Modern Warfare II is out now for all platforms, but various players have been reporting crashes when in a party. Infinity Ward has now confirmed to be aware of this issue and had said that the issue is being investigated. As such, a hotfix will likely be released as soon as possible. As always, we’ll update you as soon as more information about this issue comes in. For now, stay tuned....

The boxed sales numbers were shared by GamesIndustry’s Christopher Dring on Twitter some hours ago. Retail launch numbers were below that of Dying Light 2 but above those of some of this year’s other B-tier games, including Gotham Knights. The majority of boxed sales (74%) once again came from the PlayStation 5 version of the game, although it should be noted that digital downloads aren’t included in the sales numbers just yet....

Intel 14th Gen Meteor Lake Die Shot Reveals Next-Gen Redwood Cove & Crestmont Cores Powering the Compute Tile The Intel 14th Gen Meteor Lake’s Compute Tile was one of the first sections of the chip to tape out and achieve Power-On. Since then, the entire chip has achieved Power-On and is on schedule for a 2023 release. With that said, Intel gave attendees of the Vision event a first look at two Meteor Lake packages, a standard design, and a high-density package....

Intel’s 4nm process is in risk manufacturing today, Meteor Lake launching in 2023? Intel has revealed another roadmap compiling information that already existed in the public domain and confirmed that its upcoming 4nm process is manufacturing ready. It is worth noting that the processes where the company mentions the nodes are “manufacturing ready” correspond to the timeline they expect the process to be in risk production. This means that Intel 4 is in risk production, today....

2-in-1 laptops with Intel Alder Lake and Arc A370M graphics solutions appear online from HP and ASUS Both ASUS and HP are listed on the online retailer’s store, showing that each company will be offering a 2-in-1 laptop utilizing the Intel ARC A370M GPU. The two companies may be offering entry-level systems with their choice of discrete graphics, but at least we see a complete ACM-G11-based unit using eight Xe-Core processors....

Intel’s Arc & Xe GPUs Don’t Feature Native DX9 Support But Can Be Emulated On DX12 On its support page, Intel states that its 12th Generation CPUs with Xe GPUs and Arc discrete GPUs don’t support DX9 natively. This means that while there’s no native support on a hardware level, these chips can still run applications and games based on the DX9 API by emulating it on DX12 via the D3D9On12 interface....

Intel DG2 GPUs to be used by gaming cards and data center Arctic Sound-M series, replacing AVC stream encoding The newest Intel DG2 GPU, the ACM-G11, is found onboard the Arctic Sound-M and offers 128 EUs or Execution Units. The new chip is a single-slot processor with passive capability and has a PCIe Gen4 x 16 interface connected. A single eight-pin EPS power connector allows for power control. Above, the video from Intel compares their newest AV1 encoding side-by-side with the current AVC or H....

Intel’s Alder Lake-N, Core i3-N305 & Core i3-N300, CPUs With 8 Gracemont E-Cores Spotted A few days ago, two Intel Alder Lake-N CPUs had leaked out which marked the end of the Pentium & Celeron branding. These included the Intel Processor N200 & N100. Both of these CPUs adopted an E-Core-only design, featuring up to 8 cores and 8 threads. Now, we have two more Alder Lake-N CPUs leaking out and these variants should run even faster....

Introducing faster Thunderbolt connections will supply the demand from power users, streamers, content creators, and gamers searching for the best displays and enhanced immersion, offering low latency images and video and an increasingly higher resolution. Another improvement of the technology is access to faster-transmitted data and larger file sizes. Some of the highlighted & new features include: Two times the total bandwidth of Thunderbolt 4 to 80 Gbps, while providing up to three times the bandwidth of 120 Gbps for video-intensive usages....

Intel Next-Gen Xeon CPU Rumors Talk Emerald Rapids, Granite Rapids & Diamond Rapids: Up To 144 Lion Cove Cores By 2025 As a precautionary note, the specifications and information posted by TheNextPlatform are mostly estimates based on speculation and rumors along with hints from their sources. These are by no means specs that have been confirmed by Intel so take them with a grain of salt. However, they do provide us an insight on where Intel could head with their next-gen lineups....

