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Soldier Lives to Fight Another Day as a Bullet Hits the iPhone 11 Pro, Shattering Its Innards Apple makes sure that its iPhones are made with the best quality materials, but even then, enough force exerted on one of these can break them, with a zero chance of repairability. However, what was surprising is how one bullet’s potential damage was completely absorbed by an iPhone 11 Pro when it was being carried by a Ukrainian soldier....

The 4th installment in the beloved franchise was announced via a debut trailer at the ending of the anniversary event. The trailer shows a mature Sora, as well as Donald and Goofy, thereby seemingly departing from the cartoonish ‘cute’ style of the previous games in the series. The trailer for Kingdom Hearts 4 opens with the following line: “If this isn’t the ending you desired- if it brings you despair- then leave this world for another”....

LG Unveils UltraGear 45" Curved Ultrawide & 27" Flat QHD Gaming Displays With 240Hz OLED Panels & 0.03ms Response Time LG Electronics has announced its two new gaming displays, with preorders beginning December 12 and shipping as early as December 28, 2022. LG’s UltraGear series are premium gaming displays to offer the best experience for users with ultimate viewing and immersion in the most popular games. Pre-order soon:https://t.co/daXafmFuCS pic.twitter.com/g7EMEOAZHk — LG Electronics (@LGUS) November 23, 2022 45’’ UltraGear OLED Curved Gaming Display WQHD The LG UltraGear OLED Curved Gaming Display WQHD offers a 44....

AMD Ryzen CPUs & APUs Get Host of Improvements In Linux 5.17 Of course, Linux recently released Linux 5.16, but that means that developers of the open-source operating system have once again started working diligently to make Linux 5.17 much better than its predecessor. Phoronix reported a feature overview about Linux 5.17 now that the finalization of new features is submitted and tagged as Linux 5.17-rc1. The Linux 5.17 progress is now starting to see weekly release candidates until the final kernel is prepared with an anticipated time frame around the latter half of March 2022....

Warning: The following article contains some SPOILERS for Martha is Dead. As many suspected, a scene present in the Martha is Dead demo in which you peel off a person’s face, as well as another scene detailed in the game’s ESRB rating where you cut open a woman’s womb and pull out a fetus, were subjects of Sony’s ire. Both scenes are still in the game, but they’re no longer interactive....

Rockstar boss Sam Houser is also excited about the fan-favorite series’ return. The Max Payne remakes join a number of other projects on Remedy’s increasingly busy plate, including a sequel to Control, Alan Wake II, and multiplayer game being published by Tencent. Hopefully, the company has the resources to do Max Payne justice, because this project will likely immediately jump to the top of many fans “most-anticipated” lists. As mentioned, Max Payne 1 & 2 is slated for PC, Xbox Series X/S, and PS5....

Microsoft is introducing a new controller bar feature that provides easy, controller-friendly access to recently played games and game launchers. “The controller bar opens when you pair or connect a controller to your Windows 11 PC running the latest Insider Preview build in the Dev and Beta Channels,” the Windows development team writes. “Your most recently played games and installed game launchers are just a button press away. Invoke the controller bar when you’re not already in a game, by pressing the Xbox button on your controller....

The full response drafted by Microsoft lawyers was released by CNBC. Over its 37 pages, the Xbox company goes as far as claiming that the FTC’s proceedings are essentially in violation of the Constitution of the United States of America. Here’s an excerpt from the final section titled Affirmative and Other Defenses. The Commission’s procedures violate Microsoft’s right to procedural due process under the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment....

MIT’s Building 12 is renamed the Lisa T. Su Building in honor of the AMD CEO’s achievements What used to be called Building 12, The Lisa T. Su Building, operated as the campus’s open-access installation for nanoscale science and engineering. Constructed in 2018, the building accommodates the MIT.nano Immersion Lab, committed to “visualizing, understanding, and interacting with large, multidimensional data,” as well as prototyping instruments and devices for augmented and virtual reality realities....

Starting off with the Citadel Tour, this trailer lets players take a tour of the new key locale for Master Rank Quests, joining the selection of locales already available in Monster Hunter Rise. With the Sunbreak expansion, players will notice the unique fauna and flora, castle ruins, along with a variety of different landscapes and biomes, ranging from ice-covered snowy regions to foggy swamplands. This land was once a thriving part of the Kingdom but is now devastated, leaving plenty of room for nature to take its course and flourish around it....

