January 2022

Today Nvidia Hosted its press conference from CES 2022 in Las Vegas, including new reveals for its lineup of GPUs.

We learn that Battlefield 4 and Battlefield 5 are available on Geforce Now starting today.

Nvidia Reflex will be available on iRacing, Rainbow 6 Extraction, God of War, Midnight: Ghost Hunt, Grit, Ready or Not, and Super People. You can see a demo of God of War in the video at the bottom of the post.

Moving on to GPUs, we get the announcement of the RTX 3050. It includes 9 shader-TFLOPS, 18 RT-TFLOPS, 73 Tensor-TFLOPS, and 8 GB G6 VRAM. It’ll be priced at $249 on January 27

Respawn is back at it again with a new Apex Legends Stories From the Outlands short, and this time, we get a good look at Bangalore’s backstory with her brother.

If you’ve been following the comics on the game’s official Twitter account, you’d know that Wraith and Bangalore have butt heads and had some tense conversations about their pasts and involvement with the IMC.

Despite the gaps in her memory, Wraith is attempting to help Bangalore find her brother, Jackson Williams. And that’s exactly how this Stories From the Outlands video begins.

The Apex Legends animated short follows Bangalore as she and her brother deal with IMC hardships and even go toe-to-toe with a Pilot. This storyline could be teasing the Pilot abilities of the upcoming Legend, but it’s really too early to tell for sure.

There are a few short weeks left before the next season of Apex Legends rolls around, so be sure to complete the Season 11 Battle Pass and participate in all of the events that you want to collect the cosmetics for.

Today, Sony Pictures Entertainment confirmed that Morbius has been delayed yet again. This newest delay pushes the upcoming Marvel anti-heroes’ vampire flick back until April 1, 2022, marking the sixth delay since its original release date announcement of July 10, 2020.

According to Deadline, the reason for the newest delay once again comes back to the COVID-19 pandemic, as the Omicron variant has caused significant issues regarding filming.

For anyone that hasn’t heard about the film, you can check out the official synopsis for a bit more background information on Morbius below.

One of Marvel’s most compelling and conflicted characters comes to the big screen as Oscar® winner Jared Leto transforms into the enigmatic antihero Michael Morbius. Dangerously ill with a rare blood disorder and determined to save others suffering his same fate, Dr. Morbius attempts a desperate gamble. While at first it seems to be a radical success, a darkness inside him is unleashed. Will good override evil – or will Morbius succumb to his mysterious new urges?

Morbius is directed by Daniel Espinosa and stars Jared Leto, Matt Smith, Adria Arjona, Jared Harris, Al Madrigal, and Tyrese Gibson.

While we wait for more information on the movie (including another inevitable delay), other Sony properties, or Marvel and the MCU, be sure to check out the related contents section below. You’ll find plenty of interesting stuff there, including news, features, and quizzes based on all of your favorite superhero and anti-hero characters.

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Today, leading nail polish brand OPI has teamed up with Xbox to launch a brand new gaming-inspired palette for spring 2022. The goal of this collaboration is to bring the virtual worlds of Xbox Game Pass to life with a boatload of amazing colors.

The Xbox and OPI collection is set to include 12 different colors that really pop. Those shades include the following:

Today AMD Hosted its press conference from CES 2022 in Las Vegas, including the reveal of new CPUs and GPUs.

CEO Lisa Su started the conference by announcing that 350 million PCs have been shipped in 2021.

Moving on with new product announcements, we hear about the Ryzen 6000 Series mobile, boasting Zen 3+ cores, RDNA 2 graphics, and 6nm architecture. The new chips tops at 5 Ghz boost, 1.3x faster processing, and 2.0x faster graphics.

The new Ryzen 7 6800U compared to the older 5800U is said to provide 69% performance uplift in video encoding, +125% in 3D rendering, and +100% in gaming,

AMD also promises “truly playable 1080p gaming on the go” including FidelityFX Super Resolution support.

DeNa is kicking off 2022 with a bang by offering Pokemon Masters EX players a chance to win 100 million Gems in tandem with a brand new content update.

Players that log-in to the game from now until Jan 8 will automatically be entered to win up to 60,000 Gems as part of the overall prize pool. Five players will win 60,000 Gems, thirty players will win 12,000 Gems, one hundred players will win 6,000 Gems, one thousand players will win 3,000 Gems, while all other players will win between 300 and 1,000 Gems. Players will be able to claim their share of Gems between Jan. 13- Feb. 13.

