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[g0ggles1994]

EA outbid Take Two to acquire Codemasters by about $400 million.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ga...ees-USD1-2-billion-acquisition-of-codemasters

Noooo! I hope the F1 licence moves to another developer... Ha I'm just kidding, Liberty Media will want the most money which EA will offer and absolutely ruin everything.

 

[KingNosser]

Quake II RTX now uses vulkan API for raytracing as well, works on amd cards I tried it out works pretty well, thou it did crash so i guess not well enough.

 

[looz]

Wait what, when did AMD implement Vulkan raytracing?

 

[KingNosser]

Wait what, when did AMD implement Vulkan raytracing?

Was earlier in the day today, it's only in Quake II atm but i'd expect others to happen soonish doom eternal should be one of them at some stage and i really like that game

 

[Dicehunter]

Looks like scalping electrical goods may soon be made illegal in the UK

https://www.thegamer.com/uk-mps-action-against-ps5-xbox-series-x-scalpers/

 

[Dicehunter]

AIDA 64 release notes show support for the 3080 Ti -

Release notes:

• AVX2 and FMA accelerated 64-bit benchmarks for AMD Zen 3 based Ryzen 5000 Series processors
• EVGA iCX3 sensor support
• GPU details for AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series
• GPU details for nVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050, GeForce RTX 3060, GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

https://www.aida64.com/downloads/YT...&utm_medium=update&utm_campaign=stableproduct

 

[KingNosser]

https://www.coindesk.com/uks-ban-on-crypto-derivatives-goes-into-effect-today

I'd expect this to happen elsewhere it was always going to happen imho.

 

[grec]

https://www.coindesk.com/uks-ban-on-crypto-derivatives-goes-into-effect-today

I'd expect this to happen elsewhere it was always going to happen imho.

Yep, the trading of crypto derivatives like futures, options, and tokens, makes no sense with the volatility, and exists just as a dodgy financers toolbox, this trading of derivatives adds no long term value to the cryptocurrency market at all and it's better for all but the exchanges that this is stopped.

UK govt. was kinda responsible for encouraging this area of "investment" that has appeared off the side of crypto to flourish under George Osborne's time in treasury but good to see its finally being cleaned up

 

[Warchild]

So who is to blame for this?

https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/p...y-expensiveone-mobo-even-passes-1500-eur.html

Z590 boards 500 euro plus with high end glacial costing over 1500 euro.

 

[Warchild]

3080ti delayed indefinitely according to some sources

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUvdyIP1mpw&ab_channel=GamersNexus

https://www.kitguru.net/components/...ortedly-delayed-the-rtx-3080-ti-indefinitely/

Apparently delay is due to the unbelievable demand on the current GPUs on the market. Once these demands die down, then we will see 3080ti. Nice way to keep the revenus flooding in and creating more demand.

 

[Dicehunter]

Gaben has stated there are multiple games in development at Valve and the huge success of Half Life Alyx was a big reason for it.

https://www.pcgamer.com/gabe-newell...m_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=socialflow

 

[grec]

Raspberry Pi have entered the microcontroller market!

What a price and feature set! Taking it straight to the Arduino's and ESP's

Already put my order in to get to grips with this one quickly, it looks like it'll be a popular choice

https://hackaday.com/2021/01/20/raspberry-pi-enters-microcontroller-game-with-4-pico/

 

[NeverBackDown]

Youtuber VIK-on published a video on upgrading a RTX 2070 to 16GB of Samsung 2GB memory modules replacing the 8GB micron 1GB stack memory modules.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/youtuber-upgrades-rtx-2070-to-16gb-of-vram

 

[Dicehunter]

It's still EA so they have probably messed something up or monetized something via micro transactions but this could be good -

 

[Dicehunter]

A game called "On Air" coming out featuring a fair amount of ray tracing -

-Ray traced reflections
-Ray traced refractions
-Ray traced shadows

Apparently it's a Heavy Rain/Detroit Become Human style of game.

 

[grec]

Anyone see the new attack on CDPR? Not the first time for this type of thing for them iirc, but a hilarious note

https://twitter.com/cdprojektred/status/1359048125403590660

 

[Kleptobot]

Not sure what other people think of this but Facebook has blocked news content in Australia

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-australia-56099523

Personally I think it is their service and they can do what they want with it. They don't owe people anything.

 

[WYP]

Not sure what other people think of this but Facebook has blocked news content in Australia

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-australia-56099523

Personally I think it is their service and they can do what they want with it. They don't owe people anything.

I can't say that I have read up on it. I'm curious about how Facebook's feature works, as a ban only makes sense if Facebook were somehow taking content and not denying the producer revenue.

 

[grec]

Isn't this because Rupert Murdoch is trying to lobby their govt. to bring in laws to make social media sites pay when people share news articles?

Seems like it's a battle of Old media vs New media over who gets the profit from the clickbait tabloid articles brainwashing your gran

 

[Dicehunter]

Apparently Nvidia is limiting the hash rate of their upcoming 3060 to make them less desirable to miners.


https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2021/02/18/geforce-cmp/