Baldur's Gate 3, Alan Wake 2 And Every Winner At The Game Awards 2023

Hot Headlines In Tech For Today [HotHardware.com]( Here Are Today's Hot Headlines In Tech [View this email in your browser]( [Baldur's Gate 3, Alan Wake 2 And Every Winner At The Game Awards 2023]( By Nathan Ord on Dec 08, 2023 02:00 pm [Baldur's Gate 3, Alan Wake 2 And Every Winner At The Game Awards 2023]( Last night, The Game Awards 2023 awarded 32 trophies to some of the best games that were released this year. Of course, the Game of the Year is not much of a surprise, but some of the other category winners might be. Take a look at who took away an award below… Game of The Year Alan Wake 2 (Remedy Entertainment/Epic Games Publishing) Baldur’s [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [AMD FMF Frame Generation Preview Driver Adds Support For Avatar And The Finals]( By Zak Killian on Dec 08, 2023 01:45 pm [AMD FMF Frame Generation Preview Driver Adds Support For Avatar And The Finals]( AMD's Fluid Motion Frames (AFMF) is a driver-based version of its frame generation technology. It's not the same as the frame generation feature in FidelityFX Super Resolution 3, as that requires game-specific integration. Instead, AFMF is implemented at the driver level, which means it can actually work for any DirectX 11 or DirectX 12 game—even [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Google Confirms Its Awesome Gemini AI Demo Was Staged And Explains Why]( By Tim Sweezy on Dec 08, 2023 11:01 am [Google Confirms Its Awesome Gemini AI Demo Was Staged And Explains Why]( To the ire of some, Google has confirmed that its Gemini AI hands-on demonstration video it showcased along with Gemini’s launch was somewhat misleading. While the tech giant said it wanted to inspire developers and did nothing wrong, some were quick to reply that the demo was disingenuous. As it turns out, the actual interaction with Gemini [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [PC User On Reddit Exposes Dirty Trick Cheap PSU Makers Employ To Dupe Consumers]( By Paul Lilly on Dec 08, 2023 10:52 am [PC User On Reddit Exposes Dirty Trick Cheap PSU Makers Employ To Dupe Consumers]( A user on Reddit who goes by the handle RedditCringe990 posted some interesting images of the inside of an off-brand power supply unit (PSU), and it serves as a reminder of why you should never cheap out when buying one of the most important (and underrated) parts of your PC. It doesn't matter if it's a modest build or a budget system, it's [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [You've Never Seen A GeForce RTX 4070 With Five Cooling Fans Until Now]( By Thiago Trevisan on Dec 08, 2023 10:41 am [You've Never Seen A GeForce RTX 4070 With Five Cooling Fans Until Now]( While we are in the midst of the current generation of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 series GPUs, most of the exciting hardware has already been released. As such, the RTX 40 series is easily recognizable at this point. If waiting for the GeForce RTX Super refresh has got you inpatient, however, there is a unique RTX 40 series GPU to feast your eyes [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [A Super-Rare Asteroid Eclipse Will Hide The Brightest Star In The Sky, How To Watch]( By Tim Sweezy on Dec 08, 2023 10:01 am [A Super-Rare Asteroid Eclipse Will Hide The Brightest Star In The Sky, How To Watch]( In a cosmic game of hide and seek, an asteroid will pass in front of one of the biggest and brightest stars visible in the night sky. Asteroid Leona will pass in front of the star Alpha Orionis, also known as Betelgeuse (seen in the image above via NASA), which is a red supergiant in the constellation Orion. Betelgeuse (pronounced BAY-tel-jooz) [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Skull And Bones Closed Beta And PC Requirements Revealed, You Might Need A Bigger SSD]( By Alan Velasco on Dec 08, 2023 09:55 am [Skull And Bones Closed Beta And PC Requirements Revealed, You Might Need A Bigger SSD]( Skull and Bones, Ubisoft’s much maligned pirate game, let players interested in the closed beta know what hardware they’ll need to enjoy the title. One of the requirements that stands out is the hefty 65GB of storage the game will require, and Ubisoft is very specific that the game will need an solid state drive (SSD). The announcement makes [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Intel Arc GPU Driver Hauls Another Round Of Big Performance Gains Up To 34%]( By Paul Lilly on Dec 08, 2023 09:45 am [Intel Arc GPU Driver Hauls Another Round Of Big Performance Gains Up To 34%]( Intel deserves some kudos for maintaining a regular driver update schedule for its Arc GPU family. Even more impressive, though, is the effort its driver team has put into delivering chunky performance gains, with the biggest to date being a massive 750% improvement in Halo: The Master Chief Collection. Intel's newest Arc GPU driver doesn't [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Intel's Monstrous 144-Core Sierra Forest Xeon CPU With 172MB Of Cache Gets Benchmarked]( By Zak Killian on Dec 07, 2023 04:45 pm [Intel's Monstrous 144-Core Sierra Forest Xeon CPU With 172MB Of Cache Gets Benchmarked]( If you haven't heard about Intel's Sierra Forest Xeons, then no, you haven't had too much coffee, and yes, you read that headline correctly. These upcoming processors are massive chips that eschew P-cores entirely for a giant platter of tiny little E-cores. That's left some wondering about performance, and while we indeed have a benchmark [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( Recent Articles: [OnePlus 12 Teardown Reveals A Massive Vapor Chamber To Battle Temps]( [Windows 11 2023 Update Is Slowing Down Games For Some Users, Here's A Fix]( [Phew! 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