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  MSI Afterburner Development Comes to an End

  • Created by: Shawn Zipay
  • Published: 01-09-2023, 02:11 PM
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  MSI Afterburner Development Comes to an End

  The Russian invasion of Ukraine is partly to blame.
  
  MSI Afterburner has been one of the more popular tools used by users looking to overclock graphics cards. Despite being under the MSI branding, Afterburner was free to be used across all makes and models of GPUs, and helped everyone from gamers to professionals dial in the perfect overclock on cards from Nvidia and AMD.
  
  MSI Afterburner was developed by Alexey Nicolaychuk, a Russian that is perhaps better known by his...

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  Last edited by Shawn Zipay; 01-09-2023, 04:48 PM. Reason: Update to include separate MSI statement made to PC Gamer.

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  Lionel Messi Ventures Into NFT Fantasy Soccer as Sorare’s Ambassador and Investor

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  • Published: 01-08-2023, 02:08 PM

  Lionel Messi Ventures Into NFT Fantasy Soccer as Sorare’s Ambassador and Investor

  Sorare announced on November 9, 2022 that seven-time Ballon d'Or winner Lionel Messi would invest in and promote the fantasy NFT collectible soccer game Sorare. Sorare is an NFT-based fantasy football management game that allows you to play, acquire, purchase, and sell player cards as part of a global gaming experience. As in actual football, you may construct and manage your ideal squad and sell your finest players for profit. However, NFTs are not the only aspect of Sorare that makes it a unique...

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  Play The Anacrusis for Free this Weekend

  • Created by: Shawn Zipay
  • Published: 01-06-2023, 04:22 PM
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  Play The Anacrusis for Free this Weekend

  This sort-of-Left-4-Dead-but-in-space game is free to play all weekend.
  Stray Bombay's The Anacrusis is having a free weekend. Which weekend? This weekend. From now through Sunday, you can play the PC version of this cooperative shooter for free through Steam. What's more is that The Anacrusis is 67% off until January 19, allowing you to purchase the game at a discount to keep playing after the weekend ends.
  
  We last took at look at The Anacrusis almost a full year back when...

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  CD Projekt Red Settles Another Cyberpunk 2077 Lawsuit for $1.85 Million

  • Created by: Shawn Zipay
  • Published: 01-06-2023, 02:48 PM
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  CD Projekt Red Settles Another Cyberpunk 2077 Lawsuit for $1.85 Million

  This is the lawsuit from investors that dates back to 2020.
  
  CD Projekt Red has settled a lawsuit with investors concerning the rough state that Cyberpunk 2077 launched in. The settlement with investors comes out to $1.85 million (USD). This settlement (PDF) will cover the administration costs, taxes, attorney fees, and more for investors that bought stock in CD Projekt Red from January 16 to December 17, 2020.
  
  The class-action lawsuit was filed at the end of 2020. At...

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  Poll: Which Horror Remake Are You Most Excited For in Early 2023?

  • Created by: Shawn Zipay
  • Published: 01-06-2023, 12:50 AM
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  Poll: Which Horror Remake Are You Most Excited For in Early 2023?

  4 Voters

  Dead Space (January 27)	25.00%	1 vote
  Resident Evil 4 (March 24)	50.00%	2 votes
  System Shock (March)	25.00%	1 vote

  There are at least three of them coming this year.
  
  It's near the start of the month. It's a new month, a new year, but probably the same you. 2023 will have a number of remakes and remasters released, same as the previous few years. While there are remakes and remasters of games such as Like a Dragon: Ishin and Risk of Rain Returns slated to be released in 2023, we're going to focus only on the horror remakes in the pipeline.
  
  That means, I'm asking just one simple question:...

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  Sony Says PlayStation 5 Shortage is Pretty Much Over

  • Created by: Shawn Zipay
  • Published: 01-05-2023, 06:54 PM
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  Sony Says PlayStation 5 Shortage is Pretty Much Over

  If you want a PlayStation 5, you can probably find one to buy.
  
  Sony says that their PlayStation 5 console sales have surpassed 30 million units. They also say that the console shortage, at least for them, is essentially done and over with.
  
  This news come via Sony Interactive Entertainment president Jim Ryan and Sony's CES conference. The 30 million units sold figure is an increase of 5 million from the last time Sony shared sales data back on November 1, 2022. Ryan says...

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  Project Leonardo Announced for PlayStation 5 - A Customizable Accessibility Controller Kit

  • Created by: Shawn Zipay
  • Published: 01-04-2023, 10:50 PM
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  Project Leonardo Announced for PlayStation 5 - A Customizable Accessibility Controller Kit

  Sony joins Microsoft in offering players with disabilities a way to play games more easily.
  
  In late 2018, Microsoft launched the Xbox Adaptive Controller. This controller was designed for those with disabilities, making user input far easier than a traditional controller. The Xbox Adaptive Controller launched at $99.99 (USD) and allowed for a huge variety of assistive input devices to be connected.
  
  Though it doesn't seem as though the Xbox Adaptive Controller was ever...

