Alongside this expected news, though, we also learned of two additional Star Wars projects in the works at Respawn. One is a first-person shooter game whose development team is directed by Peter Hirschmann, previously VP of development at LucasArts and executive producer on the original Star Wars Battlefront games. The other is actually a strategy game made in collaboration with Bit Reactor, a new independent triple-A studio founded recently by former XCOM veterans such as Greg Foerstch....

Space Exploration Technologies Corporation’s (SpaceX) Starlink satellite internet constellation is the fastest satellite internet service in several regions of the world according to a fresh report from Ookla. Within a handful of years after opening its services, Starlink has rapidly built its low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation by launching more than 2,000 satellites. In the process, it has managed to gain an upper hand over several rivals that will use similar spacecraft but are yet to launch the satellites....

As part of its orbital flight test for the Starship platform, SpaceX will use Starlink internet terminals to connect with its satellite constellation as both rockets are in the air. SpaceX is currently heading towards conducting the first orbital flight test of Starship from Boca Chica, Texas, with the rocket being the largest that the company has built to date. It will be powered by 33 engines and is designed to significantly increase the tonnage that the company can ship to low Earth orbit (LEO) ad provide it with a platform to send crewed and cargo missions to Mars....

Super Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto revealed the news via Twitter with the following message. The animated film is being made by Illumination, the studio behind Despicable Me, The Secret Life of Pets, Sing, and the adaptations of Dr. Seuss books like The Lorax and How the Grinch Stole Christmas. The Super Mario Bros. movie is directed by Aaron Horvath (Teen Titans Go!) and Michael Jelenic (The Batman), with Illumination’s Chris Meledandri and Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto listed as producers....

It was important for us to achieve a physically consistent lighting and shadow model in the game. Contrast and occlusion make great horror. Using our corridor-based scale of around 20 meters, we found that around eight lights could be affecting a surface of the environment. Unfortunately, we found that UE4 was limited to four shadow-generating lights, so first we worked on modifying the engine so that we could support a higher number of lights at a lower cost per light....

The Chant is a brand-new project being announced today, and its premise is a simple one; enjoy your time on a remote island and seek peace, enlightenment, and tranquility; but not everything is as it seems. The announcement also comes with a brand-new teaser trailer, the first for this game, which you can watch below. The game’s basis is set on the darker side of spirituality and breaking the confines of normality....

dynamicSpot is Perhaps the Best Implementation of Dynamic Island on Android As expected, this Dynamic Island rib-off lets you access recent notifications or phone status changes through a floating island that sits on top of your screen. Once you have set it up, the app surrounds the front camera of your Android phone as Dynamic Island would work. You can actually adjust the position of this island. I tried the app on my Galaxy S22 Ultra, and even though the animations can still use some work, it worked just like the Dynamic Island would work on the iPhone 14 Pro....

In addition to the crossplay announcement, SNK revealed a bit more detail about the new Awakened Orochi Team coming as DLC. As the name implies, this team consists of alternate versions of the classic Orochi crew of Chris, Yashiro, and Shermie with new moves and strategies. Here’s a trailer for the Awakened Orochi Team, which launches next Monday (August 8). Ah, but the info didn’t stop with The King of Fighters XV!...

“Well, I’m not watching anything, so… Dr. Uckmann’s next game is THE LAST OF US PART III which is currently in production at Naughty Dog”, the scooper tweeted. The movie leaker also had something to say about his/her credibility when it comes to leaking games instead of movies. In addition, ViewerAnon claimed that the Uncharted series will be handled by another studio, although The Last of Us’ upcoming multiplayer mode, Factions, will be arriving first....

Lucid Group (NASDAQ:LCID), the EV manufacturer behind the Air electric sedan, recorded outsized gains yesterday when it announced that it would report its earnings for the fourth quarter of 2021 on the 28th of February 2022. As Lucid Group investors turn their attention toward the upcoming earnings call, the stock’s institutional holdings are in an interesting flux, based on the recent barrage of Form 13F filings with the US SEC....

