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Square Enix has announced that action RPG Valkyrie Elysium will launch this September for PlayStation consoles and November on PC. The game is the latest in the long-running Valkyrie series, beginning with Valkyrie Profile back on the PlayStation in 2000. However, we in Europe wouldn’t see the series until that first title debuted on the PSP seven years later. The series is Square Enix’s RPG take on Norse Mythology, but with different stories and worlds in each entry....

Long before Adam McKay was the Oscar winning co-writer of The Big Short, or the filmmaker who convinced Christian Bale to transform his body into a Dick Cheney shape for Vice, he was best known as the behind-the-camera collaborator of Will Ferrell. Dating back to a dynamic relationship on SNL, the pair had a string of comedy hits that helped shape the pop culture landscape of the 2000s, including Anchorman, Step Brothers, and Talladega Nights....

Warhammer 40k is quite new so it has been plagued by a few bugs since its launch. Although most of them have been server-related like error code 4008, there is a new one that is not. The recent encounter with Error code 4001 in Warhammer 40k Darktide has got people thinking about how to fix the hot join party hub failed. While it seems similar to the server issue, this has been found to be common among players with PC Game Pass....

Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav made an interesting assertion about the Harry Potter franchise and its future during a conference call on Nov. 3, 2022. When discussing the Wizarding World, Zaslav claimed he and the studio would be willing to work with author J.K. Rowling to produce more Harry Potter movies despite the author’s controversial comments. As noted by Collider, one of the issues surrounding the Harry Potter franchise is that J....

The Washington Justice had a disappointing 2019 Overwatch League season. They were one of the new expansion teams with a chance to prove they belonged on the stage. Unfortunately, Washington quickly found themselves as one of the worst teams in the league with a 2-19 record after three stages of play. They looked abysmal in the 3-3 meta, but when the 2-2-2 role lock was implemented at the beginning of stage four, the Justice bounced back with a 6-1 record for an overall 8-20 record during their inaugural season, good enough for 17th place out of 20 teams....

This evening CIG held their Star Citizen holiday live stream and the main event was a showing some footage of the single player Squadron 42. The video takes viewers through a mission to demonstrate the transition between space combat and ground combat. This was to show how CIG plan on integrating the two and also how they want to tell a story. The video below lasts for around one hour and it’s a quite drawn out....

What Does Capacitive Accelerometer Mean? A capacitive accelerometer is a type of accelerometer device that measures the acceleration on a surface using capacitive sensing techniques. It has the ability to sense static and dynamic acceleration on equipment or devices - enforced by human or mechanical forces - and converts this acceleration into electrical currents or voltage. A capacitive accelerometer is also known as a vibration sensor. Techopedia Explains Capacitive Accelerometer A capacitive accelerometer senses and records vibrations produced on a device or surface....

What Does Central Office (CO) Mean? Techopedia Explains Central Office (CO) Of major importance for equipment installed in a central office is uptime, network integrity, equipment compatibility and natural disaster survivability. Strict environmental and physical packaging requirements are defined by telephone service providers for telecom equipment manufacturers to ensure that switches and other central office equipment always continue to function. The central office packaging testing requirements are defined by the Bellcore Network Equipment Building System in North America and the European Telecommunication Standard Institute in Europe....

What Does Hashtag Mean? A hashtag is a type of tag used to describe topics on social networking websites, most notably Twitter. Hashtags, like all tags, are a type of metadata (data about data). Twitter has popularized the use of the term hashtag, though there are some other social networks that use it. On Twitter, Hashtags give other users and indication what a particular tweet is about. Hashtags are indicated as such because they are prefixed with the pound symbol (#)....

TSMC, founded in 1987 by Dr. Morris Chang, is the largest chip company in the world, with a market capitalization of $465.54 Billion. The company is headquartered in Hsinchu, Taiwan.TSMC employs over 50,000 people worldwide, with 12 fabrication plants around the globe. TSMC intends to mass-produce 3nm chips that will offer 70% more logic density than its 5nm chips, 15% more speed at the same power levels, and 30% less power at the same speeds....

