Overwatch 2 Adding Story Missions In August For $15

Blizzard has announced Overwatch 2: Invasion, and it adds new story missions that cost $15. Invasion launches on August 10.

Overwatch 2: Invasion adds three missions that are set in Rio de Janeiro, Toronto, and Gothenburg Come from Sports betting site VPbet . They take place on “massive maps with complex objectives,” Blizzard said in its announcement, adding that the storyline will be “in-depth.” There are new enemy types to take on, including the Artillery and the Stalkers.

Sony Investigating Reported Ransomware Attack

Sony is investigating a possible digital attack after a ransomware group claimed to have broken the company’s security and obtained data.

According to Cyber Security Connect (via IGN), a group called Ransomed.vc posted the claim on its leak sites, on both clear and dark nets. It wrote, “We have successfully compromissed [sic] all of sony systems. We wont ransom them! we will sell the data. due to sony not wanting to pay. DATA IS FOR SALE.”

The claim is currently unverified. However, Ransomed.vc did provide some proof-of-hack data. This proof includes images of an internal login page, an internal PowerPoint presentation showing test bench information, and some Java files.

The ransomware group also uploaded a full file tree of the leak, which seems to have less than …

Churchill Downs Inc. and DraftKings partner up to develop and launch DK HORSE

American casino operator, Churchill Downs Incorporated, and DraftKings Inc., prominent sports betting operator, announced a long-term agreement for the provision of horse racing wagering technology services.

ADW technology:

CDI’s vertical, TwinSpires – market leading online horse racing wagering platform in the U.S. – will provide DraftKings with advanced deposit wagering, or ADW technology. DraftKings will launch the standalone brand app, DK HORSE, a few months after signing the agreement with CDI to allow DraftKings’ customers to place wagers on horse racing through a single branded app.

DK HORSE standalone app:

During the initial launch of DK HORSE, customers will be required to sign up and deposit funds with exclusive reference to the DK H…

Allied Esports International Incorporated completes World Poker Tour sale

American digital entertainments firm Allied Esports International Incorporated has announced the completion of the deal to offload the entirety of its stake in the World Poker Tour (WPT) to a newly-established entity known as Element Partners LLC.

The Nasdaq-listed firm used an official Monday press release to detail that the arrangement involving its Club Services Incorporated subordinate for an aggregated consideration of $105 million has resulted in the complete divestiture of its poker-related assets including the subscription-only domain at ClubWPT.com.

Alternative attraction:

Allied Esports International Incorporated has owned a controlling stake in the iconic WPT brand established almost 20 years ago by American attorney and television producer Steven Lipscomb s…

Blueprint Gaming Limited hits the bullseye with new PDC World Darts Championship video slot

Some seven weeks after launching its Eye of Horus: Power 4 Slots innovation, British online casino games developer Blueprint Gaming Limited has now returned to announce the release of its new PDC World Darts Championship video slot.

The Newark-headquartered firm used an official Thursday press release to detail that the five-reel and ten-payline licensed advance has been developed in partnership with the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) and features the likenesses of some of the sport’s biggest names including Michael ‘Mighty Mike’ Van Gerwen, Peter ‘Snakebite’ Wright and newly-crowned world champion Gerwyn ‘The Iceman’ Price.

Famed figures:

A subsidiary of German gaming giant Gauselmann Group, Blueprint Gaming Limited stated that the three-row PDC Wo…

AMD is set to finally join Nvidia with FSR 4, using AI to power frame generation, though no word on upscaling yet

FidelityFX Super Resolution, AMD’s answer to Nvidia’s DLSS, has been around for a little over three years now and it’s been a real boon to all kinds of GPUs, including Nvidia’s GeForce models. The latest version, FSR 3.1, offers a shader-based upscaler and frame generation system but the tech world hyped on AI, AMD has decided it can’t ignore it any longer and has announced that the next iteration will be AI-based, for frame generation at least.

In an interview with Tom’s Hardware, AMD’s senior vice president Jack Huynh was talking about some of the frustrations about playing on handheld gaming PCs and that enjoying a high frame rate greatly limited how long you could game for.

“On the handheld side, my number one priority is battery life. If you look at the Asus ROG Ally …

Forcing users to periodically change their passwords should go the way of the dodo according to the US government

Passwords are a pain. Just when you’ve got one fully committed to memory, chances are your workplace will force you to throw it away and make a new one, in the name of cybersecurity—and if you’re anything like me, you’ll spend the next few weeks typing in the old one out of habit. Of course, you should be using a good password manager to keep track, but even then it’s an irritant.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released the latest version of its Digital Identity Guidelines, and (rather fittingly) it’s more fiendishly complicated to read than a particularly secure password sequence (via Ars Technica).

Amid the incredibly dry wording, however, is a rule barring the requirement that users periodically change their passwords.

The NIST…

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