Preview of the 4090 Strix cooler

^Very likely given the leaked specs of the full fat AD102 card, likely a Titan due to its 48GB of VRAM.

https://videocardz.com/newz/flagship-nvidia-ada-sku-might-feature-18176-cores-48gb-memory-and-800w-tdp

Strix model for 800

Got one of the last keys.

I played through the main game on GamePass and was thinking about buying Ancient Gods Part 1 + 2 for 10 € each in the Marketplace / Windows Store:

But 21 € for the Steam Deluxe version is much better... now I can play it on Steam Deck, too!
Another game for my "impossible ports" microSD-card.

The new Brutal Doom Black version also looks great:

Tuesday news:

SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

GOG has two new sales:

• There's a new Deal of the Day: Sid Meier’s Pirates! , with a 78% discount during 23 hours: https://www.gog.com/en/game/sid_meiers_pirates
• And the Retro Shooters Sale brings up to 90% discounts during 7 days: https://www.gog.com/promo/20220726_retro_shooter

Steam has several new sales, including new weeklong deals:

• The first Midweek Madness deal is Sniper Elite 5, 20% off untilThursday: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1029690/Sniper_Elite_5/
• Dark Deity gets a 50% discount until July 28: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1374840/Dark_Deity/
• Fling to the Finish, still in Early Access, will be 60% off until Thursday 28: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1054430/Fling_to_the_Finish/
• The Thunderful Publisher Sale features up to 90% discounts until the 28th of July: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/thunderful-publisher-sale
• Maneater will be 50% off until July 31: https://store.steampowered.com/app/629820/Maneater/
• And these are some of the weeklong deals:
  • Animal Shelter gets a 20% discount: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1239320/Animal_Shelter/
  • Umurangi Generation is 30% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1223500/Umurangi_Generation/
  • Wintermoor Tactics Club gets a 50% discount: https://store.steampowered.com/app/917840/Wintermoor_Tactics_Club/
  • Siege of Avalon: Anthology is 60% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1558990/Siege_of_Avalon_Anthology/
  • Crown Trick / 不思议的皇冠 gets a 70% discount: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1000010/Crown_Trick/
  • And Down in Bermuda will be 90% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1107300/Down_in_Bermuda/

The Humble Store has three new sales:

• The Paradox Interactive Publisher Sale features up to 80% discounts during 6 days. There are keys for Steam and GOG: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/paradox-publisher-sale/
• Ubisoft's Choose your Player Sale comes with up to 80% discounts during 6 days. All the keys are for UPlay: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/ubisoft-choose-your-player-sale/
• And the Gearbox Publishing Sale brings up to 90% discounts during the next 6 days. There are keys for Steam, GOG (2) and EGS (1): https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/gearbox-sale/

And Fanatical has a new Star Deal and a new bundle:

• The new Star Deal is Disciples: Liberation – Deluxe Edition, 45% off during 24 hours: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/disciples-liberation-deluxe-liberation
• And the new Killer Bundle 23 comes with 7 games with a 85% discount: https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/killer-bundle-23

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

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MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

Thanks to a modder, the cat in Stray now hates Mondays and loves lasagna
https://www.pcgamer.com/stray-mods/
'Moody cat adventure game' should have been a genre for decades already, but somehow Stray's housecat protagonist feels novel, and players already want more cat options. Modders have answered that call, turning Stray's orange tabby into all kinds of alternative cats: black cats, gray cats, calico cats, lasagna cats. Yes, you can now play Stray as Garfield.
Modder Chris Rubino is responsible for putting the Jim Davis cartoon cat into Stray with the "Garfield - Cartoon Edition" mod, which can be downloaded at NexusMods.

This cursed mod replaces The Stanley Parable's narrator with TikTok's female text-to-speech voice
https://www.pcgamer.com/this-cursed-mod-replaces-the-stanley-parables-narrator-with-tiktoks-female-text-to-speech-voice/
In a classic case of the PC gaming community asking whether it could, instead of whether it should, a modder has created a mod for The Stanley Parable that replaces the game's iconic narrator (brilliantly voiced by Kevan Brighting), with Tiktok's female text-to-speech voice.
The mod, created by a modder known as KabanFriends, overdubs the narrator's lines with Tiktok's relentlessly chipper TTS robot. It is apparently inspired by a similar mod that gives Portal the Tiktok treatment, replacing GLaDOS' lines with the same voice.

Resident Evil 4 HD Project V1.1 released, featuring hundreds of graphical edits
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/resident-evil-4-hd-project-v1-1-released-featuring-hundreds-of-graphical-edits/
The duo behind the amazing HD Project for Resident Evil 4 has released a brand new version of it. According to the team, patch 1.1 is 10,6GB in size and features hundreds of graphical edits for textures, stage and character models, items, weapons, UI.
Version 1.1 remasters the “How to play”, “Controls” and Xbox control settings UI textures for all languages. Furthermore, it remasters the “press any button” “how to play” “options” and “controls” UI text in the title screen for all languages.