The Sony Link Buds are nowhere near the conventional earbuds that you get to see in the market. Rather than getting a closed earbud design, these are comprised of a ring-style driver and an offset compartment that houses the rest of the internals. These also ship with Sony’s V1 integrated processor, however, these do not use Sony’s LDAC because they are made to reproduce the audio clearly and deliver it together with real life....

Earlier today, Intel announced that its XeSS technology would come to new titles. Intel also simultaneously released Game On driver support for three titles, which are are High On Life, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’s next-gen update, and Conqueror’s Blade’s Scorpio update. Outside of that, there are some more release notes to sift through in today’s driver update. First off, other games and their performance. This part is kind of short, as the newest driver only really causes a small improvement in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds compared to previously (4% general performance uplift)....

The Better Vanilla Fur Mod introduces improvements for animals and enemies fur, such as increased density, enhanced physics, and more. The mod only works with HairWorks active, so it does have a performance impact, which can be rather consistent on certain systems. Below, you will find the list of supported animals and enemies, as well as some comparison screenshots. The Witcher 3 Better Vanilla Fur Mod can be downloaded from Nexus Mods....

We previously reported on another The Witcher 3 mod called First Person Camera Reworked. However, the creator of that mod freely admits that Gervant First Person delivers a more complete first person experience in the open world action roleplaying game. That said, you should be warned there are several differences compared to the regular third person gameplay. This The Witcher 3 mod also comes with a few limitations, as outlined by its creator....

The good news is, the PS5 version of The Witcher 3 clearly looks much nicer than it did on PS4, with much better lighting, reflections, and various asset improvements. Load times are also almost 10x faster. That said, it comes at a heavier cost than you might think, with Ray-Tracing mode in particular offering a relatively low resolution and a sometimes-juddery 30fps. You can check out the full analysis below, provided you have around 15 minutes to spare....

Digital World Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ:DWAC), a Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) that is slated to take the Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) public via a reverse merger, appears to have lost its sheen of attractiveness as back-to-back negative developments continue to hammer the stock’s erstwhile stellar gains. For the uninitiated, the merger deal will furnish TMTG with $293 million in cash proceeds. Moreover, Digital World Acquisition has also raised nearly $1 billion in PIPE investments, thereby elevating TMTG’s proposed valuation from $875 million to around $4 billion....

After chip designer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc (AMD) announced yesterday that its third fiscal quarter of 2022 revenue would drop over the guidance that it had provided in the prior quarter, an analyst in Taiwan believes that the announcement will make forecasting the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s (TSMC) revenues tricky. TSMC is the world’s largest contract chip manufacturer, and its partnership with AMD has proven key in the latter’s ability to regularly deliver technologically advanced products to the market....

Digitimes: TSMC 3nm reportedly suffering from bad yields even as the company defiantly claims mass production will begin in Q2 2022 AMD is already one of the biggest customers when it comes to TSMC and arguably the most loyal (in the PC hardware space). Intel has its own foundry and is trying to actively compete with TSMC. NVIDIA has dilly-dallied with Samsung in the past but will return to TSMC for its 5nm GPUs after having paid billions to secure allocation in a foundry ecosystem that is basically running at a 100%....

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA), a major manufacturer of graphic cards, stunned investors earlier this week when it announced readiness to target market opportunities worth at least $1 trillion. The GTC 2022 Event Proved to be a Stunner NVIDIA shares headed into Tuesday’s GTC 2022 event on an uncertain footing, with the stock having recorded its lowest price so far this year just last week, corresponding to year-to-date losses of over 29 percent....

The test phase will take place on the weekend between October 14th and 16th. Players can sign up on the official website for a chance to be invited to the Warhammer 40,000: Darktide PC closed beta. You’ll have to provide your email address, where Fatshark will send a survey requesting your PC specifications; completing this process is mandatory to be eligible for the beta raffle. Chris recently got to play some Warhammer 40,000: Darktide at Gamescom 2022, coming away suitably satisfied by the experience....