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Nvidia is adding the Battle.net versions of these classic Blizzard games to its cloud streaming service this week, alongside StarCraft II and Diablo III.

AV1 support (which provides higher streaming quality at lower bitrates) is also being rolled out for GeForce Now users with Mac M3 devices.

The Biden administration’s pledge will help Micron’s $100 billion plan to build new DRAM fabs in New York, with the proposed funding set to unlock a $25 billion investment for another facility under construction in Idaho.

Micron, the sole US-based memory manufacturer, hopes to onshore 40 percent of its DRAM chip production. Its leading-edge chips are currently made in Japan and Taiwan.

TSMC says it’ll start production of 1.6-nm chips by 2026 in a move that should “greatly improve logic [chip] density and performance,” according to Nikkei. Meanwhile Intel is targeting 2-nm and 1.8-nm technologies by 2025, with Samsung targeting 1.4-nm in 2027.

Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz, Lars Wingefors said he’s been “taking a lot of hits and criticism” over Embracer Group’s restructuring efforts that have led to studio shutdowns, layoffs, and the gaming conglomerate being split into three separate companies.

“We can’t make all the games we wanted to make three years ago, but we need to adapt to it. We will still make games, we still have one of the biggest, if not the biggest, pipeline of games in the industry. And we have great plans over the coming years or decades.”

The Sony Afeela prototype is part of GT7’s free update. “Before the real vehicle is released, we would like as many people as possible to ride it in-game. Please enjoy it,” writes Sony Honda Mobility.

You also get a Škoda Vision Gran Turismo concept “created exclusively for the game,” and a ‘70 Chevrolet Chevelle SS454 Sport Coupe.

The team behind the sandbox game posted that “the takedowns came from Nintendo,” and continued:

Honestly, this is fair enough. This is Nintendo’s content and what they allow and don’t allow is up to them. They don’t want you playing with that stuff in Garry’s Mod - that’s their decision, we have to respect that and take down as much as we can.

The post asks contributors to help by deleting “Nintendo related uploads and never uploading them again.”

Why does the villain in this Knuckles series sneak peek look familiar to me? Is it because he was in Game of Thrones and Slow West? Nope, didn’t see those. Season of the Witch? No, he had a bit part.

It seems the only role I’ve seen Rory McCann play is Michael Armstrong, aka the “yarp” guy, in Hot Fuzz. Anyway, Knuckles starts streaming Friday on Paramount Plus.

You can update your console now to gain access to the feature, which offers community-generated hints for supported games like Granblue Fantasy: Relink and the upcoming Stellar Blade.

The app now has 150 million monthly users, Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday during Meta’s earnings call. There were almost 100 million monthly Threads users in October.

The metric I’d really like to see, however, is daily users. Meta is juicing the visibility of Threads posts in the Instagram feed, and I’ve heard that a lot of user growth has been coming from that drive-by traffic. If it really wants to kill X, Meta still needs to build a sticky experience that more people come to daily.

Two months later, Asus says the framerate-boosting tech is nigh! There’s also a firmware update that lets you map triggers to back buttons.

AFMF can’t make its fake frames out of nothing; you’ll need a game that already runs at a decent clip to get best results. Here’s the Asus guide on how to use it.

Run:ai’s software lets users share computing power and easily manage GPUs running on cloud and on-premises data centers. It will be part of Nvidia’s DGX Cloud platform, which sells access to Nvidia’s GPUs for a monthly fee. TechCrunch reports the deal cost $700 million.

The Citizen Lab analyzed Chinese keyboard apps from Baidu, Honor, Huawei, iFlytek, Oppo, Samsung, Tencent, Vivo, and Xiaomi. It found that each of these apps — except for Huawei’s — has an exploit that can “reveal the contents of users’ keystrokes in transit.” The research group estimates these vulnerabilities impact up to 1 billion people.

In a filing on Tuesday, the DOJ says Changpeng Zhao’s alleged crimes “warrant meaningful prison time” and that the three-year term will “not just send a message to Zhao but also to the world.” Zhao’s lawyers followed up with a filing shortly after, saying he should just be sentenced to probation.

Ralph Nader complained that his favorite pens were drying out too fast. (Those of us who have favorite pens also have strong feelings about them.) Wirecutter sent him some of their recommended pens. “He was not a fan,” reports Annmarie Conte.

What’s it like to play Metroid Prime Hunters in an Apple-approved emulator for iOS — Delta, in this case — on a Vision Pro?

Well, since nobody asked, I’ll tell you: it’s unexpectedly playable. Emulated Nintendo DS touchscreen aiming works well if you pinch and hold while looking at the upper screen. Sure, you could use buttons to aim in Hunters, but why would you?

After expanding SNAP/EBT payments to more stores earlier this year, DoorDash has announced that users can now use their SNAP/EBT cards when ordering from Walgreens.

More delivery services and online retailers are adding support for SNAP/EBT. Amazon has launched an unlimited delivery program available to EBT customers, while Uber Eats will start accepting food stamps as payments sometime this year.