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Microsoft Possibly Entering Gaming Segment With Surface Gaming Laptop Featuring High-End Intel & NVIDIA Hardware In specifications unearthed by Prime Gaming (via MyLaptopGuide), we can see some really high-end specs for the upcoming Microsoft Surface Gaming laptop. The company has so far only been focusing on thin and light productivity and content creators but that’s about to change with their Surface Gaming product. Coming to the specifications, the Microsoft Surface Gaming laptop is said to rock a 16" PixelSense Flow Display with a resolution of 2560 x 1440, a refresh rate of 165Hz, and Dobly Vision support....

It’s all part of Microsoft’s ongoing efforts to persuade regulators (mainly in the US, EU, and UK) to let the $69 billion Activision Blizzard deal be completed. Both EU and UK regulators recently expressed concerns that Call of Duty’s potential exclusivity could create unfair advantages for Microsoft, mainly in the subscription and cloud gaming markets. Both regulators have also now begun deeper reviews of the deal. According to the NYT report, the US Federal Trade Commission is reviewing the deal with over ten staff members, who interviewed Microsoft executives like CEO Satya Nadella and president Brad Smith....

MSI Rolls Out AGESA 1.2.0.6C BIOS For X570 & B550 Motherboards: Comes With AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D CPU Support & Performance Improvements Recently, motherboard makers started rolling out their respective BIOS firmware for 500-series boards which includes support for AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D. MSI is the latest motherboard maker offering such support on its X570 & B550 motherboards. According to the changelog, the new AGESA 1.2.0.6C BIOS firmware adds a new security patch for AMD Raven Ridge & Picasso APUs while offering support for Vermeer-X CPUs too....

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Orion spacecraft for the Artemis 1 mission beamed back the first images of planet Earth just moments back. Orion was launched on the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket early in the morning today, after a months long effort saw NASA stand down several times to make some last minute changes on what is now officially the world’s largest rocket. After it was launched, Orion conducted a variety of maneuvers, which involved raising its orbit and orienting itself to the Moon’s trajectory as part of a 25 day mission that will test the spacecraft’s myriad of different systems before it returns to Earth traveling at breakneck speeds and temperatures that cannot be tested in Earth....

Today, a brand new Unreal Engine 5 project was announced, by a development studio known as NCSoft, a developer hailing from South Korea. It’s called Project M (not to be confused with the well-known Super Smash Bros. Brawl mod) and has an entire trailer to go with it. You can watch the new trailer below. The gameplay follows a young woman, who, after being given a device by a passerby, is caught in an explosion that destroys her shop and does lots of collateral damage....

Well, that’s now changed – in a new statement provided to Eurogamer, Nintendo says they’ve suspended shipping of products to Russia and have confirmed the eShop will remain in maintenance mode for the foreseeable future. Interestingly, Nintendo’s still doesn’t take any sort of principled stance here, simply stating that the logistics of selling in Russia are too complex right now. Honestly, that’s probably one of the major reasons other publishers have pulled out, although its unusual to see it stated so directly....

Breakthrough in GPU performance technology from NVIDIA, IBM, and universities to increase the performance by directly connecting to SSDs instead of relying on the CPU Big accelerator Memory, or BaM, is an intriguing endeavor to lower the dependence of NVIDIA GPUs & comparable hardware accelerators on a standard CPU such as accessing storage, which will improve performance and capacity. NVIDIA is the most prominent member of the BaM team, using their extensive resources for inventive projects such as moving routine CPU-focused tasks to GPU performance cores....

NVIDIA Says GeForce RTX 3090 Saves An Hour Worth of Render Time Against The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core CPU In its April Studio Driver suite, NVIDIA has brought a range of optimizations for the most popular 3D applications such as Unreal Engine 5, Cinema 4D, and Chaos Vantage. The new driver is stated to support the new NVIDIA Omniverse connectors from Blender and Redshift. To showcase the rendering performance improvement, NVIDIA compared its GeForce RTX 3090 graphics card and compared it to the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X, a 64-core CPU based on the Zen 2 core architecture....

User-Error, Not Design Flaw, As The Most Common Issue For NVIDIA’s Melting 16-Pin 12VHPWR Cable Issues In an official statement provided to GamersNexus, NVIDIA states that they are currently aware of 50 cases globally and the most common issue among all has been that the 16-Pin 12VHPWR cable wasn’t fully connected. The company is also investigating additional ways to ensure that the cable is secured properly before the card is powered on and one of the ways they have highlighted is to plug the cable into the card prior to installing it in your PC which is also something we recommend in our guide that you can read here....

