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Cyberpunk 2077's in-game character models get celebrated in this impressive new graphical showcase video.

Performance issues aside, there's one thing most of us can agree on: CD Projekt RED created one of the best-looking PC games of all time with Cyberpunk 2077 (especially in 8K resolution, as shown by TweakTown's own Anthony Garreffa).

A new video from YouTuber Ultraclocked highlights Cyberpunk 2077's incredibly detailed NPCs and character models featured throughout Night City. The result is a dazzling visual treat that closely inspects the fine grain details of the characters from their faces, eyes, and hair to the fluid animations and lighting effects.

One gamer paid a cam girl over $20,000 to beat Elden Ring's campaign with him.

Elden Ring is better with friends, but if you don't have them, you can apparently pay a digital escort to play with you. Chris, a gamer from New Jersey, reportedly paid cam girl Charley Hart a whopping $20,160 to play Elden Ring's main story with him. The session lasted for an epic 40 consecutive hours and became the longest cam stream on the CamSoda platform.

"It might not be for everyone, but I appreciated the companionship of Charley. She kept things...fun," Chris said in an interview.

Motive Studios is holding a new live stream event for their upcoming Dead Space remake.

EA and Motive today announced a YouTube stream for super-hyped Dead Space remake. The stream will premiere four days from now on March 11 at 1PM EST, complete with behind-the-scenes looks at the game's overall development. We should get closer looks at environments, animations, sound effects, and all of the other main core features that're going into the new remake.

"Motive invites you to the latest in their series of early looks at development and what goes into the remake of a game. Subscribe and keep notifications on to be the first to hear details about our upcoming Dead Space Remake Developer Livestream," the description reads.

WWE could leave 2K Games and move to EA Sports, reports indicate.

WWE 2K22 could be the last game in the wrestling franchise. Sources have told website Fightful Select that WWE Inc. is currently in talks with billion-dollar publisher Electronic Arts for future game releases. It's possible that WWE could license its franchise out to EA Sports. The WWE games are currently published by 2K Games' sports division and developed by Visual Concepts, a team that also makes the massively successful NBA 2K series.

There's reported friction between the WWE parent and 2K Games that stems from the controversial release of WWE 2K20, which scored bad reviews and frustrated lots of fans. This led to WWE 2K21 being cancelled altogether so Visual Concepts could build WWE 2K22 from scratch with a new engine specifically optimized for next-gen hardware.

Activision-Blizzard is the latest video game developer to respond to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Call of Duty maker Activision-Blizzard has ceased game sales to Russia due to the ongoing war against Ukraine. The company will no longer sell or ship new copies of its mega-hit franchises to Russia, and will also cut off in-game purchases to the region.

"Today, we are announcing that Activision Blizzard will be suspending new sales of and in our games in Russia while this conflict continues. We will continue to look at ways to support the Ukrainian people," Activision-Blizzard Chief Operating Officer and President Daniel Alegre said.

Square Enix's latest RPG Forspoken has been delayed to October so the team has more time to polish and refine the game.

Luminous Productions today announced their latest hack-and-slash RPG Forspoken has been pushed back by over half a year. Originally set to release this month, Forspoken will now launch on October 11 during Square Enix's Q3 period.

"We have made the decision to move the release date of Forspoken to October 11, 2022. Our vision for this exciting new IP is to deliver a game world and hero that gamers across the globe will want to experience for years to come, so getting it right is extremely important to us," the team said.

Halo Infinite's new Fractures seasonal events aren't living up to their ultimate cross-synergy potential.

A bit ago I predicted that Halo Infinite's Fracture events would lead to cross-overs with other Xbox Studios franchises. For instance, one season could see new cosmetics inspired from franchises like Fallout or Doom cross over into Halo. It's not the best lore-friendly solution, but 343i themselves says the Fractures are slices of alternate timelines of what could've been.

Instead, 343i is using Fractures to try and split the Halo universe in unique ways. We saw early iterations of Fractures in Halo Master Chief Collection with Season 8's odd cosmetic design choices that added myth-inspired armors to the game including Nordic and Greek-style cosmetics. These didn't fit Halo (and still don't), and it's a big immersion-breaking seeing shields and Valkyrie helm-wearing Spartans in Halo 3.

