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 […]
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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, […]
At the MSI booth at CES, we were able to get close-ups of MSI's brand new EXPERT GPU lineup which is coming with NVIDIA's RTX SUPER series. MSI Gives An EXPERT Touch With Its Brand New Cooling Solution For NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 40 SUPER GPUs MSI has been working on some brand-new cooling solutions for NVIDIA's flagship GPUs. During Computex 2023, we got to see a massive quad-slot cooling solution that is still under wraps and would be utilized by a future high-end GPU but at CES, the company showcased its latest EXPERT designs which center around a minimalistic yet […]
At CES 2024, we were able to get our first hands-on look at several NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER GPUs including the Founders Edition. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER Founders Edition Looks Gorgeous With Its Stealthy Black Aesthetics & So Do The Custom Models NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 40 SUPER GPUs are the talk of the town right now and we managed to get our first look at the flagship of this lineup, the RTX 4080 SUPER, in both Founders Edition and the custom variations. The NVIDIA Founders Edition GPUs are a looker, with simplistic aesthetics that take a lot of […]
Estonian independent developer Fracture Labs aims to rectify one major shortcoming in the gaming market with its Decimated project: the current lack of any decent cyberpunk-themed online game. For several years, CD Projekt RED hyped up the multiplayer mode of its Cyberpunk 2077 game. Fans salivated at the mere prospect of being able to roam Night City with or against other 'Mercs'. Unfortunately, the Polish studio eventually changed its plans and canceled the multiplayer mode due to having to focus on improving the game's single player mode. Decimated cannot compete with Cyberpunk 2077 when it comes to budget and general […]
Following the MMORPG's 10-year anniversary celebrated last year, ArenaNet has picked up steam (partly thanks to joining Valve's namesake store) with the ongoing development of Guild Wars 2. The Bellevue-based developer released the fourth expansion, Secrets of the Obscure, in August, and there's more coming between free content and paid expansions with the new yearly model. Wccftech had the opportunity to access the studio's end-of-year blog post in advance, where ArenaNet confirmed Secrets of the Obscure has been a financial success and promised that the next update (which includes new story chapters, the Temple of Febe Strike Challenge Mode, nine […]
Around a month and a half ago, former Age of Empires, World of Warcraft, and League of Legends designer Greg Street (also known as Ghostcrawler) announced he partnered with NetEase to make a new triple-A fantasy MMORPG codenamed Ghost. Street leads a fully remote studio called Fantastic Pixel Castle, which was established earlier this year. Plenty of other industry veterans have been hired, including Gameplay Design Director Brian Holinka (Homefront, Transformers, World of Warcraft), Chief Technology Officer Cameron Dunn (L.A. Noire, Guild Wars 2), Content Design Director Candace Thomas (World of Warcraft, New World, Diablo IV), Principal Game Designer Graham […]
Following the recent Skyrim update that re-enabled paid mods through the new unified Creations platform, I had a brief chat with Skyblivion lead developer Rebelzize. The introduction of Creations caused a bit of a split within the still-vibrant Skyrim modding community. Whereas most modders have sworn they would never join the Verified Creator Program to release paid mods, others like Elianora (who has released a lot of free mods for all Bethesda games, as you can see on Nexus) went in the opposite direction. She has already released Shadetree Lodge, a detailed and cozy player home near the water. Speaking […]
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, […]
At The Game Awards 2023, Digital Extremes confirmed the final release date for Warframe's Whispers in the Walls update. Players will get the free patch on Wednesday, December 13, and it'll also mark the start of the long-awaited cross-save rollout. At the event, we also learned that Best Performance winner Neil Newbon (Astarion in Baldur’s Gate 3) and nominee Ben Starr (Clive Rosfield in Final Fantasy XVI) will join the voice cast with Whispers in the Walls, with Starr coming back for next year's Warframe 1999. Digital Extremes also took the opportunity to confirm the official dates for TennoCon 2024, […]
