Highguard requires Secure Boot and Easy Anti-Cheat to run, leaving Linux and kernel-conscious gamers out in the cold

If you happened to have caught the Game Awards trailer for it, Highguard, an upcoming free-to-play hero shooter from ex-developers of Apex Legends and Titanfall, launches next week. You will need to enable Secure Boot if you plan on playing through. As we’ve spotted on the Highguard Steam page, the game needs Secure Boot, TPM…

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‘We will f*ck up’: The publisher of Against the Storm and Manor Lords is committed to keeping generative AI out, but it’s easier said than done

Generative AI, spurred on by super-spreader CEOs, has been smeared everywhere—into our games, our music, our art, even our damn emails. And it’s not enough that it’s terrible at even the most simple tasks assigned to it, like providing basic, easily accessible information; now we’ve also got to deal with its massive environmental toll, the…

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“History In The Making” – New PS3 Mod Unlocks “Impossible” Levels Of Performance, And Sony Can’t Do Anything About It

“This level of performance was previously impossible on these models”. A new PS3 mod has just been revealed that promises “previously impossible” levels of performance on PS3 Super Slim, Slim 3000 and late 2504 models of Sony’s third PlayStation console. As highlighted by Polish modder @Modyfikator89, this method deploys a full-working Quasi-Custom Firmware / qCFW…

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Intel’s in no hurry to get 14A all tooled up: ‘It does not make sense to build out significant capacity there until we know that we have the customers that will accept that demand’

With the official launch of its new Core Ultra 300-series of processors going very well so far, Intel’s latest process node, 18A, appears to be a successful endeavour. We won’t know for certain until all the benchmarks come out, of course, but regardless of how good it is, Intel isn’t rushing to gear up its…

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