Google tapped God of War studio VP to run new California Stadia studio

In a nutshell: Google continues to chug ahead with its plans to expand its first-party development for games on the Stadia platform. In addition to its pickup of Typhoon Studios, the search giant has opened two additional studios under the Stadia Games and Entertainment umbrella with one being headed up by Good of War veteran Shannon Studstill.

Google has built another game development house to complement its recent acquisition of Typhoon Studios for designing first-party titles. The division is located in Playa Vista area of Los Angeles. Stadia head Jade

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Leak reveals 'Project Maverick,' an unannounced Star Wars game from EA

Something to look forward to: Last year, reports claimed that EA had two unannounced Star Wars games in the works. Today, it seems one of those Star Wars games got an accidental leak, of sorts: a mysterious Star Wars game known as "Project Maverick" was revealed by automated Twitter account "PSN Releases."

PSN Releases is a bot account that tweets whenever a game or game update gets added to the PlayStation 4 marketplace. You can see the account's Maverick tweet below:


PlayStation 2: Sony launched the world's best-selling game console 20 years ago today

In brief: It’s hard to believe but today marks the 20th anniversary of the PlayStation 2, a console that converted millions of people into lifelong gamers. Are you one of them?

Sony released the successor to its original PlayStation in Japan on March 4, 2000, although gamers in other regions would have to wait more than seven additional months for local launches. The console boasted improved graphics, backward compatibility with original PS games and the ability to play DVDs.

For some, the PlayStation

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AMD CPUs and GPUs will power the future world's fastest supercomputer, 10x faster than current leader

Something to look forward to: The 'El Capitan' supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) will be built with both AMD processors and GPUs. It is expected to pack more than 2 exaFLOPs of performance and will come online in early 2023. El Capitan will be a huge leap forward in supercomputing performance with more power than the current top 200 fastest systems combined. That is also 10 times faster than the current fastest system.

The new system will be maintained by the US Department

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Some new Model 3 Teslas are equipped with older self-driving chip because of the coronavirus crisis

Why it matters: Tesla's new Gigafactory in Shanghai has delivered its first batch of Model 3s to local customers, but the coronavirus crisis has forced the company to install older Autopilot hardware due to supply shortages. The good news is that owners will get their cars retrofitted once the new chips become available again.

Many tech companies have been affected by the ongoing coronavirus epidemic, with issues ranging from travel restrictions for employees to canceled conferences and reduced manufacturing output. Pretty much any company that depends on China or South Korea

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What just happened? Twitter is finally hopping aboard the ephemeral train. Starting today, the microblogging platform is testing a new feature called fleets – temporary posts that disappear after 24 hours and have no likes, public comments or retweets.

In announcing the feature, product manager Mo Al Adham said some people feel insecure about tweeting because tweets are public, permanent and display public engagement counts such as likes and retweets.

Fleets are being pitched as an alternative for people that aren’t comfortable with the perpetual nature of standard tweets

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UC Berkeley is ending the SETI@Home project after 21 years

Fun facts: SETI@Home launched on May 17, 1999 and gathered millions of participants from hundreds of countries to concentrate their computing power on crunching data obtained from radio telescopes. In 2011, the network it ran on (BOINC) was listed by Guinness as the world's largest computing grid. At last count, it had "approximately 527,880 active hosts providing a massive average 5.428 petaFLOPS of computational power."

The Search for

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Hulu's live TV service is now available on the PlayStation 4

The big picture: Cord-cutting made huge strides over the last decade but the story didn’t exactly play out as many anticipated. Rather than a la carte options or even skinny bundles that serve as cheaper alternatives to cable / satellite, most over-the-top streaming services simply enable the viewing of content on different platforms (like mobile) at comparable prices to traditional delivery methods. There are some exceptions, like Sling TV, but examples are too few and far between.

Sony’s decision to shut

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Castlevania: Symphony of the Night launches for the first time on mobile

What just happened? Konami has surprise launched a version of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night for Android and iOS, marking the title’s first appearance on mobile devices. For diehard fans of the franchise, this will be a no-brainer.

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night originally dropped on the PlayStation in 1997. A direct sequel to Castlevania: Rondo of Blood, Konami took it in a different direction by baking in exploration, role-playing elements and non-linear level design. It is

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Leaked slide shows huge performance boosts of Nvidia's RTX 2070/2080 Super mobile GPUs

Something to look forward to: Fans of gaming laptops could soon have something to celebrate, with Nvidia’s RTX 2070 Super and RTX 2080 Super mobile cards seemingly on their way and offering a significant boost over their non-Super counterparts.

The news comes from PCGamesN , which got its hands on a confidential Nvidia slide that compares the performance of the RTX 2080 Super and 2070 Super laptop graphics cards against the rest of the company’s current mobile GPUs.

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