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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Ubisoft has pledged to keep the price of its upcoming PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X games aligned with the current $59.99 structure we’ve had since the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 launched back in 2005 and 2006. The company’s

By Stephany Nunneley, Thursday, 23 July 2020 20:41 GMT Your free games this week on the Epic Games Store are Tacoma and Next Up Hero. Both titles will be free to download and keep through the Epic Games Store until July 30. In Fullbright’s Tacoma, you are on an abandoned space station with a “mysterious AI.”

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. As we approach the launch of a new GPU cycle, the usual chatter about GPU prices has begun to tip up, with various rumors about how AMD and Nvidia will approach their own launches. There are signs that Nvidia may

By Stephany Nunneley, Wednesday, 22 July 2020 20:48 GMT Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot said on an investors call today, that each tine the company had been made aware of misconduct, it acted. Answering a question during the investors call regarding recent allegations of abuse at the company, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot said the individuals in

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. There’s been a lot of debate in the past 12 months over whether RDNA2 would deliver a huge improvement over RDNA. The Radeon 5700 and 5700 XT were significant leaps forward for AMD’s products, but they failed to cleanly beat

By Stephany Nunneley, Tuesday, 21 July 2020 19:35 GMT Here’s something fun for your Tuesday: Minecraft being played in Minecraft –  no foolin’. YouTuber Fundy has posted a video of a stream in which be plays Minecraft in Minecraft. What sort of sorcery he used, we have no idea, but yes, he made the entirety of

While finding all of the Hidden Shrines in Ghost of Tsushima will probably be one of the final trophies you pop before bagging the elusive platinum, it’s actually pretty easy to complete during the first two acts of the game. These hidden shrines are places for quiet contemplation, and you honor the unseen by swiping

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. US video game spending surged over the past six months, driving $6.6B in sales thus far in 2020. The last time the video game industry made more money over the same period was 2010, when sales hit $7B. JUNE 2020

When I first became interested in computers, the idea of gaming on a low-end laptop or desktop was a contradiction in terms. Your options were: Intel, if you could afford them, AMD if you needed a cheaper but good-enough option, and Cyrix if you hated yourself. In the modern era, we aren’t nearly so constrained.

If you’re equal parts Bloodborne and Zelda fan, you’ll be delighted to know that indie dev Max Mraz has mashed them up into Yarntown, a top-down, classic Zelda take on FromSoftware’s Gothic blockbuster. Yarntown takes place in Central Yharnam and is complete with both the Cleric Beast and Father Gascoigne boss fights – Gascoigne even

By Stephany Nunneley, Saturday, 18 July 2020 15:52 GMT Forager is now available for Xbox One and Xbox Game Pass, and a DLC update is available for PS4 and Switch. Open-world, adventure, and exploration game Forger has landed on Xbox One and Xbox Game Pass for console and PC. The title will include all previously

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The Xbox One now carries two fewer members of its family, with Microsoft announcing it will discontinue both the Xbox One X and the Xbox One S Digital Edition. The latter didn’t have a disk drive, while the former was

By Stephany Nunneley, Friday, 17 July 2020 15:27 GMT If you missed out on this Ghost of Tsushima PS4 theme last year, you have another chance to nab it. Regional codes for a Ghost of Tsushima PS4 theme are available for the taking. This theme has been available before, but you may have missed out

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Microsoft’s Phil Spencer released a blog post today discussing what Microsoft sees as the future of gaming and how it will deliver that future to its customers. According to the company, “Our vision has one hero at the heart of

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. If you’re feeling nostalgic for a physical game release and you’re interested in Microsoft Flight Simulator, you’re in luck: Aerosoft has announced that it has partnered with Microsoft to offer a physical version of the game — on 10 DVDs.

By Stephany Nunneley, Thursday, 16 July 2020 15:16 GMT Xbox Game Pass Ultimate users will have the added benefit of Microsoft’s xCloud starting in September. Microsoft’s game streaming service, xCloud, will become a perk of Xbox Game Pass this September in supported countries. This is expected as the company announced the streaming service would be

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Sony and Microsoft are gearing up to battle for game platform supremacy with the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, and this is an unusual time to do it. With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, people are spending more time than

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Microsoft has revealed some new data about how the Xbox Series X will utilize its advanced, high-speed storage capacity and some of the GPU efficiency enhancements we can expect to see. Some of these technological developments could have a direct

The latest Paper Mario outing is likely to come under fire for not returning to the RPG mechanics that made the series beloved in the first place – but The Origami King is its best outing in some time, nevertheless. In truth, Paper Mario: The Origami King is sort of a quintessential not-quite-perfect Nintendo experience.

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Our sister site PCMag has given an all-AMD laptop an Editor’s Choice award, for the first time I can remember. It could very well be the first time an all-AMD system at the $1,000 price point has ever won the

Writing about representation as a trans woman sometimes feels like you’re surrounded by barbed wire. There’s the obvious people who don’t like that you’re trans – or that you mention that you’re trans – but they don’t really matter. Much more importantly, there’s the pressure that you’ve got a platform other trans people often aren’t

The official Assassin’s Creed Valhalla release date was revealed during tonight’s Ubisoft Forward conference – it’s scheduled to launch on November 17, 2020. While the release date already leaked yesterday, we’ve got official confirmation now that Valhalla is due to launch this November. On top of confirming the Assassin’s Creed Valhalla release date, Ubisoft Forward

By Stephany Nunneley, Saturday, 11 July 2020 21:55 GMT Wolfeye Studios, made up of former Arkane Studios devs, will release Weird West next year, it was announced during Devolver Direct. In Weird West, you will try to survive and unveil “mysteries” as you play through the intertwined destinies of the game’s characters. Announced last winter,

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. In the mid-1980s, Flight Simulator was one of the biggest PC titles in the business — and Microsoft is gearing up to launch the beta for Flight Simulator 2020, a game that surprised pretty much everyone by existing when Microsoft

By Stephany Nunneley, Friday, 10 July 2020 20:41 GMT Amazon’s New World MMO will not be released in August as planned. Amazon has announced it has delayed its MMO, New World, from August 25 into spring 2021. This is also when the final beta test will be held. According to the official announcement, the development

By Stephany Nunneley, Thursday, 9 July 2020 20:34 GMT The developers of Half-Life: Alyx are “not afraid of Half-Life” any longer, and would like to create a new game in the series for more traditional platforms. As noted in Half-Life: Alyx – Final Hours, a fifteen chapter article from Geoff Keighley, the game’s development team

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Microsoft is reportedly urging developers and publishers to adopt its Smart Delivery system and to offer current console owners a free upgrade to the Xbox Series X version of a game. The company has reportedly told publishers that they are

Electronic Arts has announced a reality competition series centered on The Sims. A reality competition has been announced for The Sims, and it’s called The Sims Spark’d. In it, contestants will be given creative challenges to “build the most unique characters, worlds and stories,” through The Sims 4. The Sims Spark’d is a four-episode series where

By Stephany Nunneley, Tuesday, 7 July 2020 20:47 GMT Rogue Lords is a roguelike where as the devil, you will recruit famous monsters such as Dracula to exact revenge on Demon Hunters. In development at Cyanide and Leikir and previously revealed during the PC Gaming show, Rogue Lords takes place in a Baroque and Gothic

It was recently announced that Rian Johnson (Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Knives Out) directed the teaser trailer for Pokemon Go Fest 2020, which is going virtual for the first time since the game launched in 2016. The news comes from an official Niantic blog post, which features information on how Go Fest intends to