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, […]
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 Resident Evil Village comparison video shared a few hours ago highlights the visual improvements the path tracing mod released earlier this year for all entries in the series powered by the RE Engine brings to the game. The comparison video put together by MxBenchmarkPC highlights how the biggest improvements the mod brings are global illumination and shadows improvements. The mod also enhances RT reflections by adding more reflective surfaces to the game. Unfortunately, things aren't perfect all the time, as the mod doesn't feature any denoiser, resulting in worse image quality at resolutions lower than 4K, and not […]
Starfield has just been made much better on Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S, thanks to a new mod that finally allows seamless interplanetary travel. The IMPROVED Sublight Engine Boost mod, which is also available on PC, not only allows seamless interplanetary travel between planets and moons but also introduces tweaks for ship engines to make traveling more enjoyable, such as giving every engine extended boost time to make ships accelerate to great speeds. The ship's speed depends on the mass of the ship itself and how many engines are attached, but only Starborn ships are the ones capable […]
New Elden Ring mods were shared online in the past few days, making the Shadow of the Erdtree expansion's difficulty more manageable and improving the base game's visuals considerably. The first mod, Shadow of the Erdtree Journalist Mode, tweaks the Crimson Amber Medallion so that it reduces all damage taken by 50% in Journalist Mode and completely negates damage in Researcher Mode. As for every Elden Ring mod, you will have to use the offline launcher to use this mod. The second new Elden Ring mod, Infinidetail, doesn't introduce any gameplay tweak but rather improves the game's visuals by reducing/eliminating […]
An unofficial The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker Unreal Engine 5 remake is currently in the works, providing a glimpse of what an official remake would look like using modern gaming engines and technology. The remake is currently being developed by Etan Solrac, who recently shared a video showcasing the differences between Lumen and Screen Space Global Illumination using sequences set in a recreation of the Forsaken Fortress, highlighting how SSGI can get really close to Lumen. In another video shared a few weeks back, the developer showed more footage from their Zelda: Wind Waker Unreal Engine 5 remake, focusing […]
New Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Nextgen Edition footage was shared online, providing a new look at the unofficial remake of the popular entry in the series by Rockstar Games. The new footage, which can be watched below, showcases the Dildo Sparrow mission, complete with full cutscenes. Needless to say, this fan made remake is looking better and better with each showing, putting the official Definitive Edition to shame. On a related note, the team behind the development of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Nextgen Edition, Revolution Team, shared a video last month providing additional information on the fan made […]
Cyberpunk 2077 continues to be among the best-looking open-world role-playing games released in the past few years, thanks to some impressive mods that push its visuals further in terms of realism, like the DreamPunk graphics overhaul mod. A new video shared a few days ago by NextGen Dreams showcases the game running with the 1.1 version of the mod, which features a complete rework of all weather conditions and lighting, a custom LUT for SDR and HDR, improved ray tracing and path tracing and more. Thanks to the high quality of this graphics overhaul, some of the sequences featured in […]
Fallout 2, the second entry in the series, which has recently seen a surge in popularity thanks to the Amazon Prime Video TV show, is getting remade by a team of dedicated fans in the style of the third and fourth entries in the series. In a new interview with The Gamer, Damion Daponte, a freelance video editor who leads the Project Arroyo development team of over 100 modders, revealed some details on the project. The project is attempting to remake the second entry in the series as an open-world role-playing game using Fallout 4's engine. As the original game […]
When Studio Wildcard released ARK: Survival Ascended, its Unreal Engine 5 remaster of the highly successful open world survival game ARK: Survival Evolved, the studio bet heavily on the power of modding and user-generated content. Studio Wildcard partnered with Overwolf's CurseForge to deliver these mods not just on Steam but everywhere, from PC to consoles. In addition to the dedicated webpage, there's an in-game browser where users can check out the over 1900 mods available in ARK: Survival Ascended, which range from new weapons to new armor, creatures, and even fully-fledged game modes and high-quality maps. Studio Wildcard and Overwolf […]
After over a year of work, the Dark Souls Re-Remastered visual overhaul mod version 1.0 has been released online, introducing a variety of visual improvements. The mod, which can be downloaded from Nexus Mods, completely removed almost all backed lighting, introducing dynamic shadows to the whole game. The mod also improves lighting, water reflections, distant geometry, ambient occlusion on the player lantern, upscales textures and more. You can check out how the mod improves the game's visuals with the screenshots below. Following its release in late 2011, Dark Souls was remastered in 2018 with improved visuals and some light gameplay […]
The Resident Evil 2 remake, alongside other entries in the series powered by the RE Engine, recently received a path tracing mod, which greatly improves the visuals in certain scenarios. So much so to make the considerable performance hit almost bearable. In a new video shared on YouTube, MxBenchmarkPC showcased how the remake of the second entry in the series by CAPCOM is improved by modded path tracing. The biggest improvements introduced by the mod are path-traced shadows followed by global illumination improvements, which are less noticeable due to the game's visual design. Even without denoising, the end results look […]
The Resident Evil 4 remake looks glorious with path tracing in certain scenarios, but the increased visual quality comes at a high cost, especially at 4K resolution. A new video shared by MxBenchmarkPC puts the game's vanilla ray tracing features, which are limited to ray-traced reflections, and modded path tracing side-by-side, highlighting how much path tracing improves the game's visuals in certain scenarios despite the lack of denoisers by adding more reflective surfaces and more. This, however, comes at a huge performance cost, as the frame rate is essentially halved in most scenarios on an RTX 4080 GPU and with […]
