I’m pretty confident now High on Life is the biggest Game Pass “Day 1” launch of 2022. pic.twitter.com/KU7AXSRon8 — Benji-Sales (@BenjiSales) December 19, 2022 High on Life is currently the most popular game on Xbox Game Pass, pushing aside reliable list-toppers like Minecraft, Forza Horizon 5, and Halo Infinite. Meanwhile, High on Life was the #1 selling game on Steam last week (second to only the Steam Deck in dollar sales)....

At the start of your journey, the map will look pretty empty and so it won’t be particularly useful to help you find dungeons, Evergaols, and other points of interest. To fill it, you will have to find Map Fragments that are scattered all over the Lands Between. The game, however, makes it easy to do so after you set foot in any specific area whose map hasn’t been filled already, as you will find icons in the unfilled portion of the map that will reveal you where the Guide Steles with missing Map Fragments are....

For those who do not know, raytracing is a new graphic rendering technique that is used to help with infinitely better light illumination in scenes. PC, Xbox Series X|S, and PS5 already have support for raytracing but with Immortalis, mobile users will soon enjoy this massive bump in gaming visuals. The Arm Immortalis GPU Supports Hardware Raytracing. Could Usher Mobile Gaming Into a New Era. Arm has mentioned that the raytracing block on the....

Intel Readies 13th Gen Raptor Lake-P CPUs For Laptops, Core i7-1370P With 14 Cores & 5 GHz Clock Speed Leaks Out The most recent leaks have confirmed that Intel’s 13th Gen Raptor Lake Laptop CPU lineup will feature the HX ‘Enthusiast’, H ‘High-End’, and P ‘Mainstream’ parts. The latest leak is from Intel’s Core i7-1370P which is part of the mainstream lineup and was featured in a Dynabook OK011A / 0001 laptop....

Mercury research: AMD takes more ground in the server but loses overall x86 market share Based on the information obtained by Computerbase.de, the Mercury Research report suggests that AMD’s market share on the desktop side of things fell by a massive 6.6 percentage points on a Q/Q basis and 3.1 percentage points on a Y/Y basis to 13.9%. The notebook side showed the highest market share loss with AMD going from a calculated 24....

Intel Core i9-13900K Raptor Lake CPU Is Just As Fast As The Core i9-12900K Alder Lake CPU at 80W In the latest benchmarks posted by Enthusiast Citizen over at Bilibili Forums, we get to see the Intel Core i9-13900K Raptor Lake CPU being tested within Cinebench R23 in various profiles. The results range from stock, unlimited power, and limited power profiles. But before that, let’s take a quick re-cap of the specs....

Intel’s Graphics Research Organization on a Mission to Deliver the Best Immersive Visuals Press Release: I have spent my career at the forefront of graphics technology, with the added good fortune of experiencing a breadth of it — from game engines and film rendering to hardware and middleware to AR and VR headsets. I have had plenty of work because everybody, including myself, wants more immersive visual experiences. It is a basic fact: We are visual-first creatures and “a feast for the eyes” is never satisfied....

Intel Meteor Lake CPUs With TGPU Design Reportedly Comes With Ray Tracing & FP64 Support But Lacks XMX Units According to a detailed report published by Coelacanth-Dream, it looks like the GPU featured on the Intel Meteor Lake CPUs is detected as a Xe-HPG product within IGC (Intel Graphics Compiler). Considering that, we can assume that it will be using the same architecture as the existing DG2 or Alchemist GPUs but that’s not entirely the case....

Intel promises 100 billion transistors in the new Ponte Vecchio compute GPU to bring the company into more mainstream AI & high-performance computing applications Last week, Intel confirmed on Twitter that the company has begun to test and sample the Ponte Vecchio compute GPU. Their new compute GPU will allow the company to give consumers the ability to access more development and functions through AI and HPC applications. In Western Europe, Mikael Moreau, Intel’s PR manager, revealed the module that offers a unique cooling component....

Intel Shifting Bulk of AXG Team on Battlemage Development, Raja Calls It “Significantly Better” Than Where Alchemist Was At Its Current Stage Yesterday, we got our first taste of Arc Alchemist GPUs for the mainstream segment and while the potential is there, the main bottleneck right now for Intel is the driver stack. In short, Intel’s actual work begins now as Arc Alchemist GPUs will be rolling out to consumers in the coming week & the gaming audience will be the ones who help develop the Arc software ecosystem by testing it out & providing valuable game performance and stability data to Intel....

