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Xbox Series S Has Gone From No-Brainer To No Thank You

Xbox Series S Has Gone From No-Brainer To No Thank You https://ift.tt/fvG6q2x Just a couple of years ago, the Xbox Series S felt like a great holiday gift idea. I was able to pick up a console for $250 during Black Friday and introduce my brother to this generation of console gaming. He just had to buy a Game Pass for Console subscription, and he suddenly had access to a big library of current-gen games and all of Xbox’s first-party titles the day they released. Sure, games didn’t run quite as well on the slightly less powerful console, but it was good enough for a casual gamer like him. Following the price hikes announced today by Microsoft , the Xbox Series S no longer feels like such a good deal. While it’s still the cheapest way into current-gen gaming, the entire Xbox ecosystem has been price gouged to the point where the Xbox Series S no longer has a clear or appealing platform identity. When Microsoft first ...

Half-Life 2 RTX Lights Up City 17 With Full Ray Tracing

Half-Life 2 RTX Lights Up City 17 With Full Ray Tracing https://ift.tt/EJy8ihG

Half-Life 2 is getting the RTX treatment, with a new community-made remaster that will add full ray tracing to the classic first-person shooter.

As part of a new reveal from Nvidia showing off AI-enhanced real-time ray tracing using DLSS 3.5, Half-Life 2 RTX: An RTX Remix Project was announced. The project uses the same modding tools that spun off from last year's Portal with RTX, and is being developed by "four of Half-Life 2’s top mod teams, now working together under the banner of Orbifold Studios," according to a blog post about it.

"As with the Portal projects, almost every asset is being reconstructed in high fidelity, and full ray tracing (otherwise known as path tracing) is being leveraged to bring cutting-edge graphics to Half-Life 2. In Half-Life 2 RTX, average world textures have eight times the pixels, and assets like the suit feature 20 times the geometric detail of the original game. You can now see the fabric weavings around the joints of the suit, and the interplay of plastics and metals that compose the chest, leg, and arm pieces."

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