Per Schreier, this new game began as a major expansion to Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, perhaps similar in scope to the upcoming Dawn of Ragnarok, but Ubisoft Montreal has now split it off as a standalone title. Apparently, the game will star the AC universe’s reincarnation of Loki, Basim, and will be a somewhat smaller-scale experience, casting aside the usual huge open-world for more linear stealth-based gameplay. As for why Ubisoft is opting to release a smaller-scale standalone Assassin’s Creed, the publisher is said to be concerned about the state of its release calendar....

In the same press release where it confirmed the Atomic Heart publishing deal signed with Mundfish, the publisher stated: The group also plans to launch Atlas Fallen, a game developed by Deck 13 Interactive, one of the Group’s studios, in the spring of 2023 to give the teams at Deck13 Interactive time to maximize the potential of this new franchise. Announced at Gamescom at the end of August during the Opening Night Live conference, it has already received an extremely positive reception from the press and gamers around the world....

Damn, I’m going to have to make sure my thumbs are in peak condition before I try out this game. Haven’t been keeping up with Atomic Heart? Do check out Wccftech’s latest Q&A with Mundfish and the following key features… The Future USSR - A global system failure happens at the Soviet Facility №3826 that leads machinery to rebel against the people. You are Major P-3 and your task is to eliminate the consequences of a large-scale accident and prevent the leakage of classified information threatening to destroy the whole world....

In a new blog post, the Battlefield team largely admits that the focus on 128-player maps was a mistake and are promising to reduce the distance between spawn points and flags and seem to be strongly considering reducing Breakthrough mode to 64 players. Thankfully, there are also plans to add cover and light-of-sight blockers to maps in order to make them less of a sniper’s paradise. You can get the rundown on the design changes being considered, below....

Speaking on Twitter, former CD Projekt Red employee Bart Wronski provided some context for why the studio switched to Unreal Engine 5, revealing that for each new game, the studio basically rewrote REDEngine from scratch, hoping it would work better than the previous time, but then had to hack it due to crunch, which made it not maintainable. As this would be happening again, the studio opted for an engine with a solid base to avoid making the same mistakes of the past....

China Makes Its Most Powerful General-Purpose GPU To Date, The Birentech BR100 With 77 Billion Transistors The Birentech BR100 is the flagship General-Purpose GPU that China has to offer, featuring an in-house GPU architecture that utilizes a 7nm process node and houses 77 Billion transistors within its die. The GPU has been fabricated on TSMC’s 2.5D CoWoS design and also comes packed with 300 MB of on-chip cache, 64 GB of HBM2e with a memory bandwidth of 2....

Yesterday, the development team at Relic Entertainment had made an announcement that covered the nature of the game’s campaign missions. The game takes place in the Mediterranean regions of the world, and Relic pointed out two major mechanics to come in the newest Company of Heroes title. You can watch the new Developer Diary below, which goes into further detail about the newest gameplay additions to the third entry in the series....

Speaking on his Twitter profile, Team Ninja’s Hiroaki Morita confirmed that after the release of the sixth entry in the series, a small team was working on both the seventh entry in the series and small updates for the sixth. Just before Yohei Shinbori, one of the series directors, retired, however, this team has been disbanded, and the project has been canceled. After sharing the news, Hiroaki Morita made his Twitter profile private, so the tweet is not accessible at the moment....

As reported on the Xbox Series X subreddit, the game has appeared on the Xbox Store, suggesting that it will be released in the near future on Microsoft’s current generation consoles. Deathloop’s PlayStation 5 exclusivity period ends today, one year after its release, so it is extremely likely we will get a release date announcement very soon. As already mentioned above, Deathloop launched last year, on September 14th 2021, on PC and PlayStation 5....

Nintendo consoles have long suffered from piracy issues and the Switch is no different. Even if a game is protected against piracy on its PC version, the released version on Switch can be emulated from day one and played on PC, therefore bypassing the strong protections offered on the PC version. This can happen with any of the numerous games available on Switch. By preventing piracy on Switch while blocking unauthorized emulations on PC, studios are able to increase their revenue during the game launch window, which is the most important period in regard to monetization....

