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Gameguru Mania News - Feb,20 2019 - all

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice - Lady Butterfly Trailer - movie
(hx) 01:00 PM CET - Feb,20 2019 - Post a comment
Get a look at Lady Butterfly from the upcoming game. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice will be released on March 22 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.

Path of Exile: Synthesis Announced - briefly
(hx) 08:28 AM CET - Feb,20 2019 - Post a comment / read (1)
Grinding Gear Games announces Path of Exile: Synthesis, a new expansion coming next month to Path of Exile, their action/RPG. Players will experience new boss fights, mobs, rewards, story, and lore. Gamers will be able to craft all new items from fragments found throughout Wraeclast. The deeper that you explore Cavas's mind, the more challenging the encounters will become. The expansion features a new Holy Spellcaster archetype and Chaos Spellcaster archetype. Path of Exile: Synthesis will launch on March 8th (PST) on PC, March 11 on Xbox One and mid-March on PlayStation 4.

Gameguru Mania News - Feb,19 2019 - all

NVIDIA GeForce Hotfix Driver 418.99 - tech
(hx) 10:30 PM CET - Feb,19 2019 - Post a comment
NVIDIA has just rolled out a new GeForce graphics driver, namely version 418.99 hotfix, which manages to fix the random application crash or TDR introduced in previous GeForce Display Driver 418.81. What's New:

Windows 7x64/8.1x64: Fixes random application crash or TDR introduced in previous GeForce display driver 418.81

Black screen when resuming from monitor sleep on some DisplayPort monitors

Windows 7: FPS drop when G-sync is used with V-sync in games

Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Fixes occasional application crash in DirectX 12 mode

Fixes black screen on BenQ XL2730 monitor using 144Hz refresh rate

Fixes lockup when resuming from sleep on MSI GT83 notebook

Neverwinter: Undermountain Expansion Announced - briefly
(hx) 10:25 PM CET - Feb,19 2019 - Post a comment
Publisher Perfect World Entertainment and developer Cryptic Studios announced Undermountain, a new expansion for Neverwinter, the free-to-play Forgotten Realms MMORPG. This will be released to the PC edition of the game this spring, and will also come to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One at a later date

GTX 1660 Ti vs RX 590 in Far Cry 5: Ultra Settings - tech
(hx) 10:23 PM CET - Feb,19 2019 - Post a comment
GeForce GTX 1660 TI 3 GB on the way, TU116 core images. ASUS has listed in the Eurasian Economic Commission a large number of versions of the GeForce GTX 1660 TI 3 GB, a mid-range graphics card that will position a step below the GeForce GTX 1660 TI 6 GB.

Total War: THREE KINGDOMS - Records Mode Gameplay - movie
(hx) 05:08 PM CET - Feb,19 2019 - Post a comment
SEGA has released the first footage from Total War: THREE KINGDOMS’ Records mode, showing the historically grounded side of Creative Assembly’s upcoming strategy title. Records is one of two unique modes included in THREE KINGDOMS, a first for the Total War franchise.

Iratus: Lord of the Dead Announced - briefly
(hx) 05:06 PM CET - Feb,19 2019 - Post a comment
Daedalic Entertainment and new development studio Unfrozen announced today a new fantasy RPG, Iratus: Lord of the Dead. In this new game, players assume the role of the resurrected necromancer Iratus who is trapped inside a dark dungeon prison and seeks vengeance against those who imprisoned him. Iratus: Lord of the Dead is coming to Steam Early Access in Summer 2019

16,000 Cheaters Have Been Banned from Apex Legends - briefly
(hx) 05:02 PM CET - Feb,19 2019 - Post a comment
Respawn Entertainment has announced that over 16,000 cheaters have been identified and banned from Apex Legends. The development team acknowledged that "cheaters suck" and asked the community to gather evidence of them cheating. They are looking into adding a report feature to the game and will investigate flagged accounts.

In the same post, they asked the community to report instances of crashing. Dataminers have discovered references to a Survival Mode, Solo Mode, and Duo Mode. The same dataminer leaked two new playable characters otherwise known as "Legends." One is called Octane and the second is named Wattson. Lastly, YouTube personality Battle(non)sense brilliantly analyzed the netcode of Apex Legends and found it lacking.

Gameguru Mania News - Feb,18 2019 - all

Battlefield V DLSS Tested, The Biggest RTX Fail Of Them All - briefly
(hx) 11:47 PM CET - Feb,18 2019 - Post a comment / read (3)
Hardware Unboxed has released its newest video where they dissect the image quality of Battlefield V with the new NVIDIA technology called Deep Learning Super Sample (DLSS) enabled. They not only compare the DLSS image quality to the native 4K image; Tim takes it a step further and compares the DLSS image to an 1685p upscaled 78% resolution scale image.