The game builds upon the story set forth in the platinum-selling Moss video game that still ranks as one of the best-rated VR games to date. Having rescued her uncle Argus, Quill’s adventure continues with the revelation that a winged tyrant is hunting her within the hexed castle where her uncle was held captive. Quill, however, has a plan of her own. Lined with dangerous terrain, challenging puzzles, and enemies twisted in fire and steel, the journey will be trying—filled with triumph and heartbreak alike—but new allies, old friends, and the very nature of the castle itself can offer help along the way....

This year at Computex 2022, MSI hinted at the new launch of their gaming monitor series that presents users with a 34-inch QD-OLED panel display. The MSI MEG 342C QD-OLED gaming monitor showcases a curved display for ease of use with gamers, limiting neck strain and enveloping users more into the game. We recently reported about LG launching their new UltraGear line of monitors that use a 4K Nano IPS display featuring realistic color with Advanced True Wide (ATW) Polarizer technology....

After spending six months in space, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) astronaut Raja Chari provided an update about his physical condition yesterday evening. Chari was part of the NASA-SpaceX Crew-3 mission that took to the skies on board SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket in November last year and returned to Earth earlier this month. Crew-3 was Chari’s maiden spaceflight and the astronaut was a fighter pilot serving with the United States Air Force when he was selected by NASA for astronaut training in 2017....

Intel open-source i915 graphics driver to be replaced with new, Xe-based graphics kernel for better optimization and broader adoption in previous architectures The i915 graphics driver was initially introduced during the 915G Northbridge chipset generation. Now, developers are looking into updating the i915 graphics kernel with a Xe-based kernel graphics driver that will help support integrated and discrete Intel graphics cards with an estimated launch as quickly as next year. This new DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) driver will begin supporting Xe graphics and 12th Generation graphics and will continue to support the i915 driver once the new manager is in place....

Now, Inflexion Games has been featured in the latest PC Gamer magazine issue, revealing new juicy details about Nightingale. The Canadian developers have said that the game includes several renowned historical figures, such as two-time Nobel winner Marie Curie, American journalist and world trip record-breaker Nellie Bly, and plenty more as NPCs. NPCs in Nightingale will also eventually be recruitable by players, as outlined by the studio. Neil Thompson (Art and Audio Director): Nellie Bly was an interesting character in that period, a very independent and resourceful woman at the time, and meeting her gives players an opportunity to just delve deeper into the world and into the lore....

Hello Games is far from done with No Man’s Sky, though, as revealed by founder Sean Murray to IGN. The Guildford-based independent studio is also working on a new game, as announced back in September 2020. Not much is known about it other than it’ll be a huge and ambitious game like No Man’s Sky (though no direct sequel), whereas the puzzle game The Last Campfire (released in August 2020 on PC, consoles, and iOS) was much smaller in scope and scale....

NVIDIA GeForce & AMD Radeon GPU Prices Now Just 10% Over MSRP: Graphics Cards In Stock Everywhere! In the latest report by 3DCenter, we can see that the GPU prices for both NVIDIA GeForce and AMD Radeon graphics cards continue to fall which shouldn’t be a surprise as that’s the trend we have witnessed since the end of 2021. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 series prices now average at around 14% over MSRP while AMD’s Radeon RX 6000 series averages with a selling price of 6% over MSRP....

NVIDIA Fired Back at Hackers By Encrypting Its Stolen Data & Installing Malware On Hacker Machines Vx-underground states that LAPSU$, an extortion group, operating out of South America is claiming responsibility for the cyberwar attack that infiltrated NVIDIA’s servers a few days ago. It is claimed that over 1 TB of NVIDIA’s proprietary data was exfiltrated however NVIDIA was quick to react and successfully managed to breach the hackers with its own response....

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Takes Up Best Selling GPU Spot At Newegg Followed By RTX 4090 In A Close 3rd Spot This news does come as a surprise as recent reports have shown that the GeForce RTX 4080 has had lacking sales throughout the marketplace. Newegg reports that the store’s top seller is the Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4080 Gaming OC graphics card ($1,269.99). Interestingly enough, the previous generation graphics cards, such as NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3060 and RTX 3060 Ti models, remain a favorite in the top 5 spots with consumers due to the lower pricing found in the RTX 30 series GPUs....

Ten days ago, Golden Reviewer uploaded a video showing the Genshin Impact game running at a resolution of 7K on an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card. His PC specs are listed below: Intel Gen Core i7-10700KF Asus Prime Z490-P motherboard 64GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4-3200 RAM MSI GeForce RTX 4090 GAMING X TRIO 24G GPU Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 2TB Golden Reviewer is running the above Genshin Impact test at 6880 x 2880 resolution with the graphics settings to the highest quality throughout....