Beta 2 of iOS 15.4, iPadOS 15.4, watchOS 8.5, macOS 12.3 and tvOS 15.4 Now Available for Download It is highly likely that Apple is going to release the full and final version of its software at its rumored March event, where the company is expected to make some Mac and iPad related announcements. Today though, the company has released beta 2 of iOS 15.4 and iPadOS 15.4 for both iPhone and iPad, but only available if you’re a registered developer with Apple....

First Betas of iOS 15.6, iPadOS 15.6 are Now Available for Registered Developers as we Move Closer to iOS 16 Release Next Month Apple released a barrage of software updates earlier this week, and today Apple is stepping things up with the release of iOS 15.6 and iPadOS 15.6. The most interesting part is - iOS 6 and iPadOS 16 is just around the corner and the company is constantly working on its current public release to make it a stable as possible....

iOS 16 Final is Now Available for Download - Here’s Everything New in the Update, How to Clean Install, Download IPSW, Perform OTA Update and Downgrade Back to iOS 15 You’ve been waiting for this day a long time, especially if you didn’t try out the beta or public beta of iOS 16. There are a ton of great new features to try out, including the brand new Lock Screen. But, instead of going through all of the features here, we will lay down the entire feature set of the update below....

Created by artist ‘Leo Torres’, this technical fan showcase is a re-creation of the rainy coastal region in Ferelden. It features Unreal Engine 5’s new tech, including Lumen, Nanite, and Temporal Super Resolution. “This was a more technically difficult environment to build, mostly because it had so much heavy FX”, the artist writes. “As usual, this used a combination of megascans assets, free photogrammetry assets, and custom modeled assets in Blender....

It is safe to say that Android phones do not offer anything close to Dynamic Island, and sooner or later, this feature is going to become a part of the Android ecosystem one way or another. Keeping up with the tradition of “feature-borrowing”, someone has gone ahead and implemented the new feature on Android. The Dynamic Island is One iPhone Feature I Really Want on Android Spotted by Vaibhav Jain, there is a short clip that shows how Dynamic Island-style notifications look on Xioami’s MIUI software....

“‘B OHNI,’ is a game that leaked on […] Reddit. A Discord user found this in EA’s [Origin] API and, people were like ‘This seems like an EA partner game made with Koei Tecmo, that’s weird.’ It’s real. I can confirm that, yes, Koei Tecmo is working with EA on a partner game. And where does your mind first go when you hear Koei Tecmo and EA? They’re probably going to make a musou, right?...

The news was announced by the publisher on its official blog. As outlined by EA’s Sr. Director of Game Security & Anti-Cheat, Elise Murphy, EA AntiCheat is a kernel-mode anti-cheat and anti-tamper solution that offers kernel-mode protections. “For games that are highly competitive and contain many online modes like FIFA 23, kernel-mode protection is absolutely vital”, Murphy explains in her blog post. “When cheat programs operate in kernel space, they can make their cheat functionally invisible to anti-cheat solutions that live in user-mode....

Armament Reinforcement in Elden Ring has been significantly streamlined over the Dark Souls games, which featured multiple reinforcement item types that could be used on certain types of weapons. In the new game, the only reinforcement items are Smithing Stones, which are used for normal weapons, and Somber Smithing Stones, which are used for special weapons. Normal weapons can be reinforced up to +25, while special weapons can be upgraded up to +10....

The Firebending Moveset mod introduces new explosive ranged and melee moves, which replace the one-handed and two-handed movesets for the Katar weapon, as well as a new Ash of War called Lighting Generation. Full moveset! Light Attacks Heavy Attacks Rolling, Sprinting, Jumping Attacks Horseback Attacks! New Ash of War: Lightning Generation Press L2 to summon lightning, using your body as a conduit. Press L2 again to expel the lightning, unleashing 3 lightning projectiles that explode on contact....

Entry-Level iPad 10 Features a Brand-New Design With A14 Bionic Chip, USB-C, and Much More As mentioned earlier, the entry-level iPad is Apple’s low-priced mainstream iPad. In terms of design, the iPad 10 now features a modern design, resembling the higher-end iPad Pro models. With the latest model, Apple’s entire iPad lineup now features flat edges and a bigger display. Another major change that Apple implemented this year is switching from Lightning to USB-C....