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Coming in at just 1.7lbs, the monitor is slim and compact, allowing you plenty of space for all your other devices.

Staying connected is easier than ever with the ARZOPA, with three connectors; two USB-C and one mini HDMI ensuring a seamless experience for all your devices. The monitor is compatible with any laptop, or with PC, Switch, Phone, Xbox, and more.

The adjustable protective case means your monitor is safe and sturdy, and the USB-C and mini HDMI included mean you’re all set to dive right in.

The ARZOPA portable monitor is on sale until the 10th of October, so make sure you grab it while you can.

Intel’s Arrow Lake desktop CPUs are almost with us, going by rumors, and the prevalence of leaks backs up this notion – with a few fresh pieces of spillage joining the recent flood, one of which will cause some concern.

Much of this comes in the form of leaked presentation slides purportedly from Intel (from press briefings that are supposedly underway), and it’s the gaming-related material that’ll doubtless cause a stir. As always with all this, let’s be cautious – as with any leak (though this one appears genuine enough).

pic.twitter.com/9DuJZ6IjGlOctober 8, 2024

This first slide, shared on X by leaker @wxnod, shows that the flagship for Arrow Lake, the Core Ultra 9 285K, is actually going to be slightly slower than the current  Core i9-14900K flagship when it comes to running PC games.

The difference is marginal – an average of 264 frames per second (fps) for the 14900K versus 261 fps for the 285K, which is nothing you’d ever notice – but the point is that you’d expect a marked uplift (or at least some increase) with a new generation of silicon from Intel.

There is an upside here, though, namely that the Core Ultra 9 285K delivers that same performance using a good deal less power – 447W versus 527W for the Raptor Lake Refresh flagship, so that’s about 15% more power-efficient (this is the total power usage for the PC, we should note – so the figure for just the chips will show a bigger generational leap than this, too).

In another slide, Intel further demonstrates that the Core Ultra 9 285K chugs a good deal less power than the Raptor Lake Refresh flagship, with consumption dropping by up to 165W compared to the 14900K, with gaming frame rates roughly even (there’s some give and take, and the Arrow Lake CPU is faster in some games, slower in others).

More gaming comparisons are provided with the Core Ultra 9 285K stacked up against the Ryzen 7950X3D, the current top-end of 3D V-Cache processors from AMD. This is a roughly even battle, but the 7950X3D wins out slightly, although the Arrow Lake flagship certainly comes out on top with the productivity benchmarks.

Elsewhere, @wxnod posts a comparison with the Ryzen 9950X, AMD’s current flagship CPU, which again is a fairly even match with the Arrow Lake flagship across a bunch of games (though the 9950X again edges the victory overall – bear in mind, too, that these are benchmarks Intel has picked out).

ARL-S IPC (vs 13/14th)P Core +9%E Core +32% pic.twitter.com/B0EjnIEWBUOctober 8, 2024

A further post on X, from another regular leaker, HXL, shows a slide for Arrow Lake’s overall IPC gain (Instructions per Clock – in other words, the measure of the performance boost imparted by the change in chip architecture with the next-gen CPUs).

This slide shows that Arrow Lake’s performance cores are 9% faster than Intel’s current processors for IPC, and the efficiency cores get a huge 32% leap.

Yet another slide from @wxnod shares a comparison of productivity benchmarks, alongside 3DMark, and in the latter the Core Ultra 9 285K is 11% faster than the 14900K. It’s also around 5% to 8% quicker than the current flagship in those productivity scores (including Cinebench and Geekbench), with AMD’s 9950X roughly trading blows with the 285K (though the Ryzen CPU is a fair bit slower in 3DMark).

Finally, we’ve also been treated to a Passmark benchmark on X – possibly from an engineering sample of the 285K – that shows the Arrow Lake flagship is 11% faster than the Core i9-14900K for single-core performance (assuming it’s genuine).

(Image credit: ShutterStock) Analysis: A tricky time ahead for Intel?

There’s a lot to digest here, but the real-world gaming benchmarks are a worry – and are already causing controversy across various online forums as you might imagine. For Intel to fail to achieve any performance gain in gaming – and indeed a slight slip compared to the 14900K overall – is a pretty shabby showing.

