to mods that enhance the game's visuals to unprecedented levels. A few days ago, NextGen Dreams shared a new 8K resolution video showcasing the game running with path tracing and the DreamPunk 2.1 mod, one of the most demanding graphics configurations ever created. The mod's new version overhauls the graphics configuration, indirect lighting, light diffusion, LUT saturation, and much more to offer incredibly realistic visuals that look incredibly realistic. As development of Cyberpunk 2077 has concluded, it will be up to modders to continue […]
Intel has added APO "Application Optimization" support for up to 26 games, now offering better performance on Core Ultra 200S & 14th Gen CPUs. Intel adds several E-sports & AAA titles to APO for better performance on its latest Core Ultra 200S & 14th Gen CPUs Intel's Application Optimization software, which is also known as "APO" in some third-party documentation, will now support 12 more games as per the latest update. Intel announced the addition of several popular titles from esports and triple-A categories that can now enjoy better optimization on Intel Core processors. The Intel APO enables the Intel […]
CD Projekt was not long ago the biggest European developer in terms of market capitalization, despite only having made essentially one franchise (the trilogy of The Witcher) with an IP that was not even its own. The Polish studio had garnered an impeccable reputation with those three games, largely due to the overwhelming success of The Witcher III: Wild Hunt, and it seemed like it could do no wrong in the eyes of many gamers. All that came crashing down following the hype and subsequent disappointment of Cyberpunk 2077's release, which launched with many bugs and performance issues, especially on […]
Cyberpunk 2077 now supports AMD FSR 3.0 officially, which brings performance improvements with frame generation but still leaves a lot to be desired in terms of image quality. New comparison videos based on the game's latest version shared online highlight how implementing an outdated version of AMD's upscaler wasn't the best of choices, as visual quality is outright bad on multiple system configurations and at different resolutions, essentially negating the performance improvements brought by frame generation, which cannot be used with any other upscaler in the game. Besides introducing AMD FSR 3.0 support, the new Cyberpunk 2077 2.13 patch, which […]
Patch 2.13 for Cyberpunk 2077 and Phantom Liberty is officially being rolled out on PC, adding support for AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 with Frame Generation. The official Cyberpunk website has the full list of changes being made, and it will most likely affect those who use mods for their game. This happens in any game, where mods typically end up broken from an update. However, since this update is focused on adding support for AMD FidelityFX as well as Intel Xe Super Sampling, it feels like it'd be unlikely to disturb any mods. For those who want to know […]
The latest version of a popular Cyberpunk 2077 brings significant performance improvements with path tracing at all resolutions, as showcased by a comparison video shared today. The new video put together by MxBenchmarkPC highlights how the 5.0 version of the Ultra Plus Engine Control Panel mod, which optimizes path tracing so that the game can run more smoothly with little impact on visual quality, brings up to 40% performance improvement. It delivers framerates close to 60 FPS at 4K resolution and ultra settings with NVIDIA DLSS 3.7 in Balanced mode. Smoothness is further improved with NVIDIA DLSS 3 Frame Generation, […]
A new Cyberpunk 2077 mod shared online a few days back further improves the game's visuals with ray tracing and path tracing with a simple yet very effective tweak. The Disable Fake Lights mod, which can be downloaded from Nexus Mods, does exactly what its name suggests. It disables all fake lights in the game, such as light emitted from advertising billboards, which are not required with ray tracing and path tracing, and lights attached to things like doors and windows, which break the visuals with path tracing. Without these fake lights, not only does the game look better with […]
The NVIDIA DLSS upscaler continues to be the best upscaler on the market, achieving impressive results that look considerably better than native resolutions. A new comparison video based on the 3.7 version of the upscaler put together by MxBenchmarkPC puts native 1440p, 1440p in Quality mode and 4K in Performance mode side by side in five games - Cyberpunk 2077, Horizon Forbidden West, The Witcher 3 Next-Gen, Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 and Ghost of Tsushima, highlighting how, in terms of visual quality, 4K with DLSS Performance mode is clearly better than native 1440p and 1440p in Quality Mode in every […]
