Product or feature patents for cutting-edge technology are often filed years in advance, so it should not be surprising that a filing called ‘eyePod’ from 2008 managed to slither its way to the surface around 16 years later. However, what is surprising about this patent filing is that the device in the picture looks awfully similar to the $3,499 Apple Vision Pro, suggesting that the company and its team may have been working on the headset more than a decade and a half

Torn Banner Studios, the developer behind Chivalry 2, has just announced that the first Early Access update for No More Room in Hell 2 has been released. This update is called Reinforcement and is currently available for players to explore. No More Room in Hell 2 is an eight-player, co-op horror shooter that just launched into early access and is already doing pretty well for itself. The Reinforcement update adds a number of quality-of-life fixes, new weapons, a new ending scenario, and additional

If you've been getting stuck into Bellwright, the title by Donkey Crew, then you'd better prepare for the latest update to come to the game. The Villages 2.0 update has gone live today, adding a ton of new content and quality-of-life updates for the game. If you've been eyeing up this game, Bellwright will be discounted during the Steam Autumn Sale, which begins today. To celebrate the update, a new trailer has been released to showcase some of the

In an official PlayStation podcast interview, Shuhei Yoshida made the announcement that he will be leaving Sony Interactive Entertainment after working there for 31 years. His official leaving date is January 15, 2025. He has had some truly iconic moments throughout his time at PlayStation. From falling asleep during a monologue from David Cage in 2013 to the iconic video demonstrating how to share games on PS4 right after Microsoft's failed Xbox One announcement. Throughout the years, he's become a

Companies are increasingly working towards reducing dependency on third-party suppliers and manufacturers by opting for more in-house production. This transition is aimed at not just saving costs but also to have greater control over the processes. Earlier, a report suggested that Apple is working on expanding its Smart Home range by making its own security camera. Now, a new report is doing the rounds that mirror the same claims and suggests that the camera might be launched in 2026. We are also expecting the security camera to

According to Taiwan's Minister of the Science and Technology Council Wu Cheng-wen statements, the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) can shift its next-generation 2-nanometer chip manufacturing process technology to other countries after 2025. TSMC's 2-nanometer process technology will compete with Intel's 18A process, which is also due for production in 2025, and according to the minister, the Taiwanese government will be open to shifting the new technology to friendly nations once

The 2K launcher is no more. Many PC gamers will undoubtedly be overjoyed about the prospect of launching their favorite 2K games without having to go through that launcher, especially since it was even responsible for performance drops in some cases. However, there are some steps to take to remove the 2K launcher from the various supported games. Thankfully, they were outlined in a helpful article on the dedicated 2K support page. Removing the Launcher The first thing is to try closing and reopening Steam - that means completely

The Portal 2 RTX Remix path tracing mod looks incredible, but its improvements come at a very high cost, as path tracing in the game is so demanding that it utterly destroys performance at 4K resolution on an RTX 4080 GPU. A new comparison put together by MxBenchmarkPC does a great job highlighting how demanding path tracing can be. At native 4K resolution, the framerate drops from around 200 and 300+ FPS to the low 20s and 30s range, depending

New Red Dead Redemption mods released online in the past few days offer various visual improvements, new gameplay features, and better historical accuracy for guns. The first one of these mods is the Upscaled Everything mod, which doesn't yet upscale every texture in the game as the name would suggest but brings significant improvements to a variety of objects, such as wanted posters, blood splats, bullet holes, the moon, and John Marston himself. The mod creator also confirmed that every other texture yet to be upscaled eventually will

Silent Hill 2 continues to be not where it should be on a system like the PlayStation 5 Pro, and the improvements introduced in the latest patch released last week are not enough to significantly improve the game on the mid-generation console. The tech experts at Digital Foundry recently took a good look at how the game's aforementioned 1.06 patch improves the game on PlayStation 5 Pro over the previous update, which introduced PSSR support that led to more issues than benefits in terms of visual quality. For the