Swedish studio 10 Chambers is moving on from GTFO (albeit with the release of a major update) towards Den of Wolves, a newly announced corporate espionage sci-fi heist shooter game. The game's lore is quite interesting. In the mid-21st century, deep learning AI becomes an unstoppable hacking tool exploited by thieves, terrorists, and anarchists, bringing down entire economies. With the world desperate for network security, powerful corporations stepped in to offer salvation in exchange for no longer being bound by laws or ethics. They won and founded Midway City, the new capital of capitalism. With free rein in Midway City, […]
Nearly seven years after the game's announcement, Ubisoft Massive is finally about to release Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. The first-person open world action/adventure game will launch on Thursday, December 7, for PC (Ubisoft Connect, Epic Games Store), PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series S|X. It's the second game set in James Cameron's sci-fi universe after 2009's Avatar: The Game (which, interestingly enough, was also made by Ubisoft, albeit at the Montréal studio). That game was a mere tie-in, though, and was largely panned by critics when it came out despite selling over 2.7 million copies on brand name alone. Avatar: Frontiers […]
French developer DON'T NOD may be most renowned for its adventure games (Life is Strange, Tell Me Why, Twin Mirror, Harmony: The Fall of Reverie), but its first game, Remember Me, was actually an action/adventure game like the upcoming Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden. In between the two, DON'T NOD also released Vampyr. The game might not have been a masterpiece, but it was certainly very interesting and sold enough to ensure the partnership with Focus Home Interactive on action/adventure games would continue. Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden is now set to debut on February 13, 2024 (following a brief […]
NVIDIA is bringing the flagship gaming back to China with the soon-to-launch GeForce RTX 4090 D GPU which fully complies with US export policies. Chinese Gamers Rejoice! NVIDIA's Bringing Its Flagship Gaming GPU Back With The GeForce RTX 4090 D From exclusive information gathered by our sources, it seems like NVIDIA has a new GPU on the block. This particular GPU is a gaming-first product and will be known as the GeForce RTX 4090 D (‘D’ likely for the year of the Dragon) which is a China-exclusive design meant to be offered as a replacement for the GeForce RTX 4090 […]
At the MSI booth at CES, we were able to get close-ups of MSI's brand new EXPERT GPU lineup which is coming with NVIDIA's RTX SUPER series. MSI Gives An EXPERT Touch With Its Brand New Cooling Solution For NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 40 SUPER GPUs MSI has been working on some brand-new cooling solutions for NVIDIA's flagship GPUs. During Computex 2023, we got to see a massive quad-slot cooling solution that is still under wraps and would be utilized by a future high-end GPU but at CES, the company showcased its latest EXPERT designs which center around a minimalistic yet […]
At CES 2024, we were able to get our first hands-on look at several NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER GPUs including the Founders Edition. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER Founders Edition Looks Gorgeous With Its Stealthy Black Aesthetics & So Do The Custom Models NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 40 SUPER GPUs are the talk of the town right now and we managed to get our first look at the flagship of this lineup, the RTX 4080 SUPER, in both Founders Edition and the custom variations. The NVIDIA Founders Edition GPUs are a looker, with simplistic aesthetics that take a lot of […]
Estonian independent developer Fracture Labs aims to rectify one major shortcoming in the gaming market with its Decimated project: the current lack of any decent cyberpunk-themed online game. For several years, CD Projekt RED hyped up the multiplayer mode of its Cyberpunk 2077 game. Fans salivated at the mere prospect of being able to roam Night City with or against other 'Mercs'. Unfortunately, the Polish studio eventually changed its plans and canceled the multiplayer mode due to having to focus on improving the game's single player mode. Decimated cannot compete with Cyberpunk 2077 when it comes to budget and general […]
Following the MMORPG's 10-year anniversary celebrated last year, ArenaNet has picked up steam (partly thanks to joining Valve's namesake store) with the ongoing development of Guild Wars 2. The Bellevue-based developer released the fourth expansion, Secrets of the Obscure, in August, and there's more coming between free content and paid expansions with the new yearly model. Wccftech had the opportunity to access the studio's end-of-year blog post in advance, where ArenaNet confirmed Secrets of the Obscure has been a financial success and promised that the next update (which includes new story chapters, the Temple of Febe Strike Challenge Mode, nine […]
