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, […]
A new Dragon's Dogma 2 patch is now live on PC and consoles, introducing PlayStation 5 Pro support alongside some other changes and fixes. Following the October 31st patch, the latest entry in the series by CAPCOM released earlier this year will be able to take advantage of the increased power and new features of the mid-generation console by Sony launching next week. The patch adds a PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution option to the Graphics section in the Options menu, and a Balanced option will be found under Graphics Quality in the Graphics section of the Options menu. As mentioned […]
A new Dragon's Dogma 2 patch is now live, introducing performance and stability improvements, as well as a Casual Mode and plenty of balance tweaks. The September 17th patch introduces further fixes to issues around CPU overload in certain situations, which should lead to performance improvements in areas with a lot of NPCs, like town centers. The new patch also reduced the frequency of crashes, improving game stability. All of the other changes the new Dragon's Dogma 2 patch introduces are related to gameplay. The patch brings a Casual Mode, which tweaks some aspects of the experience to make it […]
Capcom has confirmed that Dragon's Dogma 2 will receive a patch on all platforms and a PlayStation 5 Pro Enhanced patch after the console was announced yesterday. Although Dragon's Dogma 2 is a beloved game, it isn't to say it's without issues. There are a couple of performance issues due to how realistic the graphics are, making it a little bit difficult to run on PC on any high settings, regardless of how powerful your rig is. Capcom confirmed this patch after Sony announced that the PlayStation 5 Pro will cost $700 and will have a list of first- and […]
A Dragon's Dogma 2 DLC expansion seems to be in the works, and its reveal could be edging closer, judging from some recent findings. As reported on the Gaming Leaks subreddit, there's been some behind-the-scenes activity on Steam. According to the Steam Database, there have been some encrypted DLC updates that have only been affecting the game's main app, as well as multiple updates for an unnamed DLC pack that has been in the works for at least 5 months. With this type of behind-the-scenes activity, there's usually something cooking, so it could definitely be the same for Dragon's Dogma […]
One of the most disappointing things about Dragon's Dogma 2 is the limited number of vocations and the very small number of actual new vocations compared to its predecessor, but modders have come to the rescue, allowing players not only to play as custom vocations but also to create their own. As reported by The Rift in a new video, the Skill Maker mod by well-known RE Engine modder alphaZomega received some important updates in the past few weeks that allow users to create their own custom skills by combining any of the game's existing skills and spells. This has […]
A new Dragon's Dogma 2 patch is now live on PC and consoles, introducing NVIDIA DLSS 3 Frame Generation support, and several gameplay tweaks and fixes. The May 31st patch finally brings DLSS 3 Frame Generation support for improved performance on NVIDIA RTX 4000 series graphics cards. The game received unofficial support with a mod shortly after release, but the official implementation should be better, addressing some of the issues seen in the modded implementation, including stability issues. The new Dragon's Dogma 2 patch also fixes a visual issue that prevented terrain from being displayed correctly on certain graphics cards, […]
CAPCOM's yearly financial report has been released, showing that the Japanese company has registered a new record of $979 million when it comes to net sales. It's a major increase (21%) year-over-year, and it also comes with a boost in operating income ($366 million, up 12.3% compared to last year) and ordinary income ($381 million, up 15.7% year-over-year). CAPCOM managed to sell nearly 46 million units during the fiscal year that ended on March 31, which is also a historic record for the company. A lot of that was driven by the new games, with the Resident Evil 4 Remake […]
Dragon's Dogma 2 performance issues may be caused by a baffling design decision, judging from some recent discoveries by modders. As reported on the ResetERA forums, the vanilla game has an absurdly large LoD range inside, and everything, apart from grass and clutter, is loaded at the maximum detail, which is absolutely pointless, considering how huge the range is. If lower detail assets are not in the game, it is unlikely that performance will see much improvement in future patches. It is not yet known if mods could address this issue in the future, but if they could, it would […]