The vanguard of Intel’s 12th Gen Alder Lake CPUs had some seriously good chips in it – including two of the best CPUs for gaming overall – though there weren’t many models for aspiring PC builders on tight budgets. Now, though, Intel has used CES 2022 to launch the rest of the 12th Gen desktop lineup, adding loads of more affordable Core i5 and Core i3 processors on top of new Core i7 and Core i9 options. Intel also unveiled its new H-series, 12th Gen gaming laptop chips, which use the same hybrid architecture (combining powerful P-cores with smaller, less energy-intensive E-cores) as their Alder Lake desktop cousins.

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Before it pivoted to talking about self-driving cars, something I can’t even put into a PCIe slot, Nvidia’s CES 2022 showcase went both high and low with its graphics card reveals. The high: the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti, as new top-of-the-line CPU with 24GB of upgraded, 21Gbit/s GDDR6X VRAM. The low: the GeForce RTX 3050, Nvidia’s first XX50 GPU in a donkey’s age.

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It’s the first week of 2022 and that means – yes! – all the big PC hardware movers and shakers are hosting their CES 2022 events. On the same day. Within a couple of hours of each other. But my stress is your gain, as there are and will be some major announcements on new kit, starting with AMD. Their freshly-announced hardware includes an assortment of new CPUs, desktop and mobile graphics cards and even some laptop APUs – APUs that sound a lot more useful for gaming that what current integrated graphics can offer. There’s even an Nvidia Image Scaling rival in the upcoming, driver-level Radeon Super Resolution feature.

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Eve Online will host Doctor Who's most iconic enemies in an unprecedented crossover event, beginning next week on 13th January.

A teaser for the crossover - dubbed The Interstellar Convergence - appeared on Eve's YouTube channel this afternoon but offers few clues as to exactly what will happen.

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If you spend any time on the internet then you probably know about or have used the livestreaming platform Twitch. That doesn’t hold true of everyone, though, as popular TV chef Gordon Ramsay had no idea what Twitch is, if his comments on a recent episode of his new show Next Level Chef are to be believed

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There’s so much to do in Destiny 2 that it’s easy to get lost, especially for new players. That’s part of why Bungie’s loot shooter automatically throws players into new events once they go live, like this season’s Dares of Eternity activity. For some new players, however, it means their first experience in Destiny is…

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Grating electronic voices screeching “EXTERMINATE!” are coming to the New Eden star cluster come January 13, when one of the longest-running science fiction MMOs meets the world’s longest-running science fiction television show. EVE Online’s “Interstellar Convergence” event will give clone pilots a chance to be…

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Gon and the crew take the fight to 4-D!

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Mihoyo offered details about the A Post-Honkai Odyssey Chapter 2 characters and location heading to Honkai Impact 3rd. Bronya Zaychik will work alongside three allies while fighting in the new False Bay area. New art and gifs showcased some of the main characters and allies. For example, the APHO protagonist Adam showed up alongside Silverwing: N-EX Bronya. The two new characters are supporters Timido Cute and Lyle Collodi. Timido is a character who deals ice damage. She has a figure skater motif. Her attacks involve kicks. She also “skates” around while fighting. Lyle is described as a “standby” sniper. As […]

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While most might have dismissed Apple TV as a streaming service in an age where the streaming service has been ruled over by big players like Netflix and Hulu, there are tons of gems in Apple’s library that you’ve probably already heard about. Mythic Quest and Dickinson are some of the better-known shows on Apple TV, and you’ve likely heard of the soccer comedy Ted Lasso.

Season 3 has come to a close, offering viewers plenty of closure for every character on the show. Still, even if we might not get to spent anymore time with AFC Richmond, it’s still fun to look back on the cast and think on what about them appeals to us the most. The main cast of characters is incredibly fun and diverse, all packed with unique personalities that complement each other and even serve as foils to one another.

With that in mind, if you’ve ever wondered which character in Ted Lasso you were the most similar to, we’ve put together a short quiz to help you figure that out. This is a spoiler-free personality quiz that helps you determine if you’re more aligned with the brusque Roy Kent, or the confident Rebecca Welton. Let’s get to it!

