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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Two days ago, we covered news from AMD that the company had suffered an IP breach. We now know more about what was taken from the company and how serious the theft is — or more appropriately, isn’t. At first

By Stephany Nunneley, Thursday, 26 March 2020 19:50 GMT Star Wars Episode 1: Racer is coming to PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch, and Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is out today for both consoles. Star Wars Episode 1: Racer will be released for PS4 and Switch with modernized controls for your podracer. In the

By Elizabeth Henges, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 20:13 GMT Need something to play with friends while social distancing? You can grab a copy of Tabletop Simulator and have a bunch of digital board games at your fingertips! The title is currently half off, too. At Fanatical, Tabletop Simulator is half off, bringing the total down

Somehow our family became auto racing junkies. Watching F1 became a bonding experience, following a relative of ours who drives in IndyCar became a hobby, and the action of NASCAR wormed its way into our hearts. Even Formula E has grown on us. So when we were first encouraged to stay-at-home as much as possible

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Sony is in a tricky position with the PlayStation 5. While it heads into the next console generation as the unquestioned winner of the current cycle, it looks as though the PS5 will be markedly less powerful than the Xbox

By Stephany Nunneley, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 19:54 GMT Borderlands 3 players can look forward to a level cap increase later this week, and a new in-game event kicking off next month. During an episode of the Borderlands Show today, Gearbox discussed the level cap increase and the Borderlands 3 in-game event Revenge of the

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. According to the opinion of pretty much every reviewer who has played it, Half-Life: Alyx is one of the all-time best VR game ever made. The question of whether you should buy it is a little more complicated, seeing as

By Emily Gera, Monday, 23 March 2020 18:54 GMT Ubisoft has released a trailer for the second episode of Ghost Recon Breakpoint ahead of its launch on March 24. Episode 2 features a new eight-mission story arc co-starring Splinter Cell’s Sam Fisher – as voiced by Michael Ironside – which will see the two of

By Emily Gera, Sunday, 22 March 2020 17:20 GMT Valve is rebooting its failed Dota 2 card game Artifact, the company announced on the game’s official Steam page. “First off, we wanted to say thanks for all of your tweets, emails and posts,” the post begins. “The continued interest in Artifact has been encouraging, and

By Stephany Nunneley, Saturday, 21 March 2020 16:50 GMT Steam and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive once again this week broke peak concurrent player records. Earlier this week Steam hit 20,313,476 concurrent users and CSGO hit 1,024,845 concurrent players. Yesterday, Steam broke that record with 21,360,226 concurrent users, and CSGO hit 1,060,189 concurrent players (thanks, DSO Gaming).

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. It’s been a few years since Microsoft introduced DirectX 12, and there’s a new set of console introductions coming this fall, so the time is ripe for the unveiling of a new DirectX version. Microsoft has just launched DirectX 12

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. GameStop has told its employees that it considers its own stores “Essential Retail” at the moment and that they should resist any law enforcement efforts to order a store closure. Employees were given flyers with the GameStop corporate number printed

By Stephany Nunneley, Friday, 20 March 2020 12:59 GMT Echo is the 32nd hero to be added to Overwatch, and the character is now available on the Public Test Realm on PC. The new hero Echo falls in the Damage category of Overwatch. The character was revealed in a story video as an evolutionary robot “programmed

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Many businesses are closed or operating with reduced hours as a way to encourage social distancing. Some countries and US states have even mandated that some types of businesses and public spaces close for the next few weeks. GameStop stores

Now that Sony has finally unveiled the specs for the PlayStation 5, we can do what we’ve been wanting to do for a while and examine overall performance against the Xbox Series X. First impressions count for a lot in the console world, and Microsoft has been quite aggressive in terms of product design. Let’s

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. For the last few months, Microsoft has had the next-generation console PR space all to itself. Nintendo had nothing in the pipe and Sony was staying quiet about the PlayStation 5, which gave Microsoft plenty of room to talk about

By Sherif Saed, Thursday, 19 March 2020 09:09 GMT PS5 and Xbox Series X may end up having different approaches to ray tracing. By now you’ve probably seen the PS5’s full hardware specs, and how they compare to those of the Xbox Series X. The disparity in GPU power between them could lead to different

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. We’re all spending a lot more time indoors lately, and that can be hard on people who are accustomed to getting out there and interacting with their fellow humans. If you need something to help pass the time, GOG has

By Sherif Saed, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 08:33 GMT This week’s Call of Duty: Warzone update is live. Call of Duty: Warzone‘s first big patch has arrived and with it, the introduction of solos mode. Solos works as it does in other battle royale games, limiting the match to just solo players. There’s nothing particularly

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. We were expecting to get more details about Microsoft’s next game console at the E3 show this spring, but organizers canceled the show as coronavirus continues to spread. Microsoft has decided to make its big announcement without a trade show

Xbox senior designer Ryan Whitaker is offering more details on the next-gen Xbox Series X wireless controller. While the new wireless controller will still look about the same as before, there are a few key differences. Speaking to Xbox Wire, Whitaker describes the main areas that the team wanted to deliver on: improved ergonomics for

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The continued spread of coronavirus has prompted many people to spend more time indoors, and what can one do while locked away from the world? If you said “play video games,” a lot of people agree with you. Steam reports

By Emily Gera, