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https://www.windowscentral.com/battlefield-6-also-coming-last-gen-xbox-one-ps4-consoles Sounds like they're going to do the same thing they did with bf4 and make it less players and smaller maps on last gen. Disappointed by this but not surprised. I wonder if their decision to support last gen would be any different if not for the chip shortages.

https://www.techspot.com/news/89652-researchers-develop-injectable-microscopic-chip-monitor-physiological-conditions.html Sounds like an origin story for the borg.

These have been thoroughly debunked. In pretty much all cases what you're seeing is a normal object like a plane or missile from an angle much further out than it initially appears.

Chinese rocket debris is expected to crash into Earth soon. It's not the first time. - CNNPolitics The TLDR of it is that China is rushing to get its Space Station up and running so they can be more on par with the US and Russia, but uncontrolled re-entries of rockets this size is a big problem, not for people on the ground but for the risk of creating more space debris. I would expect China to bend to international pressure and make sure their next launches are more controlled. Time will tell.

Metro Exodus will run at 4K/60FPS with full Ray tracing on Xbox Series X via upcoming free upgrade - OnMSFT.com Posted some news about the enhanced edition recently but I was pretty surprised to learn this is also coming to consoles with 4k/60 full RT. Seems like a really impressive feat to get this running so well on consoles.

No link? Anyone with common sense can see that's not the case.

Yea, me neither. I loved bf1942. Bf5 felt like they were trying to avoid doing the things gamers wanted.

Haha fair enough.

How do you figure? Looks nothing like that map... I don't think anyone expect bf6 to be a remake of bf3 but rather it's returning to the modern combat style of bf3/4.

After looking it up, Apparently this form of price fixing by valve is called the "most favored nations clause". https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/steam-valve-lawsuit#:~:text=As reported by The Hollywood Reporter%2C the suit,the game is offered for on other platforms.

There are probably some caveats for allowing sales within certain rules. Otherwise the source is just flat out wrong.

Ubisoft games don't sell on steam anymore. There are still a few older games from before Ubi ditched steam but that's it. And we all know those cd key sites violate steams rules even though they work.

Battlefield 6 Images Allegedly Leak Ahead of Official Reveal - IGN

From the source: That part seems pretty anticompetitive to me.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/as-epic-v-apple-approaches-the-courtroom-valve-is-getting-sued-over-steam-too/ar-BB1ggz4h?ocid=mmx&PC=EMMX20 Humble bundle is even involved now. This is getting messy. Interesting how Microsoft just lowered their fee to 12%. I wonder if they sense which way the wind is blowing.

Artificial intelligence is learning how to dodge space junk in orbit (msn.com) Right now NASA monitors space junk and warns other nations when their satellites are at risk of a collision so they can be maneuvered away. They even warn China, which performed a missile test and shot down one of their own satellites years ago which created some of the space debris we deal now. As low earth orbit becomes more and more cluttered, better techniques to deal with the situation will be really important. The risk of space debris causing a collision that has the potential to create more space debris that cause more and more collisions is called Kessler syndrome - Wikipedia If a major Kessler event were to happen it could basically wipe out everything we have in low earth orbit. Eventually most of the debris would fall back to earth but it would be years before we could rebuild. This is a good video on the subject:

Can linux do the RT though?

Exclusive: Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition Analysis - The First Triple-A Game Built Around Ray Tracing - YouTube Interesting.

Microsoft is using Intel CPU tech to thwart crypto-mining malware | TechSpot This is the first I've heard of bitcoins being stolen by a malware attack. Seems like this has the potential to become a big problem.

AMD's latest drivers reduce power consumption by up to 72%, but not for gaming | Windows Central Good news for AMD owners.

Bootleg Firmware Brings Ryzen 5000 Support to ASRock X370 Motherboards | Tom's Hardware (tomshardware.com) Doubt many will go this route given that there's usually a lot of good budget motherboards for AMD that people can upgrade to instead but still cool to know it's possible.

https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/pc-gaming-on-the-rise-analysts-forsee-30-growth-in-the-pc-gaming-market-by-2025.html But PC gaming is dead.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/climate-change-has-knocked-earth-off-its-axis/ar-BB1fYYng?ocid=mmx&PC=EMMX20 Pretty interesting read.

https://www.techspot.com/news/89404-microsoft-directstorage-pc-work-pcie-30-ssds.html Good news for nvme ssd owners.

I try to avoid using youtube videos as a source for anything but this is the only good source of information for this I could find without combing through the developer Q&A transcripts, which can be found here: MSFS Developer Q&A Live 7 - Flight Simulator Blog Sounds like they plan to start focusing a lot more on optimizations and then add better graphical features as they improve performance. Gotta say, the graphics would probably be my last complaint about MSFS2020.