That is why professional gamers and high-performance videographers require high monitor refresh rates. A normal display device displays at a maximum of 60 Hertz (Hz). However, thanks to technological advancements, display devices are now capable of displaying at 75 Hz, 90 Hz, 120 Hz, 144 Hz, and even 260 Hz. The supported refresh rate of a monitor contributes to the overall frame rate (FPS) you may be getting, along with other factors....

Having an internet connection and logging in with a Microsoft account is one of the requirements of Windows 11. Previously, when pressing the Alt + F4 keys, the Microsoft OOBE experience windows would disappear and a new window would appear to allow the user to set up a local user account. Another way was to kill the “Network Connection Flow” process. These tricks are no longer effective. After some research, I have come up with another solution you can use to install Windows 11 without a Microsoft account and instead, with a local account....

Sleep mode is a power saving mode for computers where only essential components of the computer are allowed to take power. All other components are powered off. This state is also called standby or suspend mode. The computer can be woken up from sleep mode by any input method, such as moving the mouse, pressing a keyboard key, etc. But there are times when the system wakes up for no apparent reason....

While that description may get some folks revved up, I understand if some may be scratching their heads a bit. Thankfully, I recently had an opportunity to chat with Sarah Northway about how I Was a Teenage Exocolonist actually works, as well as its surprisingly-dark subject matter, Groundhog-Day-style looping storyline, romance options, and more. Scroll on down for the full discussion… Could you give our readers a bit of an overview of I Was a Teenage Exocolonist?...

Instagram’s New Subscription Service Will Let Creators Create Exclusive Content Only For Subscribers According to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, creators will now have a dedicated destination for content on their profile oriented for subscribers. Creators can share exclusive Reels and feed posts which will be visible to subscribers only. Instagram’s new Subscriptions feature has been running wild in the rumor mill for a while. It will allow creators to monetize their content and directly engage with their followers through exclusive posts and experiences....

Instagram is Making Things Better for Creators with New Reels Features Creators will now get access to an enhanced sound effects library so they can make their Reels better. They can also import their audio directly into Reels and the feature can be accessed through the “Import Audio” toggle. This will take your existing video clip that is a minimum of 5 seconds or longer from their camera roll and import the sound from that video into the Reels....

Intel Arc A370M GPU & Alder Lake CPU Powered Notebook Spotted, Launching Later This Quarter The naming scheme of Intel’s Arc Alchemist graphics lineup is no secret now. We have seen several codenames leak out earlier within drivers and a few were also confirmed by Intel during their CES presentations. Now, as we approach the launch of all-Intel-powered notebooks, these GPUs have started showing up in various databases. The latest entry is for the mobility Arc A370M which will be an entry-tier solution for the notebook segment....

Intel’s First Arc Alchemist Gaming Graphics Cards Reportedly Delayed Till Mid Summer 2022, Drivers Cited As The Cause of Delay Once Again A few days ago, we reported the expected release timeframe of Intel’s Arc Alchemist graphics cards for the gaming segment. Based on the Alchemist Xe-HPG architecture, the first Arc A-Series cards were expected to hit store shelves by the end of this quarter. In fact, Intel already announced the top, Arc Limited Edition graphics card, for launch by the end of Q2 2022....

Intel reveals a new Software Advantage Program targeted at desktops and laptops equipped with 12th Gen Alder Lake CPUs & Arc GPUs, Receive $370 worth of titles for qualifying purchases Intel is preparing to make the launch of the Arc Alchemist desktop GPUs and systems utilizing the newest hardware a lot more compelling. The company has worked with several developers to offer a staggering $370 worth of applications and games for qualifying purchases....

Intel Admits Lagging Behind In Older APIs But Promises To Improve DX11 Gaming Performance As Time Goes By Initially reported in a review by LinusTechTips, the tech outlet witnessed a 50% GPU performance difference between DirectX 11 and 12 versions when benchmarking Shadow of the Tomb Raider on a system utilizing the Arc A770 graphics card. In the former DirectX version, the game reached near 38 FPS, while the latter saw a boost of around 80 FPS....