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 Resident Evil Village comparison video shared a few hours ago highlights the visual improvements the path tracing mod released earlier this year for all entries in the series powered by the RE Engine brings to the game. The comparison video put together by MxBenchmarkPC highlights how the biggest improvements the mod brings are global illumination and shadows improvements. The mod also enhances RT reflections by adding more reflective surfaces to the game. Unfortunately, things aren't perfect all the time, as the mod doesn't feature any denoiser, resulting in worse image quality at resolutions lower than 4K, and not […]
Starfield has just been made much better on Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S, thanks to a new mod that finally allows seamless interplanetary travel. The IMPROVED Sublight Engine Boost mod, which is also available on PC, not only allows seamless interplanetary travel between planets and moons but also introduces tweaks for ship engines to make traveling more enjoyable, such as giving every engine extended boost time to make ships accelerate to great speeds. The ship's speed depends on the mass of the ship itself and how many engines are attached, but only Starborn ships are the ones capable […]
New Elden Ring mods were shared online in the past few days, making the Shadow of the Erdtree expansion's difficulty more manageable and improving the base game's visuals considerably. The first mod, Shadow of the Erdtree Journalist Mode, tweaks the Crimson Amber Medallion so that it reduces all damage taken by 50% in Journalist Mode and completely negates damage in Researcher Mode. As for every Elden Ring mod, you will have to use the offline launcher to use this mod. The second new Elden Ring mod, Infinidetail, doesn't introduce any gameplay tweak but rather improves the game's visuals by reducing/eliminating […]
An unofficial The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker Unreal Engine 5 remake is currently in the works, providing a glimpse of what an official remake would look like using modern gaming engines and technology. The remake is currently being developed by Etan Solrac, who recently shared a video showcasing the differences between Lumen and Screen Space Global Illumination using sequences set in a recreation of the Forsaken Fortress, highlighting how SSGI can get really close to Lumen. In another video shared a few weeks back, the developer showed more footage from their Zelda: Wind Waker Unreal Engine 5 remake, focusing […]
New Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Nextgen Edition footage was shared online, providing a new look at the unofficial remake of the popular entry in the series by Rockstar Games. The new footage, which can be watched below, showcases the Dildo Sparrow mission, complete with full cutscenes. Needless to say, this fan made remake is looking better and better with each showing, putting the official Definitive Edition to shame. On a related note, the team behind the development of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Nextgen Edition, Revolution Team, shared a video last month providing additional information on the fan made […]
Cyberpunk 2077 continues to be among the best-looking open-world role-playing games released in the past few years, thanks to some impressive mods that push its visuals further in terms of realism, like the DreamPunk graphics overhaul mod. A new video shared a few days ago by NextGen Dreams showcases the game running with the 1.1 version of the mod, which features a complete rework of all weather conditions and lighting, a custom LUT for SDR and HDR, improved ray tracing and path tracing and more. Thanks to the high quality of this graphics overhaul, some of the sequences featured in […]
Fallout 2, the second entry in the series, which has recently seen a surge in popularity thanks to the Amazon Prime Video TV show, is getting remade by a team of dedicated fans in the style of the third and fourth entries in the series. In a new interview with The Gamer, Damion Daponte, a freelance video editor who leads the Project Arroyo development team of over 100 modders, revealed some details on the project. The project is attempting to remake the second entry in the series as an open-world role-playing game using Fallout 4's engine. As the original game […]
When Studio Wildcard released ARK: Survival Ascended, its Unreal Engine 5 remaster of the highly successful open world survival game ARK: Survival Evolved, the studio bet heavily on the power of modding and user-generated content. Studio Wildcard partnered with Overwolf's CurseForge to deliver these mods not just on Steam but everywhere, from PC to consoles. In addition to the dedicated webpage, there's an in-game browser where users can check out the over 1900 mods available in ARK: Survival Ascended, which range from new weapons to new armor, creatures, and even fully-fledged game modes and high-quality maps. Studio Wildcard and Overwolf […]
After over a year of work, the Dark Souls Re-Remastered visual overhaul mod version 1.0 has been released online, introducing a variety of visual improvements. The mod, which can be downloaded from Nexus Mods, completely removed almost all backed lighting, introducing dynamic shadows to the whole game. The mod also improves lighting, water reflections, distant geometry, ambient occlusion on the player lantern, upscales textures and more. You can check out how the mod improves the game's visuals with the screenshots below. Following its release in late 2011, Dark Souls was remastered in 2018 with improved visuals and some light gameplay […]
The Resident Evil 2 remake, alongside other entries in the series powered by the RE Engine, recently received a path tracing mod, which greatly improves the visuals in certain scenarios. So much so to make the considerable performance hit almost bearable. In a new video shared on YouTube, MxBenchmarkPC showcased how the remake of the second entry in the series by CAPCOM is improved by modded path tracing. The biggest improvements introduced by the mod are path-traced shadows followed by global illumination improvements, which are less noticeable due to the game's visual design. Even without denoising, the end results look […]
The Resident Evil 4 remake looks glorious with path tracing in certain scenarios, but the increased visual quality comes at a high cost, especially at 4K resolution. A new video shared by MxBenchmarkPC puts the game's vanilla ray tracing features, which are limited to ray-traced reflections, and modded path tracing side-by-side, highlighting how much path tracing improves the game's visuals in certain scenarios despite the lack of denoisers by adding more reflective surfaces and more. This, however, comes at a huge performance cost, as the frame rate is essentially halved in most scenarios on an RTX 4080 GPU and with […]