Gaming

By Stephany Nunneley, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 20:26 GMT As promised last week, Respawn Entertainment has released a trailer for Season 5 of Apex Legends. In the launch trailer for Apex Legends Season 5 – Fortune’s Favor we get another look at the new Legend, Loba. Loba was announced last week with a story trailer

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Nintendo is notoriously secretive about its development process, but we just got a glimpse of how the sausage is made thanks to a massive leak of data from the Nintendo Wii and N64. Among the thousands of files posted online

By Emily Gera, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 00:04 GMT Former Donkey Kong champion Billy Mitchell is suing Twin Galaxies after the organization stripped him of his high scores following evidence of cheating. Mitchell, who came to prominence in the mainstream through the award-winning documentary King of Kong, first filed a lawsuit against Twin Galaxies in

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Microsoft launched Xbox Game Pass in 2017, seeking to become the long-fabled “Netflix for games.” The company has never talked about subscriber counts, until now. In its most recent investor call, Microsoft revealed Xbox Game Pass has seen strong growth

By Emily Gera, Sunday, 3 May 2020 18:59 GMT The recent leak of The Last of Us Part 2 spoilers appears to have been the work of hackers. While initial rumours suggested the massive leak was initiated by a disgruntled employee in protest of poor labour conditions, Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier now claims to have learned

By Stephany Nunneley, Saturday, 2 May 2020 15:30 GMT If you have been wanting to try Media Molecule’s Dreams, you can now through a demo. A demo for Dreams is rolling out worldwide on the PlayStation Store, and if you like what you experience, you can grab the game on sale. The demo includes the

By Stephany Nunneley, Thursday, 30 April 2020 20:53 GMT May’s free games and loot for Twitch Prime members have been announced. Twitch Prime members can download six free games starting tomorrow, and there’s plenty of free loot available for Prime users. The free games available with Prime, May 1-30, are Avicii Invector, Fractured Minds, Pankapu, Urban Trial Playground,

By Stephany Nunneley, Wednesday, 29 April 2020 21:12 GMT Assassin’s Creed Valhalla will be revealed in full tomorrow, Ubisoft has announced. Tomorrow, Ubisoft will fully reveal the next game in the Assassin’s Creed franchise, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. You can expect the official trailer to go live at 8am PT, 11am ET, 4pm BST, 5pm CEST.

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. For fans of retro game consoles and home computer systems, it’s been a long time coming: RetroPie 4.6 has launched, with the star feature being official support for the Raspberry Pi 4. The RetroPie team took its time on purpose

By Stephany Nunneley, Tuesday, 28 April 2020 20:28 GMT The upcoming update for Star Wars Battlefront 2, Battle on Scarif, will be the last one released, according to DICE. DICE has announced Battle on Scarif will be the last content update for Star Wars Battlefront 2. Beyond the update, DICE said it will transition to

Ever since 3dfx debuted the original Voodoo accelerator, no single piece of equipment in a PC has had as much of an impact on whether your machine could game as the humble graphics card. While other components absolutely matter, a top-end PC with 32GB of RAM, a $4,000 CPU, and PCIe-based storage will choke and

By Emily Gera, Monday, 27 April 2020 22:29 GMT Cyberpunk 2077 has received its first public rating – an 18+ – which briefly appeared last week on Brazil’s classification board. The rating has since been removed from the website but a screenshot posted online by Reddit user JordhanMK spells out all the objectionable content. As

By Emily Gera, Sunday, 26 April 2020 22:26 GMT Void Bastards, a strategy-shooter from Irrational Games co-founder Jonathan Chey, is coming to Nintendo Switch next week. The announcement was made today by Humble Bundle and developer Blue Manchu, and comes just a week after confirmation of a PS4 release coming May 7. Void Bastards first

By Stephany Nunneley, Saturday, 25 April 2020 20:28 GMT Dovetail Games has outlined the five areas where you will cast your line when The Catch: Carp and Coarse is released. Fishing enthusiasts will be pleased to hear about the lovely fishing areas in The Catch: Carp and Coarse, slated for release later this year. There

