Gamepressure.com News 18 August 2019
IKEA Establishes a Business Unit for Smart Home Technology
The Swedish company has announced that it has established a new business unit to deal with smart home technology. There has already been a project for this before, but from now on IKEA plans to invest much more money in it.
hardware & software
Paul Wozniak
August 18, 2019
Gamescom Awards 2019 Nominations
The full list of games nominated for this year's Gamescom Awards has just been released. The titles were assigned to appropriate categories, and the list include known and long-awaited games.
video games
Paul Wozniak
August 18, 2019
CEO of Nvidia: Buying GPU Without Ray Tracing Support is "Just Crazy”
When discussing Nvidia's second quarter, the CEO - Jen-Hsun Huang - raised, among other things, the issue of the future of ray tracing. He thinks that buying a card without the support of the technology is currently a bad idea and predicts its rapid development.
hardware & software
Conrad Hazi
August 18, 2019
Australian MP on DayZ Ban: „We're Making Ourselves a Laughing Stock.”
Tim Quilty, a member of the Australian Liberal Democratic Party, spoke on the announced ban on the sale of DayZ. In his view, the decision of ACB rating organisation makes Australia the laughing stock of the world.
video games
Jacob Blazewicz
August 18, 2019
Mod Brings Overwatch Characters to XCOM 2 as Units
Creator of the Overwatch Epic Collection mod transfered characters known from the Overwatch universe to XCOM 2. The modification introduces only cosmetic changes and does not affect the skills of the original units.
video games
Paul Wozniak
August 18, 2019
PlayStation 4 Cloud Saves Have an Utterly Pointless Limit
PlayStation 4 has a limit on the number of saved game state in the cloud. It amounts to 1000 files, which seems kinda pointless with the recent increase in the amount of space available for saves to 100 GB.
hardware & software
Paul Wozniak
August 18, 2019
Apex Legends Devs Apologize for Microtransactions
Respawn Entertainment has published a press release in connection with the Iron Crown event in Apex Legends. The creators apologized for the new microtransactions and announced some changes.
video games
Jacob Blazewicz
August 18, 2019
Rockstar is Preparing Announcement of GTA 6?
A poster promoting Red Dead Redemption 2 has been removed from the front of Rockstar North's HQ. For many fans, this is a sign that we will soon see the announcement of either GTA VI or Bully 2.
video games
Paul Wozniak
August 18, 2019
Dragon Age 4 Loses Lead Producer
Another dev has left BioWare. Fernando Melo, the lead producer of the upcoming Dragon Age, has just said goodbye to the studio.
video games
Jacob Blazewicz
August 18, 2019
KNOB - Serious Security Gap Detected in Bluetooth
Bluetooth SIG Engineers recently published a note concerning a serious bug in the specification of the Bluetooth standard. It describes an exploit called KNOB that enables attacks on almost any Bluetooth Classic-compatible device and data interception.
hardware & software
Conrad Hazi
August 18, 2019