Following the release of its small-scale title The Last Campfire, Hello Games made a surprise announcement for No Man's Sky fans today. As it turns out, the developer is nearly ready to launch a new update for No Man's Sky, this one dubbed Origins. There aren't a whole lot of details about the Origins update yet, but with it slated to arrive next week, it won't be long until we find out more.
By this point, many PC gaming enthusiasts have noticed that there's a severe lack of GeForce RTX 3080 cards out there. The GPUs launched earlier this week to a lot of excitement and seemingly sold out everywhere immediately. This includes on NVIDIA's website, where it offers Founders Editions of its new graphics cards. In fact, once the 3080 launched, NVIDIA's stock sold out so fast that many of those who were signed up for email notifications never even had a chance.
With Cyberpunk 2077 on the horizon, CD Projekt Red has revealed the minimum and recommended PC specifications for the game. While a lot of PC gaming enthusiasts are probably hoping to have one of NVIDIA's new RTX 30-series cards by the time Cyberpunk 2077 releases in November, stock issues on release suggest that it could be some time before most people who want to buy are able to. If stock shortages of the new RTX cards have you worried, you can check out how your current rig stacks up with the specifications below.
While some parts of the Discord universe remain in action, other bits are down for the count. Users started to have issues at around 1:49 PM Central Time in the United States, and issues escalated over the following hour. At this time it would appear that the majority of complaints are about Server Connection issues.
This week prospective buyers of the Sony PlayStation 5 and the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 3080 are having a rough time. NVIDIA proper has no stock for their own graphics card, and stock's gone low or gone at 3rd-party resellers aplenty. The Sony PlayStation 5 preorder situation is a far greater mess, as Sony announced one pre-order time/date, while retailers decided they'd just go ahead and drop all at once.
Razer just revealed an expanded collection of gaming peripherals in two uncommon colors: Razer Quartz and Razer Mercury. These two unique color applications have appeared on a limited set of devices before - now they're ready to roll on more devices that don't normally get the extravagant color treatment. Included in the expanded collection are the Razer Viper Ultimate wireless gaming mouse, the Razer Hammerhead True Wireless headphones, the Razer Core X, and Razer's Laptop Stand.
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 is a big graphics card. Physically, this card is large - and it's got a new power connector, too. You'll need to to prepare yourself for the possibility that your current rig is too snug a fit for this new, slightly larger card before you buy it. You'll also want to prepare yourself for a jump in performance the likes of which you might never have seen before... but maybe you already have an RTX 2080, and you believe there's no reason to upgrade? Let's take a peek at what's in store here with the latest in biggest, baddest GPU power from NVIDIA.
Last month, EA announced a fairly major change to its subscription services, revealing that it would unify them under the name of EA Play. The company's subscription service was previously known as EA Access on console and Origin Access on PC, with a third, more expensive subscription known as Origin Access Premier, so some kind of unification was certainly in order. With that announcement, the basic subscription was rebranded to EA Play across all platforms, while the premium subscription became EA Play Pro.
Yesterday, Mediatonic announced a new Fall Guys mid-season update called BIG YEETUS & ANTI-CHEATUS. In a very long Twitter thread, Mediatonic explained the "ANTI-CHEATUS" part of the update, announcing that it was implementing Epic Games' anti-cheat after working for weeks to build out its own tools. Today, we learned more about the BIG YEETUS part, as the update has gone live across PC and PlayStation 4.
Logitech announced today that it has upgraded its HERO optical sensor once more. First introduced in 2016, Logitech upgraded and released the HERO 16K sensor for the first time in 2018 with the launch of the G PRO wireless mouse. Now it's upgrading the sensor for a second time, bringing it from a max DPI of 16,000 to 25,600 and naming it, appropriately, HERO 25K.
This afternoon Fortnite experienced some issues. Messages such as "you do not have permission to play Fortnite" or "Your account no longer has play access to Fortnite" appeared for a significant number of gamers throughout the day. Epic Games suggested that these messages did not indicate that any individual player was banned - though this issue did not necessarily mean that any banned player was reinstated as such.
Fall Guys is one of the most popular games in the world at the moment, and a game that has reached such a level of recognition is undoubtedly going to attract some unsavory folks. We normally hear about cheaters plaguing free-to-play games where there's no real consequence to getting banned (it isn't like they're losing any money they paid for the game, after all), but it seems that even Fall Guys' $20 asking price isn't enough to dissuade people from cheating to try to rack up wins, either.