Around a month and a half ago, former Age of Empires, World of Warcraft, and League of Legends designer Greg Street (also known as Ghostcrawler) announced he partnered with NetEase to make a new triple-A fantasy MMORPG codenamed Ghost. Street leads a fully remote studio called Fantastic Pixel Castle, which was established earlier this year. Plenty of other industry veterans have been hired, including Gameplay Design Director Brian Holinka (Homefront, Transformers, World of Warcraft), Chief Technology Officer Cameron Dunn (L.A. Noire, Guild Wars 2), Content Design Director Candace Thomas (World of Warcraft, New World, Diablo IV), Principal Game Designer Graham […]
Following the recent Skyrim update that re-enabled paid mods through the new unified Creations platform, I had a brief chat with Skyblivion lead developer Rebelzize. The introduction of Creations caused a bit of a split within the still-vibrant Skyrim modding community. Whereas most modders have sworn they would never join the Verified Creator Program to release paid mods, others like Elianora (who has released a lot of free mods for all Bethesda games, as you can see on Nexus) went in the opposite direction. She has already released Shadetree Lodge, a detailed and cozy player home near the water. Speaking […]
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, […]
At The Game Awards 2023, Digital Extremes confirmed the final release date for Warframe's Whispers in the Walls update. Players will get the free patch on Wednesday, December 13, and it'll also mark the start of the long-awaited cross-save rollout. At the event, we also learned that Best Performance winner Neil Newbon (Astarion in Baldur’s Gate 3) and nominee Ben Starr (Clive Rosfield in Final Fantasy XVI) will join the voice cast with Whispers in the Walls, with Starr coming back for next year's Warframe 1999. Digital Extremes also took the opportunity to confirm the official dates for TennoCon 2024, […]
Swedish studio 10 Chambers is moving on from GTFO (albeit with the release of a major update) towards Den of Wolves, a newly announced corporate espionage sci-fi heist shooter game. The game's lore is quite interesting. In the mid-21st century, deep learning AI becomes an unstoppable hacking tool exploited by thieves, terrorists, and anarchists, bringing down entire economies. With the world desperate for network security, powerful corporations stepped in to offer salvation in exchange for no longer being bound by laws or ethics. They won and founded Midway City, the new capital of capitalism. With free rein in Midway City, […]
Nearly seven years after the game's announcement, Ubisoft Massive is finally about to release Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. The first-person open world action/adventure game will launch on Thursday, December 7, for PC (Ubisoft Connect, Epic Games Store), PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series S|X. It's the second game set in James Cameron's sci-fi universe after 2009's Avatar: The Game (which, interestingly enough, was also made by Ubisoft, albeit at the Montréal studio). That game was a mere tie-in, though, and was largely panned by critics when it came out despite selling over 2.7 million copies on brand name alone. Avatar: Frontiers […]
French developer DON'T NOD may be most renowned for its adventure games (Life is Strange, Tell Me Why, Twin Mirror, Harmony: The Fall of Reverie), but its first game, Remember Me, was actually an action/adventure game like the upcoming Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden. In between the two, DON'T NOD also released Vampyr. The game might not have been a masterpiece, but it was certainly very interesting and sold enough to ensure the partnership with Focus Home Interactive on action/adventure games would continue. Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden is now set to debut on February 13, 2024 (following a brief […]
NVIDIA is bringing the flagship gaming back to China with the soon-to-launch GeForce RTX 4090 D GPU which fully complies with US export policies. Chinese Gamers Rejoice! NVIDIA's Bringing Its Flagship Gaming GPU Back With The GeForce RTX 4090 D From exclusive information gathered by our sources, it seems like NVIDIA has a new GPU on the block. This particular GPU is a gaming-first product and will be known as the GeForce RTX 4090 D (‘D’ likely for the year of the Dragon) which is a China-exclusive design meant to be offered as a replacement for the GeForce RTX 4090 […]