Death Stranding Director’s Cut launched exclusively on PS5 just last year, and now, it’s coming to PC. There’s no set release date just yet, but this new version is set to launch on PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store sometime in spring 2022.

The news came directly from the Kojima Productions Twitter account not too long ago.

Today third-party developers had new add-on releases in store for Microsoft Flight Simulator on top of new announcements and reveals.

Pryeegue, which has recently released a few impressive products, announced its roadmap for 2022 so far on the Orbx forums.

Two airports are already in development, Belfast International Airport (EGAA) in Northern Ireland and Aberdeen International Airport (EGPD) in Scotland.

On top of those, the developer also mentioned Inverness Airport (EGPE) in Scotland, but that’s not final and it’s subject to change. Below you can take a look at a couple of screenshots of Belfast.

Steam has existed in a grey area in China, technically not following rules which require all games be approved yet never drawing the ire of authorities. Many have long expected it to eventually be banned, though, especially after Valve partnered with Perfect World to launch the limited Steam China. This might now be happening. Maybe. Or it's possibly being hindered, at least. This all started with a big stink on Christmas Day that led some to declare Steam had been banned by the Great Firewall which restricts access to many sites outside China, but the reality is not so clear cut.

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Halo Infinite’s third run of the “Fracture: Tenrai” event runs today through February 7, 2022, looking much like it did for its second run. We’re republishing our original story, which ran on January 4, 2022, in light of its return.

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This Demon Slayer spin-off manga starring Giyu and Kyojuro, focuses on the characters and their relationships with other Hashira.

The post Demon Slayer: Stories of Water and Flame Focuses on Characters’ Relationships appeared first on Siliconera.

A new trailer for Danmachi season 4, also known as Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?, is available with English subtitles.

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The exclusivity arrangement must be about to expire, as there is now a Steam page with 2022 release date for Death Stranding Director's Cut.

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Death Stranding Director’s Cut for PC has been announced and it’s coming sometime this Spring. 

It’s being published by 505 Games, the same publishing arm that published the original version of Death Stranding on PC last July, and will be released simultaneously on Steam and the Epic Game Store. This news was announced during Intel’s showcase during the ongoing Consumer Electronics Show today and Kojima Production’s latest game will take advantage of Intel’s XeSS supersampling technology. 

Released last September as a PlayStation 5 exclusive, the Director’s Cut features everything contained in the original version of Death Stranding, which first hit PlayStation 4 exclusively in 2019 before it hit PC in 2020, as well as graphical and performance-related improvements, new mechanics, and new content. 

Over the last year, miHoYo has been responsible for some pretty great events and new characters being added to Genshin Impact. Yet, despite all of these great new features, there does seem to be a little bit of flair missing in some aspects of the game, especially when it comes to wish animations.

Well, Genshin Impact fans of taken it upon themselves to spice up wish animations, as you can see in the alternate Jean wish animation video created by TurtleMaster3000 V.2.

Pretty much everything in the video is created by TurtleMaster3000 V.2, as they use the style and image known to the character to create a fantastic reimagining of Jean’s wish animation. In the description for the video, the Genshin Impact fan had the following to say regarding their creation:

Here’s Jean’s alternate wish animation! Technically the “last” one in the series, so I tried my best to make it look pretty dope (also totally not because I had to go extra tryhard mode to make jean’s stand out because she almost has nothing that much going for her T_T)

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Here, as is our custom at Kotaku, are our collective picks for the 12 best games of the past year, shared in the early days of the new one. But before we get to the games, I want to say a few words about the list, and why we present it the way we do, unranked, in alphabetical order.

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The Terraria 1.4 Journey's End Switch update is now live, though some options like cross-play or local multiplayer aren't available just yet.

The post Terraria 1.4 Switch Update Appears, Lacks Some Multiplayer Options appeared first on Siliconera.

Microsoft has revealed a collaboration between Xbox and nail polish brand OPI and, as expected, each color is themed after something to do with Xbox. 

While the nail polishes and the colors they come in look quite nice, there’s another interesting aspect to this collaboration. Purchasing the Xbox-inspired Spring 2022 OPI Collection gets you exclusive in-game Halo Infinite and Forza Horizon 5 content. Ride or shoot in style with the best-looking nails your controller has ever seen. 

