Posts by Metal Messiah:
CDPR confirms Cyberpunk 2077’s second “Night City Wire” stream for August 10
Posted on: 06 Aug 2020
CDPR has tweeted that the Night City Wire episode 2 livestream for Cyberpunk 2077 has been scheduled for Monday, August 10, and they will reveal new details about lifepaths, weapons, and more.
Intel’s Alder Lake-S and Alder Lake-P CPU lineup’s full configurations have been leaked, CPU, GPU and PCH info
Posted on: 06 Aug 2020
Back in July, Intel confirmed that its next-gen 10nm ‘Alder Lake’ CPU lineup will launch in the second half of 2021. Intel has also confirmed that the next-gen Alder Lake-S CPUs will use a new Hybrid Core/Atom processor architecture.
NVIDIA’s Turing-based GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER GPU has now been discontinued, gets an ‘End of Life’ status
Posted on: 05 Aug 2020
Back in July, there was one report from ITHome which mentioned that Nvidia is ostensibly discontinuing and retiring the GeForce RTX 2070, RTX 2070 Super, RTX 2080 Super, and RTX 2080 Ti Turing cards.
Intel accused of infringing the FinFET patent of ‘Chinese Academy of Sciences’, 200 million yuan as compensation
Posted on: 04 Aug 2020
INTEL was recently sued for unexpectedly delaying the 7nm process node, and now we have been informed that Intel has also allegedly infringed FinFET patents of the Microelectronics Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The patent review committee recently got an application that accuses Intel of violating patent number 201110240931.5, commonly referred to as FinFET … Continue reading Intel accused of infringing the FinFET patent of ‘Chinese Academy of Sciences’, 200 million yuan as compensation
XBOX head Phil Spencer thanks the PC Gaming community for their support, says “there is more work to do”
Posted on: 03 Aug 2020
Xbox has made several changes to provide better PC support over the last couple of years, and on top of that several Xbox Game Studios titles are finding great success on the PC platform as well. XBOX studios head Phil Spencer recently thanked PC players for showing their support, while also acknowledging the fact that … Continue reading XBOX head Phil Spencer thanks the PC Gaming community for their support, says “there is more work to do”
Intel sued for unexpectedly delaying the 7nm process node, a Law Firm has launched a ‘Securities Fraud’ investigation
Posted on: 01 Aug 2020
Last week the share price of Intel’s stock suffered a major setback when the chipmaker announced on Thursday that it had postponed the mass production of 7nm chips. Despite the sharp increase in profits, the price took a huge blow. They announced that their 7nm manufacturing process will suffer a 6 months delay due to … Continue reading Intel sued for unexpectedly delaying the 7nm process node, a Law Firm has launched a ‘Securities Fraud’ investigation
CD Projekt Red warns players to stay away from a recent Cyberpunk 2077 beta ‘email phishing scam’ circling on the web
Posted on: 01 Aug 2020
CD Projekt RED recently warned fans/players about an email ‘phishing scam’ which is being employed to entice gamers interested in playing Cyberpunk 2077 to sign up for a beta, and also in an attempt to steal their personal sensitive data.
NVIDIA launches a new ‘Rainbow Six: Siege’ Game Bundle with the purchase of any GeForce RTX 20 series of GPUs
Posted on: 31 Jul 2020
Nvidia is currently giving away free copies of Rainbow Six: Siege Gold Edition to new RTX 20-series GPU owners. As per the new “Frames Win Games” promotion, Nvidia has started to bundle a copy of Rainbow Six: Siege Gold Edition with new Geforce 20 series RTX graphics cards, offering PC gamers the base game as … Continue reading NVIDIA launches a new ‘Rainbow Six: Siege’ Game Bundle with the purchase of any GeForce RTX 20 series of GPUs
Valve silently changes the STEAM storefront policy to restrict usage of VPNs to buy games in other regions
Posted on: 31 Jul 2020
Few weeks back I covered an article in which it was mentioned that ‘Horizon Zero Dawn’s’ PC release version got a price hike globally, due to people misusing VPNs in some countries/regions. Now, an updated policy from the ‘SteamDB’ indicates that Valve is taking measures to restrict users who use a VPN to purchase games … Continue reading Valve silently changes the STEAM storefront policy to restrict usage of VPNs to buy games in other regions
New ‘BootHole’ security Vulnerability revealed, puts millions of systems at risk including Linux & Windows OS
Posted on: 30 Jul 2020
Security researchers at Eclypsium have discovered a new severe vulnerability that affects the bootloader process used by virtually every Linux system in use, and almost every Windows OS PC device using ‘Secure Boot’ with Microsoft’s standard Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) certificate authority. A high-rated security vulnerability found in the Secure Boot function of the … Continue reading New ‘BootHole’ security Vulnerability revealed, puts millions of systems at risk including Linux & Windows OS