By Stephany Nunneley, Friday, 24 April 2020 18:33 GMT You can download and keep Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 for free from today. Bandai Namco has announced it’s making Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 free for everyone now through May 10. “People around the globe are doing their part to change their life and workstyles in order

The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has upended economic activity around the globe and made it rather difficult to plan a PC upgrade. With tens of millions of people recently out of work and everyone stuck at home, boosting the performance of the hardware you’ve got on hand suddenly became a lot more interesting. Before we kick-off,

Today’s Borderlands 3 update sees the Revenge of the Cartels Seasonal Event kick off and adds Mayhem Mode 2.0. Borderlands 3 players can enjoy the latest event and jump into Mayhem 2.0 with today’s update. Alongside the event and update to Mayhem comes the first week of the Loot the Universe mini-event. The Loot the Universe

Final Fantasy 7 Remake begins as a relatively faithful recreation as a classic, but it sure takes some turns. Fans are now asking: what does it all mean? Needless to say, this article will contain full spoilers for Final Fantasy 7 Remake. And associated spoilers for the original Final Fantasy 7. We’re going to break

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Computers today are so enormously improved from the devices I used in my childhood, it scarcely feels accurate to refer to them with the same word. Mostly, that’s a good thing. I do not miss the days when hard drive

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Nvidia’s GeForce Now service has lost another set of publishers. As of Friday April 24, games from Codemasters, Klei Entertainment, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and Xbox Game Studios will be leaving the service. They aren’t the first. Activision-Blizzard, 2K, Bethesda,

By Sherif Saed, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 14:36 GMT Animal Crossing: New Horizons is getting a big update this week. Nintendo has detailed the first major update for Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Due for release this Thursday, April 23, the patch brings new features, characters and kicks off a new in-game event. Leif joins with

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. If you haven’t updated your graphics drivers recently, you may not be aware of a change Nvidia instituted in December of 2019. Starting from that date, the Nvidia Control Panel is no longer distributed in the version of Nvidia drivers

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Early benchmarks of the Ryzen 7 4800U’s integrated graphics solution suggest that the 15W APU can nearly keep pace with an Intel system equipped with a GeForce MX250. While the MX250 is a modest performance target, it’s still impressive to

By Sherif Saed, Monday, 20 April 2020 09:26 GMT If you had $1,900 lying around, you could have been the owner of this Death Stranding-inspired jacket. The apparel and accessories designers at Acronym teamed up with Death Stranding‘s Hideo Kojima and Yoji Shinkawa to modify one of the company’s oldest jackets to resemble one of

By Stephany Nunneley, Saturday, 18 April 2020 20:31 GMT PUBG Corp. has canceled its PUBG Global Series due to COVID-19 concerns. PUBG Corp. will instead host a digital PUBG Continental Series in lieu of the PUBG Global Series. PCS events will be held in May, June, and August with a total prize pool of $2.4  million across four

By Stephany Nunneley, Friday, 17 April 2020 19:54 GMT Pearl Abyss announced today the final beta for its Black Desert Online spin-off, Shadow Arena, has gone live. Hero action battle royale game Shadow Arena begins its final phase of beta testing today before it enters Early Access on Steam. The beta is available for North

As the pandemic leaves an awful lot of people at home with not-much to do, we’re resurfacing some older coverage on topics and news that isn’t particularly time-sensitive. Last fall, I read an article that literally explained to me why I got into modding two decades ago. If you’ve been a PC modder yourself or

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Just when you thought the “Can it Run Crysis” meme might be finally, mercifully consigned to the dustbin of history, Crytek has announced it’ll be remastering the original game for modern hardware. The original Crysis, released in 2007, was lauded

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The writing was on the wall for the 3DS as soon as the Nintendo Switch proved such a hit. While the smaller, cheaper console had a respectable run at 75.17 million units sold, sales fell off a cliff once the

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Sony may be reducing the number of PlayStation 5s that it intends to sell this year, thanks to a mixture of price concerns and COVID-19. The PlayStation 5 is widely expected to cost more than its predecessor, with estimates of