Was Metro Exodus downgraded? - briefly
(hx) 09:52 PM CET - Feb,18 2019 - Post a comment / read (3)
The first video compares the E3 2017 trailer with the Xbox One X version and we can clearly see that the Xbox One X version does not look as good as the E3 2017 build

Rainbow Six Siege: Burnt Horizon Operators Gameplay - movie
(hx) 09:49 PM CET - Feb,18 2019 - Post a comment
Two Australian Operators are bringing new gadgets to Rainbow Six Siege in Operation Burnt Horizon. Gridlock is an Attacker who deploys clusters of spikes on the floor using her Trax Stingers in order to damage and slow her opponents. Mozzie is a Defender who can hack drones from the attacking team and use them himself, thanks to his Pest Launcher. See gameplay of the new gadgets in action on the free new map, Outback - a multi-building roadhouse set in the Australian desert.

The Test Server for Operation Burnt Horizon will go live on February 18th. The Test Server is an alternative version of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, allowing players to test upcoming gameplay features that will make their way into the main game itself. Since this is a testing environment, a consistent gameplay experience is not guaranteed on the Test Server. Players are invited to submit the issues they encounter on the Test Server on the R6 Fix platform [link: here]. The Test Server is exclusive to Windows PC.

GOG.com Lantern Festival Sale - briefly
(hx) 09:47 PM CET - Feb,18 2019 - Post a comment
GOG.com announces their Lantern Festival Sale is now underway, offering discounts of up to 85% off on select games to celebrate the Year of the Pig. This will run for a week, and here's word on this chance to pig out: Lantern Festival celebrations begin today, so get ready to soar! Celebrate the Year of the Pig by indulging in 200+ wondrous deals up to 85% off!

Some of the most impressive Publisher catalogs and games are here – each a shining beacon to the things we love about gaming:

Beamdog's enhanced takes on the classics like Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition (-33%), Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition (-50%) and Planescape Torment: Enhanced Edition (-50%).

Bethesda Softworks genre-defining Fallout: New Vegas (50%), The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind and Oblivion (-50%), and classic DOOM (-67%), Quake (-50%) and Wolfenstein (-67%) games.

Ubisoft's unforgettable classics including Heroes of Might and Magic III (-66%), Beyond Good & Evil (-66%), Rayman 2: The Great Escape (-66%).

CD PROJEKT RED's complete Witcher franchise is on sale, including 70% off The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – GOTY, and Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales at 25% off.

The prolific, classic Electronic Arts catalog with everything 75% off including Crysis, Dragon Age: Origins, Dungeon Keeper, Populous, SimCity, SPORE, Ultima, Wing Commander, Theme Park.

There is more of course, including Project Warlock (-20%), The Suffering (-66%), ELEX (-60%), Titan Quest (-75%), Grim Dawn (-65%), Darksiders III (-30%), and Dragon's Dogma (-50%).

View the full lineup of Lantern Festival deals on the front page!

The Lantern Festival Sale lasts for one week until February 25th, 11 PM UTC.

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Metro Exodus PC/RTX Analysis - tech
(hx) 09:37 PM CET - Feb,18 2019 - Post a comment / read (1)
Digital Foundry recently posted a video showing how all that fancy tech actually impacts the in-game experience.

Gameguru Mania News - Feb,17 2019 - all

TechNews - Windows 10 April 2019 Update Brings Linux File Access - tech
(hx) 10:55 PM CET - Feb,17 2019 - Post a comment / read (3)