We’ve got to again state that we can’t jump to any conclusions until we know these slides are genuine, but it’s not a good look for Intel if they are. Particularly as the Core Ultra 9 285K is appreciably slower in a few games in the various battles shown versus the 14900K, and also high-end AMD processors. (Note, too, that some of the benchmarks use Intel’s APO to boost them up, six out of 14 of them in one comparison – and this isn’t a very widely supported tech yet).

So, what’s going on here? Part of why we’re seeing some of these more disappointing results could be wrapped up in the relatively modest IPC gain for Arrow Lake’s performance cores (9%), coupled with slower clock speeds here versus 14th-gen chips (the lack of hyper-threading for Arrow Lake is also a drag factor, but not really for gaming, though).

Given these factors, some of these results are perhaps not surprising – and the trade-off is that Arrow Lake is a good deal more power-efficient than Intel’s current CPUs. But then Intel really had to do better on that front, as the company was heading into a dead-end with the jack-up-the-power path taken by Raptor Lake and its refresh (the latter failed to impress with its gains, too, by and large).

The other positives for Arrow Lake are that productivity gains certainly look robust, and the efficiency cores are definitely being brought more into play (which will help with those games that leverage APO, too). And with Intel taking big strides with efficiency in Lunar Lake – these are some excellent new laptop chips – there’s clear evidence of Team Blue’s new focus on driving lower power consumption across its CPUs.

The downsides for gamers could be a bitter pill to swallow, though – although we’ll have to wait until we perform our own testing before we get carried away here. It’s difficult to see how Arrow Lake is going to fare well against AMD in the realm of PC gaming, though, when the Ryzen 9800X3D could be imminent, bringing a major uplift to the table for Team Red (and offering better all-round general performance away from games, too, if the most recent rumor is right).

This could be a very tricky time for Intel. We’ve yet to see Arrow Lake pricing, of course – the final part of the equation – but Team Blue may have to think of pitching price tags more competitively than it usually might, even given the lackluster reception for new Ryzen 9000 CPUs. Especially when we take into account the cloud currently cast over Intel silicon due to the instability debacle with 14th-gen and 13th-gen processors. (Arrow Lake isn’t affected by those voltage woes, mind, but this whole painful affair is still going to stick very much in the minds of the component buying public, we’re betting).

Via VideoCardz [1, 2], TweakTown

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Uber chose the Science Museum in London to launch the 2024 installment of its annual climate event, Go-Get Zero, which has highlighted the firm’s commitment to electrifying its fleet – including some new ways to tempt you into riding its EVs. 

Alongside affirmation of its autonomous ride-hailing projects, which include Waymo and its recent tie-in with Hyundai, Uber’s CEO Dara Khosrowshahi explained that despite the global slowing of EV adoption, the company’s drivers were adopting electric vehicles five-times faster than the average motorist.

Four years ago, when Uber first set its lofty climate targets and introduced Uber Green, there were just 10,000 EV drivers on the platform. There are now 182,000 globally and there have been more than half a billion zero emissions trips in Europe alone.

However, the company says there is still much work today and sees itself as a key player in mass EV adoption in general, citing that many EV owners had their first interaction with an electric vehicle via an Uber ride.

Uber Green, which is the platform’s section reserved exclusive for drivers of electric and hybrid vehicles, will become electric-only from today in more than 40 markets around the world, including France, Australia and the major cities in the USA.

To entice Uber users to "go green", the company has made a number of changes to its app that both encourage and incentivize both riders and drivers to choose the electric option.

(Image credit: Uber )

1. EV Preference

Uber wants to take the decision-making process out of either plumping for the closer but more emissions-heavy UberX and the slightly further away Uber Green ride – seeing as the two now cost largely the same.

You'll be able to toggle an EV Preference setting that will automatically match with an EV anytime one is nearby.

If the difference between Green and UberX is only a couple of minutes, the app will automatically opt for the EV alternative. However, if the software deems the wait is too long, it will select the closest UberX instead.

2. You could ride in a Lotus or a Rivian

Part-publicity stunt and part-brand tie-in, Uber has announced its EV Pop-ups program, which will see a number of 'premium EVs' scattered across key cities, available at certain times for users to select and costing a similar amount to Uber Black SUV trips.

In London, Uber has partnered with Lotus and app users will be able to select a new Lotus Eletre as their premium EV ride. In LA, Miami and Dallas, that sleek EV of choice will be Rivian’s R1 electric SUV. But it's only available between October 14 and 21, so get in fast.

