Developer Reveals Alien Resurrection PS1 Piracy Softmod 23 Years Later

Hot Headlines In Tech For Today [HotHardware.com]( Here Are Today's Hot Headlines In Tech [View this email in your browser]( [Developer Reveals Alien Resurrection PS1 Piracy Softmod 23 Years Later]( By Zak Killian on Dec 19, 2023 02:26 pm [Developer Reveals Alien Resurrection PS1 Piracy Softmod 23 Years Later]( Console video games go through an extensive qualification process with the platform holder to make sure that they meet specific standards. This was even more true back in the day, when it wasn't so easy to simply patch a game that shipped with serious flaws. Despite that, the developers of Alien Resurrection, a cult classic FPS title for the [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Meteor Lake Core Ultra Review: Intel's All New Tile CPU Tested]( By Zak Killian on Dec 19, 2023 12:38 pm [Meteor Lake Core Ultra Review: Intel's All New Tile CPU Tested]( Ask anyone in the chip industry, and you'll probably get a similar answer: chiplet-based CPU designs are the way of the future for high-performance, advanced processors, and it's fairly likely that most highly-integrated CPU architectures will be headed that way eventually. Intel obviously agrees, as the company has been deploying disaggregated... [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Ransomware Gang Leaks 1.67 Terabytes Of Files After Hacking Spider-Man 2 Dev Insomniac Games]( By Nathan Ord on Dec 19, 2023 12:06 pm [Ransomware Gang Leaks 1.67 Terabytes Of Files After Hacking Spider-Man 2 Dev Insomniac Games]( Earlier this month, ransomware group Rhysida announced that it had breached Sony’s Insomniac Games, taken files, and was purportedly demanding a ransom of $2 million. It has been a week since then, and thus the deadline has passed to pay the ransom, so Rhysida has elected to publish the 1.67 terabytes of data it stole. The trove of data [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Google Settles 50-State Antitrust Lawsuit With Key App Store Changes And $700M Payment]( By Ryan Whitwam on Dec 19, 2023 12:03 pm [Google Settles 50-State Antitrust Lawsuit With Key App Store Changes And $700M Payment]( A reckoning has come for mobile app stores. Apple is, by all accounts, going to be forced to open up app distribution on the iPhone thanks to Europe's Digital Markets Act, and Epic has bested Google in court to show that the Play Store is an illegal monopoly. In a separate case, Google was sued by numerous state Attorneys General and settled [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [TomTom Taps Microsoft To Copilot Its AI-Powered Voice Assistant For Vehicles]( By Alan Velasco on Dec 19, 2023 11:29 am [TomTom Taps Microsoft To Copilot Its AI-Powered Voice Assistant For Vehicles]( TomTom is teaming up with Microsoft to develop an AI assistant that will enable better interaction between customers and TomTom’s products. The company says this new AI assistant means that “drivers can converse naturally with their vehicle and ask the AI-powered assistant to navigate to a certain location, find specific stops along their [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Grab These Sweet Apple Watch Series 9 Deals Quick Before The Sales Ban]( By Paul Lilly on Dec 19, 2023 11:25 am [Grab These Sweet Apple Watch Series 9 Deals Quick Before The Sales Ban]( Time is ticking for anyone hoping to purchase an Apple Watch Series 9 or Ultra 2 before the semi-voluntary sales ban takes effect. In case you missed it, the ITC has issued an import ban on those models due to a patent dispute over the Apple's blood oxygen sensor. Apple issue a statement saying it is preemptively taking steps to comply in [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [NASA’s Webb Telescope Captures A Spectacular Image Of Storms Brewing On Uranus]( By Tim Sweezy on Dec 19, 2023 10:50 am [NASA’s Webb Telescope Captures A Spectacular Image Of Storms Brewing On Uranus]( NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) set its sights on Uranus and captured a brilliant image of a storm brewing on the icy giant. Along with the storms, Webb also captured the planet’s rings, moons, and other atmospheric features. In the 1980s, Voyager 2 could only image the distant planet as what NASA refers to as “a placid, solid [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Sony Patents A Creative Gaming Solution To Make Boss Battles On PS5 Less Frustrating]( By Thiago Trevisan on Dec 19, 2023 10:43 am [Sony Patents A Creative Gaming Solution To Make Boss Battles On PS5 Less Frustrating]( There is nothing like the intense gratification that one gets when defeating an uber hard boss battle in a video game. Some players may only need a couple of repeated attempts, while others may stumble through dozens of frustrating trials before finally claiming victory. This skill gap means that not every experience will be as equally enjoyable [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Fortnite Patch Brings Epic Balance Changes, Faster Movement And Much More]( By Alan Velasco on Dec 19, 2023 10:08 am [Fortnite Patch Brings Epic Balance Changes, Faster Movement And Much More]( Gamers can look forward to several quality-of-life tweaks to Fortnite’s various game modes. Battle Royale, Fortnite Festival, Rocket Racing, and LEGO Fortnite will all be seeing improvements in several areas with the latest patch. This will be the final update that is scheduled for this year, with the next set of changes already under development [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [GeForce RTX 3050 With 6GB GDDR6 Launch And Affordable Pricing Details Breaks Cover]( By Paul Lilly on Dec 19, 2023 09:48 am [GeForce RTX 3050 With 6GB GDDR6 Launch And Affordable Pricing Details Breaks Cover]( Where there's smoke you'll usually find fire, and there is a whole heck of a lot of smoke signals pointing to NVIDIA getting ready to launch several more GeForce SKUs in the near future. Most of the upcoming GPUs are rumored to be part of a Super refresh for some of its GeForce RTX 40 series graphics cards. However, there's also chatter of [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Blue Origin Is Blasting Off To Space After A Yearlong Hiatus And You Can Watch Live]( By Tim Sweezy on Dec 19, 2023 06:55 am [Blue Origin Is Blasting Off To Space After A Yearlong Hiatus And You Can Watch Live]( Blue Origin’s New Shepard spacecraft has received a new launch date and time, and you can watch live. New Shepard is the space company’s reusable suborbital rocket system designed to take astronauts and research payloads past the recognized boundary of space. 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