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Recap: Games based on popular entertainment franchises (and vice versa) are usually a recipe for disaster, but The Simpsons: Hit & Run was a rare exception. This 2003 action-adventure title from Radical Entertainment for the PlayStation 2, GameCube and Xbox (and later, the PC) proved popular with gamers and critics alike, and is often considered one of the best Simpsons tie-in games ever made. It also looks to be an ideal candidate for a fan-made remake. YouTuber reubs recently shared progress on a project to remake Hit & Run as an open-world game using Unreal Engine 5. Before you get too excited, note that this is just for entertainment purposes and reubs has no plans to ever make it available to download. That said, the project is off to a great start. Rather than starting from scratch, reubs imported a previous mod of the game map into Unreal Engine. Some post-processing tweaks helped make the colors pop, and AI was used to upscale textures. A bit of manual massaging … [Read more...] about Check out this fan remake of The Simpsons: Hit & Run made with Unreal Engine 5

Google has recently been under the radar of the European Union (EU) for accusations of misusing “its monopoly power” in mobile apps and search engines. According to a report by AndroidPolice, multiple EU countries have criticised the use of Google Analytics citing violations against the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Simple Analytics , a competitor of Google Analytics has updated its blog post to note that three EU member countries have decided to prohibit the service which will allow webmasters to track and analyse their site traffic. Which EU countries have banned Google Analytics The report mentions that France's national commission on the freedom of liberation (CNIL) announced a ban on Google Analytics in February 2022, whereas Austria's Data Protection Authority started blocking the service in January. Now, Italy has joined the bandwagon to ban Google Analytics in the country. All three countries have cited a common reason for banning the … [Read more...] about google: Explained: How Google Analytics is losing track of millions of users

Why it matters: Amazon's cashierless Go stores have been around for a while now, and they continue to expand across the US and even overseas to UK capital London. It seems that Amazon is now looking to increase its revenue stream from these locations, and what better way to do it than by sharing shopper data with advertisers. Amazon confirmed the launch of a new analytics service that will share data collected by the Just Walk Out and Amazon Dash Cart technology in its Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh stores in the US. Some of the information Amazon will be sharing with advertisers include the percentage of products (from a particular company) that shoppers pick up and then buy, return to the shelf, or purchase later. The process will be similar to the data collection/analytics used by online retail sites. Any type of data collection activity will worry people, especially when it's shared with advertisers, but Amazon insists personal information such as a customer's name, … [Read more...] about Amazon will share shopping data about its grocery store customers with advertisers

Leading non-fungible token ( NFT ) marketplace OpenSea has admitted a major email security breah, warning users that they may have been impacted. In a blog post, OpenSea said it learned that an employee of Customer.io , its email delivery vendor, misused employee access to download and share email addresses - provided by OpenSea users and subscribers to its newsletter - with an unauthorised external party. "If you have shared your email with OpenSea in the past, you should assume you were impacted. We are working with Customer.io in their ongoing investigation, and we have reported this incident to law enforcement," the company said on Wednesday. More than 1.8 million users have made at least one purchase through the Ethereum network on OpenSea, according to data by Dune Analytics . OpenSea cautioned users to stay vigilant about their email practices, and be alert for any attempt to impersonate OpenSea via email. "Because the data compromise … [Read more...] about opensea: Top NFT marketplace OpenSea admits email data breach

Now that Sony ’s revamped subscription service for PlayStation has finally made it to users, it’s time to answer a few much-asked questions; It is time to answer the much-asked question; PlayStation Plus or Xbox Game Pass ? Which one is better? It is not very easy for Sony as Microsoft has left no stone unturned to make Game Pass one of the best subscription services for games out there, and being one of the users, it is good, if not the best. The PS Plus is not very different from what Xbox has to offer. Both have three tiers and offers free games, exclusive discount and whatnot. So we will be comparing the tiers - Sony has PS Plus Essential , PS Plus Extra , and PS Plus Deluxe whereas Xbox has Live Gold, Game Pass and Game Pass Ultimate . Sony PlayStation Plus Essential vs Xbox Live Gold - Benefits, price and more The cheapest tier of Sony’s new subscription service takes on the Xbox’s much older Live Gold. What is common between them? … [Read more...] about PlayStation Plus vs Xbox Game Pass – How the two gaming subscription services compare

