Well, the D15 is a monster in every way possible.

Crysis remastered seems like a demaster in areas... It was always going to be difficult to beat Crysis rendering pipeline as it opted for quality over performance, hardware be damned, no compromises. - Even if it is 13 years old.
Not a fan of how the lighting model is showing up some of the assets, it's giving the game an over-bloom cartoonish vibe, but that could just be the colour grading.

Will be interesting if they throw SVOGI (Aka. Ray Tracing) in the Xbox One/Playstation 4 releases... Very much doubt it.

Severely cut back foliage.

Much improved material shaders, much improved post-process pipeline resulting in a very clean, albeit soft image.

Modded Crysis vanilla is still the definitive place to play, but still early days yet.

The Weds, Wens, Wends... the news:

SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

A Plague Tale: Innocence has sold one million copies worldwide
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/a-plague-tale-innocence-has-sold-one-million-copies-worldwide/
Asobo Studio and Focus Home Interactive announced that A Plague Tale: Innocence has sold over one million copies worldwide. Unfortunately, though, the publisher did not reveal any platform-specific sales numbers.
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As part of the Steam Summer Sale, A Plague Tale: Innocence is now available for purchase with a 66% discount.

GOG's Midweek Sale brings games set in space up to 90% off until Saturday: https://www.gog.com/promo/20200701_midweek_sale

The Humble Store has an EA Sports & Racing Sale that features 8 games up to 75% off during the next 13 days: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/ea-sports-racing-sale/

Fanatical has two new flash deals and a contest:

• The contest involves a Death Stranding bundle worth $100, including a Steam key of the game. There will be two winners: https://www.fanatical.com/en/blog/win-death-stranding-pc-bundle-worth-100-dollars-fanatical
• The first Flash deal is Control for the Epic Store, 42% off for the next 24 hours: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/control
• The other one is Life is Strange 2 Complete Season, 66% off for the next 48 hours: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/life-is-strange-2-complete-season

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

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MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

Doom 3 will soon receive an HD AI-enhanced Texture Pack, comparison screenshots
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/doom-3-will-soon-receive-a-hd-ai-enhanced-texture-pack-comparison-screenshots/
Modder ‘Rivarez’ is currently working on the next version of Doom 3 & RoE: Rivarez Edition. Doom 3 & RoE: Rivarez Edition is a global mod, aiming to improve and enhance Doom 3’s weapons, graphics and gameplay.
According to the modder, version 1.1 will feature new HD AI-enhanced textures. Rivarez has used Topaz A.I. Gigapixel / Topaz Sharpen AI neural network in order to upscale the game’s textures. Furthermore, the modder has created some brand new ones.

Final Fantasy 7: Crisis Core receives Remaster treatment thanks to this AI-enhanced HD Texture Pack
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/final-fantasy-7-crisis-core-receives-remaster-treatment-thanks-to-this-ai-enhanced-hd-texture-pack/
Final Fantasy 7: Crisis Core is a game that a lot of FF would like to see on modern platforms. And while Square Enix does not plan to release any remaster anytime soon, PC gamers can already enjoy such a remaster via emulators. Moreover, Reddit’s member hugeladyplzr has released an AI-enhanced HD Texture Pack for this game.
hugeladyplzr has used Topaz Gigapixel AI neural networks in order to enhance the quality of the game’s textures. The end result is great and thanks to higher internal resolutions, PC gamers can enjoy an unofficial Final Fantasy 7: Crisis Core Remaster.
>> You can find the link to the mod (GitHub), the emulator needed and the instructions to install it.

GAMING NEWS

You can play Cyberpunk 2077 in “GTA Mode”, but CDPR wants you to try other options and dig deeper
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/you-can-play-cyberpunk-2077-in-gta-mode-but-cdpr-wants-you-to-try-other-options-and-dig-deeper/
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Yes, you can play Cyberpunk 2077 like it’s another GTA 5 game, but according to CD Projekt Red, this may not be a very good idea. The developers want you to try other options, and dig deeper into the Game.

Bless Unleashed is a new MMORPG, coming to PC in 2021, first screenshots
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/bless-unleashed-is-a-new-mmorpg-coming-to-pc-in-2021-first-screenshots/
NEOWIZ and Round8 Studio have announced a new MMORPG for the PC, Bless Unleashed. This new MMORPG will be coming to the PC in 2021, and below you can find its first screenshots, as well as its official PC requirements.

Fallout 76 Update 20 released, adds Public Teams, fixes crashes, improves stability & more
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/fallout-76-update-20-released-adds-public-teams-fixes-crashes-improves-stability-more/
Bethesda has released a brand new update for Fallout 76. Update 20 is 4GB in size on the PC, and adds Public Teams. Moreover, it fixes some crashes, improves stability, resolves bugs and improves Daily and Weekly Challenges.

Part two of the news:

Fortnite: Save the World is finally out of Early Access
https://www.pcgamer.com/fortnite-save-the-world-is-finally-out-of-early-access/
Fortnite's trajectory makes for a really interesting slice of videogame history. It launched into an "Early Access Season" in July 2017 and didn't exactly set the world on fire—until September, when Epic unleashes the PUBG-inspired Fortnite Battle Royale on the world, which changed, well, everything. The ostensible new mode (remember when it was just a "mode?") quickly took over the whole show, to the point that Fortnite Battle Royale is now the "real" Fortnite, while the game as it was originally envisioned was branched off into Fortnite: Save the World.
Over the years since then, while Fortnite has grown progressively bigger and more influential, Save the World has plodded on too, doing its own thing along its own path of Early Access development. And now, finally, it's finished.