AMD Matisse & Navi Target Release Date & Intel Comet Lake Info - Intel's Comet Lake will be a 10 core part that launches in the first quarter of 2020, and will be aiming to increase single core performance while holding off AMD's Matisse platform. Matisse will launch july 7th, along with the x570 platform and also Navi (assuming TSMC can keep up). We'll see a minimum of 12 cores, but AMD's partners are expecting 16 cores for the Am4 platform, with aggressive clock speed support.
Submersion Cooling with my Small Novec Demo - A 3M employee demoed a CPU cooled with a low-boiling-point liquid years ago, and since then, some server manufacturers have shown off similar systems. But this year, that same 3M employee decided to build a more compact version of the original demo
FFXV Benchmark: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti on Par with GTX 1070, Titan X - According to a new Final Fantasy XV benchmark, NVIDIA’s next Ti effort performs similarly to a GTX 1070 and Titan X. VideoCardz has published photos of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 Ti OC and packaging.
Office 365 vs. Office 2019 - which one will win? - Designing your deck should take minutes, not hours. Twins Tanny and Cynni go head-to-head planning their urban garden and creating polished presentations. One of the twins uses Office 365, the other Office 2019 - which one will finish first?
Windows 10 Will Finally Offer Easy Access to Linux Files - Working with Linux files in the Windows environment is comparable to running through a field with landmines, but that will change with Windows 10’s April 2019 Update, which brings support for "accessing, viewing, and even modifying Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) files from File Explorer or via the command line." Users simply have to enter "explorer.exe" into a Bash shell. "Use drag and drop, copy and paste them, or even open them directly in Windows applications to modify them."
Google Backtracks on Chrome Modifications That Would Have Crippled Ad Blockers - A-blocker developers (and users) can rest easy, as Google has decided to revise its collection of changes to the Chrome extensions platform. "Manifest V3" would have killed uBlock, Ghostery, and similar extensions by disallowing them from querying remotely hosted code via traditional APIs, but Google has had a change of heart due to backlash and new data suggesting ad-blocking requests didn’t have a significant effect on browser performance.
Google Maps Augmented Reality Creates Navigation - Someday, when we start buying AR glasses, persistent AR directions might make a lot of sense. And directions aren't the sole point either. AR maps could help you learn more about everything you pass. Tory Smith, product strategy lead for autonomous vehicles at Mapbox, a navigation startup, envisions a possible future in which your windshield could display the nearest parking garage, then tell you how many spots are open, how much it costs and whether there's a good coffee shop nearby. You might someday navigate indoors--where GPS doesn't work--using AR maps, with Google Translate instantly turning every sign you pass into your own language.
Website Uses AI to Generate the Faces of People Who Don't Exist - Will the real-life version of Skynet model its Terminators after real people? That's up in the air, as currently existing AI is already capable of crafting convincing faces all on its own. Software developer Philip Wang has launched a website called thispersondoesnotexist that proves this, allowing visitors to generate incredibly convincing but falsified human heads on every page refresh with the help of a powerful GPU and NVIDIA machine learning code.
Researchers, scared by their own work, hold back 'deepfakes for - OpenAI, a non-profit research company investigating "the path to safe artificial intelligence," has developed a machine learning system called Generative Pre-trained Transformer-2 (GPT-2 ), capable of generating text based on brief writing prompts. The result comes so close to mimicking human writing that it could potentially be used for "deepfake" content. Built based on 40 gigabytes of text retrieved from sources on the Internet (including "all outbound links from Reddit, a social media platform, which received at least 3 karma"), GPT-2 generates plausible "news" stories and other text that match the style and content of a brief text prompt. The performance of the system was so disconcerting, now the researchers are only releasing a reduced version of GPT-2 based on a much smaller text corpus.
Hackers destroy all of VFEmail's US customers' data - Unknown intruders have breached servers of US-based email provider VFEmail.net and destroyed all the data of its US customers in what the company has described as a "catastrophic destruction". According to VFEmail, hackers did not demand a ransom, nor attempt to steal users' confidential data, so the motive behind the damage would appear to be sabatage, although the reason is unclear at the moment. The attack occurred on 11th February and was detected after VFEmail's website and webmail client went down all of a sudden. Later, VFEmail posted a message on Twitter stating that its external-facing systems across multiple data centres had gone offline. After about two hours, the company revealed that its backup server had been formatted by an unknown attacker. The damage, Romero reported, extended to VFEmail's "entire infrastructure," including mail hosts, virtual machine hosts, and a SQL server cluster.
Several PWAs in the Microsoft Store found to be mining cryptocurrencies - In a blog post, U.S.-based cybersecurity firm Symantec has meticulously detailed how it found at least eights free apps - now removed by Microsoft - in the Store that utilized the CPU's resources to mine cryptocurrencies without the permission of the user.
The Samsung Galaxy S10 is coming! Here's what to expect - Samsung's mainline flagships, the Galaxy S10 and S10 Plus, will still clearly share plenty of design DNA with the Galaxy S8, S9, Note8, and Note9 from the past two years. This year though, the devices are going to be leading the way in the mobile industry with a lot of "firsts" (or at least, "among the firsts"). In the US, the Galaxy S10 will be one of the first phones with the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 SoC. It'll be one of the first phones with a hole-punch camera cutout instead of a notch. This will be our first look at Qualcomm's ultrasonic in-screen fingerprint reader, and it will be one of the first devices with Wi-Fi 6 compatibility. At the very highest configuration, it will be the first phone with a whopping one terabyte storage
Google Keyboard for iOS Adds Haptic Feedback - Google's newest version of Gboard --it's keyboard-replacement app for iOS - adds physical feedback when typing. Apple's own iOS keyboard does not offer this popular feature. The haptic feedback feature is available on iPhone 7 and later. Gboard also offers input by word swipe and voice. It includes emoji (with search), GIFs, stickers, and personalized stickers. Google search is built-in and results - such as business listings, videos, images, and articles - can easily be pasted and sent to others. The new version is 1.4 and is available now in the Apple App Store.
Razer Shutting Its Digital Game Store This Month, Less than a Year after It Opened - Razer has announced its game store would "cease operations on February 28, 2019 at 0100hrs Pacific Time as part of the company’s realignment plans." The store originally opened in April 2018, less than a year ago. Games will still be offered through the company’s virtual credits and loyalty rewards system, Razer Gold and Silver.
AT&T Promises 5G for Chicago, Minneapolis in 2019 - AT&T today added Chicago and Minneapolis to its list of cities that will get a true 5G network by the end of this year. That list already includes Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Nashville, Orlando, San Diego, San Francisco and San Jose. The company already has 5G available to a limited group of customers in "parts of" Atlanta, Charlotte, Dallas, Houston, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, Louisville, Oklahoma City, New Orleans, Raleigh, San Antonio, and Waco. The company plans to launch 5G nationwide by "early 2020". This true (standards-based, mmWave) 5G network is not yet available to most consumers, and no phones have launched yet that support 5G. AT&T is currently running a misleading campaign to promote "5G E", which is actually 4G LTE. Sprint is currently taking AT&T to court over that campaign
Amazon Acquires Home Mesh WiFi System Manufacturer Eero - Amazon has announced that it has acquired Eero, a manufacturer of simple-to-setup home mesh WiFi systems.
Lamborghini Urus by Jeremy Clarkson - "The Grand Tour" S03E05 (2019) - starring: Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, James May, Abbie Eaton
FROZEN 2 Trailer (2019) - Enjoy the first trailer for Frozen 2!?
Snippet: Larva devour a pizza in 2 hours - Watch a maggot 'fountain' devour waste food. Findings could help grub farmers using human food waste to produce larvae-based chicken feed.
28 SIMPLE HACKS THAT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE - These life hacks and tricks are gonna be unexpectedly helpful in numerous life situations.
Jessica Alba Is A Bad Girl - L.A.'S FINEST Official Trailer (2019) Jessica Alba, BAD BOYS
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The Sims 4 - Movie Hangout Stuff Official Trailer - movie
(hx) 10:08 PM CET - Feb,17 2019 - Post a comment
The Sims 4's Movie Hangout Stuff pack is headed to Xbox One and PS4 on February 19.