As for the in-game content, the Xbox Wire blog post revealing this collaboration doesn’t exactly spell out what it is, but some pictures reveal that the collection gets you a Halo Infinite armor coating and what appears to be a skin for a car in Forza Horizon 5 (although it could be straight up an entire car). Here’s a look at both: 

“The full collection will be available at retail in the U.S. at ULTA when the partnership is announced and then globally starting in February where OPI products are sold,” the announcement reads. “With every qualifying purchase, U.S. fans can unlock hue-matched, in-game content for Forza Horizon 5 and Halo Infinite starting February 1.” 

Nvidia, AMD, and Intel all had PC graphics-related reveals for today’s Consumer Electronics Show presentations, and as expected, the latter showcased more of its Arc GPU while the two former showcased multiple graphics cards that will soon hit the market (although who’s to say if buying them will be any easier).  

CES is an annual technology-focused conference where all kinds of electronics companies announce new products both for the mass market and for those more interested in experimental ideas. It’s where Samsung announced its new line of 2022 TVs that will feature Stadia, Nvidia GeForce Now, and NFT support and integration, and it’s also where Nvidia, AMD, and Intel pulled back the curtains on some heavily-rumored GPUs. 

Let’s talk Nvidia. The company announced two new GPUs, the RTX 3050 and the RTX 3090 Ti. The RTX 3050 is the company’s most budget GPU, coming in at just $249, and is capable of features like raytracing and DLSS. It features nine shader-TFLOPS, 18 RT-TFLOPS, 73 Tensor-TFLOPS, 8GB G6, and it will be available for purchase later this month on January 27. 

If you’re an Apex Legends fan that’s been wanting more out of the game’s lore, Respawn has released a new installment in its Stories from the Outlands series centered on fan-favorite Bangalore. 

For those new to Stories from the Outlands, the series expands on the game’s lore by shining a narrative spotlight on its roster of Legends. Think of them as Respawn’s take on Blizzard’s Overwatch shorts. Gridiron sees Bangalore get torn between her responsibilities as a soldier and the relationship with her brother after the Battle of Gridiron. Clocking in at over eight minutes, the well-animated cinematic is a neat way of fleshing out of the game’s original favorites. 

You can check out the previous Stories from the Outlands, which served as the debut for Seer, here. Meanwhile, Apex Legends continues to march forward with the recent introduction of its fourth map, Storm Point. As for broader Respawn news, president Vince Zampella was appointed the new head of the Battlefield franchise.

Today Vanillaware shared its annual and gorgeous New Year art, but this time around it’s a special one.

The artwork reveals that February 8, 2022, will mark the 20th anniversary of the foundation of the company, and we learn that Vanillaware will start selling celebratory shirts portraying its “Vanillaware Boy” mascot in two designs, “Dash” and “Spoon.”

Further details will be shared at a later date.

Vanillaware‘s New Year art is always interesting not only because it tends to be gorgeous, but also because at times it hints at future games. For instance, the characters of its latest game 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim appeared for the first time in this kind of artwork all the way back in 2013.

At the moment, we don’t know if the year’s art hides any more hints on future plans besides the shirts.

The anime adaptation of The Executioner and Her Way of Life got a brand new English-subtitled trailer today, revealing plenty of important information about the upcoming show. Alongside cast, staff, and theme song artist reveals, the trailer also confirms that the anime will arrive in spring 2022.

New cast members include Hisako Kanemoto as Momo, the executioner’s assistant, and M.A.O as Ashuna, the wandering princess knight. They join Iori Saeki as Menou, the Executioner, and Moe Kahara as Akari, the Lost One.

The Executioner and Her Way of Life will be directed by Yoshiki Kawasaki, with Keiko Tamaki in charge of character designs and Shogo Yasukawa supervising scripts. EGG FIRM and SB Creative will also be the studios in charge of production.

For anyone that has never heard of The Executioner and Her Way of Life, you can check out Yen Press’ official description of the Light Novels they’re adapted from below:

High-end enthusiast keyboards are marvels of engineering and design, with cases cut from bead-blasted aluminum, suspended gasket mounts, and convenient features like hot-swappable key switches. Gaming keyboards are all RGB lighting effects, sleek angles, shine-through keycaps, and eye-catching bells and whistles.…

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