Intel Core i9-13900K & Core i5-13600K Raptor Lake CPU Benchmarks Leaked: Impressive Multi-Threaded Performance Uplift Intel Core i9-13900K Raptor Lake CPU Specifications: The Intel Core i9-13900K CPU is still an early sample that features 24 cores and 32 threads in an 8 P-Core and 16 E-Core configuration. From previous rumors, we can expect as much as 68 MB of the total ‘Game’ cache on this chip. Previous leaks have shown a 2....

Intel Readies At Least 46 Sapphire Rapids-SP Xeon CPUs As Specs Leak Out: Flagship Platinum 8490H With 60 Golden Cove Cores, 350W Base TDP For Sapphire Rapids-SP, Intel is using a quad multi-tile chiplet design which will come in HBM and non-HBM flavors. While each tile is its own unit, the chip itself acts as one singular SOC and each thread has full access to all resources on all tiles, consistently providing low-latency & high cross-section bandwidth across the entire SOC....

We were hoping to find it in the recently released Death Stranding: Director’s Cut, but it wasn’t there, and the developers only said it would be added in a future update. It seems like it’ll be a while before it goes live. The good news is that adoption for Intel XeSS appears to be going very well. The games list is now much larger, including indie games, double-A games, and even triple-A ones....

Some of the changes include minor revisions to improve immersion, like changing the values around Merces (Freelancer’s currency) to more important balance changes, such as adding large Merces payouts for players who complete campaigns. IO Interactive seems to have taken a lot of feedback around the CTT to heart and wants to make the experience more accessible to Hitman 3 players, old and new. The CTT also allowed IO Interactive to study some of the behavioral patterns of players to help with some balancing decisions....

Bill Rosemann, Vice President and Creative Director at Marvel Games, stated: We are thrilled to collaborate with the talented team at Motive Studio to bring their original vision of one of Marvel’s most important, powerful and beloved characters. Their experience delivering both established entertainment worlds and thrilling gameplay — combined with their authentic passion for the armored icon — will fuel our quest to deliver a love letter to a legendary hero in the form of the ultimate Iron Man video game....

First up, the previously PSVR-exclusive Iron Man VR is coming to Meta Quest on November 3. Interestingly, Sony will be involved in publishing the game on Meta Quest 2, hinting they’re willing to budge on exclusivity for PSVR titles. You can check out Wccftech’s impressions of the original PSVR version of the game here. Next, we also have a release date for Among Us VR, which arrives on November 10....

Ford (NYSE:F), a legacy automaker that is pursuing an ambitious electrification strategy, just might be vulnerable to the dreaded “Cramer” curse now that CNBC’s Jim Cramer is out with a resounding endorsement of the automaker’s electrification revamp. As a refresher, Ford announced on Wednesday that it was splitting its business into two distinct units, with Ford Blue responsible for the company’s existing portfolio of Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) vehicles while Ford Model e would spearhead the automaker’s electrification drive....

AMD (NASDAQ:AMD), the Santa Clara-based semiconductor company, just announced a major development regarding its efforts to acquire Xilinx, a supplier of programmable logic devices. — AMD News (@AMDNews) February 10, 2022 AMD has now announced that it has secured all requisite approvals to close the Xilinx deal by next week: Bear in mind that AMD had announced its intention to acquire Xilinx back in October 2020 via an all-stock deal that was priced at a 20 percent premium to Xilinx’s share price at the time....

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Longtime Managing Director of Game Freak, Junichi Masuda, would be stepping down from his position today and is set to be making a move over to The Pokemon Company as a “Chief Creative Fellow”… which just sounds weird in writing, but is probably very important. Anyway, moving on. Masuda had some comments regarding his departure from the company that he was one of the founding members of, left on The Pokemon Company’s website....