There is no word on the number of models riding around each city at any given moment, nor is there a figure on the likelihood of snaring one. But that’s all part of the fun, isn't it?

3. Real-time CO2 savings

The Uber app will undergo a number of small design changes that could make selecting the Uber Green option a little bit more exciting. The timeline as you wait for a car to arrive will look like a pice of ivy, complete with bursting shoots, for example, while there are a number of new animations that celebrate the fact a user has chosen the green option.

But more importantly, users will soon be able to see how much CO2 they have saved during and after a journey is complete. This figure adds up over time and will display on the home screen, while CO2 savings made by using Uber's many eBikes, scooters and even ride-sharing programs will all count.

During the GO-GET Zero event, Sachin Kansal, product manager and bonafide Uber driver, announced that the rider in London who clocks up the highest emissions saving from now until the end of November will get free Uber rides for ten years.

4. There will be many more Uber Green cars available

Alongside rewarding Uber riders, the company says it's making it a lot easier for its drivers to make the switch to EV. It has developed an AI assistant within the driver’s area of its app that will answer myriad questions surrounding EV ownership.

If speaking to a robot isn’t good enough, the company will also pair hesitant buyers up with one of its many 'EV Mentors' – or those Uber drivers that have been driving electric for years.

Naturally, there will also be plenty of subsidies and incentives, such as big discounts on the purchase of new EVs, a huge reduction in the cost of using the public charging network, help with installing chargers at home – including 1,000 free home chargers for UK drivers thanks a tie-in with Octopus energy.

5. BYD will be the Uber car of choice in the UK and Europe

The company stated that it is partnering with BYD to help it speed up the number of 'more affordable' electric vehicles it can offers its drivers, and therefore speed up the rate at which Uber Green expands over time.

That said, the company didn’t go into detail about partnership opportunities in the USA, as presumably BYD would be very much off the cards there, seeing as the US government has imposed huge import taxes on Chinese-made EVs and will potentially impose an outright ban on a anything sporting Chinese technology.

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American Water Works Company, the largest public water and wastewater utility company in the United States, has confirmed suffering a cyberattack which forced it to shut down parts of its infrastructure.

In an 8-K form filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the company said it detected, “unauthorized activity within its computer networks and systems” on October 3 2024.

It determined this activity was a “cybersecurity incident” which triggered its incident response protocols, resulting in the company bringing in third-party cybersecurity experts to investigate, notifying the appropriate law enforcement, and shutting some systems down to contain the damage.

Ransomware or no ransomware

“The Company has taken and will continue to take steps to protect its systems and data, including disconnecting or deactivating certain of its systems,” American Water Works said in the 8-K form, without specifying what was disconnected, or how long it plans to keep the systems offline.

The company noted none of its water or wastewater facilities or operations were negatively impacted by the incident, and that it doesn’t expect the attack to have a material impact, although this may change as the investigation is still ongoing.

Usually, when a company shuts down parts of its network, it’s due to a ransomware attack. However, American Water did not confirm it just yet: “In an effort to protect our customers’ data and to prevent any further harm to our environment, we disconnected or deactivated certain systems,” Ruben Rodriguez, a spokesperson for American Water, said in a statement.

“There will be no late charges for customers while these systems are unavailable,” Rodriguez concluded, without specifying the nature of the attack, adding, “our dedicated team of professionals are working around the clock to investigate the nature and scope of the incident."

American Water provides regulated and market-based drinking water, wastewater services, and related services to residential, commercial, and industrial customers. Its services are essential for millions of Americans, playing a vital role in public health and safety.

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Developer Bethesda Game Studios has teamed up with Laced Records to bring the Starfield soundtrack to vinyl. Pre-orders are upcoming now for both a 6LP box set and a double LP.

Both releases are available in standard and limited editions. The limited edition version of the 6LP box set is exclusive to the Laced Records website. It features 66 specially mastered tracks on six silver and white galaxy-effect heavyweight discs. The set features special box artwork by Bethesda Game Studios and comes packaged with an art print and logo sticker.

The standard edition is the same, though uses traditional black discs and will be available via third-party retailers. The 6-disc box set will cost $130 / £110.