GAMING NEWS

The Lord Of The Rings – Gollum has been delayed by a few months
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/the-lord-of-the-rings-gollum-has-been-delayed-by-a-few-months/
Daedalic and NACON have announced that The Lord Of The Rings – Gollum has been delayed by a few months. According to NACON, the developer needs a bit more time in order to further polish the game. Unfortunately, though, there is now no ETA on when the game will come out.

MicroProse’s upcoming RTS, Regiments, will release on August 16th
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/microproses-upcoming-rts-regiments-will-release-on-august-16th/
MicroProse has announced that its new Cold War RTS, Regiments, will release on August 16th. In order to celebrate this announcement, the company has also released a new trailer that you can find below.

Tuesday news, part two:

EA reacquires the rights to Juventus for FIFA 23 after losing it to Konami
https://www.pcgamer.com/ea-reacquires-the-rights-to-juventus-for-fifa-23-after-losing-it-to-konami/
Video gaming's longest running industry rivalry continues, as publisher EA has re-signed the rights to Juventus from PES/eFootball creators Konami, meaning the Italian team will feature exclusively in FIFA 23. For non-football heads, this is like Games Workshop reacquiring the rights to the skaven, having previously lost them to Wizards of the Coast.

Funko's awful dolls are coming to an action platformer near you
https://www.pcgamer.com/funkos-awful-dolls-are-coming-to-an-action-platformer-near-you/
Funko, of dead-eyed plastic figurine fame, is partnering with recently-founded game studio 10:10 Games to produce a line of videogames based on Funko's discomforting pop-culture homunculi.
>> They would work on a horror game, with the dolls being the enemies with those big, empty eyes.

World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Classic is coming on September 26
https://www.pcgamer.com/world-of-warcraft-wrath-of-the-lich-king-classic-is-coming-on-september-26/
Blizzard has confirmed that last week's leak was accurate: World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Classic will be out on September 26.
Wrath of the Lich King, detailing the battle against Arthas Menethil in the frozen realm of Northrend, is arguably the best expansion in World of Warcraft's history, and the Classic edition promises a few key changes to make it more immediately accessible for newcomers. First and foremost, players will be able to jump into the Death Knight class right from the start rather than have to reach level 55 as they did in the original version.

Nier: Automata player stumbles onto a secret that's remained hidden for 5 years
https://www.pcgamer.com/nier-automata-player-stumbles-onto-a-secret-thats-remained-hidden-for-5-years/
It seems Nier: Automata's final secret wasn't so final after all⁠—a user on Reddit by the name of sadfutago seems to have stumbled onto a sizeable hidden area in the existential android action game, and long-time fans and seasoned dataminers are absolutely flummoxed by the news. Spoilers for Automata ahead.

Roller Champions is not cancelled, but Ubisoft is delaying the next season
https://www.pcgamer.com/roller-champions-is-not-cancelled-but-ubisoft-is-delaying-the-next-season/
Ubisoft has issued a formal denial of a rumor claiming that its free-to-play roller derby game Roller Champions will soon be cancelled, saying that it "fully supports" the game. However, it will delay the start of the next season while it works on new features and fixes aimed at addressing player concerns.

MultiVersus unlock time: when does it actually release?
https://www.pcgamer.com/multiversus-unlock-time-open-beta/
The Warner Bros.' take on Smash Bros for PC, MultiVersus is shockingly good, we've decided. Soon you can make that call for yourself, and you definitely don't need to pay for the $40 founder's edition. Be just a little more patient and you too can become a Batman main dunking on Velma.

Somebody decoded Stray's mystery language
https://www.pcgamer.com/somebody-decoded-strays-mystery-language/
The neon signs, adverts, and computer monitors of smash-hit kitty sim Stray read as incomprehensible to me as they must to the game's precious little feline protagonist, but it turns out they're actually very communicative.

After 183 days offline, Dark Souls 3 shows signs of life
https://www.pcgamer.com/after-183-days-offline-dark-souls-3-shows-signs-of-life/
Souls series dataminer Lance McDonald was the first to spot a new Dark Souls 3 update for Steam users with access to the game's debug branches, via SteamDB. Presumably it’s for testing the long-awaited return of the game's online features.

VRChat is being review bombed to hell and back after anti-cheat announcement
https://www.pcgamer.com/vrchat-is-being-review-bombed-to-hell-and-back-after-anti-cheat-announcement/
VRChat is being absolutely nuked into the ground on Steam after the developer announced it would be adding Easy Anti-Cheat into the game.
It was quietly implemented into the game's beta on July 25, with a blog post pinning its introduction on mods. While modifying the game's client has been against terms of service for a hot sec, it's generally a widely-accepted part of VRChat. The vanilla game can run poorly and has a stark lack of accessibility features, something that the mods are often making up for.

More Return to Monkey Island footage shows off dialogue system and new character
https://www.pcgamer.com/more-return-to-monkey-island-footage-shows-off-dialogue-system-and-new-character/
Ron Gilbert has provided another peek beneath the eyepatch of Return to Monkey Island the hotly anticipated adventure game that's a direct sequel to Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge, with a new gameplay snippet showing off the game's dialogue system and a new character, the honourable(?) Judge Plank.

