MW2 Disk only 72MB? RTX 4090's are melting! - NPCs Weekly News Roundup - October 29th

MW2 Disk only 72MB? RTX 4090's are melting! - NPCs Weekly News Roundup - October 29th

Author: The NPCs November 1, 2022 Duration: 47:11

#ModernWarfare2 #Overwatch2 #RTX4090

In this week's news roundup: 

  • Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 disks only contain 72MB of data(?!) and still require you to download the entire game! 
  • If you're an Xbox or PC player you can't disable cross-play in Modern Warfare 2... but PlayStation players can! 
  • Phil Spencer confirms prices on some Xbox services (maybe even hardware) will have to go up but not until after the holidays.
  • Nvidia's RTX 4090 GPUs are suffering at the hands of their own wiring and are partially melting at the 12VHPWR connector.
  • A superfan has archived every US PlayStation 2 game manual ever! 
  • In Quest Markers, Blizzard is found to be selling an Overwatch 2 charm cheaper in real life than in-game, and a legendary developer from Sega has passed away unexpectedly. 

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