The latest LEGO game has received very positive reviews, and players are keen to pick up this title from TT Games and Warner Bros. Not only did the game sell very well physically, but the LEGO Star Wars parody is selling extremely well digitally as well. As a matter of fact, as reported by GamesIndustry.biz, the majority of sales were digital (61%) with Xbox being the dominant platform when it comes to digital sales....

Combining Two M1 Ultra Chipsets Could Mean the 2022 Mac Pro Can Be Equipped With up to a 40-Core CPU and More On Twitter, Majin Bu has posted an image showing that there will be a bridge that helps to connect two M1 Ultra chipsets to form a single custom Apple Silicon. As for what it will officially be called, we have yet to stumble upon those details, though he does mention the codename of the unnamed chipset as Redfern....

ACER Intros Budget Friendly Aspire 3 Laptop With AMD’s Ryzen 7000 ‘Mendocino’ APU For Just $399.99 US Announced back in September 2022, the AMD Mendocino APUs will be aiming at the entry-level laptop segment. Laptops based on these entry-level chips will be priced between $399 and $699 US. AMD Ryzen 7000 CPU Lineup (Official): Other specs on the Acer Aspire 3 laptop include a 15.6" IPS display which has a resolution of up to 1920x1080p, 8 GB of LPDDR5 memory, and 128 GB of NVMe storage....

Thankfully, Allsopp Avoided a Trip to the Hospital and Explained How She Chucked an AirPod from Her Mouth Kirstie Allsopp is regarded as an outspoken TV presenter and when she described what just happened on the micro-blogging website, it did not emanate a positive response from her audience. Several commenters on her tweet believe she was spewing lies, as they believed that it was humanly impossible to mistake an AirPod for a pill-shaped vitamin simply due to how different they look....

Order Cut Planned for Second and Third Quarter of 2022; Analyst Claims AirPods 3 ‘Failed Product Segmentation Strategy’ With demand for AirPods 3 weaker than AirPods 2, TF International Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo believes that Apple’s latest wireless earbuds are a part of the company’s ‘failed product segmentation strategy.’ The analyst might have meant that despite Apple having officially launched the AirPods 3, the AirPods 2 continued to be sold at a lower price, making these a more viable option for consumers....

The images, which have been leaked by well-known insider Dusk Golem highlight how the game will have a rather oppressive atmosphere, which is in line with the best entries in the series by Konami. Apparently, these images are from a 2020 build, so the game may look a little different when it gets announced. Additionally, this isn’t the only new Silent Hill game in development. — AestheticGamer aka Dusk Golem (@AestheticGamer1) May 13, 2022 Shortly after sharing the new Silent Hill game images, Dusk Golem has been hit by a DMCA notice from Konami, so it seems like these images are indeed legit....

AMD FSR 2.0 ‘FidelityFX Super Resolution’: A Monumental Upgrade Over FSR 1.0, Offering Better Image Quality on AMD & NVIDIA Graphics Cards Without Relying on Machine Learning Coming in Q2 2022, FSR 2.0 will offer various quality modes to gamers to get the balanced image quality and performance. There will be three primary modes, Quality, Balanced, and Performance like before but enhanced to offer better image quality and performance through the temporal upscaling techniques which bypass the requirement of ML (Machine Learning)....

AMD’s 3D V-Cache Boosted EPYC 7V73X Milan-X CPU Delivers Up To 12.5% Performance Increase Over Standard Milan The previous benchmarks from tech outlet, Chips and Cheese focused entirely on the latency performance of the upcoming Milan-X CPUs such as the flagship EPYC 7V73X. This time, they have published more latency benchmarks alongside overall bandwidth and workload-specific benchmarks against the EPYC 7763 CPU. One of the more interesting comparisons added to their test spree is Intel’s Ice Lake and Cascade Lake Xeon chips....

AMD Mendocino APU Specs Leak Out: Up To 4 Zen 2 CPU Cores, 2 RDNA 2 Compute Units, 32 GB LPDDR5 Memory & 4 PCIe Gen 3 Lanes Announced during Computex 2022, the AMD Mendocino APUs will be aimed at the entry-level thin and light notebook segment. The APU has also been featured in AYANEO’s upcoming Air Plus hand-held gaming console which launches later this year. Unlike the other two APUs (Rembrandt & Barcelo), the AMD Ryzen 6000 ‘Mendocino’ APUs will be equipped with Zen 2 CPU and RDNA 2 GPU cores....