Dragon's Dogma 2 is about to get some impressive modded new Vocations, including a new take on one of the Vocations that did not return from the first entry in the series. YouTuber The Rift revealed via some videos how they are using currently available mods to create new Vocations, including a Monk, Samurai, Necromancer, and Beast Tamer Vocations, besides the aforementioned return of the Mystic Knight. Judging from the video showcases, these new Vocations look incredibly fun, and their new skills are so well animated that they could pass for official Vocations. Unfortunately, a release date for these modded […]
A new Dragon's Dogma 2 mod that is now available for download for free brings significant image quality improvements for all textures without actually altering any of them. The Unofficial Texture Pack, which can be downloaded from Nexus Mods, forces the game always to load the highest quality normal maps while addressing a compression error that can affect all textures, resulting in much higher visual quality in most scenarios with little impact on performance, as the mod is extremely light on VRAM. While CAPCOM focuses on addressing some of the game's biggest issues, it's been up to modders to improve […]
The former NPD Group (now named “Circana”) has released its full North American sales data for March, and it seems like it was an up-and-down month for the industry. Players spent $4.9 billion on games, additional content, and hardware in March, up 4 percent year-on-year. This increase came from mobile and software spending, as hardware sales were down 31 percent year-on-year with PS5 #1 in terms of unit and dollar sales, Switch #2 in terms of unit sales, and Xbox Series X/S #2 in terms of dollar sales. In terms of software, Capcom’s Dragon’s Dogma 2 was the big winner […]
A new Dragon's Dogma 2 mod published earlier this week on Nexus Mods by EXXXcellent allows users to activate path tracing and/or tweak ray tracing in various ways. The mod can be installed either manually or through Fluffy Mod Manager, as most other Dragon's Dogma 2 mods. However, the RE Framework is required for the mod to work at all since its options appear in the RE Framework UI. As mentioned above, the 'Graphics Suite' adds actual path tracing, which significantly improves the game's visuals. However, the downside is that denoisers don't seem to work much, making the graphics very […]
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 ...
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A new Dragon's Dogma 2 patch is now live on PC and consoles, introducing PlayStation 5 Pro support alongside some other changes and fixes. Following the October 31st patch, the latest entry in the series by CAPCOM released earlier this year will be able to take advantage of the increased power and new features of the mid-generation console by Sony launching next week. The patch adds a PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution option to the Graphics section in the Options menu, and a Balanced option will be found under Graphics Quality in the Graphics section of the Options menu. As mentioned […]
A new Dragon's Dogma 2 patch is now live, introducing performance and stability improvements, as well as a Casual Mode and plenty of balance tweaks. The September 17th patch introduces further fixes to issues around CPU overload in certain situations, which should lead to performance improvements in areas with a lot of NPCs, like town centers. The new patch also reduced the frequency of crashes, improving game stability. All of the other changes the new Dragon's Dogma 2 patch introduces are related to gameplay. The patch brings a Casual Mode, which tweaks some aspects of the experience to make it […]
Capcom has confirmed that Dragon's Dogma 2 will receive a patch on all platforms and a PlayStation 5 Pro Enhanced patch after the console was announced yesterday. Although Dragon's Dogma 2 is a beloved game, it isn't to say it's without issues. There are a couple of performance issues due to how realistic the graphics are, making it a little bit difficult to run on PC on any high settings, regardless of how powerful your rig is. Capcom confirmed this patch after Sony announced that the PlayStation 5 Pro will cost $700 and will have a list of first- and […]
A Dragon's Dogma 2 DLC expansion seems to be in the works, and its reveal could be edging closer, judging from some recent findings. As reported on the Gaming Leaks subreddit, there's been some behind-the-scenes activity on Steam. According to the Steam Database, there have been some encrypted DLC updates that have only been affecting the game's main app, as well as multiple updates for an unnamed DLC pack that has been in the works for at least 5 months. With this type of behind-the-scenes activity, there's usually something cooking, so it could definitely be the same for Dragon's Dogma […]
