Valve's Secret New Hero Shooter Deadlock Attracts 17K Players Before Launch

Hot Headlines In Tech For Today [HotHardware.com]( Here Are Today's Hot Headlines In Tech [View this email in your browser]( [Valve's Secret New Hero Shooter Deadlock Attracts 17K Players Before Launch]( By Alan Velasco on Aug 12, 2024 02:48 pm [Valve's Secret New Hero Shooter Deadlock Attracts 17K Players Before Launch]( While the dream of Valve blessing gamers with Half-Life 3 is seemingly dead, it doesn’t mean the company isn’t working on new game projects alongside improving the Steam Deck. Deadlock, which is one of the worst kept secrets in gaming, is one such project. Even though it hasn’t even been so much as acknowledged by Valve, the game still managed [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [SteamOS Patch Notes Hint At Support For ASUS ROG Ally Gaming Handheld]( By Zak Killian on Aug 12, 2024 02:30 pm [SteamOS Patch Notes Hint At Support For ASUS ROG Ally Gaming Handheld]( If you've read reviews of various PC gaming handheld systems, you've probably noted that almost all of them compare the machine against the Steam Deck and come to the conclusion that using Windows is a downside. In other words, most reviews will tell you that being saddled with Windows (instead of using Linux as the Steam Deck does) is actually [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Did OceanGate Really Think A Game Controller Was Fit To Pilot Its Submarine?]( By Ryan Whitwam on Aug 12, 2024 12:56 pm [Did OceanGate Really Think A Game Controller Was Fit To Pilot Its Submarine?]( An expedition to visit the sunken wreck of the Titanic ended in tragedy last year when the OceanGate Titan submersible imploded, killing all five people aboard. The company still exists, despite the death of founder and CEO Stockton Rush in the Titan incident. The estate of another Titan victim has filed a lawsuit against OceanGate, claiming [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Will GTA 6 Launch On Xbox Game Pass? Take-Two CEO Provides A Clue]( By Alan Velasco on Aug 12, 2024 11:01 am [Will GTA 6 Launch On Xbox Game Pass? Take-Two CEO Provides A Clue]( Grand Theft Auto 6, one of the most highly anticipated titles of 2025, probably won’t be launching on Xbox Game Pass. During an interview with GamesIndustry.biz, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick said that big games such as Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 debuting on the subscription service won’t change his company’s strategy because “our decisions [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Students Built A Robot Fish Named Eve To Solve Mysteries Of The Ocean]( By Tim Sweezy on Aug 12, 2024 10:52 am [Students Built A Robot Fish Named Eve To Solve Mysteries Of The Ocean]( A group of engineering students have developed a robotic fish to help solve mysteries of the ocean. The soft robotic underwater fish, called Eve, blends into a coral reef environment, allowing operators to take isolated eDNA samples and high resolution video for extensive data gathering. Studying ocean life is not always a simple task, [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Alarming AMD Sinkclose Flaw Puts Millions Of CPUs At Risk For Resilient Malware]( By Paul Lilly on Aug 12, 2024 10:21 am [Alarming AMD Sinkclose Flaw Puts Millions Of CPUs At Risk For Resilient Malware]( If you're rocking an AMD build, there's a high chance you're vulnerable to a serious security flaw that's been dubbed Sinkclose. That Ryzen 7 7800X3D pictured above? It's affected, as is the entire Ryzen 7000 series range and a slew of other processor models dating back to 2006. Another tidbit that won't give any AMD users warm fuzzies—not [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Apple iPhone 16: Design Changes, Launch Date And What To Expect]( By Aaron Leong on Aug 12, 2024 09:56 am [Apple iPhone 16: Design Changes, Launch Date And What To Expect]( We're inching closer to the official announcement of Apple's iPhone 16. The first half of September has, for the most part, traditionally been the period Cupertino launches new phones. But as to what date exactly, that's still somewhat of a toss-up. Here, we look at what those possibilities could be, as well as what to expect with the latest [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Hi-Fi Rush Saved As Krafton Acquires Tango Gameworks From Xbox]( By Alan Velasco on Aug 12, 2024 09:49 am [Hi-Fi Rush Saved As Krafton Acquires Tango Gameworks From Xbox]( Tango Gameworks, one of several studios that Microsoft announced it would be shutting down earlier this year, has been picked up by South Korean game publisher Krafton and will continue to operate. The Hi-Fi Rush IP, which spawned one of the more popular titles of 2023 that would also go on to win several awards, is part of the acquisition. Tango [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Boeing Starliner Issues Could Leave NASA Astronauts In Space 6 More Months]( By Tim Sweezy on Aug 12, 2024 09:42 am [Boeing Starliner Issues Could Leave NASA Astronauts In Space 6 More Months]( NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were only meant to stay onboard the International Space Station for a week or so in space after docking aboard Boeing’s Starliner. Now, the duo who have already been on the ISS for a little over two months, may end up having to extend their stay another six months. Wilmore and Williams probably [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [OpenAI Warns ChatGPT's Voice Mode Could Make Us Emotionally Reliant On AI]( By Paul Lilly on Aug 12, 2024 09:24 am [OpenAI Warns ChatGPT's Voice Mode Could Make Us Emotionally Reliant On AI]( There have been various movies and TV shows highlighting emotional bonds with artificial intelligence (AI), such as the movie Her and, if going back much further into the archives, the sitcom Small Wonder from the 1980s (yes, this author has some gray hair). While perhaps these and others like them are far fetched scenarios, OpenAI does acknowledge [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Forget The Radeon RX 7400 And 7300, AMD's Partners Reportedly Shift Focus To RDNA 4]( By Thiago Trevisan on Aug 12, 2024 09:09 am [Forget The Radeon RX 7400 And 7300, AMD's Partners Reportedly Shift Focus To RDNA 4]( AMD has followed in the footsteps of NVIDIA with its Radeon RX GPUs, trying to gain market share anywhere that it can. While the class-leading halo products such as the Radeon RX 7900 XTX are released early in the life cycle of a GPU architecture, the entry level products often follow years later. 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