Intel Xeon W5-3433, 16 Core Sapphire Rapids HEDT Workstation CPU With 45 MB L3 Cache Spotted The Intel Sapphire Rapids chip that has been spotted is part of the Xeon W family as confirmed in its naming convention. This shows that the chip is not part of the standard server lineup but is in fact part of the upcoming ‘Fishhawk Falls’ HEDT platform that will be aimed at the consumer PC segment....

Series of Hands-on Videos Show New ‘Dynamic Island’ of the iPhone 14 Pro, iPhone 14 Pro Max, Along With Other Changes The most significant visible change in the hands-on videos below from various content creators and media outlets is that pill-shaped cutout, which Apple is calling the ‘Dynamic Island.’ The name might bring out a chuckle from those who hear it for the first time, but apart from increasing the screen real estate, that cutout can display important information like phone calls, notifications, Face ID alerts, maps navigation, and more....

iPhone 15 Ultra to Feature USB-C Port Instead of Lightning, Dual Front Cameras, and 256GB of Base Storage Today, tipster Majin Bu shared on Twitter the features that will set the iPhone 15 Ultra apart from the iPhone 15 Pro. To pinpoint some of the obvious differences, the iPhone 15 Ultra will pack a bigger battery and display. However, this is not all, the tipster suggests that the iPhone 15 Ultra will feature two front-facing cameras....

The Take-Two Interactive-owned publisher took to Twitter to share the news just now. “Earlier today, we became aware that an unauthorized third party illegally accessed the credentials of one of our vendors to the help desk platform that 2K uses to provide support to our customers”, the message from the official 2K Support Twitter account reads. “The unauthorized party sent a communication to certain players containing a malicious link. Please do not open any emails or click any links that you receive from the 2K Games support account....

Today, as reported by Gematsu, the Japanese publisher confirmed that a short episode of the Ryu Ga Gotoku TV will air on YouTube on September 8th at 8 pm JST, 1 pm CET, 11 am, 4 am PT, 7 am PT. The episode will be dubbed Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio TV #12.5: Sneak Peek Trailer Brought to You by the Director, so there is reason to believe that this sneak peek trailer will provide the first proper look at the next entry in the series....

As the continental US was enjoying a much-deserved Thanksgiving weekend, the crypto world was rocked by an avalanche of FUD narrative around wBTC and wETH, further fraying the already-stressed nerves of investors. For the uninitiated, FUD refers to Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt, and this abbreviation is often used to identify false rumormongering. In the post-FTX environment where holders of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other cryptocurrencies have only become trigger-happy sellers, seeking to liquidate some of their holdings at the first sign of trouble, FUD narratives can spread like wildfire, allowing substantial manipulation of crypto asset prices in the process....

The company plans to release three products based on Acer SpatialLabs: the two external monitors View and ViewPro, and the updated Predator Helios 300 laptop. All three displays share the same size (15.6 inches) and 4K resolution, although activating the stereoscopic 3D Acer SpatialLabs technology will reduce the maximum resolution to 1080p. That’s likely for performance considerations, as stereo 3D notoriously requires rendering two images to create the tridimensional effect....

To quote the review document: The silver lining is that the report admitted that some form of harassment was going on around the workplace, saying there were “some substantiated instances of gender harassment,” but said they were not evidence of systemic problems. Of course, the report also took the time to take a slight against entities such as the California DFEH by saying that the agency’s ongoing lawsuit has “highly inflammatory, made-for-press allegations....

AMD is authorizing partners to send review samples of upcoming AMD X670E motherboards to reviewers It has been confirmed that reviewers are receiving AMD X670E & X670 motherboards to begin testing and benchmarking the next-gen 5nm Ryzen 7000 CPUs. SkatterBencher, known in the community for his various overclocking guides has received one such review sample from board partner Gigabyte. — SkatterBencher (@skatterbencher) August 9, 2022 The model received from the company was the AORUS Master X670E, which is one of the high-end offerings within the AORUS X670E lineup, sitting right below the X670E AORUS Master....

Realtek & TCL are under investigation by the International Trade Commission for patent infringement by defendants AMD Patents under investigation by the USITC include specific graphics systems and components and digital televisions using components from Realtek and TCL Industries Holdings, including all subsidiaries. All items are currently imported into the United States with the intent of selling, which is why the USITC has become involved. The complaint by AMD began last month on May 5th, with a request to cease and desist any orders of the products under investigation....