SpaceX is sending even more Starlink terminals to Ukraine, with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky tweeting out thanks once again, to Elon Musk.

Zelensky must be planning far ahead and sees the war over soon obviously, as he quips that he chilled and chatted to Musk about "possible space projects". He's got the time to take away from the battle of his lifetime, and his people's lifetime, to talk space projects -- alright. He adds that "I'll talk about this after the war", where I guess Ukraine will be able to defend itself from enemies blowing up its future space projects launching off Ukrainian soil. Maybe they can get Oculus founder Palmer Luckey and his defense startup Anduril Industries to help out with some Terminator-level AI robots defending Ukrainian air (and soon, spaced) airspace.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said: "Talked to @elonmusk. I'm grateful to him for supporting Ukraine with words and deeds. Next week we will receive another batch of Starlink systems for destroyed cities. Discussed possible space projects 🚀. But I'll talk about this after the war".

It looks like we'll be enjoying 3nm products sooner than we thought, with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) seeing yield improvements with its N3e production.

The news is coming from Retired Engineer, who tweeted that with TSMC's new 3nm node seeing yield improvements that volume production on N3e may start in Q2 2023 (April-June). Morgan Stanley has reportedly checked with equipment vendors that have said TSMC could "freeze" the N3e process flow, meaning the design parameters -- kinda like TSMC is saying its N3e has 'Gone Gold' and is ready for production -- yeah, that works.

Retired Engineer explained: "N3e production yield improves; schedule being pulled in: Our recent checks with equipment vendors suggest that TSMC may freeze the N3e process flow sooner - by the end of this March. This means that volume production of N3e may start in 2Q23, around a quarter ahead of the original schedule of 3Q23".

The largest streaming company in the world is the latest to jump into the ban-everything-to-Russia bandwagon, with Netflix suspending its services to the country.

Netflix has now suspended its streaming services to Russia, as well as any and all projects and productions the company was working on in the country. A spokesperson for Netflix told CNBC: "Given the circumstances on the ground, we have decided to suspend our service in Russia".

There are reportedly over 1 million subscribers in Russia, with four original productions in the works being canned. They might still make the light of day, but we won't know for a while now. AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA have all stopped sending anything to Russia, so gamers and now people who stream movies and TV in the country are going to suffer because of the actions of their leader. No chill at all.

Tesla is one step closer to having its Gigafactory in Germany being a reality, with local officials approving the facility on Friday.

From here, the electric car giant will have to walk through the usual requirements before the Gigafactory in Germany can be operational: the biggest part of it seems to come from the water consumption of the plant. Tesla's construction of the Gigafactory is nearly complete, but it wasn't without hiccups as there were many issues with environmental groups complaining of water use and the potential issues with local wildlife.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said that there would be "relatively little" water used by the Gigafactory in Germany and that the forest that was cleared before the plant was built was "not a natural forest". The forest itself, was actually planted for cardboard.

Whether it's a cell phone, computer, or other smart terminals, users value each system upgrade optimization because they want to experience new features while also enjoying the more smooth feeling of using. It is reported that with the "Sun Valley 2" feature update, Microsoft will introduce a new feature for the task manager to suspend applications that use too many system resources. This new feature is called "Efficiency Mode" or "Eco Mode," which will be enabled to solve the overall performance problem by suspending the use of resources for processes manually selected by the user.

The new Windows 11 "Efficiency Mode" lowers the priority of processes to "low." It is also effective in extending the overall battery life of the notebook. "Efficiency Mode was also tested by Microsoft for a year, and the final results were quite surprising, with up to 4x performance improvements (76% reduction in resource usage) observed on CPU-intensive systems in this mode. Not only is there a better UI response, but also the speed of the task manager itself is significantly improved.

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AMD is about to unleash its beefy new Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5000 series CPUs which will be led by the flagship Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5995WX processor... and man, it's going to be a beast.

In some new leaks, we have five different Ryzen Threadripper PRO chips which will see AMD having the new flagship Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5995WX processor will feature 64 cores and 128 threads, at up to 4.5GHz. The new Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5000 series CPUs will be based on the Zen 3 architecture, just like the desktop Ryzen 5000 series CPUs.

