AAA Veterans Launch Emptyvessel, New Studio Focusing On Immersive Shooters

Hot Headlines In Tech For Today [HotHardware.com]( Here Are Today's Hot Headlines In Tech [View this email in your browser]( [AAA Veterans Launch Emptyvessel, New Studio Focusing On Immersive Shooters]( By Zak Killian on Mar 13, 2024 02:15 pm [AAA Veterans Launch Emptyvessel, New Studio Focusing On Immersive Shooters]( Things have been rough in the AAA gaming space over the last few years, and arguably the last decade. There's been a lot of turnover, as a good number of legendary studios have closed their doors and many others were shuttered before they even got a chance to shine. A high rate of turnover combined with a failure to make a return on big investments [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Key Member Of Lockbit Ransomware Gang Gets Jail Sentence And $860K Fine]( By Nathan Ord on Mar 13, 2024 12:45 pm [Key Member Of Lockbit Ransomware Gang Gets Jail Sentence And $860K Fine]( Over the past few months, the infamous ransomware group LockBit has faced significant turmoil, including threatening a forum administrator with murder. All while this was happening, members of the group like Mikhail Vasiliev were sitting in jail, awaiting trial for their cybersecurity crimes. Now, Vasiliev has been sentenced to four years [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Star Wars Jedi Director Forms Giant Skull Game Studio, Teases AAA Adventure Games]( By Tim Sweezy on Mar 13, 2024 11:43 am [Star Wars Jedi Director Forms Giant Skull Game Studio, Teases AAA Adventure Games]( Game director of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Stig Asmussen, has announced the start of a new game studio called Giant Skull. Asmussen, who left Respawn and EA last year, also reported that the company is already hard at work developing a new AAA narrative-driven single player third-person action-adventure game. Asmussen [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Motorola's Moto G 5G And Power 5G Get Big Upgrades And Budget Pricing]( By Aaron Leong on Mar 13, 2024 10:54 am [Motorola's Moto G 5G And Power 5G Get Big Upgrades And Budget Pricing]( Motorola's budget phone division has injected the North American market with a couple of new devices—the $200 Moto G 5G and $300 Moto G Power 5G. On paper, they offer some positive specification bumps for very little of your hard-earned cash. Let's dig dipper. Recent Moto G offerings have, how shall we kindly say, been rather lackluster. [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Father Of The Web Sounds Alarm On The State Of The Internet And Vows To Fix It]( By Paul Lilly on Mar 13, 2024 10:50 am [Father Of The Web Sounds Alarm On The State Of The Internet And Vows To Fix It ]( When Tim Berners-Lee transformed the early internet with the invention of the World Wide Web while at CERN, it was a much different time. It started in earnest in 1989 with a memo proposing a global hypertext document system, though as he readily admits now, the web's "trajectory was impossible to imagine" at the time. Now 35 years later, [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Super GPUs Drop Below MSRP In Germany, Is The US Next?]( By Thiago Trevisan on Mar 13, 2024 10:43 am [NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Super GPUs Drop Below MSRP In Germany, Is The US Next?]( It has only been a few short months since NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 40 Super GPUs have been released into the wild. While GPU pricing typically has stayed stagnant or has even grown during the last few years, some new numbers out of Germany may indicate some discounts are possible, too. The MSRP for NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4070 Super is $599 in [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Watch Japan's Space One Rocket Explode And Scorch The Earth]( By Tim Sweezy on Mar 13, 2024 10:33 am [Watch Japan's Space One Rocket Explode And Scorch The Earth ]( A Japanese launch service provider’s attempt to become the first private entity in Japan to launch a satellite into orbit ended abruptly, mere seconds after liftoff. Space One’s solid-fuel Kairos rocket executed an abort command after detecting an issue, leading to a spectacular explosion. Just five seconds after liftoff, the 18-meter, [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Maingear ZERO Gaming PC Review: The Cleanest Desktop PC Ever]( By Zak Killian on Mar 13, 2024 10:13 am [Maingear ZERO Gaming PC Review: The Cleanest Desktop PC Ever]( Maingear ZERO Legendary Boost Gaming PC: As Configured - $3,389 @ Maingear The culmination of over a decade of design, Maingear's ZERO moves critical connectors to the back of the motherboard, giving it the cleanest looks of any computer we've reviewed to date. Beautiful Build With Back-Side Connectors Unconventional Chassis Is Eye-Catching... [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Dodge Charger Lays Claim To World’s First All-Electric Muscle Car And It’s A Beast]( By Aaron Leong on Mar 13, 2024 10:04 am [Dodge Charger Lays Claim To World’s First All-Electric Muscle Car And It’s A Beast]( SUVs may be what the head wants, but deep down Dodge knows American's love their muscle cars. This might explain why there's a multi-energy lineup of 2024 Dodge Chargers, from 550 horsepower 3.0L twin turbos to 670 hp all-electric halo variants complete with an elaborately fake exhaust system (more on that later). Earlier this week, Dodge [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Forget GPUs, Crypto Mining Is Suddenly A Threat To AMD Ryzen 9 7590X CPU Supply]( By Paul Lilly on Mar 13, 2024 09:29 am [Forget GPUs, Crypto Mining Is Suddenly A Threat To AMD Ryzen 9 7590X CPU Supply]( In case haven't noticed, the cryptocurrency market is on an upswing led by Bitcoin's surge to record highs over the past couple of weeks—it's now trading at around $73,000. Historically speaking, as Bitcoin goes, so does the entire crypto scene. Fortunately, miners don't pose a threat to the supply of graphics cards this time around, but we [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Apple Loosens App Store Grip In A Big Win For iPhone Users In Europe]( By Ryan Whitwam on Mar 13, 2024 12:00 am [Apple Loosens App Store Grip In A Big Win For iPhone Users In Europe]( Against Apple's repeated and strenuous objections, the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA) kicked in earlier this month. Among other things, the DMA will force Apple to relax its iron grip on iOS software distribution just a little. It has unlocked the ability for users in Europe to install alternative app stores, and now Apple has [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( Recent Articles: [Hackers Are Selling Off Stolen Roku Accounts With Credit Card Details For 50 Cents Each]( [WhatsApp Clears Up Confusion Over Encryption With A Handy New Chat Label]( [Webb And Hubble Agree On Universe’s Expansion Rate Leaving NASA Utterly Stumped]( [NVIDIA's Next-Gen GeForce 50 Series Blackwell GPU VRAM Specs Allegedly Break Cover]( [Samsung Galaxy A55 And A35 Midrange Phones Pack OLED Displays And Better Security]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Website]( [YouTube]( [Pinterest]( Copyright © 2024 Hot Hardware, Inc., All rights reserved. You're receiving this because you opted in to our list at HotHardware.com or are an industry partner. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](.