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During a GDC 2022 design session last week, Insomniac Games lead designer, Mark Stuart, talked about the design of last year’s Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart and its characters, including the female alternate dimension version of Ratchet, Rivet. Going by Stuart’s talk, a lot of alternate names were considered for the joyful character, but eventually, the team ended up with the name ‘Rivet’. As now expressed by former lead writer Sam Maggs, however, Stuart is now seemingly taking “unilateral credit” for her hard work on the game, while she wasn’t mentioned once, despite working on Rift Apart for a year and a half and being responsible for a major part of the game’s development....

Founded in the mid-2000s, Unity’s engine is well-known enough to be used by thousands of developers and could be found in some of your favorite (and not-so-favorite) titles. Some of the engine’s bigger games include titles like Cuphead (which is getting new DLC tomorrow, as of the time of publication). The company’s IPO filing states 3,300 employees working under Unity, though its LinkedIn and Glassdoor pages list significantly higher numbers (just above 8,000 in the case of LinkedIn)....

With the Black Friday sale, the prices of the Roborock robot vacuum cleaners range start from just $179! But it does go up to $1,059 for those of us who have a thing for the absolute latest tech. It’s a fine line between needs and wants when it comes to the latest tech, is it not (insert laugh-cry emoji…)? Roborock Beauties Going on the Black Friday 2022 Sale Here’s the full list of the truly smart Roborock robot vacuum cleaners that are going on massive discounts this Black Friday....

However, it seems like the Game Pass service is looking to be expanded according to a recent exclusive article posted by WindowsCentral. According to the article, a Family Plan for the service is currently being considered by Microsoft to be implemented at some point this year. Some of the details seem to be quite spicy additions that could be considered. For one, paying on a higher tier for an Xbox Game Pass Family Plan will net access for five players for games across the entire library, and will be far cheaper than paying for five separate XGP accounts as is necessary today....

Samsung Has Really High Hopes for the Galaxy S22 Series Now, a report from The Elec suggests that Samsung is working on increasing the production of the Galaxy S22 devices by 20%. This means that the company will produce over 30 million smartphones, 12 million of the units will go to the base variant, 8 million units of the plus variant, and 10 million units of the Ultra variant. Looking at these numbers, it is safe to say that Samsung is anticipating the Galaxy S22 to sell well....

Samsung Unveils Galaxy Book2 Pro Series Laptops at MWC 2022, Feature Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake CPUs & Arc Graphics The Samsung Galaxy Book2 Pro series aims to be the lightest and thinnest design made with the most powerful hardware specifications. The laptops come in two configurations, a 13.3" & a 15.6" model. In terms of design, the laptops come in silver and graphite colors while rocking a weight of up to 1....

The ceremony took place at the Hwaseong Campus, in Gyeonggi-do, with the event attended by various Samsung executives and politicians. Though Samsung has plans to mass produce 3nm GAA chips for smartphone vendors, the first batch is not tailored for Qualcomm and others. Instead, the initial supply will be for cryptocurrency miners, with the new 3nm GAA introducing a new efficiency threshold, reducing power consumption massively. We expect Samsung to use its 3nm GAA technology to mass produce the upcoming Exynos 2300....

Samsung’s Foundry Business Apparently Serves Over 100 Customers, One of Them Happens to Be Qualcomm A report from DigiTimes states that based on the current situation, 2022 is expected to see increased demand for chips. Samsung, who is already said to mass produce 4nm chips for the likes of Qualcomm, aims to get the better of its rival in the coming years. Samsung’s efforts are not just limited to its home turf in South Korea but have extended to the U....

Samsung Says Its LPDDR5X RAM Can Reduce Power Consumption by 20 Percent Mass produced on Samsung’s 14nm process, Samsung says that its collaboration with Qualcomm has enabled both entities to optimize the LPDDR5X’s 7.5Gbps bandwidth for use in Snapdragon mobile platforms. The Korean giant also states that the latest standard is 1.2 times faster than LPDDR5 RAM, which had a maximum bandwidth of 6.4Gbps. Benefits of using LPDDR5X memory include increased performance of high-resolution video capture, voice recognition, image recognition, and natural language processing in next-generation smartphones....

