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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Danny Bittman is a software developer who specializes in VR projects, with more than an estimated 10,000 hours logged in headsets over the past few years. He’s also convinced that virtual reality headsets are to blame for unusual vision problems

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Google launched its Stadia cloud gaming service late last year, but access was heavily restricted. You could only join Stadia by purchasing a controller bundle, and it didn’t even work on most phones. Little by little, Google has opened Stadia

By Stephany Nunneley, Thursday, 11 June 2020 23:41 GMT Pragmata is a new sci-fi game in development at Capcom and it’s coming to PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X. Pragmata was first revealed today during the PS5 showcase with a trailer and very little information. The game is set in a “dystopian near-future” on Earth’s

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. AMD has released a comprehensive vision document/roadmap for its various products throughout the next few years. There’s a great deal of broad data about what the company’s plans are and what products it intends to launch through 2022, so let’s

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Rumors about Nvidia’s Ampere and the proposed family of consumer GPUs based on it have been circulating for months. The latest leaks claim Nvidia is prepping some significant improvements at the top end, along with higher power consumption. According to

By Stephany Nunneley, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 18:56 GMT The Division 2 Title Update 10 arrives on June 16, and Season 2 of Warlords of New York will go live on June 23. The Division 2 Title Update 10 will release next week on June 16, and it introduces core changes and improved balancing. Some

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. One question we’ve raised with the advent of a new console generation is whether US bandwidth will keep pace with game releases. A new analysis suggests the situation has improved markedly over the past seven years. While games are much

We finally got our first look at Destiny 2: Beyond Light, the new expansion coming later this year. The first Pyramid arrives at Io’s moon in Season of Arrivals and in Beyond Light, another will arrive at Europa, Jupiter’s moon. A dark empire has amassed beneath the Pyramid and an unlikely trio are determined to

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. When AMD and Intel jointly announced the Hades Canyon NUC would feature an Intel CPU and AMD GPU with an attached HBM memory pool, curiosity across the user community was high. Unfortunately, the driver situation has turned into rather a

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. AMD is arguing that 4GB GPUs are effectively obsolete, based on performance data showing a distinct advantage for GPUs with more than 4GB of VRAM. The company’s argument boils down to the following slide: Image by AMD Independent reviews back

Animal Crossing: New Horizons was recently knocked off its perch as the best-selling game on the Nintendo eShop. After holding its position as top dog since it launched in March, Animal Crossing: New Horizons was finally usurped by the recently released Minecraft Dungeons, which is now the #1 best-selling game on the Nintendo eShop. This

By Stephany Nunneley, Saturday, 6 June 2020 19:53 GMT Summer Games Done Quick 2020, the charity speedrunning event, will be held online this year. Organizers for Summer Games Done Quick 2020 have announced due to the situation surrounding COVID-19, the charity event will be held online. The charity event was originally scheduled to be a

By Stephany Nunneley, Friday, 5 June 2020 20:10 GMT When Pokemon Go’s Throwback Challenge ends next week, certain Alolan and Galarian forms will be hatching from all 7 km Eggs. Niantic Labs has announced Pokemon Go players can look forward to something special next week. Players will find that Eggs received from Gifts will contain

Talk to anyone about building a new PC, and the question of longevity is going to pop up sooner rather than later. Any time someone is dropping serious cash for a hardware upgrade they’re going to have questions about how long it will last them, especially if they’ve been burned before. But how much additional

By Stephany Nunneley, Thursday, 4 June 2020 17:26 GMT Rockstar Games will shut down its online games for two hours this afternoon to honor George Floyd. The developer announced on Twitter it will shut down online access to GTA Online and Red Dead Online for two hours during the memorial service for George Floyd. Online

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. This year is Sega’s 60th anniversary, and while the company has long since fallen out of the game console market, it has plenty of nostalgia to mine for this new micro-console craze. Following up its launch of the Genesis Mini,

By Stephany Nunneley, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 19:24 GMT Naughty Dog has released its final development diary for The Last of Us: Part 2. The latest inside look at The Last of Us: Part 2 has been released by Sony and Naughty Dog, and it focuses on the game’s world. In it, the team discusses

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Update (6/2/2020): This is a story I’m truly glad to return to. Since this ran in December 2018, there’s been a huge surge in game mods with exactly these kinds of upgrades. Deus Ex now has New Vision 2.0a. There’s

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. HP has revamped its Omen 15 gaming laptop to be thinner, faster, and cheaper. The new Omen 15 starts at $1,000 and has both Intel and AMD CPU options. While it’s thinner and less clunky than the last-gen Omen laptops,

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Updated (6/1/2020): With new consoles on the way, the question of why game installation sizes are perpetually growing feels more relevant than ever. Sony and Microsoft are emphasizing the speed of their next-generation SSDs, but capacities are only growing modestly

By Staff, Tuesday, 2 June 2020 14:07 GMT We stand in solidarity with Black communities in the US, UK and around the world in the fight against systemic racism, police brutality and oppression. Black Lives Matter. We will be donating to Black Lives Matter, Black Visions Collective, Minnesota Freedom Fund, the NAACP and other charities,

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Google is not the first company to try its luck at cloud gaming, but game developers seemed more excited by Google’s Stadia service. In the months leading up to launch, Google signed numerous partners, including Take-Two Interactive, but the bloom

Some people like to mess around with game trailers and make them look better – this guy rebuilds the entire videos with real Lego. Productionetilego is a YouTuber who has been building video trailers using real Lego sets for almost nine years. Yesterday, Productionetilego – whose real name is Etienne – published an Assassin’s Creed

By Stephany Nunneley, Saturday, 30 May 2020 16:17 GMT Next week, Larian Studios will reveal more about Baldur’s Gate 3. The studio announced on Twitter it would be revealing more about Baldur’s Gate 3 on June 6. This announcement will be part of the Guerrilla Collective which was announced in the wake of the cancellation of E3

By Stephany Nunneley, Saturday, 30 May 2020 15:19 GMT Halo 3 is the next game from the Master Chief Collection coming to PC, and 343 Industries has revealed plans for its flight test. Halo 3 will enter its flight test during the first half of June, and 343 Industries has provided a preliminary breakdown of

By Sherif Saed, Friday, 29 May 2020 09:02 GMT The beginning of Fortnite’s Chapter 2 Season 3 has been pushed back again, but luckily not for very long this time. Epic Games announced that, for the second time, the start of Fortnite‘s Season 3 in Chapter 2 has been delayed. The new season will now

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Moving to a new console generation has often meant leaving some of your favorite games behind, but Microsoft says that won’t be the case with the Xbox Series X. The team developing this next-gen console is testing older games to

By Stephany Nunneley, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 19:54 GMT A new Call of Duty: Modern Warfare trailer has been released, and it catches you up on the story so far. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare has a new trailer which gets you up to speed on the story so far, and provides a look at

By Stephany Nunneley, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 17:15 GMT Xbox Games with Gold for June have been announced for Xbox One and Xbox 360. June’s Xbox Games with Gold have been announced, and the games are Destroy All Humans, Shantae and the Pirate’s Curse, Sine Mora, and Coffee Talk. Shantae and the Pirate’s Curse will

By Emily Gera, Monday, 25 May 2020 15:59 GMT Spider-Man may be the next free game available with PlayStation Plus this June. The standard edition of the Insomniac Games title is currently listed on the PlayStation Store for free, which suggests it could be the next game available with PlayStation Plus starting next week. But