IO Interactive says that, once Bond is out of the way, hell yeah we’re getting back to the good stuff: ‘Of course there’s going to be a next Hitman’

IO Interactive recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of its flagship series Hitman, which has certainly been on a journey. Agent 47’s beautiful, barcoded bald head has become one of the industry’s icons, with the series’ growth into its own identity truly impressive: from the early days where it was a more traditional 3D action game…

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Attention survival game sickos: you can be among the first to playtest the sequel to one of my favorite survival RPGs

I loved 2019’s Outward. The fantasy RPG from Nine Dots Studio embraced survival in a way few RPGs do, making everything from casting a basic spell to packing for a trip between cities a methodical and thoughtful process. Even its permalife system, which sounds forgiving—you don’t die if you lose a fight, you lose consciousness…

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The company that invented the AIO cooler has accepted an $85 million buyout offer from a major Chinese electronics group

Asetek, the company that invented the closed-loop liquid cooler for CPUs, has received an offer it can’t refuse from CQXA Holdings, a subsidiary of Chinese electronic group Suzhou Chunqi, to fully take over the company. If successful, CQXA would pay 1.72 Danish Krone (around $0.27) per share to make up a total of 547.4 million…

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The memory market is so screwed right now that Samsung is negotiating with, err, Samsung over DRAM contracts

Under normal market circumstances, companies don’t get into strained negotiations with themselves. But shortages can make foes of even the most familiar of computer hardware behemoths. Case in point, Samsung’s recent negotiations over DRAM contracts with, err, itself. According to SEDaily (via Wccftech), Samsung’s Semiconductor Division (DS) won’t give its Mobile Experience (MX) division—its smartphone…

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21 months and 5,000 hours in, this long-term OLED monitor burn-in test finds that panel degradation slows after six months

Monitors Unboxed has released its latest OLED monitor burn-in results. After 21 months, the YouTube channel found that their MSI QD-OLED monitor had degraded only marginally from the previous 18-month update. One other key takeaway is that OLED burn-in happens fastest in the first six months, after which further degradation seems to be more gradual….

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