AMD will reportedly have the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5995WX, Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5975WX, Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX, Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5955WX, and the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5945WX. All of these new Zen 3-powered CPUs will have a default 280W default TDP.

Epic Games has enacted a temporary sales ban to Russia and will no longer sell games or services to the region.

Russian gamers can no longer purchas content on the Epic Store launcher. Epic Games announced that it has halted business with Russia due to the ongoing invasion of Ukraine

"Epic is stopping commerce with Russia in our games in response to its invasion of Ukraine. We're not blocking access for the same reason other communication tools remain online: the free world should keep all lines of dialogue open," the company wrote on Twitter.

Sony Interactive Entertainment is currently hiring an executive position to lead its new live services games division.

Sony's PlayStation Studios recently put up a job listing for a Vice President, Head of Live Services role that will help shape its new push into online-driven games. The executive position is open to all of SIE's branches, including its offices in London, Liverpool, San Diego, San Mateo and Los Angeles.

"As Head of Live Services, you will be responsible for the ownership and successful delivery of the PlayStation Studios Live Service operational framework. You will be responsible for architecting a cohesive and integrated live services business strategy, product strategy and operational framework to deliver commercial success," the listing reads.

One of Halo Infinite's principal developers has left 343 Industries, leading to discussions about the state of the game.

Lead multiplayer modes & systems designer Andrew Witts has left 343 Industries after 3 years with the company, the developer announced on Twitter.

Amazon will no longer localize New World for Russian players, the company has announced.

Amazon Games is one of the latest games companies to speak out against Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine. The developer has confirmed it will no longer bring Russian voice-over dialog or language support to New World as a result of the war.

"We were looking into localizing New World for Russia, and we stopped that," VP of Amazon Games Christoph Hartmann told TechRadar.

I'm sure by now we all know what's going on between Russia and Ukraine, with Russians being shut out from the developed world... and now, VPN downloads are skyrocketing in the country. Duh.

Russians are jumping all over the world of VPNs (Virtual Private Network) because the outside world is getting harder to access, with the likes of Facebook, Twitter, and everything in between now offline to Russian citizens on the internet. But with new numbers from AppFigures, VPN downloads in Russia have absolutely exploded -- by a huge 1200% -- on the Apple App Store and Google Play Stores.

The use of a VPN allows Russians who are banned from the internet, letting them bypass the blocks that the world is putting up around them. The thing is, how much longer can those people download VPN apps from the App Store and Play Store... if those stores were to go offline in the coming days. Hell, it could happen at any moment. Apple and Google could bring down the App Gauntlet, taking down both app platforms and taking down VPNs with it.

Qualcomm has just unveiled its new Wi-Fi 7 solutions at Mobile World Congress (MWC) last week, with the company proudly teasing the "world's first announced Wi-Fi 7 product".

The company is introducing its new FastConnect 7800 which has some deliciously high speeds and low latency, with Qualcomm promising high-speed, ultra-low latency Wi-Fi that are only capable with the next-gen Wi-Fi 7 standard. Qualcomm is using a High Band Simultaneous (HBS) Multi-Link technology, which the company says is the "premium capability" for Wi-Fi 7 networks.

Qualcomm explains: "At Qualcomm Technologies, good is never good enough - for us or our customers. As a leading wireless technology innovator, we constantly drive progress to bring you the best technology solutions and experiences. Today, that pursuit comes in the form of initiating a new era of connectivity supporting both Wi-Fi 7 and next-gen Bluetooth connectivity: Qualcomm FastConnect 7800, the world's fastest and most versatile connectivity system".

Samsung has officially validated its LPDDR5X memory for Qualcomm Snapdragon Mobile Platforms, where the new high-performance, low-power memory will be used in mobile devices, automotive chips, data centers, and more.

The new Samsung LPDDR5X DRAM is prepped for super-high-res video (4K 120FPS, 8K 60FPS, and more) as well as AI features in next-gen devices around the corner. Samsung's new LPDDR5X memory is made on their in-house 14nm process node.

Samsung is clocking its new LPDDR5X at up to 7.5Gbps, which is a 20% bump over the LPDDR5 (non-X) which has up to 6.4Gbps of bandwidth. This additional 20% performance will allow new high-performance devices that are a decent leap in performance over the current flagship mobile devices.