Halo Developer refutes Halo Infinite "Battle Royale" rumours

'Nothing gets a post-holiday Monday going like fresh unfounded Halo Infinite rumours'

Published: 1st December 2020 | Source: 343 Industries' Brian Jarred | Author: Mark Campbell

Halo Developer refutes Halo Infinite "Battle Royale" rumours

Over the past few days, rumours were circulating that Halo Infinite would feature a battle royale mode, similar to Fortnite, PUBG, Call of Duty Warzone and Apex Legends. Now, Halo's Community Director has confirmed that these reports are "unfounded".

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ASUS brings Resizable BAR support to Intel 400-series motherboards - Smart Access Memory on Intel?

AMD's Smart Access Memory is already coming to Intel motherboards

Published: 1st December 2020 | Source: ASUS DE's Chris Wefers | Author: Mark Campbell

ASUS brings Resizable BAR support to Intel 400-series motherboards - SAM on Intel?

Smart Access Memory (SAM) technology is one of AMD's latest technological advancements for PC gamers on Windows, optimising their new Radeon RX 6000 series GPUs to deliver increased performance levels across a variety of workloads. This technology utilises
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Red Dead Online is now available as a standalone game

Red Dead Online is now £4.49

Published: 1st December 2020 | Source: Red Dead Redemption 2 | Author: Mark Campbell

Red Dead Online is now available as a standalone game

Rockstar Games as released Red Dead Online as a standalone title, independent of Red Dead Redemption 2's singleplayer component. The standalone game is now available on Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC for £4.49 in the UK and $4.99 in the US, allowing gamers
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RTX 3060 Ti Roundup - ASUS TUF, MSI Gaming X Trio, Gigabyte Eagle

Introduction and Clock Speeds

Published: 1st December 2020 | Source: OC3D | Price: £459, £450 and £380 respectively | Author: Tom Logan

Introduction

If you've come here from our review of the RTX 3060 Ti Founders Edition then you'll already be aware of the performance one can expect to find from the latest addition to the Nvidia Ampere range. If you haven't then it's very much as promised

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Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti Founders Edition Review

Introduction and Technical Specifications

Published: 1st December 2020 | Source: Nvidia | Price: | Author: Tom Logan

Introduction

One would imagine that now Nvidia have brought out a series of graphics cards that blow their Turing ones away, and AMD have revitalised the Radeon range, that picking a graphics card would be simpler than ever. After all, we all want great gaming performance and yet it seems to can buy any of the cards that have been launched since the world went into lockdown and be satisfied.

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TEAMGROUP reveals their 2021 plans for DDR5 memory - Next-Generation DRAM

Expect to see 4800MHz+ ELITE series DDR5 memory in 2021

Published: 1st December 2020 | Source: TEAMGROUP | Author: Mark Campbell

TEAMGROUP reveals their 2021 plans for DDR5 memory - Next-Generation DRAM

The next-generation of DDR memory is coming, giving PC builders higher potential data rates as well as lowered DRAM power consumption. TEAMGROUP are ready for the transition to DDR5 memory and plan to release ELITE series DDR5 modules next year
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AMD launches their 20.11.3 driver for Immortals: Fenyx Rising and Vulkan Ray Tracing

AMD has also addressed a lot of early RX 6000 series bugs

Published: 1st December 2020 | Source: AMD | Author: Mark Campbell

AMD launches their 20.11.3 driver for Immortals: Fenyx Rising and Vulkan Ray Tracing

AMD has just launched that Radeon Software 20.1.3 driver for Windows PCs, bringing support for Vulkan Ray Tracing to the Radeon RX 6000 series as well as game-specific optimisations for Ubisoft's Immortals: Fenyx
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UL's Procyon Benchmarks delivers creator-focused benchmarking for photo and video editors

New benchmarks for professional users

Published: 30th November 2020 | Source: UL benchmarks | Author: Mark Campbell

UL's Procyon Benchmarks delivers creator-focused benchmarking for photo and video editors

UL Benchmarks are once again expanding their benchmarking suite, hoping to do for creators what they have done for gamers with 3DMARK. Meet Procyon, UL Benchmark's new creator-focused series of professional benchmarks, which aim to highlight the best systems for creators regardless of their chosen discipline.

The first of these
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VR support for Microsoft Flight Simulator is coming in December for SteamVR headsets

Windows Mixed Reality support is also coming next month

Published: 30th November 2020 | Source: Road To VR | Author: Mark Campbell

VR support for Microsoft Flight Simulator is coming in December for SteamVR headsets

ASOBO has confirmed that Microsoft Flight Simulator will receive support for VR headsets in Decembers, offering compatibility with SteamVR and Windows Mixed Reality headsets.

Like all games which offer players a cockpit view, Microsoft Flight Simulator is an ideal title for VR gamers. In a recent interview (as documented by Road to
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Cyberpunk 2077 merges with World of Warcraft in this Fan-made trailer

This is next-level Machinima

Published: 30th November 2020 | Source: Duren | Author: Mark Campbell

Cyberpunk 2077 merges with World of Warcraft in this Fan-made trailer

The Machinima creator Duren has managed to merge the high fantasy setting of World of Warcraft with the hyper futuristic look and feel of Cyberpunk 2077 in their latest project. It's time to watch Cyberpunk 2077's iconic E3 trailer through the lense to World of Warcraft.