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Games Can Be 30% Smaller For Xbox Series S, Saving SSD Space On Install Sizes

One of the key differences between the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S other than graphical capability is the size of their solid-state drives. The Series S comes with roughly half the storage space of the Series X out of the box: 512 GB compared to 1 TB respectively. And the Series S does not have a disc drive to play physical versions of games. Of course, you have the option for the SSD expansion card, but that's sold separately. When thinking about how big current-gen games are, and

iBUYPOWER Announces Gaming System Refresh with the New NVIDIA GeForce…

iBUYPOWER Gaming RDY IWBG207 ft. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 LOS ANGELES (PRWEB) September 17, 2020 iBUYPOWER, a leading manufacturer of high-performance custom gaming PCs, today announced its next generation of desktop gaming PCs based on the new NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 30 Series GPUs. Users will now be able to arm themselves with the latest GPU offerings from NVIDIA while designing the ultimate gaming PC with iBUYPOWER’s custom configurator or Easy PC Builder. In addition, iBUYPOWER will offer several prebuilt RDY systems featuring the new GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs designed

Xbox Series X Retail Box Art Emerges, And It Gives Off QBert Vibes

The Xbox Series X/S consoles will be available to preorder beginning September 22, and now the retail box art for the higher-tier console has emerged online.Internet super sleuth Wario64 spotted the box art for the Series X. It prominently features the console's unique cooling vents, along with the logos for Series X and the Xbox Velocity Architecture. The box also lets people know the console has a 1TB SSD and display options for 4K/120FPS. The art for the Series S console doesn't appear to have emerged online yet.We can't tell

NVIDIA’s RTX 3000 cards make counting teraflops pointless

Sponsored Links Teraflops have been a popular way to measure "graphical power" for years. The term refers to the number of calculations a GPU can perform, but while it’s been on spec sheets forever, more recently the teraflop has gone mainstream, appearing in marketing messages found in the launch of consoles like the Xbox Series X. With GPU core counts reaching five figures, it’s nice to have a simple point of comparison. Unfortunately, teraflops have never been less useful.The term teraflop comes from FLOPs, or "floating-point operations per second," which

Stunning Mixed Reality Adventure ‘HoloVista’ Arrives on Mobile September 30th

A little less than a year ago developer Aconite began teasing a new project called HoloVista that looked stunning both in a visual sense and due to its unique concept. You play as Carmen who is a offered a junior architect position at the mysterious Mesmer & Braid architecture firm, but only if she is able to go out and complete her first assignment, which is to photograph the interior of a magnificent mansion. Sounds like a pretty sweet gig to me! The mansion is unlike anything I’ve ever seen

SwitchArcade Round-Up: IndieWorld Showcase Highlights, ‘Spiritfarer’ and Today’s New Releases, the Latest Sales, and More

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for August 19th, 2020. Well, yesterday’s IndieWorld Showcase certainly had a lot of things to talk about in it. We’ll cover some of the major points before heading into the unexpectly large list of new releases that resulted from it. Some really great games hit in conjunction with the presentation, so I hope you kept some extra money. Like, a lot of extra money. Because, you see, there are also some really great sales today as well. Phew! Let’s get to

Apple removes Fortnite from App Store after Epic Games lowers the cost of V-Bucks

Apple has removed Fortnite from the App Store after the game’s developer announced new payment options that allow players to buy in-game credits direct from Epic Games. In response, Epic has taken legal action and filed a lawsuit in the District Court of Northern California to end Apple’s anti-competitive restrictions on mobile device marketplaces. The new payment option appears to skirt Apple’s App Store and Google’s Play Store rules, which require Epic to give up a 30% cut of the revenue made through the app. In announcement on its website, Epic dropped

Editorial: Iron Man VR Shows Why We Need PSVR 2 Sooner Rather Than Later

By now there’s probably more than enough snappy Tony Stark quotes immortalized by Robert Downey Jr. that you could make an entire review of Iron Man VR just lifting from the movies.But, reflecting upon the newly launched PSVR-exclusive’s technical performance, I can only think of one line from an iconic scene in Civil War: “You’re in dire need of an upgrade. Systemic – top to bottom.”[embedded content]Iron Man VR is a brilliant, brilliant game. Its combat is some of the most intricate and thrilling you’ll find in VR today and

Community Created Maps are Coming to Skater XL on Xbox One

What is up, Xbox fans! We are now less than a month away from launching Skater XL on Xbox One and we couldn’t be more excited! Today we are stoked to announce that community created content will be available in the full launch of Skater XL on July 28. Three new maps created by Skater XL modding community members – ‘Streets’ by Jean-Olive, ‘Hudland Training Facility’ by Pactole, and the world debut of ‘Grant Skate Park’ by Theo – will be the first Skater XL community created content available on

Inside Xbox Series X Optimized: Dirt 5

When it launches this holiday, Xbox Series X will be the most powerful console the world has ever seen. One of the biggest benefits of all that power is giving developers the ability to make games that are Xbox Series X Optimized. This means that they’ve taken full advantage of the unique capabilities of Xbox Series X, both for new titles built natively using the Xbox Series X development environment as well as previously released titles that have been rebuilt specifically for the console. In our Inside Xbox Series X