Bosses are a big feature of the Borderlands series. Sometimes you have to fight people, other times massive tree monsters. In the case of this boss, you must fight a mushroom. Here’s how to beat all three phases of Parasite in Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands. How to Beat All Three Phases of Parasite in Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands The first thing to note that with the way enemies scale in Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, there will never be a point in which it isn’t worth it to fight bosses more than once....

There’s been a new development on Torchlight Frontiers. In development for what seems like eons, publisher Perfect World Entertainment has confirmed that the title isn’t canceled is actually on track for a summer 2020 release. In addition to that, Frontiers will now be going by the title of Torchlight III, solidifying its status as a true sequel to the previous entries. Originally announced as a free-to-play title, Torchlight III will be going back to the traditional premium model of its predecessors....

Dragon’s Dogma is soon launching on Nintendo Switch, and to celebrate, Goichi Suda’s Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes is crossing over with Capcom’s fantasy-RPG for a series of unique in-game items. First up, Travis Strikes Again is receiving fresh clobber in the form of a Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen t-shirt (via siliconera). It looks pretty cool, and is the latest in a long line of gaming t-shirts for Travis Strikes Again, among which includes The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask....

Tribes of Midgard Season 3: Inferno Saga has been announced today to be coming Aug. 19 for PlayStation consoles and PC. However, on that same date the game will release onto Nintendo Switch and Xbox consoles for the first time. For those PlayStation and PC players that already own the game this will be a free update. A recent press release for the news shares that Tribes of Midgard Season 3: Inferno Saga brings “a new Saga Quest and Boss, the Volcanic Spire Biome, Spear weapon, and Fishing, as well as Survival 2....

Twitch and Discord have issued statements following the deadly mass shooting in Buffalo, New York at the weekend, which is being investigated as a racially-motivated attack. 10 people died and three more were injured in the shooting, all but two of whom were African-American. The perpetrator, an 18-year-old white man, livestreamed the attack on Twitch, and planned it via a private server on Discord. In a statement to CNN, Twitch said it identified and removed the stream in less than two minutes....

Following months of hype and a disappointing critical and commercial release for Ghost Recon: Breakpoint, Ubisoft has elaborated on the in-game purchase options that hit such a sour note with players. In sum, CEO Yves Guillemot describes the monetization of the game as only in place to provide its players with “options”, and its implementation was designed around purchases made in the previous game, Ghost Recon: Wildlands. Guillemot went on to elaborate that, “In the case of Ghost Recon, our philosophy is for the player to play the full game, 100%, without having to spend money....

Ubisoft has announced that its games will be compatible with crossplay features from this moment onwards, and including previously released games like Brawlhalla and Just Dance (via WccfTech). Yesterday, Ubisoft held its Q2 earnings call with its investors and shared how well the fiscal year is shaping up to be for the developer and publisher. Assassin’s Creed Odyssey was reported to have ‘continued momentum’ upon its one year anniversary, and Rainbow Six Siege’s esports scene is solidifying its player base and introducing new audiences to the game....

An AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT listing was spotted featuring an interesting cooling system. The Sapphire RX 6900 XT LC is supposed to be a liquid-cooled version of the standard RX 6900 XT. The RX 6900 XT LC was previously seen in custom PCs sold in China a couple of days ago, also manufactured by Sapphire. The listing has since been removed, but the folks at Videocardz were quick enough to spot it....

The busy Black Friday weekend has rolled into Cyber Monday, bringing some good looking GeForce RTX 3060 gaming PC deals that you don’t want to miss. One step down from the RTX 3070, the RTX 3060 is basically the budget version of the 3070 which will still deliver a great performance though at a slightly slower speed. What with the Cyber Monday discounts flying about though, maybe the RTX 3070 gaming PC is now more within your reach....

Valorant Episode 2 Act III introduced a new map, Breeze, to the hero-based shooter. But now, the Valorant Twitter account is posting videos that indicate a new game mode called Replication is on the way. These posts reveal no details about the coming mode. However, based on the clips released so far, they do suggest that players will have unlimited use of their abilities. For a game that is focused on gunplay, Replication seems like a very odd choice....