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The Surge 2 Season Pass with story DLC, weapons and gear is now available for purchase

Focus Home Interactive and Deck13 Interactive have unveiled the season pass for the futuristic action RPG The Surge 2. The season pass is now available for purchase. Its content is scheduled until January 2020. In November, Season Pass holders will receive 13 weapons and the BORAX-I Quantum dual-use weapon. In December - 4 sets of equipment. And in January, those who bought a subscription […]

Android-x86 8.1-r3 build available

The developers of the Android-x86 project, which uses an independent community to port the Android platform to x86 architecture, have published the first stable release of a build based on the Android 8.1 platform, which includes fixes and additions to ensure seamless operation on platforms with x86 architecture. Universal Live builds of Android-x86 8.1-r3 for x86 32-bit (656 MB) and x86_64 architectures have been prepared for download […]

Premiere action-RPG Everreach: Project Eden postponed to December

Publisher Headup Games planned to release the action-RPG Everreach: Project Eden in September this year. As you can see, it’s almost November, and still no game. The company calls “December of this year” as a new target. Let us remind you that the development is carried out by the Elder Games studio. What exactly caused the delay is not specified. It was announced that the game will be available for purchase on Xbox […]

Microsoft talks about innovations in DirectX 12: lightweight ray tracing and detail depending on distance

Microsoft, as part of the Windows Insider preview early access program, presented updated DirectX 12 APIs and spoke in detail about the innovations. These features will be released next year and include three main features. The first possibility concerns ray tracing. DirectX 12 had it initially, but now it has been expanded. In particular, additional shaders were added to […]

Video: seven minutes of Death Stranding in the release trailer

Studio Kojima Productions presented the release trailer for Death Stranding. It was shown live from the Paris Games Week exhibition. The video was presented by Hideo Kojima and project artist Yōji Shinkawa. The seven-minute trailer contains gameplay elements, battles, cutscenes and other details. According to Kojima, it was deliberately made long enough so that fans could better understand the project. […]

Video: Adobe Unveils AI-Based Object Selection Tool for Photoshop

Earlier this month, Adobe announced that Photoshop 2020 would be adding a number of new AI-powered tools. One of these is an intelligent object selection tool, which is designed to make the task easier, especially for beginners in Photoshop. Currently, irregularly shaped objects can be selected in images using the Lasso, Magic Wand, Quick […]

Hackers hacked the latest version of Denuvo in Borderlands 3

Hackers are celebrating another victory over Denuvo. The Codex group has hacked the latest version of DRM protection in Borderlands 3. The game is already freely available on the relevant resources. The same anti-piracy protection is used in Mortal Kombat 11, Anno 1800 and a number of other games that have not yet appeared on torrent trackers. The hackers did not say whether they would make the remaining projects […]

Alphabet-owned Makani tests kite power generation

The idea from Alphabet-owned Makani (acquired by Google in 2014) would be to send high-tech kites (tethered drones) hundreds of meters into the sky to generate electricity using constant winds. Thanks to such technologies, it is even possible to generate wind energy around the clock. However, the technology needed to fully implement this plan is still under development. Dozens of companies […]

Sony closes PlayStation Vue, claiming to be an alternative to cable services

In 2014, Sony introduced the PlayStation Vue cloud service, which was intended to be a cheaper alternative to cable TV delivered over the Internet. The launch took place the following year, and even at the beta test level, agreements were signed with Fox, CBS, Viacom, Discovery Communications, NBCUniversal, Scripps Networks Interactive. But today, 5 years later, the company announced the forced closure […]

Hideo Kojima would like to make a VR game, but he 'doesn't have the time'

The head of the Kojima Productions studio, Hideo Kojima, gave an interview to representatives of the YouTube channel Rocket Beans Gaming. The conversation turned to the potential creation of a VR game. The well-known developer said that he would like to take on such a project, but he currently “doesn’t have enough time for it.” Hideo Kojima stated: “I’m really interested in VR, but right now there’s no way to be distracted by something […]

New article: Which laptop do you need for photography, video editing and 3D rendering?

If you need to choose the most striking evidence of progress in computer technology, convincing not only in the eyes of specialists, but also for the general public, then this, without a doubt, will be a mobile gadget - a smartphone or tablet. At the same time, the more conservative class of devices - laptops - has come a long way: from an add-on to a desktop PC, with the limitations of which […]