Yearly Archives: 2022

Early benchmark scores for some of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 40 Series laptop GPUs have begun surfacing online, and they suggest that the new Ada Lovelace parts for notebook users will offer marked performance improvements over the existing GeForce RTX 30 Series, including premium desktop models.

Supermassive Games is working on a new VR game for the PlayStation VR 2 called The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR, and it will feature an interesting gimmick, according to a new article from the latest issue of Edge Magazine, which reports that enemies may react differently every time that the player blinks, something that's made possible by the eye-tracking technology found in Sony's next-generation headset.

GALAX has begun selling a one-of-a-kind power supply in China, according to a listing that can be found at Chinese retailer Taobao for the "GALAXY GH1300 Hall of Fame," a new PSU from the company that appears to be the first to feature dual 16-pin power connectors, featuring a rated power of 1,300 watts.

One of the highlights for gamers this holiday was Epic Games offering a free copy of Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding on Christmas Day, but the promotion didn't quite go according to plan, with the Epic Games Store accidentally offering the Director's Cut during the initial phase of the promotion, something that resulted in not only the company's servers being completely hammered, but users fuming about how they couldn't claim what had been temporarily but clearly advertised.

The Witcher 3 players haven't been entirely happy with CD PROJEKT RED's newly released next-gen update, with many complaining of poor performance when ray tracing is enabled, but help may have arrived in the form of the The Witcher 3 Next-Gen Optimized Ray Tracing Mod, a mod that is said to offer up to a 50% FPS boost for fans of the acclaimed 2015 action RPG inspired by Andrzej Sapkowski's fantasy novels.

Nintendo is planning to release another special edition OLED Switch model next year, according to Kysen, a user on Famiboards, who shared a set of images today that show off what appears to be a new Switch console themed after The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, a new mainline Zelda game that is slated for release in 2023.

Someone at NVIDIA may have hit the publish button a little too early, according to a screenshot that @momomo_us shared today that seems to confirm the key specifications for the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti, a third Ada Lovelace graphics card that the company will likely unveil during next week's GeForce Beyond event as part of the CES 2023 festivities.

LG Display has announced that it will be unveiling its latest high-performance gaming OLED displays at CES 2023, namely, the 27-inch and 45-inch panels that can be found in the 27GR95QE and 45GR95QE, new, soon-to-be-released UltraGear monitors from the company that feature OLED panels capable of refresh rates of up to 240 Hz, a world's first, according to LG.

A new paywalled report from Jon Peddie Research shows that desktop graphics card sales have hit their lowest point since 2005.

Warner Bros. has confirmed that it will be releasing four Rocky films in 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray next year, with Rocky (1976), Rocky II (1979), Rocky III (1982), and Rocky IV (1985) available to purchase in the high-def format beginning February 2023, according to press materials shared by Blu-ray.com.

GSC Game World has released a new official trailer for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl, a fourth installment of the classic FPS survival horror series that is being developed on Unreal Engine 5 and will reintroduce players to the Zone, a forbidden territory surrounding the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant that features dangerous mutants, deadly anomalies, and other foes.

High on Life has received a lot of praise so far, but the experience hasn't been entirely bug-free, according to some players of the first-person sci-fi shooter who are complaining about how they're stuck in a virtual version of Applebee's, the grill and bar chain that appropriately features a big apple in its logo.