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  Neil Druckmann Promises to Share The Last of Us Multiplayer Details Later this Year

  • Created by: Shawn Zipay
  • Published: 01-04-2023, 04:45 PM
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  Neil Druckmann Promises to Share The Last of Us Multiplayer Details Later this Year

  Plus, a new piece of concept art has been shown off.
  
  Co-president of Naughty Dog, Neil Druckmann, posted a new blog post from the company that shares a new piece of concept art from The Last of Us multiplayer game that they are working on. Druckmann did share a couple of smaller pieces of information alongside the new art but promised that far more information will be coming later in 2023.
  
  Druckmann did say that even though this will be a mulitplayer focused title, it...

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  EA Unable to Recover 60% of Corrupt Madden NFL Franchise Saves

  • Created by: Shawn Zipay
  • Published: 01-04-2023, 02:57 PM
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  EA Unable to Recover 60% of Corrupt Madden NFL Franchise Saves

  Looks like EA really fumbled this one.
  
  There was a period of about 22 hours where, if you logged into Madden NFL 23, there was a chance your Connected Franchise Mode saves became permanently corrupted. The 22-hour long span took place from December 28 through December 29. Those dates happened to come just after EA told players they were good to log in and play. Oops.
  
  Now, the good news here is that if you logged into the game during this time there is a 40% chance that...

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  Nvidia Updating GeForce Now with RTX 4080s and New Global Regions

  • Created by: Shawn Zipay
  • Published: 01-03-2023, 06:43 PM
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  Nvidia Updating GeForce Now with RTX 4080s and New Global Regions

  Team green's streaming service will soon offer DLSS 3 and 240Hz support.
  
  Some new upgrades are coming soon to Nvidia's GeForce Now streaming service. Nvidia says that the hardware powering the service is getting access to all of those surplus RTX 4080 graphics cards that aren't being purchased by consumers. This means that GeForce Now games will get to make use of DLSS 3 and offer players 240Hz refresh rates. You will need to be a Now Ultimate Member to make use of the 4080 hardware....

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  ZeniMax Employees Vote to Form Union

  • Created by: Shawn Zipay
  • Published: 01-03-2023, 05:57 PM
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  ZeniMax Employees Vote to Form Union

  The union has already been recognized by Microsoft.
  
  A supermajority of quality assurance (QA) workers at ZeniMax just voted to approve the creation of the ZeniMax Workers United/Communications Workers of America. This makes it the first video game studio union under Microsoft. It also makes it the current largest union of video game workers in the United States.
  
  The official voting period ran from December 2 through December 31, 2022. Organization to create the union were...

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  Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti Officially Announced

  • Created by: Shawn Zipay
  • Published: 01-03-2023, 05:02 PM
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  Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti Officially Announced

  Remember the 12GB RTX 4080? It's back!
  
  Nvidia held their GeForce Beyond stream earlier today as part of CES 2023. During the presentation the company announced the fourth RTX 40-series desktop GPU, which will be the third 40-series card released.
  
  Today, the "unlaunched" 12GB RTX 4080 was brought back as the newly announced 12GB RTX 4070 Ti. This card is again built on the new Ada Lovelace architecture. The RTX 4070 Ti ships with 7,680 CUDA cores, a 2.61GHz clock,...

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  Hitman and Hitman 2 to be Free to Hitman 3 Owners

  • Created by: Shawn Zipay
  • Published: 01-03-2023, 04:20 PM
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  Hitman and Hitman 2 to be Free to Hitman 3 Owners

  There is also a new name for Hitman 3.
  
  IO Interactive is renaming Hitman 3 to Hitman World of Assassination. Along with this change is word that those that own Hitman 3, soon Hitman World of Assassination, get free access to both Hitman and Hitman 2 from the World of Assassination trilogy. This free upgrade will be available to everyone on all platforms starting January 26, 2023.
  
  This ties in with IO Interactive trying to simplify the purchase experience for new players....

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  Steam Users Chose Some Interesting Winners for The Steam Awards 2022

  • Created by: Shawn Zipay
  • Published: 01-03-2023, 03:30 PM
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  Steam Users Chose Some Interesting Winners for The Steam Awards 2022

  Do you agree or disagree with each winner?
  
  The Steam community has spoken and the winners of The Steam Awards for 2022 have been selected. Like all of the nominees, the winners were picked strictly by the Steam community. Surely, the Steam users have a good head about them and wouldn't pick something like the actually terrible VR version of Hitman 3 for VR Game of the Year, right?
  
  Yeah, about that.
  
  The winners can be found below. I have put all winners in...

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  Games to Look Forward to in 2023

  • Created by: Shawn Zipay
  • Published: 01-02-2023, 07:14 PM
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  Games to Look Forward to in 2023

  I won't lie. I fully expected there to be far more news to post today (January 2, 2023) given that it's the start of the week and the holidays are "technically" over. What I failed to realize is that a ton of people are still off work due to the New Year falling on a Sunday. Thus, here I am opting to do a little write-up about what games I'm looking forward to in 2023 instead of sitting around doing nothing. Who knows, maybe you're looking forward to these games as well. If I missed some games ...

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