The new video, shared on YouTube by GameXplain, compares the original versions of the tracks with those launching for the latest entry in the series with the Booster Course Pass DLC announced during the February 2022 Nintendo Direct. You can check out the video below. The Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass DLC will add a total of 48 tracks, which will be released in multiple waves. The first wave launches on March 18th and includes the Paris Promenade, Toad Circuit, Choco Mountain, Coconut Hall, Tokyo Blur, Shroom Ridge, Sky Garden, and Ninja Hideaway tracks....

The game in development at Firaxis was recently rated by the South Korean rating board. Last week, leaker Tom Henderson also suggested that the mixed reaction regarding the card-based mechanics might have led to the delay from the original March window. The developers could have since reworked it to be more palatable to regular XCOM fans. The Legendary Edition includes: Base game, the Legendary Premium Pack (featuring 23 skins), and the Marvel’s Midnight Suns Season Pass....

BLUETTI Hero Recruitment ​Since its founding, BLUETTI has strived to provide its users with the best product and experience possible. This year, it starts the “BLUETTI Heroes” program to encourage its users to share their using experience and great changes brought by BLUETTI products. All users can apply to become a BLUETTI Hero. About 15 applicants will be chosen to take part in the documentary. After the publication of documentaries, every hero can pick any BLUETTI products priced at $1000 as a gift....

AMD-Exclusive AIB Partner, SoonFoals, Makes Market Debut With Radeon RX 6000 Series Graphics Cards AMD announced its latest RX 6000 series graphics cards a few months back which include the Radeon RX 6950 XT, 6750 XT, and 6650 XT. The new GPU series offers faster clock speeds and GDDR6 memory than their previous models. Along with fast speeds and superior memory, the latest graphics cards from AMD include enhanced software and firmware than their predecessors....

The Swedish video game holding company revealed the sales number in its latest financial earnings report for the third quarter of 2021. According to the report, as of December 31, 2021, more than 6 million copies of the latest Metro installment were sold since its global launch back in February of 2019. “The main revenue driver for the quarter was strong back catalog performance, which exceeded management’s expectations”, the report reads....

Windows 11 Insider Build 22538 highlights: Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22538: changes and improvements Windows 11 Insider Build 22538: Fixes Build 22538: Known issues Check out this blog post for more details. Using touch keyboard with voice access You can use the touch keyboard with voice access to: Spell words e.g., names and email addresses. Enter numbers e.g., phone numbers and addresses. Enter punctuation marks and symbols. Enter emojis....

In addition to terminating sales in Russia, Microsoft has detailed some of the efforts they’ve made to combat Russian cyber attacks on Ukraine and elsewhere… With Microsoft suspending sales in Russia, it will be interesting to see how the other big console-makers respond. We’ve already seen hints that they may be preparing to make similar moves as Sony has removed the new Gran Turismo 7 from sale in Russia, and there are anecdotal reports Nintendo may be shutting down services in the country....

As spotted by The Verge editor Tom Warren, the game’s latest preview version has seemingly been optimized for Xbox Series X|S, and packs early ray tracing support on Microsoft’s next-gen console. — Tom Warren (@tomwarren) March 28, 2022 Of course, Minecraft already supports NVIDIA’s lighting rendering technique on PC, but to date, this feature hasn’t been made available on Xbox. Going by this latest preview build, however, Xbox Series players will soon be able to enjoy Mojang’s popular building title with ray tracing....

MINISFORUM’s Latest Venus UM690 Mini PC Rocks AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX APU, RDNA 2 GPU Cores, USB4 Support Press Release: Minisforum has launched a new mini PC UM690 of its Venus Series. The new UM690 features AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX, AMD Radeon 680M Integrated Graphics, DDR5 dual-channel memory, PCIe 4.0 SSD, and the most advanced USB4 Type-C port. It is also their first mini PC with AMD 6000 series CPU. AMD’s Ryzen 9 6900HX is one of AMD’s most powerful Ryzen 6000 processors, features 8 cores and 16 threads, with a maximum turbo clock of 4....

German Youtube channel ‘Digital Dreams’ has released a new graphical showcase, this time showing 2007’s Assassin’s Creed running on an NVIDIA RTX 3090 in 8K resolution with the creator’s own custom Ray tracing global illumination reshade preset. In addition, this showcase has the first installment in the Assassin’s Creed series playing on PC with some texture mods in place. The result is pretty great, although we could name some other titles from that era that look better nowadays with some mods in place....

