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VA-API combines an API specification and an open-source library, consisting of the primary library source and supported graphics backends to assist every compatible hardware vendor’s driver-specific acceleration. Intel designed the library to help with the company’s graphics hardware acceleration, especially when encoding and decoding video on Intel’s graphics hardware platforms. Intel Arc GPUs offer support of VA-API but also oneVPL, a single library that is part of the oneAPI suite....

The leak is coming from Evan Blass, who shared a trio of images for Logitech G Gaming Handheld; the name is surely a weird one, but hey, the name is definitely official. Now, for those who do not know, Logitech’s G Gaming brand is specified for gaming peripherals like keyboards and mice, but the “could gaming handheld” is another addition and should be coming out later this year. The Logitech G Gaming Handheld Could Take Android Gaming to the Next Level The form factor of the Logitech G Gaming Handheld has a Nintendo Switch-esque form factor; the device is largely in white with black thumbsticks that are flanking the screen....

M2 MacBook Pro Does Not Throttle Under the Same Sustained Workload, but Luckily, the M2 MacBook Air Throttles Less Than the M1 MacBook Air A video review done by The Verge reveals that the M2 MacBook Air throttles to keep its temperature under the recommended limit. Despite the new M2 touting improvements over the M1, it cannot flex its muscles properly if there is inadequate cooling, and according to the test that was run, the end result shows precisely that....

The game’s tactical combat looks more familiar, although grids have been eliminated and elemental Sparks (a cross between Rabbids and Mario Galaxy’s Luma) will add a new layer of depth to battles. We also get another look at the game’s new playable characters, including Rabbid Rosalina, the original sword-wielding Rabbid character Edge, and Bowser. Yes, the bad guy’s putting his differences with Mario aside this time around. Check out the full Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope presentation, below....

MediaTek Dimensity 1050 Makes Waves By Supporting Both mmWave and sub-6GHz 5G The MediaTek Dimensity 1050 is built on a 6nm-class process and features an octa-core setup. You are getting two ARM Cortex A-78 performance cores clocked at 2.5GHz. Sadly, the press material does not mention anything about the efficiency cores but it is safe to say that the chipset is using ARM Cortex-A55 cores. The ARM Mali-G610 is in charge of gaming and other graphical tasks....

Sabrent’s Rocket Plus G SSDs For Gamers Are Optimized & Ready For Microsoft’s DirectStorage API While the Microsoft Windows 11 OS has already integrated support for the DirectStorage API and we have seen some early benchmarks proving it to be a game changer in bringing console-like SSD speeds to the PC Gaming platform, the first game, Forspoken, has been delayed to early 2023 so we have to wait a bit to see the technology in action ourselves....

Wētā Workshop, which had opened an interactive division several years ago, announced to have signed a publishing deal with Take-Two’s Private Division. The Middle-earth game has a license directly from Middle-earth Enterprises, which means they have access to the literary works made by J.R.R. Tolkien. The game is said to be early in development, with a release planned in Take-Two’s fiscal year 2024. That means it should be available by March 2024, though of course, delays are always a very real possibility....

Ryukishi recently shared on their YouTube channel a new video that shows how certain attacks from monsters like Magnamalo and Rajang are more difficult to dodge on the PC version of the game running at high framerates, mostly due to certain animations being tied to framerate. After watching the video, I fought Magnamalo myself to verify Ryukishi’s findings, and I indeed had far less trouble avoiding Magnamalo tail thrusting attack at 30 and 60 FPS, where I could just walk away from it, than at 120 or unlocked FPS, where I had to roll....

MSI Gives Close-Up Look at Socket AM5 & Dual Chipset PCB Design On Its Next-Gen X670E & X670 Motherboards For AMD Ryzen 7000 CPUs MSI unveiled its X670E & X670 AM5 motherboards on Monday, featuring a total of four initial board designs that are headed to market shelves in Fall 2022. These include the MEG X670E GODLIKE, the MEG X670E ACE, MPG X670E Carbon WIFI, and PRO X670-P WIFI. While AMD will continue to offer support of its AM4 motherboards, the AM5 lineup is what’s going to be the future home for next-gen Ryzen CPUs....

MSI MEG 342C QD-OLED Gaming Display Includes SpectrumBar For Full Ambient Lightning & HDMI 2.1 Support The MSI MEG series gaming displays are some of the most premium monitors that one can buy. The latest iteration of these displays comes with QD-OLED (Quantum Dot) technology which has been featured on the mighty MEG 342C QD-OLED. This display has a load of features and to start things off, it comes with a 34" Curved (21:9) panel which has a maximum resolution of 3440x1440 (UWQHD) and a refresh rate of 175 Hz....