The limited edition double LP will feature 20 core tracks on blue and white discs. It will also be exclusive to the Laced Records website, with a standard version containing traditional black discs available at other retailers. This will cost $38 / £36, potentially making it a good option for those who want a physical way to enjoy some of the Starfield soundtrack without committing to the pricier box set.

Both the 6-disc box set and double LP are expected to ship in March 2025. You can browse the full track list for both releases below.

6LP box set

Disc 1 (Side A)

• Into the Starfield (Main Theme)
• Planetrise
• First Flight
• New Atlantis
• The Sol System
• Go Steady, Go Safe

Disc 1 (Side B)

• Peaks and Valleys
• Triumvirate
• Field of Vision
• Starlight Far from Home
• Exploration I - Home Planets

Disc 2 (Side A)

• The Mountain Builders
• The Red Land
• Ancient Forces
• Constellations
• Navigator Corps

Disc 2 (Side B)

• The Last Explorers
• Within the Walls
• Long Shadows
• A Home Among the Stars
• Exploration II - The Hills and the Mountains

Disc 3 (Side A)

• Death and Crimson
• The Rock
• The New Old Frontier
• The Safety of the Citizens
• Freestar
• Moonbase

Disc 3 (Side B)

• The World Machine
• Deep Time
• Akila City
• Field Agent
• Hardness Scales
• Exploration III - Explorers Club

Disc 4 (Side A)

• Stars and Sacrifice
• Heliosphere
• Core Sample
• Chamber
• Tenacity of Life

Disc 4 (Side B)

• Cydonia
• Wrecked Tech
• In Silent Orbit
• Tectonics
• Snowball
• Exploration IV - Vulcanism

Disc 5 (Side A)

• Weapons to Bear
• Supra et Ultra
• Abandoned
• Decay Heat
• Roughneck High-Tech
• Exploration V - Evergreen

Disc 5 (Side B)

• Sublevels
• The Eye
• Under a Distant Sun
• Echo Marker
• Exploration VI - Strange Sands

Disc 6 (Side A)

• Side A
• Understory
• Badlanders
• Canopy
• Neon
• Exploration VII - The Ice Lands

Disc 6 (Side B)

• Aurora
• Deep Freeze
• You Make Your Cut, You Get Your Cut
• Exploration VIII - The Far Reaches
• Nobody's Home
• A Home in the Galaxy

Double LP

Disc 1 (Side A)

• Into the Starfield (Main Theme)
• First Flight
• The Sol System
• New Atlantis
• The World Machine

Disc 1 (Side B)

• Death and Crimson
• Ancient Forces
• Constellations
• The New Old Frontier
• Starlight Far from Home

Disc 2 (Side A)

• The Last Explorers
• Field of Vision
• Cydonia
• Badlanders
• Aurora

Disc 2 (Side B)

• Decay Heat
• Under a Distant Sun
• Tenacity of Life
• Deep Freeze
• A Home in the Galaxy

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It used to be fairly easy to spot AI images - everybody had six fingers and an extra limb or two, but as AI evolves it’s getting harder and harder to spot the difference between real art and AI. Worse still, AI is being trained on artists' work without their permission and without them being compensated.

Creatives aren’t necessarily opposed to AI – many can see the benefits of using AI tools, especially when it comes to automating mundane tasks – but there are real concerns that AI is stealing people’s artwork, learning from it, then regurgitating knock-off copies in an artist’s style. In an effort to protect artists' work, Adobe is launching a new, free, web app designed to protect artists online.

We talked to Andy Parsons, Senior Director and Head of the Adobe Content Authenticity Initiative about its new Content Credentials scheme. “Transparency is the most important foundational concept to provide an objective shared sense of what’s fact, what’s real, who gets credit for things,” said Parsons. “We’ve been working on developing an open source code, open standards that will be ratified by the International Standard Organization. Fingers crossed, that will happen this year or next year.”

Adobe’s answer is to attach Content Credentials to images so that you can see at a glance how they were created and by whom. The way Adobe wants you to think about Content Credentials is like a nutrition label on your groceries, showing you where the food came from. “We think the same is true and very necessary for digital content where we want the judgment about where something came from, whether to trust it or not, whether it is a photograph or not a photograph, to be really in the hands of the consumer”, explained Parsons.

