Gaming

By Stephany Nunneley, Thursday, 16 April 2020 20:11 GMT Originally slated for March, Pokemon Go’s Abra Community Day is now set to happen on April 25. It will also feature changes to make it easier to participate at home. Rescheduled from March, April Pokemon Go Community Day will feature Abra, the Psi Pokemon. During the

By Stephany Nunneley, Wednesday, 15 April 2020 20:26 GMT A new video taking a deep dive into character customization has been released for Marvel’s Avengers. This new Marvel’s Avengers video shows how you will be able to customize your character in the game. The video goes over how to customize your heroes, outfits, and skills.

Here at ExtremeTech, we’ve often discussed the difference between different types of NAND structures — vertical NAND versus planar, or multi-level cell (MLC) versus triple-level cells (TLC) and quad-level cells (QLC). Now, let’s talk about the more basic relevant question: How do SSDs work in the first place, and how do they compare with newer technologies, like

By Stephany Nunneley, Tuesday, 14 April 2020 15:33 GMT The second entry in The Dark Pictures Anthology, Little Hope, has been revealed in a trailer. The Dark Pictures: Little Hope is the second entry in the anthology developed by Until Dawn studio Supermassive Games. It follows the first entry Man of Medan which was released in

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Many of today’s biggest games feature loot box gameplay mechanics that critics claim are little different than gambling. Now, the Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB) has announced it will take loot boxes a bit more seriously. Going forward, titles that

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The first Resident Evil game I ever played was Resident Evil 4 on the GameCube. While I’ve never been much of a console gamer, one of my exes owned the diminutive console. I found the conceit of “you can’t move

Ghost of Tsushima will let you clash swords with your allies. Despite how cinematic and directed it appears, the story of Ghost of Tsushima seemingly allows for a good degree of freedom and decision-making on the part of its players. In the March issue of OPM (via Reddit user Hunbbel), the magazine shared a few

In chapter 8 of Final Fantasy 7 Remake, Cloud and company find themselves under threat from Air Buster, a crushingly powerful Shinra weapon – but they have a chance to weaken it with keycards and unit disposal. Air Buster, or ‘the big boy’, as Barret calls it, was something of a joke boss in the

Final Fantasy 7 Remake takes some significant twists and turns in the late game, and we really need to talk about it. In this discussion, Alex Donaldson and Kirk McKeand will discuss that ending, and the ramifications it might have on the future games. Some amount of knowledge of the events of the original game

Blizzard isn’t sure whether or not it will hold BlizzCon 2020 this year because at this point it’s “too early to know whether it will be feasible.” Speaking in an open note to fans on the official website (thanks, Massively), Blizzard said earlier this year it started actively working to finalize plans for this fall’s

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Google has finally had an idea for how to expand Stadia’s audience, and it only took a worldwide pandemic for the company to realize there might be a better way to reach potential customers. A recent company blog post states:

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Sony has announced the PlayStation 5’s new controller, dubbed the DualSense and debuted a distinctive black-and-white color scheme for the product, with some significant design departure than what Sony has fielded with the last few generations of PlayStation. The new

By Stephany Nunneley, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 19:49 GMT Starting tomorrow, Suiryu will join One Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knows. Suiryu is the first DLC character to be released for One Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knows, and he will be added tomorrow, April 9. The character is the four-time winner of the Super

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. As stay-at-home orders tighten in many parts of the US and around the world, it’s increasingly challenging for many of us to continue our fitness regimes. For the most part, all multi-player sports have been stopped — especially those involving

The next free update to Sea of Thieves is Ships of Fortune and it releases on April 22. In the content update for Sea of Thieves, you have the option of becoming an emissary to one of the trading companies when Ships of Fortune releases. Whether you choose Gold Hoarders, Merchant Alliance, Order of Souls

By Emily Gera, Monday, 6 April 2020 21:49 GMT Inside Xbox makes its return this year with a new episode streaming live on April 7 at 2pm PST. Tomorrow’s broadcast will focus on Xbox Game Pass news, info on Sea of Thieves, Gears Tactics and Grounded, with a couple surprises promised from the ID@Xbox team.

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. With the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 both coming to market at some point between now and the heat death of the universe, it’s a decent moment to revisit the strengths and weaknesses of using TFLOPS to measure GPU

By Emily Gera, Sunday, 5 April 2020 19:19 GMT Massachusetts state officials have ordered all GameStop stores across the state to temporarily shut their doors in an effort to flatten the curve of coronavirus in the area. This follows claims from the retailer that it is an essential business in the vein of grocery stores

By Elizabeth Henges, Friday, 3 April 2020 21:52 GMT There have been problems with Nintendo Switch Lite production due to COVID, but the system is slowly coming back into stock. If you want one, you’ll want to grab it now before it’s too late! The three original colors of the Nintendo Switch Lite are slowly

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Evidently someone designated the first week of April as “laptop week” and forgot to notify us. AMD and Intel both made significant moves in mobile this week, as did Nvidia. Team Green is announcing a new feature to match AMD’s

By Sherif Saed, Friday, 3 April 2020 11:15 GMT Amazon is ready to make a big push into gaming. According to a new report from The New York Times, Amazon is investing big into its games division in an effort to establish itself as a key player in the industry. This is the company’s “most

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Sony’s Mark Cerny, lead system architect of the PlayStation 5, has shared more details on the new console and some aspects of its subsystem behavior. Some of the new details confirm our speculation from March, while others shed light on

Head of Xbox Phil Spencer has weighed in on the possibility of coronavirus causing delays for games and hardware. In a lengthy interview with IGN, Xbox boss Phil Spencer discussed a wide range of topics, including how the gaming side is handling the coronavirus pandemic across its departments. To begin with, Spencer was clear that

Once upon a time, Microsoft promised a truly impressive 4K overhaul for Minecraft and then canceled it. Shortly thereafter, Nvidia announced that it would create an RTX-powered version of Minecraft, delivering ray-traced visuals to Nvidia owners who own the Windows 10 version of the game and want to play it in this mode. Nvidia has

By Stephany Nunneley, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 20:40 GMT Frontier Developments have announced the second DLC pack for Planet Zoo, featuring animals native to South America Pack, will release next week. The Planet Zoo South America Pack is set to release next week on April 7 and features five new animals and over 250 new

By Emily Gera, Monday, 30 March 2020 22:53 GMT The upcoming chapter of The Elder Scrolls Online is still over a month away, but you can now play the opening prologue quest for free. For the next two weeks, this “bite-sized portion” – as developer ZeniMax Online Studios calls it – of The Elder Scrolls

By Emily Gera, Sunday, 29 March 2020 22:42 GMT Plague Inc. developer Ndemic Creations is working on a new mode that gives players the job of stopping a deadly pandemic rather than creating one. The developer announced the upcoming mode along with its news of a $250,000 donation split between the Coalition of Epidemic Preparedness

By Stephany Nunneley, Saturday, 28 March 2020 15:56 GMT The rights to a live-action adaptation of 80’s video game Dragon’s Lair has been picked up by Netflix, and Ryan Reynolds is reportedly in talks to produce and star in it. According to The Hollywood Reporter, negotiations for a live-action adaptation of Dragon’s Lair have been

By Elizabeth Henges, Friday, 27 March 2020 20:29 GMT Want some awesome retro-style platforming on your Animal Crossing device? You can grab the full set of Shovel Knight games for the Switch at a nice discount! That’s right, if you want Shovel Knight and the three accompanying campaigns (which might as well be full games

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. It’s been a long time since Valve took us to the world of Half-Life, but the wait may have been worth it. The newly released Half-Life: Alyx is being called a true virtual reality masterpiece. It’s actually driving many people