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Graphics Card Rumored For 29th March Launch While 3070 Ti 16 GB Cancelled The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti graphics card was teased back at CES 2022 and the company stated that more information will be coming later that same month. Fast forward three months and we still haven’t heard anything from NVIDIA regarding its flagship graphics cards & rumors remain are the best bet at knowing what’s happening behind the scenes and causes for the indefinite delay....

Chip designer NVIDIA Corporation fell short of its guidance as it posted its earnings report for the first quarter of its fiscal year 2023 earlier today. The company reported $8 billion in revenue for the quarter, which marked a whopping 46% annual increase as it reported its highest quarterly revenue from the crucial data center segment. While the revenue from data center and overall revenues were striking, to say the least, NVIDIA rang the warning bells as its guidance for the current quarter, its second fiscal quarter, fell share of analyst estimates in a crucial development that indicates that the semiconductor sector is in for some tough love as we exit the first half of 2022....

OBS Studio opens up AV1 encoding support for Intel and AMD after NVIDIA received support earlier this month OBS Studio previously introduced AV1 encoding support for NVIDIA and the new GeForce RTX 40 series Ada Lovelace graphics cards but is branching out to offer further support for NVIDIA’s competition. The new OBS Studio 29 Beta 1 will support the same encoding, but this time for AMD’s Radeon RX 7000 series, also known as the RDNA 3 architecture, and Intel HEVC encoding support....

One advantage of online video editors is that they don’t need to download anything on your PC. Just start editing videos on the cloud straightaway. Some online tools will also include video converter and photo editors so that you can get an all in one package for all your video editing needs. I have tried to gather a few good online movie editor tools so you can do video editing online easily with advanced and powerful tools and features....

AMD RADV Radeon Vulkan driver begins support for device-generated commands through NVIDIA GPUs Michael Larabel of open-source website Phoronix reported the recent inclusion into Mesa 22.2. NVIDIA coded the VK_NV_device_generated_commands to now produce “device-generated commands to overcome the readback latency and inefficiencies when relying on the CPU for specific command generation work,” reports Larabel. Device Generated Commands, or DGC for short, also aid in situations where the graphics card hardware can process a more extensive section of the global scene to alter the shaders “on a per-draw basis....

On the Persona series official Japanese website, it has been confirmed that there will be no free upgrade for owners of the game’s original release, which is definitely surprising, considering it will not feature any additional content over the PlayStation 4 release. its original release on PlayStation 4, Persona 5 Royal will debut on PC, Xbox consoles, and Nintendo Switch later this year. These new versions of the successful role-playing game by Atlus will also feature all of the DLC packs released on PlayStation 4....

It takes a special kind of tone-deaf attitude for one to name an ERC-20 token with the express purpose of garnering fame through notoriety. Well, the colloquially labeled Pharma bro, Martin Shkreli, has now taken just such a step to capitalize on his own infamy by launching the Martin Shkreli Inu (MSI) token – we kid you not! Readers would know Martin Shkreli as the person who had jacked up the price of a life-saving drug, Daraprim, by 5,000 percent, winning widespread condemnation and an outright banishment from the wider pharma industry in the process....

Definitely the best trailer for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet thus far – here’s hoping the full game has this kind of energy. The official Pokémon Twitter account has also revealed the first two Tera Raid Battle events. For those unfamiliar, Tera Raid Battles are the main high-level activity for those playing co-op and will challenge multiple players to take down a powerful “Terastallized” Pokémon. Special event Tera Raid Battles that offer some unique reward or ability to face a rare Pokémon will be offered periodically....

Today, NVIDIA has revealed the details regarding the game’s launch, namely its release date and an upcoming launch party to which the entire community is invited. Gamers can join NVIDIA live on Twitch, YouTube, and Steam come December 6th at 10 AM PST for a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Portal with RTX, new gameplay, special surprises, giveaways of Portal game codes, and a chance to win GeForce RTX 4090 and GeForce RTX 4080 graphics cards....

Intel Denies Recent Arc GPU Rumors, Very Much Committed To Their Roadmap & Four New Product Lines To Ramp Later This Year Intel’s Vice President of Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics (AXG), Raja Koduri, went on Twitter to state that Intel Graphics is very much committed to their roadmap and they are ramping Alchemist (Intel Arc A-Series) and will continue to improve the experience. By experience, Raja must be talking about the global availability and driver ecosystem, both of which have been the primary drivers behind such controversies rising in the first place....

The main point of the event is to allow tourists to visit and explore the Baker Ranch, the site of Resident Evil 7’s story, entirely in VR. Partnering with Dynamo Amusement to make this happen, the exhibit, titled “Biohazard Walkthrough The Fear”, will support up to four people exploring the house at a time. Two pairs of two also work for this attraction. The main objective of the attraction is that the attraction patron has been captured by the Baker Family and will be prompted to escape the locale....