The long-in-the-works crackdown will begin next week with “some very early, gentle messaging,” WBD’s JB Perrette said at a conference today, according to TheWrap. Perrette says you’ll be able to add a member to your account in the first quarter of next year.
Fortnite’s new Japanese-themed season is excellent, but some players have expressed frustrations about changes to XP rewards that appear to make XP gains slower.
In response, Epic Games just announced a few adjustments to boost how much XP you can get, and it’s promising to make “further adjustments as needed.”
The minimum PC specs for Indiana Jones mean you’ll need at least a 10700K CPU, RTX 2060 Super, and 120GB of SSD storage. Interestingly, Bethesda says GPU hardware ray tracing is “required” at minimum, so that rules out Nvidia’s older 10 series of cards. Bethesda also lists the i7-13900K and Ryzen 7 7900X, both of which don’t exist. We’ve asked Bethesda to clarify the typos here.
The Tapo P210M is ETL-certified and cheaper than Eve’s version of this.
Thanks to Matter, the P210M works with all the big smart home platforms. Only SmartThings supports energy monitoring though, and Matter is still building on that part of the spec, so the best experience may be in the Tapo app.
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TNT Sports is going to show some NBA 2K25 overlays over real-life 2024 Emirates NBA Cup quarterfinals and semifinals matches. Weird, but interesting.
NBC Sports will similarly overlay elements of Madden NFL over the Houston Texans vs. Kansas City Chiefs NFL game that airs on Peacock on December 21st.
Update: Added details of NFL game with Madden elements.
Kate Rouch, the former CMO of Coinbase, has been hired by OpenAI to lead its marketing efforts, Ad Age reported.
OpenAI has been padding out its c-suite this year: It hired Sarah Friar as chief financial officer, Kevin Weil as chief business officer, Scott Schools as chief compliance officer, and Aaron Chatterji as its chief economist. Notably, they haven’t hired a CTO to replace Mira Murati, who recently departed.
[Ad Age]
Lisa Su confirmed she’d launch the first RDNA 4 GPUs in “early 2025,” and now AMD graphics boss Jack Huynh will officially host a livestreamed press conference on January 6th at 11AM PT / 2PM ET. It will “discuss how AMD is expanding its leadership across PCs and gaming.”
The rumor mill is expecting the unannounced AMD RX 8800 XT:
