Overwatch 2 Season 15 starts Feb 18: lootboxes are back, new Perk system and maps teased

Anthony Garreffa | Gaming | Feb 12, 2025 1:25 PM CST

Blizzard is changing the game up with Overwatch 2 Season 15, just teased on X, with mechanics, new skins, new maps teased, and the return of the infamous lootboxes.

Overwatch 2 Season 15 starts Feb 18: lootboxes are back, new Perk system and maps teased

The developer is calling 2025 the "next evolution" of Overwatch 2 PvP with the introduction of the new Hero Perks mechanism, and a slew of changes to the game for Season 15 and future seasons throughout the year. The new Perks system sounds fantastic, with the Hero-specific mechanism giving players more control over how each character plays by offering exciting new upgrades two different times as you progress through a round.

Overwatch 2 Season 15 has big Competitive Mode changes, with a new competitive queue, the return of Loot Boxes, and more. Season 15 begins on February 18, with a competitive mode ranked reset, and new "competitive" Galactic Weapons that can be unlocked with rank Weapon Charms, Player Portraits, and more.

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Crytek lays off 15% of its staff, announces next-gen Crysis 4 is officially on hold

Anthony Garreffa | Gaming | Feb 12, 2025 1:01 PM CST

Crytek has just announced that its next-gen Crysis 4 is "on hold" as it lays off 15% of its global workforce, and puts its development focus into Hunt: Showdown 1896.

Crytek lays off 15% of its staff, announces next-gen Crysis 4 is officially on hold

The developer announced the news in a post on X, saying that "complex, unfavorable market dynamics that have hit our industry these past several years. It pains us greatly to share today that we must lay off an estimated 15% of our around 400 employees".

Not only that, but the developer said "after putting the development of the next Crysis game on hold in Q3 2024" that Crytek has "been trying to shift developers over to Hunt: Showdown 1896". For now, let's hope that Crytek hasn't killed off its new Crysis game and that it's just on hold until the developer is in a better position, but it does NOT feel like good news for the infamous shooter.

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Remedy has sold over 2M+ copies of Alan Wake 2, teases that a new project is now in production

Anthony Garreffa | Gaming | Feb 12, 2025 12:27 PM CST

Remedy has just announced that it has sold over 2 million copies of Alan Wake 2 as part of their full-year 2024 financial report.

Remedy has sold over 2M+ copies of Alan Wake 2, teases that a new project is now in production

Remedy CEO Tero Virtala said that the development and marketing costs of Alan Wake 2 have been recouped, with teh developer earning royalties for the game towards the end of Q4 2024. Virtala said that the continued support for Alan Wake 2 through Night Springs and Lake House expansions, as well as the beefy PS5 Pro update + RTX Mega Geometry updates, helped push sales of Alan Wake 2 up and over 2M copies.

Now that Alan Wake 2 is finished up, Remedy is now pushing full-steam ahead into its next projects including FBC: Firebreak, which Virtala confirmed for a 2025 launch. The Remedy CEO said in December 2024 that the development team had successfully conducted a closed technical test with external players, where they tested FBC: FIrebrerak and its matchmaking and backedn services, collecting as much data as they could to form the final game.

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AMD RX 9070 GPU launch event rumored for February 20 - to steal NVIDIA's RTX 5070 Ti thunder?

Darren Allan | Video Cards & GPUs | Feb 12, 2025 11:11 AM CST

AMD's RX 9070 graphics cards are set to be released in March, but there will be some kind of a launch announcement beforehand, and it might be pencilled in for very soon - next week, in fact.

AMD RX 9070 GPU launch event rumored for February 20 - to steal NVIDIA's RTX 5070 Ti thunder?

A new rumor from the Chiphell forums, as highlighted by Tomasz Gawroński on X, claims that AMD has an RX 9070 XT launch planned for February 20.

This would be the full reveal of the graphics card (and presumably the vanilla RX 9070 as well), and previous rumors have indicated that later in February we'll get some kind of RDNA 4 press announcement from AMD. So, this very much backs up that idea (and furthermore, there's also a hint Frank Azor recently dropped that the full details on RDNA 4 graphics cards are "coming soon").

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NVIDIA RTX 5070 rumor claims GPU is delayed to March, and this is seeming more and more likely

Darren Allan | Video Cards & GPUs | Feb 12, 2025 8:46 AM CST

NVIDIA might be about to delay its RTX 5070 graphics card, or that's the latest from the grapevine regarding the remaining Blackwell models that Team Green has on the boil.

 NVIDIA RTX 5070 rumor claims GPU is delayed to March, and this is seeming more and more likely

As you're doubtless aware, the RTX 5070 Ti has been strongly rumored for a February 20 launch, but notably, the vanilla version, the RTX 5070, has been absent from all the chatter on the rumor mill.

While NVIDIA said both the RTX 5070 and 5070 Ti will be out in February, back at the Blackwell reveal during CES 2025, it now appears that the vanilla RTX 5070 might be pushed back to March, as rumored by MegaSizeGPU on X.

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AMD RDNA 4 high-end GPU rumored to debut by June with 32GB VRAM - to take on RTX 5090, or not?

Darren Allan | Video Cards & GPUs | Feb 12, 2025 8:12 AM CST

Update to original story: The leaker has provided further info, asserting that this will purportedly be an RX 9070 XT variant with doubled-up VRAM to 32GB. So, technically it'll be a gaming graphics card, not a professional (Radeon Pro) product - however, the source on Chiphell claims that the GPU is still set to primarily target the AI market, and will be priced as such. (So the value proposition will not make much sense for gamers).

AMD RDNA 4 high-end GPU rumored to debut by June with 32GB VRAM - to take on RTX 5090, or not?

AMD might be developing an RDNA 4 graphics card loaded up with a potentially huge helping of 32GB of VRAM, but don't get overly enthusiastic about this prospect yet.

Before you go thinking that this could be the mighty RX 9000 gaming GPU to take on NVIDIA at the high-end - as tempting as that may be as a conclusion to leap for - we must bear in mind a couple of things. Firstly, this is only a rumor, and secondly, if true, this is most likely to be a data center board rather than a gaming graphics card.

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Sam Altman says he feels sorry for Elon Musk's life-long 'insecurities'

Jak Connor | Artificial Intelligence | Feb 12, 2025 7:40 AM CST

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently stated in an interview he feels sorry for Elon Musk's lifelong "insecurities" after OpenAI rejected Musk's bid to purchase the company for $97.4 billion.

Sam Altman says he feels sorry for Elon Musk's life-long 'insecurities'

The feud between Musk and Altman has certainly been heating up as of late and then reached a boiling point on Monday when the Wall Street Journal reported Musk offered to purchase OpenAI for a whopping $97.4 billion. However, that bid was rejected by OpenAI, and the company's CEO, Sam Altman, took to X to post a rebuttal offer for X, writing, "No thank you but we will buy Twitter for $9.74 billion if you want." In response to that X post from Altman, Musk wrote, "Swindler."

But now things have seemingly taken a more personal turn, as Altman has stated during a recent Bloomberg interview at the Paris AI Action Summit that this recent offer from Musk is just one of the many tactics the Tesla CEO has attempted in the past. When asked what Musk's goal would be with this offer Altman said he believes Musk is trying to slow OpenAI down due to Musk's AI company, xAI, being a direct competitor. However, Altman said he wishes Musk would compete by "building a better product," but "I think there's been a lot of tactics. Many, many lawsuits, all sorts of other crazy stuff. Now this."

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Man who lost nearly $1 billion worth of Bitcoin now wants to buy the landfill

Jak Connor | Cryptocurrency & Mining | Feb 12, 2025 7:13 AM CST

James Howells has been on a quest to recover his lost Bitcoin, which he claims is missing within a landfill site in Newport, Wales.

Man who lost nearly $1 billion worth of Bitcoin now wants to buy the landfill

Howells' quest to recover the lost hard drive, which he says contains approximately 7,500 Bitcoins, worth approximately £586 million ($728 million USD) at the current time of reporting, has now resulted in the man offering to purchase the landfill site from the city council. The escape of events doesn't start there, though, as Howell has been trying to convince the Newport City Council to give him access to the landfill so he can begin sifting through the trash to look for the hard drive.

According to Howell, the hard drive's location has been pinpointed down to 100,000 tonnes of waste, which may sound large, but it's not as large as the landfills' approximate total capacity of 1.4 million metric tonnes. Howell has already been rejected by the city council for gaining access to the landfill, despite his promise to share 10% of the recovered Bitcoin with the city council if the drive is found. In response to the rejection, Howell filed a lawsuit against the Newport City Council, which was dismissed early last month as the judge ruled Howell had no reasonable grounds along with no realistic prospect of success at the trial.

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Elon Musk says he's uncovered the biggest level of fraud in history

Jak Connor | Business, Financial & Legal | Feb 12, 2025 6:52 AM CST

Elon Musk has taken to his personal X account to warn he has discovered the the level of fraudulent federal entitlements exceeds the combined sum of every private scam anyone has ever heard of.

Elon Musk says he's uncovered the biggest level of fraud in history

The post from Elon Musk has undoubtedly kicked off several alarm bells within the US government as the Tesla and SpaceX CEO continues to audit the US government books with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). According to Musk, he is "100% certain" that the magnitude of the fraudulent federal entitlements, which include services such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Welfare, Disability, and others, completely outweighs the combined sum "of every private scam you've ever heard by FAR."

The alarming post from Musk comes after the billionaire took to his X account on February 8 to share that he was informed there is currently more than $100 billion per year of entitlements distributed out to people with no Social Security Number or "even a temporary ID number." For those who don't know, individuals must have a Social Security Number in order to work, collect Social Security Benefits, and officially receive government assistance, according to the Social Security Administration website, per Newsweek.

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Microsoft warns some Windows 11 users they should downgrade to Windows 10 'immediately'

Darren Allan | Software & Apps | Feb 12, 2025 5:00 AM CST

We are, of course, very much used to Microsoft pushing folks to upgrade to Windows 11, but for certain users, some fresh advice from the company is the exact opposite - albeit there's a good reason for this.

Microsoft warns some Windows 11 users they should downgrade to Windows 10 'immediately'

The advice to downgrade to Windows 10 is being given (via a support document) to people who are running Windows 11 on an unsupported PC (that doesn't meet the hardware requirements of the OS).

The document in question is entitled 'Ways to install Windows 11' and is all about just that, but it previously contained some advice on implementing an installation on a PC that didn't meet the necessary system specs.

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