One of the most disappointing things about Dragon's Dogma 2 is the limited number of vocations and the very small number of actual new vocations compared to its predecessor, but modders have come to the rescue, allowing players not only to play as custom vocations but also to create their own. As reported by The Rift in a new video, the Skill Maker mod by well-known RE Engine modder alphaZomega received some important updates in the past few weeks that allow users to create their own custom skills by combining any of the game's existing skills and spells. This has […]
A new Dragon's Dogma 2 patch is now live on PC and consoles, introducing NVIDIA DLSS 3 Frame Generation support, and several gameplay tweaks and fixes. The May 31st patch finally brings DLSS 3 Frame Generation support for improved performance on NVIDIA RTX 4000 series graphics cards. The game received unofficial support with a mod shortly after release, but the official implementation should be better, addressing some of the issues seen in the modded implementation, including stability issues. The new Dragon's Dogma 2 patch also fixes a visual issue that prevented terrain from being displayed correctly on certain graphics cards, […]
CAPCOM's yearly financial report has been released, showing that the Japanese company has registered a new record of $979 million when it comes to net sales. It's a major increase (21%) year-over-year, and it also comes with a boost in operating income ($366 million, up 12.3% compared to last year) and ordinary income ($381 million, up 15.7% year-over-year). CAPCOM managed to sell nearly 46 million units during the fiscal year that ended on March 31, which is also a historic record for the company. A lot of that was driven by the new games, with the Resident Evil 4 Remake […]
Dragon's Dogma 2 performance issues may be caused by a baffling design decision, judging from some recent discoveries by modders. As reported on the ResetERA forums, the vanilla game has an absurdly large LoD range inside, and everything, apart from grass and clutter, is loaded at the maximum detail, which is absolutely pointless, considering how huge the range is. If lower detail assets are not in the game, it is unlikely that performance will see much improvement in future patches. It is not yet known if mods could address this issue in the future, but if they could, it would […]
Dragon's Dogma 2 is about to get some impressive modded new Vocations, including a new take on one of the Vocations that did not return from the first entry in the series. YouTuber The Rift revealed via some videos how they are using currently available mods to create new Vocations, including a Monk, Samurai, Necromancer, and Beast Tamer Vocations, besides the aforementioned return of the Mystic Knight. Judging from the video showcases, these new Vocations look incredibly fun, and their new skills are so well animated that they could pass for official Vocations. Unfortunately, a release date for these modded […]
A new Dragon's Dogma 2 mod that is now available for download for free brings significant image quality improvements for all textures without actually altering any of them. The Unofficial Texture Pack, which can be downloaded from Nexus Mods, forces the game always to load the highest quality normal maps while addressing a compression error that can affect all textures, resulting in much higher visual quality in most scenarios with little impact on performance, as the mod is extremely light on VRAM. While CAPCOM focuses on addressing some of the game's biggest issues, it's been up to modders to improve […]
The former NPD Group (now named “Circana”) has released its full North American sales data for March, and it seems like it was an up-and-down month for the industry. Players spent $4.9 billion on games, additional content, and hardware in March, up 4 percent year-on-year. This increase came from mobile and software spending, as hardware sales were down 31 percent year-on-year with PS5 #1 in terms of unit and dollar sales, Switch #2 in terms of unit sales, and Xbox Series X/S #2 in terms of dollar sales. In terms of software, Capcom’s Dragon’s Dogma 2 was the big winner […]
A new Dragon's Dogma 2 mod published earlier this week on Nexus Mods by EXXXcellent allows users to activate path tracing and/or tweak ray tracing in various ways. The mod can be installed either manually or through Fluffy Mod Manager, as most other Dragon's Dogma 2 mods. However, the RE Framework is required for the mod to work at all since its options appear in the RE Framework UI. As mentioned above, the 'Graphics Suite' adds actual path tracing, which significantly improves the game's visuals. However, the downside is that denoisers don't seem to work much, making the graphics very […]