Icelandverse promises more than any other experience with "-verse" in the name
Say what you will about Iceland, but the country has a clever (and hilarious) marketing team, spoofing Facebook's (now Meta's) "Metaverse" ambitions with an ad that shows us everything that makes Facebook's founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg
Netflix is broadening its AV1 codec adoption to support compatible TVs
Netflix has started to stream its content to TVs using the Alliance for Open Media's AV1 codec, a royalty-free video codec that promises users greater encoding efficiency than VP9 and HEVC. This alteration promises Netflix users "improved visual quality at the same bitrate", delivering higher quality
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When we first received the huge number of Z690 motherboards for our 12th Generation Intel launch, the Maximus Hero was the product we used as the baseline motherboard for the new processors and chipset. We largely felt that, given past history, the Hero was going to be a pricy product which didn't really fit in
Grab the Assassin's Creed Chronicles Trilogy for free through Ubisoft Connect
Until November 12th at 11 am GMT, Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed Chronicles Trilogy will be available for free to PC gamers through Ubisoft Connect, the PC platform formerly known as Uplay.
The Assassin's Creed Chronicles Trilogy is a collection of three 2.5D side-scrolling platformers that
Valve delays its Steam Deck system release by two months
Next month, Valve was due to launch their Steam Deck handheld gaming system, a mobile gaming PC that has the power to play the latest games thanks to its custom AMD/Radeon SOC and its fast LPDDR5 memory. Now, the system is due to be released in February 2022.
While
UL Benchmark's using real gaming workloads to test SSD performance
UL Benchmarks has released a new add-on for 3DMARK that's dedicated to SSD testing, using traces from real-world gaming workloads to define the true performance of solid state drives in gaming workloads. With the new tool, UL Benchmarks wants to put synthetic SSD benchmarks to shame.
With 3
Windows 11 SE aims to dominate the education sector
Microsoft has created a new version of Windows 11, Windows 11 SE, which is designed to tackle the education market with affordable, highly repairable devices that will ship for $250. That said, these notebooks are only for the education market, which means that you will not be able to buy a Windows 11 SE
Forza Horizon 5 already has more than 4.5 million players
Forza Horizon 5 has become the franchise's most popular entry to date, quickly becoming the "largest launch" of any Xbox Games Studios title from Microsoft.
Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox, has confirmed that the game already has over 4.5 million players
KLEVV has just revealed their first DDR5 memory modules, showcasing "DDR5 Standard" and "DDR5 Gaming" modules. at launch, these modules will have 16GB capacities, but larger 32GB modules and SO-DIMM versions of these modules are incoming.