A new Cyberpunk 2077 mod released online today introduces a fix for a major path tracing issue that impacts visuals considerably while also introducing some new HD textures. The Preem Fixes mod, which can be downloaded from Nexus Mods, addresses the stationary shadow mesh seen phasing through cloth, an issue that has been in the game since its implementation of path tracing but has yet to be fixed. The fix, however, renders cloth flat, and it doesn't interact with light as it should. In addition, a second version of the mod also introduces new HD textures for cloth, which look […]
The new episode of the AnsweRED podcast mainly focuses on a chat with the developers leading the work on Project Orion, the Cyberpunk 2077 sequel, and what the newly built Boston studio can bring to the game. Acting Executive Producer Dan Hernberg explained: I think Cyberpunk is obviously a uniquely American story. It's got a lot of like punk energy, and it was written by an American, so it just seems right to do it in America. Associate Game Director Paweł Sasko also shared a specific example: Cyberpunk 2077, which was made in Poland, had the wrong manhole covers for a […]
German YouTube channel 'Digital Dreams' has released a new Cyberpunk 2077 showcase, aiming to imitate real life. We've covered plenty of graphical showcases for CDPR's hit title, including several from Digital Dreams. Last year, we covered a showcase of the game running in 4K resolution with more than 100 mods, and today we wanted to share an impressive showcase of the game running in 8K resolution with over 300 mods on an NVIDIA RTX 4090. For the video, the content creator has used his own custom ReShade preset alongside an ultra path tracing mod as well as a real weather […]
Files for a canceled Cyberpunk 2077 DLC expansion surfaced online, providing new information on the expansion and new lore that could hint at some of the events that will happen in the second entry in the series. The files, as reported on the Gaming Leaks and Rumors subreddit, confirm how the expansion was supposed to take place during a new corporate war, an event that a lot of in-game text suggested was going to happen at some point, and that the moon map would have been around six square kilometers big (for reference, Night City is around 24 square kilometers […]
Vampire Survivors draws tons of inspiration from Castlevania, so it is no surprise that the new Ode To Castlevania DLC is fantastic. I’m here to guide you through unlocking each Hero and evolving each weapon, because that’s how you’ll end up accessing ...
I started playing Overwatch in 2019. By the time I was pushing payloads and getting Play of the Game with a well-placed Tactical Visor, a lot of the old hero kits and team compositions that were infamous when the hero shooter launched in 2016 were more...
Cyberpunk 2077 continues to be one of the best-looking open-world games released in recent years, thanks to mods that enhance the game's visuals to unprecedented levels. A few days ago, NextGen Dreams shared a new 8K resolution video showcasing the game running with path tracing and the DreamPunk 2.1 mod, one of the most demanding graphics configurations ever created. The mod's new version overhauls the graphics configuration, indirect lighting, light diffusion, LUT saturation, and much more to offer incredibly realistic visuals that look incredibly realistic. As development of Cyberpunk 2077 has concluded, it will be up to modders to continue […]
Intel has added APO "Application Optimization" support for up to 26 games, now offering better performance on Core Ultra 200S & 14th Gen CPUs. Intel adds several E-sports & AAA titles to APO for better performance on its latest Core Ultra 200S & 14th Gen CPUs Intel's Application Optimization software, which is also known as "APO" in some third-party documentation, will now support 12 more games as per the latest update. Intel announced the addition of several popular titles from esports and triple-A categories that can now enjoy better optimization on Intel Core processors. The Intel APO enables the Intel […]
CD Projekt was not long ago the biggest European developer in terms of market capitalization, despite only having made essentially one franchise (the trilogy of The Witcher) with an IP that was not even its own. The Polish studio had garnered an impeccable reputation with those three games, largely due to the overwhelming success of The Witcher III: Wild Hunt, and it seemed like it could do no wrong in the eyes of many gamers. All that came crashing down following the hype and subsequent disappointment of Cyberpunk 2077's release, which launched with many bugs and performance issues, especially on […]
Cyberpunk 2077 now supports AMD FSR 3.0 officially, which brings performance improvements with frame generation but still leaves a lot to be desired in terms of image quality. New comparison videos based on the game's latest version shared online highlight how implementing an outdated version of AMD's upscaler wasn't the best of choices, as visual quality is outright bad on multiple system configurations and at different resolutions, essentially negating the performance improvements brought by frame generation, which cannot be used with any other upscaler in the game. Besides introducing AMD FSR 3.0 support, the new Cyberpunk 2077 2.13 patch, which […]