Amazon's Crucible is being un-released and going back into closed beta
https://www.pcgamer.com/amazons-crucible-is-being-un-released-and-going-back-into-closed-beta/
Crucible is going into closed beta, which is unusual only because it already released on Steam on May 20. We gave the free-to-play shooter a 48% in our review.
You can still grab Crucible on Steam until July 1 at 9 am Pacific, but after that, it'll un-release and become closed to new players. Eventually, there will be a beta signup process available on the official site.

New DayZ update adds a new ski resort, hunting rifle and much more
https://www.pcgamer.com/new-dayz-update-adds-a-new-ski-resort-hunting-rifle-and-much-more/
A new update just rolled out for DayZ, adding a handful of new features and dozens of fixes. Certain previously incomplete areas of Chernarus have been fleshed out, with the arrival of the Saint Roman Ski Resort and the Biathlon shooting range in "the north-western part of South Zagoria." There are small teases of these locations in the trailer above.

Skater XL will come with three community-made maps at launch
https://www.pcgamer.com/skater-xl-will-come-with-three-community-made-maps-at-launch/
The upcoming skateboard sim Skater XL will launch in July with the "Easy Day High School" map, which developer Easy Day Studios revealed earlier this month as "the quintessential skateboarder’s playground, capturing the California schoolyard vibes and terrain where much of skateboarding’s roots come from." Today the studio said that it will also include three community-made maps at release, each of them enhanced by the studio's art team.

CD Projekt Red confirms Cyberpunk 2077 will be censored in Japan
https://www.pcgamer.com/cd-projekt-red-confirms-cyberpunk-2077-will-be-censored-in-japan/
Cyberpunk 2077 will be slightly different in Japan, CD Projekt Red has confirmed. The revisions for Japan mostly concern nudity, but intestines and "genital shaped objects" will also be removed.
>> And the wall walking feature has been removed, for all.

Gwent: Master Mirror reintroduces The Witcher 3's best villain
https://www.pcgamer.com/gwent-master-mirror-reintroduces-the-witcher-3s-best-villain/
Gwent just got a bit more mischievous with the arrival of Master Mirror, a new expansion inspired by the helpful but utterly untrustworthy Gaunter O'Dimm, the antagonist of The Witcher 3: Hearts of Stone.

Halo is getting skins, so you can turn your Warthog into a hot rod
https://www.pcgamer.com/halo-is-getting-skins-so-you-can-turn-your-warthog-into-a-hot-rod/
343 Industries is working away on both Halo 3 and Halo Infinite, but it looks like it's still got some time to give attention to Master Chief's earlier adventures. When Halo 3 is added to the Master Chief Collection, Halo: Combat Evolved will get a treat as well.

Hacked Roblox accounts are telling people to vote for Trump
https://www.pcgamer.com/hacked-roblox-accounts-are-telling-people-to-vote-for-trump/
Spotted by the BBC, some Roblox accounts have been hacked and transformed into Trump bots, sending other players pro-Trump messages. While Trump's candyfloss hair, bright orange skin and love of McDonalds might appeal to children, they can't vote, so the messages instead tell them to ask their parents.

Star Trek Online: House Divided begins the Year of Klingon
https://www.pcgamer.com/star-trek-online-a-house-divided-begins-the-year-of-klingon/
Star Trek Online's Klingons have fought their way back into the spotlight, with a new Klingon storyline kicking off a year of Klingon-themed updates aiming to bring the classic faction up to the standards of the newer additions.

Crysis Remastered has been delayed. Guess it really was gonna look meh. Least this brings new hope.

We would like to share an important update with you all! pic.twitter.com/ylu0OisDf3

— Crysis (@Crysis) July 1, 2020

No wonder Crysis is getting delayed. It didn't really look better than the original, and I wonder who thought trying to release what we yesterday saw made any sense. I'm a bit skeptical about how much Crytek can really change while still aiming for a 2020 release, but let's hope for the best.

I'm not surprised to see Crytek doing that, but it worries me that they waited to see the reaction of the people to take action and fix it.

As for an ARM laptop performing like another ARM laptop, well, it doesn't really impresses me. Compare it to the current x86 Apple model and see what happens.

I remember taking draw distance to the MAX! tweaking Crysis, and it looked pretty cool but deadly for PCs given its extremely single-threaded engine. I wasn't too concerned as to how the Remaster looked, as long as the tools to easily push the graphics are still there.

It's even less impressive if you remember that Apple is still sticking to AMD GPUs and we're having no information if that Apple sample was running with an integrated GPU - but the Surface X did, so it had to divide it's TDP budget between CPU and GPU.

Edit: I checked what modern CPUs can reach in Geekbench 4 and a Core i7 10875H can get 30000 points in multi, so about thrice that score. In fact, it's eerily similar to the score of a 2018 MacBook Pro with an i7 8550U or even a 10 year old Mac Pro with a Xeon W3680(just in multicore this time, CPU is practically identical to an Gulftown/Westmere Core i7 980)

So, in summary, it falls very short from any modern laptop using x86 processors.