MSI Titan GT77 Will Be The World’s First Laptop Featuring a 4K/144Hz Mini LED Display Specifications of the MSI Titan GT77 HX Laptop were leaked out a few weeks ago which confirmed that it would feature Intel’s latest Raptor Lake-HX 13th Gen CPUs and NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 40 GPU family. To present as much color as possible, the display on Titan GT77 sports a super-wide 100% DCI-P3 color gamut, which perfectly meets the need for immersive gaming or entertainment....

Starting with the EVO 2022 announcement. Multiversus will hold a 2v2 tournament during the event scheduled to happen on August 5-7. While not a main stage event, players will be able to test out Multiversus and compete for a $100,000 prize pool for the Top 32 competing teams. You can see WB Games confirming this very fact below: — MultiVersus (@multiversus) May 12, 2022 Moving onto the upcoming Closed Alpha....

According to the game’s development team, this is the most impactful update to date and based on player feedback since launch, but also the game’s final patch. Aside from the above-mentioned GPU and CPU improvements, this new update also offers improvements to stability, as well as fixes to Steam achievements, audio, textures, art, and rendering. In addition, Steam Trading Cards have also been introduced. “We are incredibly thankful for all the support and feedback the community has given since the release of the Remastered Trilogy....

Like the game’s previous updates, the new patch is a minor one with the official release notes only mentioning a fix for an issue that caused memory leaks, which in turn, could result in either client crashes or decreased performance. “Thank you to everyone who reported the memory leak issue and assisted us greatly by sharing their setup information, we appreciate you taking the extra step”, the development team writes on Steam....

At least, that’s what reputable journalist Jez Corden has said on Twitter some hours ago. Corden, who writes for Windows Central, replied to a Twitter thread about upcoming first-party releases and seemingly implies that something will be announced in the coming days. Unfortunately, no further details were shared but Corden did add that “something” is definitely “cooking” at Microsoft. “Give it a few days”, the journalist tweeted. — Jez (@JezCorden) January 9, 2023 Microsoft’s last Xbox Showcase dates from June of last year....

Intel, NVIDIA & AMD Bring Day-1 Driver Support For Vulkan 1.3 API on Windows & Linux Platforms NVIDIA Press Release: Many different platforms, same great performance. That’s why Vulkan is a very big deal. With the release Tuesday of Vulkan 1.3, NVIDIA continues its unparalleled record of day one driver support for this cross-platform GPU application programming interface for 3D graphics and computing. Vulkan has been created by experts from across the industry working together at the Khronos Group, an open standards consortium....

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Now Available For 1859 Euros & RTX 4080 For 1399 Euros In Europe Following A 5% Price Cut The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 Founders Edition graphics cards have an official MSRP of 1949 Euros & 1469 Euros in the EU markets. The Founders Edition pricing reflects the VAT that is applied to all hardware products in the region but it looks like NVIDIA is officially easing down price points of their reference graphics cards....

NVIDIA H100 80 GB PCIe Accelerator With Hopper GPU Gets Listed In Japan For An Insane Price Exceeding $30,000 US Unlike the H100 SXM5 configuration, the H100 PCIe offers cut-down specifications, featuring 114 SMs enabled out of the full 144 SMs of the GH100 GPU and 132 SMs on the H100 SXM. The chip as such offers 3200 FP8, 1600 TF16, 800 FP32, and 48 TFLOPs of FP64 compute horsepower. It also features 456 Tensor & Texture Units....

NVIDIA’s Massive GeForce RTX 40 Founders Edition Cooler Allegedly Leaks Out, Coming To An RTX 4090 & RTX 4080 Graphics Card Soon! According to the leaker, this new cooler design that has been pictured will be part of the GTC ‘22 keynote that is to be held two weeks later. There are no details provided as to which card this is but the updated shroud and fan design do match the RTX 4080 cooler that leaked out a few days ago....

Save Big Today and Own a Brand New Pair of AirPods for a Low Price of Just $99.99 Buy Apple AirPods (2nd Generation) Wireless Earbuds. - Was $159, now just $99.99 For $99.99, you get the AirPods with the iconic design, long stem and all. Just pop open the charging case lid near an iPhone or iPad and you’ll be paired in no time. Thanks to the inclusion of the H1 chip, these AirPods will switch between devices just like the more expensive models....