Glaciered is an aquatic action game set 65 million years in the future where you play an ass-kicking ninja fish-bird
https://www.pcgamer.com/glaciered-is-an-aquatic-action-game-set-65-million-years-in-the-future-where-you-play-an-ass-kicking-ninja-fish-bird/
At first, I thought Glaciered resembled a big-budget spiritual successor to Abzû. The trailer for the newly announced game, which sees you exploring an entirely oceanic Earth 65 million years in the future, starts with its bizarre fish-bird protagonist (known as Tuai, apparently) gliding effortlessly through stunning underwater locations. Beneath the giant glacier that covered this far-future Earth, your Tuai flits through underwater caves and carves pathways through carpets of seagrass. It looking beautiful, charming, and relaxing, a glorious chillout adventure in the vein of Giant Squid's mini-masterpiece.
Then, all of a sudden, your Tuai starts kicking the shit out of a shark.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Rumored To Launch In 450W & 600W Variants, Priced Lower Than RTX 3090 Ti

https://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-rtx-4090-450w-600w-tgp-variants-priced-lower-than-rtx-3090-ti-rumor/

Personally I think if they do launch a full fat Titan with 48GB of Vram, it will be no less than $3000 USD. But I don't see a standard 4090 being much more than $1500.

TeamGroup launches industrial-grade Vapor Chamber cooling for M.2 SSDs

https://videocardz.com/press-release/teamgroup-launches-industrial-grade-vapor-chamber-cooling-for-m-2-ssds

I get the feeling PCI-E Gen 5 SSDs gonna be very hot

be quiet! Silent Wings 4 (Pro) 140 mm Case Fan Review – When the name says it all | Part 2

https://www.igorslab.de/en/be-quiet-silent-wings-4-pro-140-mm-fan-test/

Intel Outside: Apple & AMD Remove All Traces of Intel Hardware From Their M2 MacBook & Rembrandt Laptops

https://wccftech.com/intel-outside-apple-amd-remove-all-traces-of-intel-hardware-from-their-m2-macbook-rembrandt-laptops/

It's interesting what happens when you sleep on your laurels for so long that even Apple got sick of all the nonsense, developed their own CPU/GPU and dumped you. And with AMD continuously increasing in market share in Server, the clock is ticking.

But the long term clock is ticking for Nvidia because if AMD and Intel get their shit together and manage to catch up to Nvidia in the GPU department, then Nvidia won't have much leeway as they don't yet have a CPU in the consumer space. So for Nvidia's sake, they should hope that AMD and Intel will continue to be behind in the GPU space.

"I can't tell you who my NUMEROUS sources are because people would lose their jobs but the RTX 4000s are delayed AT LEAST a year!"

Why yes, Nvidia, a company that has never missed a two year release cycle will surely miss it now cause "my sources" said so. If he were to use an ounce of logic, he would realize how dumb that statement is. Least he said to take it with a huge amounts of salt but come on.

So my friend had his RX 580 die on him so he went out and bought a 3080 12GB for around $650sh USD once converted. He did also buy a Lian Li Lancool 2 case along with 850 watt PSU since his 550 Watt is not a good idea with a 3080 loll.

The interesting thing though is even though he has a 6600k, his CPU cooler is loud af with a 3080 compared to his 580 mainly due to the cpu usage has gone up significantly. Granted his CPU cooler is the Hyper 212 Evo but still, it's something that I didn't really think about. He will wait till Zen 4/Raptor Lake before upgrading though and while he was hoping to get Lovelace instead, can't do much when your GPU dies.

Its quite sus how hard he's trying to get people to buy new graphics cards right now. And that he's 'helping people'.. There's a flooded market of them in retail channels. And thats not taking into consideration of the used market which is going lower by the day. If you can get a 3000 series rn and are happy then great, otherwise trying to spread FUD about 4000 series availability and 'delay' trying to get people to buy buy buy.. just looks like he's another sellout or just have some bad info from unhappy board partners (probably sources from EVGA/MSI). Not buying it Jay.

And yeah Nvidia is going to be a world of crap if they don't release this year. They can't sit on unsold inventory forever.. demands from board partners or w/e don't have a say.

Pricing it below the 3090Ti is good as it implies that Nvidia won't raise the price this gen or, at least, that the price hike won't be huge.

Or, at least, that's what I hope.

Haven't you heard about the JIUSHARK 2-THREE? It onlñy comes with a 60mm fan!

But yes, Gen 5 drives will be quite hot.

A couple months ago Guru3D did a test with two NVMe drives, Gen 3 and Gen 4 with several heatsinks, and having one for a Gen 4 drive is a necessity:
https://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/guru3d-nvme-thermal-test,1.html

The worst part of his "buy now because they won't launch in a year" argument (I haven't seen the video so I don't know the details), is that, even if true, it's completely flawed. There is also AMD on the market and they will launch their cards.

So you can buy now (when he did the video) some overpriced cards or wait because it doesn't matter what will happen, those cards will get cheaper either because the 4000 series launches and they become "last gen" or because AMD launches their cards and, no matter how big or small their performance jump is, the 3000 series at the actual prices won't be attractive anymore.

He made a big mistake and, instead of admiting it and move on, he doubles down on it, making it worse.