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, […]
BioWare changed the name of Dragon Age: The Veilguard from Dreadwolf in order to better reflect that the RPG is about its cast of heroes, rather than about Solas, the elven trickster god at its center. But even so, we still don’t know a ton about the p...
Earlier this week at Gamescom 2024, NVIDIA announced that Dragon Age: The Veilguard would support ray tracing effects on PC alongside DLSS 3 (Super Resolution and Frame Generation). Yesterday, the studio dived more deeply into the realm of PC features and optimization, confirming other upscalers (AMD FSR 2.2, Intel XeSS), support for Ultrawide displays, uncapped frame rate, and a Field of View slider despite the third-person view. They also briefly touched upon ray tracing, mentioning options like ray traced reflections, ray traced ambient occlusion, and Ultra ray tracing. Today, I had the opportunity to check out Dragon Age: The Veilguard […]
BioWare released its latest development blog, which details how it has dedicated time and resources to optimizing Dragon Age: The Veilguard. The blog on their website has been titled "PC Features for Dragon Age: The Veilguard," and deep dives into all of the efforts they've put into optimizing the PC experience, with over 200,000 hours of performance and compatibility testing. In addition to discussing the efforts they've put into making sure Dragon Age: The Veilguard runs smoothly across all types of PC, they mentioned that the game would also have controller support, upscaling, and ray-tracing implementation on PC, as well […]
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is taking a more action-oriented approach to combat than its predecessors. Early footage shows the sequel looking like it borders on a character action game, so as someone who plays a mage in every single one of these games, I...
At Gamescom 2024, NVIDIA announced the next wave of PC games featuring DLSS and RTX technologies, highlighted by BioWare's Dragon Age: The Veilguard and Obsidian's Avowed. Both fantasy RPGs will support NVIDIA DLSS 3 (Super Resolution and Frame Generation), NVIDIA Reflex, and ray tracing, though we don't know exactly which graphics effects will be enhanced. The most common ones are reflections, shadows, ambient occlusion, and global illumination. Dragon Age: The Veilguard is powered by DICE's Frostbite engine, which has supported NVIDIA DLSS and ray tracing in various Battlefield games. BioWare has recently shared the official PC requirements, which are pretty […]
Nothing gave us more to talk about this week than the meaty new trailer for Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Almost ten years after its predecessor was released, The Veilguard will finally be here on October 31, and we’ve broken down the release date trailer...
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is now open for pre-order. With that news, BioWare and Electronic Arts have also shared the official PC system requirements on store pages like Steam. The requirements are surprisingly low, as you can see below. Of course, we don't know the target resolution, frame rate, and quality preset that can be achieved with the minimum and recommended specs. Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: 64 bit Windows 10/11 Processor: Intel Core i5-8400 / AMD Ryzen 3 3300X* (see notes) Memory: 16 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 970/1650 / AMD Radeon R9 290X DirectX: Version 12 Storage: 100 GB available […]
Dragon Age: The Veilguard finally has a release date. The long-awaited fourth entry in BioWare’s fantasy series will launch on October 31, just narrowly sparing us a full 10-year wait between it and its predecessor, 2014’s Dragon Age: Inquisition. The ...
After a recent update, Civilization VI on Steam will no longer require the 2K Games launcher to play. And its upcoming sequel, Civ 7, also won’t force players to use a third-party launcher on Steam. It’s just the latest example of a new and positive tr...
Fans have been waiting since 2014 for a new Dragon Age game. Dragon Age: Inquisition launched in November of 2014 and ended on a cliffhanger that still hasn’t been resolved. Well, BioWare has just announced the release date for the series’ next chapter...
A few hours ago, BioWare announced that the launch date for Dragon Age: The Veilguard would be revealed later today. However, a leaked video already shared that information; as spotted by Wario64, the game will launch on Thursday, October 31. Dragon Age: The Veilguard is also opening its pre-orders later today. It is possible that the game will follow the recent trend of allowing pre-orders of high-tier editions to get in early, for example, on Monday, October 28, but we'll have to wait for the official info before we know for sure. Overall, it's good news for RPG fans after […]
Anthem was a huge flop for BioWare and Electronic Arts, there's no doubt about it. It had an enormous amount of hype pre-launch but was so underwhelming that However, in a way, it turned out to be a key lesson for the development of the upcoming single player action RPG Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Speaking to EDGE magazine (issue #401), Creative Director John Epler explained: We’re a studio that has always been built around digging deep on storytelling and roleplaying. I'm proud of a lot of things on Anthem – I was on that project for a year and a […]
BioWare changed the name of Dragon Age: The Veilguard from Dreadwolf in order to better reflect that the RPG is about its cast of heroes, rather than about Solas, the elven trickster god at its center. But even so, we still don’t know a ton about the p...
