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May192025 by Natalia GanevaNo Comments

Nvidia Starts Selling GeForce RTX 5060

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Nvidia today launched sales of the GeForce RTX 5060 graphics card. This is the most budget representative of the Blackwell family, aimed at the mass market segment and gamers playing in 1080p and counting on DLSS 4 technology. The new product has already appeared in stores today at a recommended price of $ 299. Nvidia says the RTX 5060 supports all the same advanced technologies as its higher-end RTX 50-series cards, including Multi-Frame Generator and DLSS 4. This means the RTX 5060 delivers up to 2x the performance of the previous-generation RTX 4060, and even more than the GeForce GTX 1660 and GeForce RTX 2060. The RTX 5060 uses the GB206 GPU with 3,840 CUDA cores, which is 800 fewer than the RTX 5060 Ti (and 25% more than the RTX 4060). The graphics card received 8 GB of GDDR7 me...

May192025 by Natalia GanevaNo Comments

Fortnite Gets AI Version of Darth Vader Voiced by James Earl Jones

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Epic Games' free-to-play battle royale Fortnite is ramping up its Star Wars-inspired Galactic Assault season, with a new update adding Darth Vader. Vader appears in the video game as a boss on the map. If he is defeated, the character will become available as a partner and will become a member of the squad. After that, you can communicate with him via voice chat. The iconic character is voiced by actor James Earl Jones from the original trilogy. Before his death in 2024, he signed a deal with Disney to use the digital copy in Disney and Star Wars projects. According to his family, the actor considered him an integral part of the franchise and wanted to give it to fans of all ages. To recreate the voice, the developers of the largest battle royale used ElevenLabs technology and Goo...

May152025 by Natalia GanevaNo Comments

Epic Games Store Launches Massive Mega Sale and Giveaway of Two Games

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The administration of the digital distribution service Epic Games Store announced the start of a traditionally large-scale mega-sale. Along with the promotion, the distribution of two secret games began. The first was the zombie action game Dead Island 2, the events of which unfold in Los Angeles, engulfed by a virus. You can exterminate the undead in a variety of ways thanks to a wide arsenal and support for a four-person co-op. The second game to be given away was Happy Game, an adventure point-and-click horror. You will play as a nameless boy who will have to go through three worlds (nightmares), solving various puzzles along the way. The mega sale features hundreds of games with discounts of up to 94%, from indie gems to AAA hits. Epic's rewards system allows you...

May152025 by Natalia GanevaNo Comments

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 Gets Patch 1.4: More Than 700 Changes

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GSC Game World Studio has released another large-scale update for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl. Patch number 1.4 includes more than 700 changes, covering almost all aspects of the game - from character behavior to graphics optimization. In particular, the team implemented the promised improvements to AI and the A-Life system, including more realistic behavior of NPCs in combat, who learned to eat corpses and respond to mutant threats, and more complex and dynamic shootouts. Other notable changes in patch 1.4: Increased variety of generated NPC appearances; Melee combat on Stalker and Veteran difficulty levels has become more difficult; A new weapon characteristic has been added - handling; Facial animation improvements; Performance improvements, including ...