AMD Radeon RX 6950XT ‘RDNA 2 Refresh’ Reference Graphics Card To Feature A Boost Clock Beyond 2.5 GHz With its existing 7nm Navi 21 XTXH GPU, AMD delivered some nice improvements to the clock speeds, allowing not only higher & stable clock frequencies but also pushing overclocked specs beyond 3 GHz. We have seen how the latter has helped overclockers push the Navi 21 XTXH GPU-equipped Radeon RX 6900 XT graphics card into the top positions in several benchmarks....

Outside of AMD not including the new encoding from Intel in its support, the name for VCN 4.0 has changed since the last update. The previous version was named ‘Video Core Next’ but is now known as ‘Video Codec Next.’ It is unknown why AMD’s software engineers changed the name or if it was a mistake in publishing. The inclusion of ‘codec’ does stand to be more capable of representation than the previous moniker....

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core & Ryzen 7 7700X 8-Core “Alleged” Zen 4 CPU Benchmarks Leaked In CPU-Z The source had posted two CPU-z benchmarks that are alleged of an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X & Ryzen 7 7700X Zen 4 Desktop CPU. The scores and OPN code were hidden on request of the primary source but the single-core score was mentioned and the multi-thread ratio was also listed in the CPU-z pic posted earlier which has now been removed....

AMD’s Vulkan ray-tracing driver, AMDVLK, receives a few new updates to improve performance in four games played in Linux and Steam Play open-source environments There were some minor fixes in the newest AMD AMDVLK 2022.Q4.2 update. New versions affected the dEQP-VK.pipeline.pipeline_library.graphics_library.misc.non_graphics and the dEQP-VK.ray tracing_pipeline.acceleration_structures.query_pool_results.cpu by creating a new CTS failure module. In Zink, there was a failure in the GTF-GL46.gtf32.GL3Tests.packed_pixels.packed pixels test that was fixed. Lastly, Battlefield 1 had a rendering issue affecting the visuals in the game that has now been corrected....

Android and iPhones Could Soon Get Excellent and Timely Support All Thanks to EU If these rules are enforced, they could easily shift the way Android OEMs have been handling software updates for some time now. At the time of writing, Samsung and Google are the only two companies that are offering five years of security updates on their phones. Despite this, not all of their devices are enjoying these benefits....

Glance happens to be a three-year-old startup that is responsible for serving news, media content, and games on the lock screens of Android phones, the service is backed by Google and is currently preparing to bring everything it offers to the smartphones in around two months, based on the latest report. Would You Be Okay with Ads on Your Android Lock Screen? The report also talks about how the subsidiary is apparently in talks with the carriers in the U....

AORUS Model S 12th Is A Gaming Mini PC That Looks Like An Xbox Series X But Is More Powerful Than The Console Recently, there have been a few chassis designs that look a lot similar to the Xbox Series X gaming console. NZXT was the first to introduce a similar design with its H1 Mini-ITX casing and it looks like AORUS is following suit with its new Model S 12th Gaming Mini PC which offers a combination of really high-end components within such a small form factor design....

iPhone 13 Pro, iPhone 13 Pro Max Captured 66 Percent of Sales in the Ultra-Premium Market, Where Pricing Exceeds $1,000 New data published by Counterpoint Research states that Apple reached its highest first quarter share in the premium phone segment since Q1 2017, which is impressive, given that inflation has diminished the purchasing power of consumers and prices of smartphones have gone up since five years. The research says that this is the eighth consecutive quarter in which the premium smartphone market has outperformed the overall smartphone market, suggesting that customers want to spend a little extra to get a decent handset as their daily driver....

With an eSIM, Apple States That Users Can Store Eight or More Numbers, With Models as Old as the iPhone XS Supporting the Technology In a support document published on Apple’s website, using an iPhone 14 or previous models that have eSIM technology will bring an additional layer of security. There have been some smartphones launched in the past that supported up to three SIM cards, whereas Apple continues to sell iPhones in other countries with up to two physical SIMs....

Apple May Wait to Launch Both realityOS and the AR Headset, Otherwise, Its Competitors Will Proceed to Make Changes Rapidly Despite the fact that the term realityOS was recently trademarked, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo does not believe the AR headset or its dedicated software will be shown to the press and other individuals in the coming days. According to Kuo, the head-mounted wearable has not entered mass production yet, suggesting that a final product is yet to reach completion....

Also, those wanting a blend of portability, performance, and extended battery life in a single package should make sure to get the M2 MacBook Air. As the name suggests, the machine ships with Apple’s newest M2 SoC, and that means you can experience slightly better performance than the M1 on the CPU side while also experiencing that ‘all day’ battery. Sadly, the M2 MacBook Air is less powerful than the MacBook Pro models fueled by Apple’s M1 Pro and M1 Max, but the machine is designed for complete portability as it is thinner than the aforementioned models and, therefore, lighter....