Earlier this week at Gamescom 2024, NVIDIA announced that Dragon Age: The Veilguard would support ray tracing effects on PC alongside DLSS 3 (Super Resolution and Frame Generation). Yesterday, the studio dived more deeply into the realm of PC features and optimization, confirming other upscalers (AMD FSR 2.2, Intel XeSS), support for Ultrawide displays, uncapped frame rate, and a Field of View slider despite the third-person view. They also briefly touched upon ray tracing, mentioning options like ray traced reflections, ray traced ambient occlusion, and Ultra ray tracing. Today, I had the opportunity to check out Dragon Age: The Veilguard […]
BioWare released its latest development blog, which details how it has dedicated time and resources to optimizing Dragon Age: The Veilguard. The blog on their website has been titled "PC Features for Dragon Age: The Veilguard," and deep dives into all of the efforts they've put into optimizing the PC experience, with over 200,000 hours of performance and compatibility testing. In addition to discussing the efforts they've put into making sure Dragon Age: The Veilguard runs smoothly across all types of PC, they mentioned that the game would also have controller support, upscaling, and ray-tracing implementation on PC, as well […]
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is taking a more action-oriented approach to combat than its predecessors. Early footage shows the sequel looking like it borders on a character action game, so as someone who plays a mage in every single one of these games, I...
At Gamescom 2024, NVIDIA announced the next wave of PC games featuring DLSS and RTX technologies, highlighted by BioWare's Dragon Age: The Veilguard and Obsidian's Avowed. Both fantasy RPGs will support NVIDIA DLSS 3 (Super Resolution and Frame Generation), NVIDIA Reflex, and ray tracing, though we don't know exactly which graphics effects will be enhanced. The most common ones are reflections, shadows, ambient occlusion, and global illumination. Dragon Age: The Veilguard is powered by DICE's Frostbite engine, which has supported NVIDIA DLSS and ray tracing in various Battlefield games. BioWare has recently shared the official PC requirements, which are pretty […]
Nothing gave us more to talk about this week than the meaty new trailer for Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Almost ten years after its predecessor was released, The Veilguard will finally be here on October 31, and we’ve broken down the release date trailer...
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is now open for pre-order. With that news, BioWare and Electronic Arts have also shared the official PC system requirements on store pages like Steam. The requirements are surprisingly low, as you can see below. Of course, we don't know the target resolution, frame rate, and quality preset that can be achieved with the minimum and recommended specs. Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: 64 bit Windows 10/11 Processor: Intel Core i5-8400 / AMD Ryzen 3 3300X* (see notes) Memory: 16 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 970/1650 / AMD Radeon R9 290X DirectX: Version 12 Storage: 100 GB available […]
Dragon Age: The Veilguard finally has a release date. The long-awaited fourth entry in BioWare’s fantasy series will launch on October 31, just narrowly sparing us a full 10-year wait between it and its predecessor, 2014’s Dragon Age: Inquisition. The ...
After a recent update, Civilization VI on Steam will no longer require the 2K Games launcher to play. And its upcoming sequel, Civ 7, also won’t force players to use a third-party launcher on Steam. It’s just the latest example of a new and positive tr...
Fans have been waiting since 2014 for a new Dragon Age game. Dragon Age: Inquisition launched in November of 2014 and ended on a cliffhanger that still hasn’t been resolved. Well, BioWare has just announced the release date for the series’ next chapter...
A few hours ago, BioWare announced that the launch date for Dragon Age: The Veilguard would be revealed later today. However, a leaked video already shared that information; as spotted by Wario64, the game will launch on Thursday, October 31. Dragon Age: The Veilguard is also opening its pre-orders later today. It is possible that the game will follow the recent trend of allowing pre-orders of high-tier editions to get in early, for example, on Monday, October 28, but we'll have to wait for the official info before we know for sure. Overall, it's good news for RPG fans after […]
Anthem was a huge flop for BioWare and Electronic Arts, there's no doubt about it. It had an enormous amount of hype pre-launch but was so underwhelming that However, in a way, it turned out to be a key lesson for the development of the upcoming single player action RPG Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Speaking to EDGE magazine (issue #401), Creative Director John Epler explained: We’re a studio that has always been built around digging deep on storytelling and roleplaying. I'm proud of a lot of things on Anthem – I was on that project for a year and a […]