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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Typically, when someone presents a demonstration of “Doom running on X,” it’s a way to demonstrate how powerful low-end computing has become. The reason we use Doom for this purpose, I suspect, is because Doom is more-or-less the father of

By Stephany Nunneley, Thursday, 15 October 2020 18:02 GMT Style is everything in Cyberpunk 2077. You don’t want to run around in Night City looking basic, and Cyberpunk 2077 provides options to sport your own brand of style. In the game there are four styles to choose from: Kitsch, Entropism, Neomilitarism, and Neokitsch. Each style has

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Today’s most popular games are fast-paced shooters like Fortnite and immersive RPGs like Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, but there’s still a place for some good old-fashioned turn-based strategy with Civilization VI. This game remains in active development after four

By Stephany Nunneley, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 17:47 GMT The PC specs for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla have been provided by Ubisoft. The November 10 release date for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla will be here soon,  and if you want to play it on PC, you might want to look over the six different configurations suggested by Ubisoft.

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The idea of using a fridge as some kind of combined viewing/food storage apparatus isn’t a new one. The first display-equipped fridge was the LG Digital DIOS, which shipped in June 2000. Twenty years later, we can do a hell

By Stephany Nunneley, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 17:31 GMT Another short trailer for Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity has been released. In this new Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity video, you are introduced to Master Kohga who is leading the Yiga Clan against Hyrulean forces. There is also an ominous figure which seems to be

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Amazon has been an integral part of the gaming universe ever since it acquired Twitch in 2014. That’s also when Amazon Game Studios started working with Relentless Studios on a multiplayer shooter called Crucible. The game launched earlier this year,

By Matt Martin, Monday, 12 October 2020 16:47 GMT Hello. Let’s rip the sticking plaster off; I’ve left VG247. I am no longer editor in chief. I’m off to do other things within ReedPop (the company that owns this site). I’m not very sentimental so I’ll keep it brief. I started as editor on VG247

By Dom Peppiatt, Sunday, 11 October 2020 15:07 GMT Sea of Thieves developer Rare has recorded a pirate-themed cover of ‘Jump’ by Van Halen as a tribute to Eddie Van Halen. A selection of developers that work on Sea of Thieves at UK studio Rare have released a cover of the iconic Van Halen track

By Stephany Nunneley, Saturday, 10 October 2020 14:24 GMT Amazon has announced it has canceled the development of its free-to-play PvPvE shooter Crucible. Crucible has been canceled by Amazon and it will go offline on November 9. According to an official statement, the team behind the game will be transitioned to working on the company’s New

Welcome to what’s going to be a decidedly different Call of Duty experience than the one millions of us have been playing for a year. The Black Ops Cold War beta is here, and it’s where most players will form their first impressions with this year’s game. Some things operate on feel, and others, well,

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. MSI has acknowledged that one of its subsidiaries, Starlit Partners, was able to access stockpiles of RTX 3080 GPUs that the reseller should not have had access to, and that at least a few of these cards ended up being

Witchfire is back in the spotlight thanks to a new development update. As we’ve come to expect from Witchfire developer The Astronauts, the team has returned with a new update on development progress. The latest dev blog, posted this week, is special because it chronicles a major step towards release. The team at The Astronauts

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. When Microsoft unveiled the Xbox Series X, it was obvious that the console was going to have some serious heat to dissipate. Its components — an eight-core Ryzen CPU, powerful SSD, and 52-CU RDNA2 GPU running at over 1.8GHz —

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. When AMD launched Ryzen back in April 2017, the company made it a point to emphasize higher core counts than Intel was selling in the consumer market, with a Ryzen 7 1800X offering up to eight CPU cores, compared with

NetherRealm is teasing some Mortal Kombat 11 announcement. Update: As expected, NetherRealm has indeed confirmed that Mortal Kombat 11 news is coming this Thursday – at 6am PT, 9am ET, 2pm UK, to be exact. Warner Bros.’ official Twitter accounts posted this short teaser with the caption, “They are koming,” showing Baraka – or possibly

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. For all the strengths of Ampere as a GPU, it’s going to be difficult to get your hands on this holiday season. That’s according to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who claims his company has been hit by a double whammy.

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Jokes about the size of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare have been running for some months. Last year before launch, the company requested that end-users reserve up to 175GB of SSD space for the game, but promised that the final

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Sony and Microsoft are gearing up for a big holiday season. We’ll all still be stuck at home with time to kill thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, and that makes a shiny new gaming console even more appealing than usual.

By Sherif Saed, Tuesday, 6 October 2020 11:03 GMT Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered is looking like a big upgrade on consoles, but PC players may not spot many differences. Following a leak, EA officially revealed Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered on Monday. The remaster is coming to PC, PS4, Xbox One and

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. When Nvidia announced Ampere, most of the attention was focused on the RTX 3090 and RTX 3080. It’s the RTX 3070, however, that I suspect will be the most enduring and impactful card in the family. Last generation, Nvidia raised

By Sherif Saed, Monday, 5 October 2020 11:49 GMT Comcast Xfinity customers in the US could get early access to the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War beta. The limited, first session of the Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War beta kicks off this Thursday. This initial phase is available only to

By Dom Peppiatt, Sunday, 4 October 2020 11:34 GMT A new leak suggests that the 825GB PS5 will give players 664GB of useable storage space on the system’s SSD. A new image that has surfaced over on gaming forum ResetEra seems to show off the PlayStation 5 UI, along with some data about just how

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Nvidia’s RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 sales were the worst examples yet of how badly online bots are damaging product launches, and the company wants to prevent a similar event from happening when it launches the RTX 3070. To that

By Stephany Nunneley, Friday, 2 October 2020 20:35 GMT Wired Productions and developer Tomas Sala have released a new trailer detailing factions in open-world air combat game The Falconeer. In The Falconeer, you will choose between competing factions, all of which are at the mercy of the Great Ursee, a near-infinite body of water. In the

By Dom Peppiatt, Friday, 2 October 2020 10:05 GMT Fall Guys Season 2 will be introducing more ways for players to customize their profiles, developer Mediatonic has revealed. There are a couple of new features coming to the popular violence-free battle royale in its next Season, and Mediatonic has started giving us an insight into

By Dom Peppiatt, Thursday, 1 October 2020 10:47 GMT Google’s latest $50 Chromecast with Google TV dongle is launching without access to the company’s game-streaming service, Stadia. The new dongle, which was revealed at the Google Late Night In event last night, won’t have Stadia functionality at launch, with Google estimating Stadia becoming available on

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. One of the frustrating things about trying to sort out the RTX instability issues from last week’s launch has been the relative paucity of comments from vendors. Now, however, they’ve collectively broken their silence — and they’re all saying pretty

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. We’ve covered the reports of instability across the RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 product families, even cards from different manufacturers. An early theory, coined by Igor of Igor’s Lab, is that the issue could be caused by sub-par power circuitry,

A new book by ExtremeTech editor-in-chief Jamie Lendino shows how for the first 25 years of the video game industry, arcade coin-ops set the standards all console and computer games aspired to–and that in some ways have yet to be matched. Arcade fans remember the Golden Age of the late 1970s and early 1980s, but