Yearly Archives: 2022

NVIDIA is attempting to lift people's spirits even higher ahead of the Christmas holiday with Toy Jensen, an entirely AI-driven avatar of NVIDIA's CEO that sings Jingle Bells, developed using the company's Omniverse Avatar Cloud Engine and inspired by a recent, viral event in which the executive was recorded requesting/singing Lady Gaga songs, including “Always Remember Us This Way" and "Hold My Hand," the theme song for this year's $1.48 billion blockbuster, Top Gun: Maverick.

Sony is undoubtedly planning to bring more PlayStation exclusives to PC, but its latest flagship racing game isn't one of them, according to Polyphony Digital president Kazunori Yamauchi, who told Dengeki Online in a new interview that a PC version of Gran Turismo 7 isn't in development.

There's a potential problem with GIGABYTE's G27F 2 gaming monitors, according to a press release from the company that explains how it recently discovered a potential issue that may arise in these displays and confirmed that it will be offering free service to units with affected serial numbers.

Rumored NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 ADA GPU specs have surfaced showing the flagship RTX 4090 consuming as much as 200 Watts of power.

Movie studios can be sued under false advertising laws if they release deceptive movie trailers, according to U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson, who issued a ruling on Tuesday regarding the case in which Ana de Armas fans sued Universal for cutting the 34-year-old actress out of Yesterday, Danny Boyle's 2019 feature about a world without the Beatles, alleging deceptive marketing after realizing that she was in the trailer but completely absent from the final version of the film, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on May 4, 2019.

God of War Ragnarök players who have completed the game will have at least one big reason to revisit Kratos and Atreus' latest adventure next year, according to a tweet from the official Santa Monica Studio account today that can confirm New Game Plus mode is headed to the acclaimed action-adventure game in spring 2023, something that should allow players to begin with all of the weapons and armor that they gained during their initial journey, including fully upgraded favorites like the Leviathan Axe, Blades of Chaos, and Draupnir Spear.

Hardware platforms will eventually disappear and make way for a future in which all games are effectively multiplatform, suggests Hideo Kojima, the celebrated Japanese video game designer behind the Metal Gear and Death Stranding franchises, who was interviewed by IGN as part of Kojima Productions' seventh anniversary on December 16, 2022, and shared his thoughts regarding various topics, including concerns over how media might be served and interpreted in the future based on advancements that include AI.

JSAUX has released its latest accessory for the Steam Deck in the form of a transparent back plate, a replacement for the back cover that not only allows players to easily see the insides of Valve's handheld gaming PC but includes three non-slip button sets, each offering a different feel.

Benchmarks for the Ryzen 9 7900, Ryzen 7 7700, and Ryzen 5 7600 have appeared on Geekbench, teasing the potential performance gains that enthusiasts can expect from AMD's first non-X Ryzen 7000 Series processors utilizing the Zen 4 architecture.

ASUS is planning to unveil its latest collaboration with Noctua very soon, according to nApoleon, the chief editor of Chiphell, who has claimed in a new thread dated December 21 that GeForce RTX 40 Series Noctua Edition graphics cards will appear at CES 2023.

Before Fallout 3 came Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics: Brother of Steel, all of which are currently available to claim through the Epic Games Store at no cost as part of its ongoing 15 Days of Free Games promotion for gamers who aren't familiar with the origins of the post-apocalyptic role-playing game franchise, which was originally introduced by Interplay with the release of the first title in 1997, over a decade before Bethesda got its hands on the property and presented a third mainline installment in 2008 to critical acclaim.

Critics have claimed that NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4080 graphics cards aren't selling as well as the company might have hoped due to reasons that include its starting price of $1,199, but activity at certain retailers seem to suggest otherwise, one being Newegg, whose Best Sellers section lists various GeForce RTX 4080 models within the top ten spots at the time of this posting.