Of course, being inspired by 80s cartoons, MythForce also has its own rockin’ theme song. MythForce enters early access this month, and Beamdog is promising to deliver more content via regular seasonal updates. Need to know more? Here’s the game’s official description… MythForce enters early access on PC (via the Epic Games Store) on April 20. Immersive 1st-Person Fantasy - Wield legendary weapons and powerful magic to smite hordes of enemies in an immersive fantasy dungeon-crawl through a colorful cartoon castle....

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) successfully finished a flight readiness review of its Artemis 1 mission late in the evening yesterday, as it gears up to establish a regular presence on the Moon. At its post-review conference, NASA officials confirmed that the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket is ready to launch this coming Monday, after some final last-minute checks for its engines are completed. The Artemis 1 mission is part of the space agency’s Artemis program which aims at establishing a lunar base with the hope of conducting missions to Mars as well....

The new trailer, which has been created by Teaser Play, showcases a Hulk open-world game set in a huge city in the vein of Insomniac Spider-Man. Needless to say, technology such as ray tracing, Lumen, and Nanite makes this concept trailer look great. All of us are undoubtedly counting the moments for a high quality open world game of the Hulk, in this video we tried to imagine this possible Game in Unreal Engine 5 with High End Graphics Features Such as Screen Space Ray Tracing, Lumen and Nanite there is no doubt the take control of Bruce banner and HULK in a open world game like Spider-Man will be super exciting with current gen graphics Unreal Engine 5 is Powerful Engine that going to be used to make many PS5 and Xbox Series X|S games The Unreal Engine 5 is the latest version of the engine developed by Epic, which will power plenty of future titles, ranging from Ninja Theory’s Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 and Kingdom Hearts IV to the next entry in The Witcher series....

According to the Newzoo report, the U.S. ($50.5 billion) will generate more than China ($50.2 billion) in 2022. The overtake makes sense, as the Chinese government has been cracking down on gaming in China, limiting new game releases and young people’s gaming time. The market is beginning to show the impact of these regulatory pressures. Regardless of this, the Asia-Pacific market still remains the biggest region by revenues by a massive margin....

Nikola Corporation (NASDAQ:NKLA), a manufacturer of heavy-duty commercial BEVs and FCEVs, is experiencing a fairly resilient rebound after ending up as one of the worst performing industrial stocks in June, having declined around 33 percent during the month. The stock is up around 22 percent in the past 5 trading days. Currently, the company’s product portfolio includes the BEV and the FCEV variant of the Nikola TRE truck, as well as the fuel-cell-based Nikola TWO truck....

— Mat Piscatella (@MatPiscatella) May 13, 2022 It was, overall, a solid month for the industry with more steady supply of new consoles (specifically the Switch and Xbox Series X/S) leading to a 16 percent jump in hardware sales year-on-year. Overall, players spent $4.3 billion on games, additional content, and hardware in in April, an 8 percent year-on-year decrease. The Switch was the #1 console, followed by the Xbox Series X/S....

The most renowned addition is undoubtedly HITMAN 3, which is getting ray tracing with a patch due later today. According to NVIDIA, with all graphics options maxed (including ray traced reflections and shadows), DLSS can boost frame rates by more than 2X at 4K. Then there’s F1 22, coming soon with a slew of ray traced features such as opaque reflections, transparent reflections, ambient occlusion, and shadows. NVIDIA DLSS is sure to be needed at high resolution with all those ray traced effects enabled....

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti To Feature AD106 GPU, 4352 Cores, 8 GB GDDR6 Memory & 220W TDP For 2023, we know that NVIDIA is going to kick things off with its GeForce RTX 4070 Ti graphics card but the green team also plans to enter the more mainstream segment with the RTX 4070 and 4060 Ti series graphics cards. Rumored specifications for the GeForce RTX 4070 were revealed last week and it looks like Kopite7kimi is now providing us with possible specifications of the RTX 4060 Ti GPU that is expected to launch around mid of 2023....

NVIDIA Hopper GH100 GPU For Next-Gen Data Centers Rumored To Feature Over 140 Billion Transistors In A Monster 5nm Package A few weeks ago, it was reported in a rumor that NVIDIA’s Hopper GH100 flagship GPU would be based on a 5nm process node with a die size measuring close to 900mm2. This would make it the largest GPU ever produced, not only on the 5nm process node but also in all existence....

NVIDIA Readies Three New GeForce RTX 30 Series Graphics Cards: RTX 3070 Ti GA102 GPU, RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X & RTX 3060 8 GB Variants NVIDIA doesn’t want to make a whole lot of noise around these SKUs and as such, they will see a silent launch within the retail segment. NVIDIA had several repurposed GeForce RTX 20 GPUs that were launched during the RTX 30 series life cycle so the same is going to happen with the out-going RTX 30 series....