Intel Dragon Canyon NUC 12 Extreme Official: Alder Lake Desktop CPUs, PCIe Gen 5 Discrete Graphics Cards Support Starting at $1150 US Intel’s NUC 12 Extreme ‘Dragon Canyon’ comes with a lot of differences from previous offerings, including support for the 12th Gen Alder Lake CPUs on the desktop LGA 1700 socket. About Its Monster Performance, Small Footprint: The NUC 12 Extreme offers breakthrough speeds with up to a 12th Gen Intel Core i9 processor, featuring eight Performance-cores (P-cores) and eight Efficient-cores (E-cores), 24 threads and up to 5....

Third-Party Apps Will Now Behave Like Apple’s Stock Apps, Offering a More Fluid, Streamlined Experience The transition from 60Hz to 120Hz for third-party applications was noticed by Apollo developer Christian Selig, who states on Twitter that he received a message from someone working at Apple that a fix had been issued in the iOS 15.4 update. He was later able to confirm the change himself and sounded pretty excited over it too....

You Will be Able to Download Software Updates Using 4G Networks With iOS 15.4 Currently, you have the option to download and install software updates through WiFi and 5G networks. With the latest iOS 15.4 beta, Apple is moving forward to allow users to download software updates using 4G networks (via 9to5mac). This is a major step up for people living outside of the United States where 5G connectivity is not entirely available....

iPad Air 5 Starts From $599, While the 2022 iPhone SE Is Priced at $429 for the Base Model Both the 2022 iPhone SE and iPad Air 5 retain the same design as their direct predecessors, so the majority of the changes are on the inside, and they are some noteworthy upgrades. For the first time, the low-cost model and the iPad Air series get 5G support, giving customers an affordable gateway to experience Apple’s software ecosystem and obtain access to ultra-fast mobile data....

iPhone 15 Pro to House a Periscope Lens For Enhanced 5x Zoom According to the analyst Jeff Pu, the iPhone 15 Pro models will feature a periscope lens for enhanced 5x zooming capabilities (via 9to6mac). The report claims that Apple has already received component samples for the new addition and Apple will make a final decision in May of this year. If Apple goes ahead with the components, we might end up seeing a periscope lens in 2023 iPhones....

Foxconn Also Reportedly Offering a 20 Percent Salary Hike, but It May Not Be Enough to Entice Workers In addition to the one-time $69 bonus for returning workers, Foxconn is said to increase the salary by 20 percent to $4.20 an hour. Twitter user litquidity shared the image below, showing the updated rates, and as you can guess, the responses on the thread were as you would expect, with individuals posting sarcastic or angered remarks concerning the low pay that a giant Apple supplier like Foxconn is offering....

What we’re here to talk about, though, is a different topic entirely. Hazelight, the game’s developer, announced that the team is partnering with dj2 Entertainment to adapt the plot of It Takes Two to both movies and television. Hazelight founder and Creative Director Josef Fares had the following to say: Meanwhile, Dj2 Entertainment CEO and Founder Dmitri M. Johnson added: The thing is, though, is that there’s currently no studio (such as Universal, 20th Century Fox, to name a couple) attached to the project as of yet....

Well, according to insider Tom Henderson, Overdose is indeed the game Kojima is making with Xbox. Henderson was the original source of the Overdose leak, as he’s apparently laid eyes on some sort of brief teaser, which shows Margaret Qualley’s character making her way through a darkened corridor, eventually leading to a jump scare and the reveal of the title Overdose. The teaser reportedly shows Qualley’s character in third person, but word is, the game itself may be played in first-person....

Samsung Will Be Teaming Up With LG to Mass Produce OLED Screens for the iPad Pro Range First Information learned by The Elec states that Samsung will make a decision next month on whether it will invest in the production of Gen 8.5 OLED, which will expand its existing capacity to manufacture OLED panels for various computing devices such as tablets and PCs. Using Gen 8.5 substrates for these larger panels instead of Gen 6 substrates used for smartphones results in higher cost-saving, suggesting that mass producing these screens could be less expensive....

The developer said as much during the most-recent Forza Monthly livestream (thanks Klobrille). According to Playground, the team is currently actively working on the DLC and more information about it will be shared at the beginning of 2023. “Excited to share that alongside all of the series updates and game fixes, that we’re continuously working on as you know, we’re also hard at work on the second expansion of Forza Horizon 5”, one of the game designers said during the livestream....