Gaming

By Stephany Nunneley, Wednesday, 12 August 2020 20:37 GMT Marvel’s Avengers is coming to PC, and you will want to know if your system will run it. The minimum and recommended specs for Marvel’s Avengers have been announced ahead of the game’s PC beta. The PC version of the game offers an optional 30GB high-resolution

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Mixed news today out of Microsoft. First, the company has confirmed that the Xbox Series X is formally launching in November, with support for thousands of games. The reason Microsoft can make this kind of claim is due to backward-compatibility

By Stephany Nunneley, Tuesday, 11 August 2020 20:59 GMT Microsoft has confirmed Xbox Series X will launch in November, but there still isn’t a date. This is the second time Microsoft has revealed a November launch for the console, as the company’s CFO Amy Hood confirmed Xbox Series X was still on track to launch during the month.

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. To date, all of Microsoft’s communications regarding upcoming consoles have focused on one product — the Xbox Series X. Normally, a “Series” contains more than one product, but Microsoft has continually communicated that the XSX is what there is. We

Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout has sold over 2 million copies in just one week – and 60 million jellybeans have fallen over in the process. The news comes from a tweet published by the official Devolver Digital Twitter account, which you can check out below. The incredible team @Mediatonic and the super chill @FallGuysGame community

Teachers in Poznań, Poland have discovered a way to safely teach classes during the pandemic by implementing lessons into Half-Life: Alyx. According to a recent report published Upload VR, Poland made online education mandatory on March 25. Just five days later, the first of six two-hour seminars taught via Half-Life: Alyx was made available to students

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Complaints about the Apple App Store are as old as the App Store itself, but that doesn’t make the latest development any more aggravating for gamers. Despite extensive beta testing, it looks like Microsoft will be unable to launch its

Tango Gameworks founder and CEO Shinji Mikami recently made an incredibly important announcement: You can pet the dog in Ghostwire: Tokyo. The news comes from the brand new Ghostwire: Tokyo PS5 trailer shown at QuakeCon earlier today. Check out the video below. [embedded content] “I’m Shinji Mikami from Tango Gameworks,” says Mikami at the beginning of the

A teaser for Call of Duty 2020 – or Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War – recently appeared to a player in the middle of a Warzone match. Footage of the teaser was shared online by a Twitter user who goes by the handle NutterButterAF. Check it out below – the Call of Duty

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. There have been a lot of questions raised about compatibility as Microsoft and Sony lay out their respective plans for the transition from the current console generation to the next-gen hardware currently prepping for release. Various software developers and publishers

By Cian Maher, Thursday, 6 August 2020 19:37 GMT A brand new hero has been announced for Apex Legends Season 6 – here’s everything you need to know about Rampart. Apex Legends Season 6 is due to kick off on August 18 and will introduce a brand new hero named Rampart. You can check out

Dungeons and Dragons could be doing away with the term “race” in character creation, and fans are suggesting plenty of better alternatives. Back in June, Dungeons and Dragons principal rules designer Jeremy Crawford responded to a query about a yet-to-be-announced Dungeons and Dragons product – however, the tweets recently resurfaced on ResetEra, where players are

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Sony is gearing up for its big PlayStation 5 launch later this year, and part of the plan is apparently to market some of its TVs a “Ready for PlayStation 5.” Just a few days after Sony made that proclamation,

By Cian Maher, Tuesday, 4 August 2020 16:36 GMT Skater XL has an achievement that can only be unlocked after travelling over 40,000 in-game kilometres, which would take you approximately 2,700 hours doing virtual ollies. Trophy hunters are not happy. If you’ve managed to nab every other achievement in Skater XL, and are becoming increasingly

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Good reliability data is both highly prized in computing and frustratingly difficult to come by. Occasionally, a third party firm like SquareTrade will publish its own figures but these reports are few and far between. It’s effectively impossible to track

Capcom recently published a press release featuring sales figures for Q1 of the current fiscal year, announcing that it has made record sales despite the relatively poor performance of Resident Evil 3. The press release is based on the first quarter of the fiscal year ending March 31, 2021, meaning that it pertains to the three

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Developer 343 Studios has confirmed that the upcoming Xbox Series X launch title, Halo Infinite, will support multiplayer for free and will support 120fps play. Halo is for everyone. We can confirm #HaloInfinite multiplayer will be free-to-play and will support

By Stephany Nunneley, Saturday, 1 August 2020 20:55 GMT Season Pass 4 will launch for Tekken 7 this fall, Bandai Namco has announced. With the Tekken 7 Season pass 4 you can also expect battle balance updates with new character moves. It also includes online play enhancements for a better “online experience” (thanks, Siliconera). Characters

By Stephany Nunneley, Friday, 31 July 2020 20:33 GMT Grounded is a hit with players. Grounded, the new survival adventure game from Obsidian Entertainment has seen over one million players since it entered early access. The game was made available through Xbox Game Preview with Xbox Game Pass and Steam Early Access this week on July 28.

EA is not shying away from being flexible with game prices. Those who follow games industry news likely already knew, from earlier reports, that Star Wars: Squadrons wouldn’t be a full price, $60 game. Motive’s project didn’t spend long in development, and it was a perfect candidate to bolster EA’s line-up in the fall. Enter

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Virtual reality hasn’t exploded in popularity as many expected it would when Oculus revived the dead medium, but it is still growing. Most VR games are designed from the ground up for VR, but a few mainstream titles that are

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Sony and Microsoft have made it very clear that the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X are focused on eliminating load times. To date, most of the discussion has focused on getting rid of long in-game transition scenes. Game developers

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Konami has been making games for decades, but now it’s making gaming PCs. Konami Amusement, a subsidiary of Konami Holdings, is now accepting orders for its new line of Arespear gaming PCs. The company expects to begin shipments for the

By Sherif Saed, Thursday, 30 July 2020 11:30 GMT An early form of achievements has arrived on the Epic Games Store. Epic is slowly bringing the Epic Games Store up to the standard set by competing platforms when it comes to features. Achievement support is next on the list, and the developer has implemented it

More details from another Resident Evil Village playtest have leaked. Resident Evil Village leaks continue as new information from a recent play test has come to light. The unverified details mention everything from enemy types, to weapons and NPCs. Someone who took part in the playtest, or at least is familiar with the demo, revealed

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Porting Doom to various devices has become an art over the years. From calculators to printers, the first level of “Knee Deep in the Dead” tends to show up in a lot of places. This is the first time, at

By Cian Maher, Monday, 27 July 2020 20:50 GMT If you’re an avid Persona fan who was hoping for Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers to release in The West, you’re in luck. The news comes from Persona Central, who spotted an interesting listing in Koei Tecmo’s financial reports for the first quarter of the

By Cian Maher, Sunday, 26 July 2020 20:22 GMT If you tuned in to the Xbox event earlier this week, you probably saw the new Crossfire X gameplay trailer – but did you know the song in said trailer was a sad cover of “X Gon’ Give it to Ya”? It’s not immediately noticeable. However,

By Stephany Nunneley, Saturday, 25 July 2020 20:41 GMT Niantic is working to make sure it gets Mega Evolutions and a new level cap in Pokemon Go right before implementation. Matt Slemon, project lead for Pokemon Go, said the team is working to Mega Evolutions right and is spending some time on it. “One thing

By Stephany Nunneley, Friday, 24 July 2020 20:33 GMT Contrary to rumors circulating, Halo Infinite multiplayer is not delayed. Rumors that Halo Infinite’s multiplayer would not launch with the game are untrue, says 343 Industries. According to community manager Brian Jarrard, the game’s multiplayer has not been delayed. Nothing to see here folks, this is