Content Credentials being applied to images in a batch. (Image credit: Adobe) The new CR icon

To show an image has Content Credentials a little CR icon appears over the image and can be clicked on. At the moment the CR icon requires a Google Chrome extension to be visible, but once clicked on you get a whole range of information about the providence of the image. Adobe has high hopes for the widespread adoption of the technology. “We think this could become as ubiquitous as a copyright symbol”, explains Parsons.

When it comes to protecting artists’ work online from being crawled by AI bots and used to train AI models, Adobe thinks its solution can come to the rescue there as well. You can indicate in Content Credentials if you don’t want your artwork to be used in training AI models. Obviously that’s going to depend on how scrupulous the AI companies are and if they respect the wishes of the content creators, but Adobe has got many of the big names to sign up to its plan.

“We are working hard to get this adopted by the biggest names in AI. We’re not necessarily seeing any resistance, but there is a sense that some will wait for legislation. Others will go ahead and say ‘Yeah, you know this is a reasonable thing that creators want and we’d like to provide it’. So, I think we’ll see broad adoption and it will take us some time but we are working with [...] specific folks like Spawning, the world's largest opt-out registry. Whenever spawning encounters this setting, when people opt-out, it will add that to its registry. So we’re excited about that. We know some social media sites don’t show content credentials in a visible way yet so we’re bridging that gap with our extension for Chrome.”

The Adobe-led Content Authenticity Initiative has 3,700 members including Microsoft, Amazon, Google, NVIDIA, OpenAI, and more who are putting Content Credentials to work in their products. Notably the list includes about 90% of the cameras market, including Sony, Leica, and Fuji, with several cameras coming to market this year that have Content Credentials built into the device. Social media apps like Facebook, Instagram, Threads, TikTok, LinkedIn, and YouTube will also be embracing its Content Credentials.

The Chrome extension for viewing Content Credentials. (Image credit: Adobe) Coming in beta

Adobe’s solution is open source and works independently of its Creative Suite applications, so it can be applied to any image, for free. From today you’ll be able to sign up to be notified when the beta is available. We expect it to go live between December and February. Access to a free beta version of the Content Authority extension for Google Chrome is available today.

With Content Authenticity you can apply Content Credentials in batch to your images, audio, and video, and once it’s been added, it can’t be removed. Parsons describes it as “durable”. We did wonder if there would be an arms race between people like Adobe working to add Content Credentials and hackers trying to remove them, “This is always a concern, but this is a very strong countermeasure against copyright theft and the ability to be recognized through your work”, he replied.

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As much as we like the AirPods 4, Apple isn't interested in making earbuds for Android users: while they'll work with Android phones, most of their best features are specific to iPhone users. So we're intrigued by the new and very AirPods-esque Air5 Wireless Earbuds from Soundpeats. They look like AirPods 4, they have similar features to AirPods 4 and their smart features work on Android, like AirPods 4 don't. They're also considerably more affordable, coming in at half the price of Apple's earbuds.

The Air5 are one of two new earbud launches from Soundpeats; there's also an even more affordable set of ear-hook buds called the Breezy.

This isn't the first time the brand has made an interesting Android alternative to Apple's earbuds: the Soundpeats Air4 Pro are a very affordable AirPods Pro rival, and while they don't quite deliver the same audio experience as Apple, they're still pretty decent for such a low-priced pair.

Soundpeats Air5 earbuds and Breezy open-ear buds: key features and pricing

Let's start with the Air5. They have Bluetooth 5.4 with multi-point connectivity, Snapdragon Sound and Hi-Res Audio support. The drivers are large for earbuds of this class – each bud contains a 13mm dynamic driver – and there are three noise canceling modes, including adaptive noise cancelling that adapts to changes in your audio environment such as moving from indoors to busy streets. There are three mics with AI noise reduction and an AI wind-noise reducer, too. Battery life is claimed to be 6 hours from the buds alone and 30 hours via the charging case, which is fairly typical for cheaper options among the best noise cancelling earbuds.

The Breezy open-ears have 12mm dual-magnet dynamic drivers, the same Bluetooth 5.4 as their siblings, and 10 hours of play time with 40 hours from the case, plus a dynamic EQ algorithm to deliver more powerful bass.

