The former House speaker also wrote of a beef with Barack Obama: “I’d never been sucker-punched like that in my life.”
Nvidia Doesn’t Believe Crypto Mining Is The Reason For GPU Shortages
Nvidia believes that the popularity of its latest Ampere-powered GPUs isn’t solely due to the popularity of cryptocurrency mining during its latest earnings quarter.
Nvidia CFO Colette Kress participated in the Raymond James Institutional Investors Broker Conference Call, explaining that the demand for the company’s latest range of GPUs would have affected supply as much as it has even if mining didn’t become as profitable again as it has.
“Our quarter for gaming, for example, probably would have been the same with or without crypto because we’re supply constrained,” Kress explained, via WCCFTech. “So we’ll continue to watch this. We believe that our CMP product will allow us better visibility for understanding the size of crypto within our quarter.”
Classic Asterix Comic Book Is Being Made Into An Animated Netflix Show
The classic French comic book The Adventures of Asterix is being turned into an animated Netflix series. The show will be released worldwide in 2022.
The 3D animated Asterix show will be produced in France. The showrunner will be Alain Chabat, who wrote and directed 2002’s live-action movie Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra, which stands as the third highest-grossing feature film in French history. The show will be co-produced with publishers Les Editions Albert René.
The series will be based on writer René Goscinny and artist Albert Uderzo’s classic book Asterix and the Big Fight, in which the Romans organize a brawl between Gaulish chiefs, and attempt to fix the results with a magic potion. The 1971 book was previously adapted as an animated film in 1989.
Xbox Game Pass New Games For March 2021 Announced
Microsoft has announced the full lineup of additions to Xbox Game Pass in March, and they include some very high-profile games.
Coming to Game Pass this week include Madden NFL 21, Football Manager 21, and NBA 2K21, while players can look forward to Star Wars: Squadrons later in the month. In April, the professional ice hockey game NHL 21 will come to Game Pass on console.
Additionally, Microsoft announced that five games are leaving Game Pass on March 15, including The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Bloodstained, and Kona. You can see the full lists of the games that are coming to Game Pass and leaving down below.
Oculus Quest 2 Experimental 120Hz Support Possibly Happening In March
Oculus Quest 2 will almost certainly receive support for 120Hz refresh rate in a future update, it’s only a matter of when (via TechRadar). Vice President of Facebook Reality Labs, Andrew Bosworth, confirmed by giving a thumbs up response during an Instagram Q&A to a query about whether or not Quest 2 will get the 120Hz upgrade.
UploadVR then spotted a 120Hz Refresh Support section in the Quest platform roadmap, a guide available to Quest developer accounts. It’s labeled as experimental and while the feature’s target release date is listed as March 2021, Oculus attached a medium confidence tag to the section. That means a delay could happen, and it’s uncertain when exactly Quest 2 users will get to test out 120Hz on the headset.
@ID_AA_Carmack In light of the new 120hz update, how confident are you that Quest games will be able to run at 120fps?
— Isaiah (@isaiahheitzman) March 1, 2021
Only a few existing games will be tweaked for 120, but some new titles will consider it an option in their design phase.
— John Carmack (@ID_AA_Carmack) March 1, 2021
John Carmack, Oculus VR’s consulting CTO, confirmed on Twitter that only a couple of existing games would be modified for 120Hz and new titles could “consider it an option in their design phase.”
Sony Is Announcing 6 PlayStation VR Games Today — Here’s All Of Them
It is a very big day for PlayStation VR, as Sony is reviving its “PSVR Spotlight” campaign to announce a total of six new VR games today, March 3. All the games are launching in 2021.
Sony will announce a new PSVR game every 30 minutes throughout the day, and Sony kicked things off with a new VR edition of a classic Bethesda game.
Doom 3 VR Edition
The first to be revealed is Doom 3 VR, which launches on March 29 for PS4 (and is backwards compatible on PS5). This game features the base Doom 3 and its expansions, Resurrection of Evil and The Lost Missions, updated for VR.
Rockstar Changes How Free GTA Online Cash For PS Plus Members Works
PS Plus subscribers have had an added incentive to play GTA Online on PS4 or PS5 for a long time now, as each month has seen a deposit of a cool $1,000,000 of in-game cash placed directly into their Maze bank account every month. Usually, this cash would be made available if a player logged in but Rockstar Games has decided to change the process for landing that loyalty lump sum.
To claim your cash, you’ll now need to go into the PlayStation Store and grab the bonus as a free gift when the new system kicks in on April 1. Once claimed, the cash will still be instantly deposited into your game account, Rockstar explained in a blog post.
GTA Online has grown massively in the years since it was released, evolving across two generations of Xbox and PlayStation consoles with the regular addition of new vehicles, mission types, heists, and more. It’ll be getting ready to make a leap onto PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X later this year as a standalone release, similar to how Red Dead Online has been split off from Red Dead Redemption 2. Grand Theft Auto V won’t be left behind in last-gen though, as it’ll also be transitioning to new-gen consoles alongside it.
Sims 4 “Kits” Now Available, Offering Smaller DLC Chunks
EA is offering a new size of DLC content for The Sims 4, called Kits. As opposed to the big Game Packs and the smaller Stuff Packs, Kits are “bite-size” bits of content that add some new items or features of their own. Three Kits are available so far, costing $5 apiece.
The three initial packs are the throwback fit kit, country kitchen kit, and bust the dust kit. Those include 1990s-style workout clothes, some nice kitchen cabinetry, and vaccuums to clean up actual, literal dust bunnies. You can check them out in the trailer below.
Halo: MCC Gives Out Free Women’s History Month Nameplate
March is Women’s History Month and 343 Industries is celebrating the occasion by giving all Halo: The Master Chief Collection players a special nameplate.
The nameplate depicts Spartan Kat, who was part of Noble Team during the events of Halo: Reach. “Wear it with pride, Spartans!” 343 said. All you have to do is log into The Master Chief Collection during March to get the nameplate.
Be sure to log into MCC at any time during the month of March in order to add the Women’s History Month Nameplate, featuring Spartan Kat, into your armory!
Wear it with pride, Spartans. pic.twitter.com/JlttAXiogs
— Halo (@Halo) March 2, 2021
This is just the latest special nameplate for MCC players, as 343 gave away a Black History Month nameplate for players during February.
Trevor Noah Has A Tucker Carlson-Themed Way To Update Nixed Dr. Seuss Books
“The Daily Show” host joked a compromise could be struck — involving the Fox News personality.