Patch 2.13 for Cyberpunk 2077 and Phantom Liberty is officially being rolled out on PC, adding support for AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 with Frame Generation. The official Cyberpunk website has the full list of changes being made, and it will most likely affect those who use mods for their game. This happens in any game, where mods typically end up broken from an update. However, since this update is focused on adding support for AMD FidelityFX as well as Intel Xe Super Sampling, it feels like it'd be unlikely to disturb any mods. For those who want to know […]
The latest version of a popular Cyberpunk 2077 brings significant performance improvements with path tracing at all resolutions, as showcased by a comparison video shared today. The new video put together by MxBenchmarkPC highlights how the 5.0 version of the Ultra Plus Engine Control Panel mod, which optimizes path tracing so that the game can run more smoothly with little impact on visual quality, brings up to 40% performance improvement. It delivers framerates close to 60 FPS at 4K resolution and ultra settings with NVIDIA DLSS 3.7 in Balanced mode. Smoothness is further improved with NVIDIA DLSS 3 Frame Generation, […]
A new Cyberpunk 2077 mod shared online a few days back further improves the game's visuals with ray tracing and path tracing with a simple yet very effective tweak. The Disable Fake Lights mod, which can be downloaded from Nexus Mods, does exactly what its name suggests. It disables all fake lights in the game, such as light emitted from advertising billboards, which are not required with ray tracing and path tracing, and lights attached to things like doors and windows, which break the visuals with path tracing. Without these fake lights, not only does the game look better with […]
The NVIDIA DLSS upscaler continues to be the best upscaler on the market, achieving impressive results that look considerably better than native resolutions. A new comparison video based on the 3.7 version of the upscaler put together by MxBenchmarkPC puts native 1440p, 1440p in Quality mode and 4K in Performance mode side by side in five games - Cyberpunk 2077, Horizon Forbidden West, The Witcher 3 Next-Gen, Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 and Ghost of Tsushima, highlighting how, in terms of visual quality, 4K with DLSS Performance mode is clearly better than native 1440p and 1440p in Quality Mode in every […]
A new Cyberpunk 2077 mod released online today introduces a fix for a major path tracing issue that impacts visuals considerably while also introducing some new HD textures. The Preem Fixes mod, which can be downloaded from Nexus Mods, addresses the stationary shadow mesh seen phasing through cloth, an issue that has been in the game since its implementation of path tracing but has yet to be fixed. The fix, however, renders cloth flat, and it doesn't interact with light as it should. In addition, a second version of the mod also introduces new HD textures for cloth, which look […]
The new episode of the AnsweRED podcast mainly focuses on a chat with the developers leading the work on Project Orion, the Cyberpunk 2077 sequel, and what the newly built Boston studio can bring to the game. Acting Executive Producer Dan Hernberg explained: I think Cyberpunk is obviously a uniquely American story. It's got a lot of like punk energy, and it was written by an American, so it just seems right to do it in America. Associate Game Director Paweł Sasko also shared a specific example: Cyberpunk 2077, which was made in Poland, had the wrong manhole covers for a […]
German YouTube channel 'Digital Dreams' has released a new Cyberpunk 2077 showcase, aiming to imitate real life. We've covered plenty of graphical showcases for CDPR's hit title, including several from Digital Dreams. Last year, we covered a showcase of the game running in 4K resolution with more than 100 mods, and today we wanted to share an impressive showcase of the game running in 8K resolution with over 300 mods on an NVIDIA RTX 4090. For the video, the content creator has used his own custom ReShade preset alongside an ultra path tracing mod as well as a real weather […]
Files for a canceled Cyberpunk 2077 DLC expansion surfaced online, providing new information on the expansion and new lore that could hint at some of the events that will happen in the second entry in the series. The files, as reported on the Gaming Leaks and Rumors subreddit, confirm how the expansion was supposed to take place during a new corporate war, an event that a lot of in-game text suggested was going to happen at some point, and that the moon map would have been around six square kilometers big (for reference, Night City is around 24 square kilometers […]