Samsung SmartThings Find is Enjoying Massive Success Thanks to Over 200 Million Users SmartThing Find lets Samsung users look for misplaced or stolen smartphones, tablets, as well as smartwatches, wireless earbuds, and even personal belongings if they are using SmartTag. The service uses Bluetooth LE and UWB to find devices, even when a device is outside the range of the user’s phone or tablet, SmartThings Find can still get help from other SmartThings Find-compatible smartphones to locate the device, which is always a convenient feature....

The first custom solution from Samsung may not appear until 2025, but rumor does not state if ARM’s architecture will continue to be used With Qualcomm Oryon set to debut in 2024 and Apple at the top of the rankings thanks to its powerful and efficient A-series silicon, The Elec reports that Samsung also plans to maintain a healthy level of competition. According to the latest information, the company has formed a team that is solely dedicated to developing a custom mobile SoC, though the official name has not been disclosed....

In Total, Samsung Could Supply Apple up to a Whopping 149 Million OLED Panels for the iPhone 14 Previously, Samsung was said to supply Apple with an estimated 130 million LTPO OLED screens for the high-end iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max. Given that circumstances can change overnight and the fact that the latest ‘Pro’ models have more upgrades than the regular versions to highlight their importance in the market, the Korean supplier will undertake more orders accordingly....

Galaxy S22 Ships With a Screen Protector in Most Countries Except for South Korea A Samsung Community member shared an image below of a company official stating that Samsung is planning to stop providing screen protectors with future Galaxy smartphones. The reasons for this are simple, which the Korean giant has apparently highlighted too. Right now, the Galaxy S22 is the first Galaxy S series handset to ship with an Armor Aluminum frame, with Corning’s Gorilla Glass Victus+ at the front and back....

M2 MacBook Pro with 8GB RAM, 256GB Storage, Retina display and More Currently $100 off for Limited Time So, you want the M2 chip inside your laptop but you don’t want a MacBook Air. Then the M2 MacBook Pro is for you. And thanks to its active cooling system, it can sustain workloads for longer compared to the new MacBook Air as well. If you’re familiar with the MacBook Pro, rest is pretty standard....

Show Off Your AirTag in the Official Leather Key Ring from Apple - Discounted by $13.41 for a Limited Time Only If you recently bought an AirTag and want to show it off by hanging it to your car keys or bag, then there are plenty of accessories to choose from that allow you to do that. But, if you need something that fits like a glove and go hand in hand with AirTag then nothing comes close to the official leather key ring....

Enter MADFINGER Games, a company that, ten years ago, has made a departure for the mobile games scene. Today, the company announced that they’re jumping back into PC game design. They’ve also gone ahead and mentioned that the basis of their new game is a “realistic hardcore FPS for the PC”. The team there posted an article where CEO Marek Rabas was answering questions relating to the upcoming project and bluntly answered why the game isn’t on mobile, by saying, “The game design we created is not suitable for mobile....

For example, there is now an installer program that makes the installation process much easier. Similarly, Silent Hill 2 Enhanced Edition can now be fully configured before launching the game through a handy launcher tool. Then there’s the highly anticipated audio fix for the skipping sound that affected all modern PCs with multicore CPUs. Silent Hill 2 Enhanced Edition now features a custom streaming audio engine that resolves this and also fixes the stutter in cutscenes dialogues....

Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Rumored to Be Mass Produced on TSMC’s 4nm Process, Will See Improvements Across Various Areas Unlike past Qualcomm chipsets, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is said to feature a ‘1 + 2 + 2 + 3’ CPU configuration, according to Ice Universe, who also states in his tweet below that the chipset will be made on TSMC’s 4nm process, the same one used for the Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 and A16 Bionic....

Talking to Sector, Sonic Team boss Takashi Iizuka says they see Sonic Frontiers in the same category as Sonic Adventure, in the sense it will provide a foundation for future games to come. “Just like Sonic Adventure, our goal for Sonic Frontiers was to create a game that would be the cornerstone of future Sonic games. It is a brand-new approach for the franchise, but we have been conscious to honor Sonic’s roots as well - the game still needs to feel like a Sonic game....

Briar and Lute are two sisters who have been reborn as a Chimera. The transformation has granted Briar superhuman strength and resilience, while Lute, who was sacrificed in order to bind her soul to her sister’s, has become a ghost with mystical powers. Voiced by Stefanie Joosten (Metal Gear Solid 5), Briar and Lute are sent on a mission to reclaim a city in ruins that has been ravaged by the Wraiths, only to discover that the Order they belong to has a far more complex plan in mind....