Riot Games has recently updated its blog post to share a plan that will be used to fight “disruptive behaviour” within its game. The developer will start monitoring in-game voice chats to identify “abusive Valorant players ,” and take action against them, reports Engadget. The studio will start collecting voice data from Valorant games played in North America from July 13 as a part of a wider effort to tackle abusive behaviour. What is Riot Games’ voice evaluation? Riot Games has explained in its blog post that it will use this data to work on its AI model that the studio expects to be “in a good enough place for a beta launch later this year.” However, Riot has made it clear that voice evaluation won’t be used to report disruptive behaviour. The studio mentioned, “We know that before we can even think of expanding this tool, we’ll have to be confident it’s effective, and if mistakes happen, we have systems in place to make sure we can correct any false … [Read more...] about riot: How Riot Games is planning to tackle ‘disruptive’ Valorant players

Arm has recently announced the Immortalis-G715 GPU for mobile platforms which is also the first graphics unit from the company that will support hardware-based ray tracing . However, this is not the first Arm GPU to offer ray tracing support as the Mali-G710 GPU, which was released by the company in 2021 also included the technology, reports The Verge. Meanwhile, the company claims that ray tracing offered with the Mali-G710 GPU was entirely software-based, but the latest GPU will support hardware-accelerated ray tracing. Arm’s attempt to improve mobile gaming Ray tracing has been trending in the gaming world for a long time. This technology is an integral part of GPUs included with modern PCs or the latest generation of consoles. According to a report by 9to5Google, Arm is now trying to make ray-tracing more popular on Android smartphones with its new Immortalis-G715 GPUs. What is Ray Tracing technology and how does it offer a better gaming experience … [Read more...] about Explained: How Arm’s new chip technologies will improve mobile gaming

Audio player loading… If you’ve just bought a brand new headset for your PS5, the first thing you’ll almost certainly want to do is play your favorite games with it. That’s a perfectly reasonable thing to get started with, as the best PS5 headsets you can buy will often excel at getting the most out of a familiar game’s music, sound design and spoken dialogue. However, some games are designed with the use of a headset in mind. Not solely for the ability to chat with your friends online, but also to heighten your immersion. And if you’ve shelled out for the hardware, you deserve to hear the very best the industry has to offer. The following games are our personal recommendations for you to check out. We’ve broken the list down into separate categories, highlighting games that go above and beyond when it comes to various types of sound. Read on, then, to learn which games are perfect for testing out a new PS5 headset. Music Tetris Effect: Connected … [Read more...] about The best games to test a new PS5 headset with

Audio player loading… Microsoft has detailed its work on latency improvements for games on the cloud-based platform. And what's more, mouse and keyboard support is still due to come later this year. At present, Xbox Cloud Gaming 's display pipeline bears a latency of around 8-74 milliseconds. That's the time it takes for controller inputs to register in-game. However, it's now working on bringing its Direct Capture tech to a wider number of games on the service. This will cut latency to an impressively low 2-12 milliseconds, according to the latest update (opens in new tab) from Xbox Game Streaming Team's Morgan Brown. Similarly to many of the best 4K TVs , Direct Capture slashes latency by disabling a number of features. These include HDR, dynamic scaling and a 1440p resolution cap. That last one we won't have to worry about just yet. Xbox Cloud Gaming is capped to 1080p on PC and Xbox Series X |S, and 720p on mobile at present. Microsoft has also … [Read more...] about Xbox Cloud Gaming is finally rolling out big latency improvements

Highly anticipated: The next remastered classic from Nightdive Studios is Westwood's critically acclaimed 1997 Blade Runner adventure game. After years of development difficulties, Nightdive has re-released the game with enhanced graphics and brought it to consoles for the first time. Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition launches today on Steam , Xbox consoles, PlayStation 4 , and Nintendo Switch for $10. It refreshes Westwood's 25-year-old point n' click adventure game with 4K upscaled videos, an enhanced HD user interface, improved subtitles, better anti-aliasing, and controller support. Nightdive announced the remaster project in 2020 but delayed it indefinitely the same year. The developer had trouble finding the game's source code, which disappeared after Electronic Arts acquired Westwood in 1998. Instead, Nightdive reverse engineered the code, and a licensing conflict prevented it from using ScummVM's existing work. The 1997 game, a spin-off of the famous 1982 … [Read more...] about Remastered Blade Runner game available today on PC and consoles