Steam Weekly Top Sellers - briefly
(hx) 10:05 PM CET - Feb,17 2019 - Post a comment
Here are the ten top selling titles on Steam for the week as reported by Valve: Sid Meier's Civilization VI: Gathering Storm
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS
Grand Theft Auto V
Far Cry New Dawn
ASTRONEER
GOD EATER 3
MONSTER HUNTER: WORLD
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Game of the Year Edition
Sid Meier’s Civilization VI: Rise and Fall
Sid Meier’s Civilization VI

Star Citizen dev says: RTX is a massive headache - briefly
(hx) 12:11 AM CET - Feb,17 2019 - Post a comment / read (4)
Cloud Imperium's Ben Parry has shared his thoughts regarding real-time ray tracing technology. Parry admitted that he’d love to use real-time ray tracing in order to enhance the game’s shadows. Parry also admitted that real-time ray tracing is currently â€“ and for the foreseeable future â€“ the only technique via which game developers can offer correct reflections in their games, however that’s also something that will need additional workload. "The "headache" part is writing all the management code that will be needed, eg. to calculate lighting/shadowing on objects that aren’t on screen."

SNOW Drifts Out of Early Access - briefly
(hx) 12:06 AM CET - Feb,17 2019 - Post a comment
SNOW is now out of Early Access after its official launch on Steam, offering the full version of this open world wintersports simulation for Windows. The game is free-to-play, but there's also an Ultimate Edition that permanently unlocks all the major content for the game, and this is on sale for 35% off to celebrate the launch

Gameguru Mania News - Feb,16 2019 - all

Hollow Knight: Silksong announced - briefly
(hx) 06:14 PM CET - Feb,16 2019 - Post a comment
Explore a vast, haunted kingdom in Hollow Knight: Silksong, the sequel to the award winning action-adventure! Discover enchanting secrets and face foes in lethal, acrobatic combat as you ascend to the peak of a land ruled by silk and song.

Mortal Kombat 11 - Official Jade Reveal Trailer - movie
(hx) 01:52 PM CET - Feb,16 2019 - Post a comment
Jade, a classic Mortal Kombat character, is coming to Mortal Kombat 11. Mortal Kombat 11 is out April 23 on PC, PS4, Xbox One, and Switch.

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