Both earbuds are designed to be customizable via the firm's PeatsAudio app, which in the case of the Air5 earbuds enables you to customize the touch controls, adjust the EQ, manage noise cancelling levels and get your audio just-so. The Air5 are available in black, white, beige or purple, while the Breezy buds are black.

Both sets of buds are priced keenly to battle with the best budget earbuds. The Soundpeats Air5 are $89.99 and the Breezy are $39.99; from October 8 – which is when Prime Day starts – through October 20, both sets of buds are heavily discounted, with the price down to just $53.99 for the Air5 and $27.99 for the Breezy. 

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Content credentials should make it easier to understand where an image came from. They'll also help artists protect their work from AI.

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Geoffrey Hinton, the oft-recognized 'Godfather of AI' and now-vocal alarm ringer for an AI-infused future, just won a Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in – wait for it – training artificial neural networks using physics.

That's right, the brilliant Turing Prize-winning scientist most afraid of how artificial intelligence might harm humanity has won the world's biggest science award for his foundational work in AI.

As The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (the group that awards the Nobel Prize) describes it, "Geoffrey Hinton invented a method that can autonomously find properties in data, and so perform tasks such as identifying specific elements in pictures." Hinton shares his Nobel with John J. Hopfield of Princeton University. Hinton's work built upon Hopfield's breakthrough work where he created a network system that could save and recreate patterns.

Combined, their work led to future breakthroughs in Machine Learning (systems that can learn and improve data without programming) and the concept of artificial neural networks, which is often at the core of modern AI.

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Hinton, who is currently teaching Computer Science at the University of Toronto, has a storied AI history that started with those early breakthroughs and led him to Google's DeepMind where he and his team helped lay the groundwork for today's chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google Gemini. However, when Hinton left in 2023, he sounded the alarm, worrying that Google was no longer, as he told The New York Times, "a proper steward" for AI.

The warnings ranged from companies going too fast and acting recklessly to AI being responsible for a flood of fake content, gutting the job market, and outthinking us. A year later, it seems like some of those fears are coming true; companies are increasingly employing AI to handle basic writing tasks, our feeds are now flooded with AI-generated content that sometimes includes AI watermarks, but not consistently, and we are racing toward the unknown of General Artificial Intelligence, which may mean computers that can think as well or better than we do.

I emailed Hinton for comment on his win and how that affects his thinking about the current state of AI and will update this article when I hear back.

Still, it makes sense to honor Hinton for his pioneering work. AI as we know it would probably not exist without Hinton and Hopfield. Applying physics to the problem of pattern recognition was a novel solution that, in some ways, helped computers operate more like the human brain. The concept of neural networks, arguably AI's most powerful tool, would not exist without Hinton.

Surely, Hinton's other accomplishment is waking us up to the notion that AI is a double-edged sword. It's a vastly powerful tool that is already changing our lives and it's one that desperately needs guardrails to protect humanity from AI run amuck. Hinton may not have understood what he unleashed when he first developed these concepts in the 1970s but he's now an honored beacon of light and reason in a confusing and fast-moving world of AI.

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Assassin's Creed Mirage will be the first Assassin's Creed game to arrive on Steam marking a return to the platform for the series.

In September, Ubisoft delayed Assassin's Creed Shadows from its original November 12 release date to February 14, 2025, announcing that it needs extra time to polish the game before it's ready for launch.

In addition to the delay, the company confirmed that, unlike more recent Assassin's Creed games, Shadows will also launch day one on Steam alongside PS5, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, and Amazon Luna.

However, it won't be the first title in the franchise to make a return to Steam.

According to a brand new Steam store page for Assassin's Creed Mirage, fans will be able to purchase the game on the platform in "October 2024", so it looks like an official release date announcement from Ubisoft itself could arrive soon.

"Experience the story of Basim, a cunning street thief seeking answers and justice as he navigates the bustling streets of ninth-century Baghdad," the description reads. "Through a mysterious, ancient organization known as the Hidden Ones, he will become a deadly Master Assassin and change his fate in ways he never could have imagined."

Although there's no release just yet, you can wishlist the game on Steam.

Assassin's Creed Mirage first launched in October 2023 for PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC via Epic Games and the Ubisoft Connect.

Ubisoft stopped releasing its PC games on Steam in 2019 after releasing its own launcher but hasn't given a reason for the decision, however, it could come down to a need to increase overall sales after Star Wars Outlaws performed badly for the company.

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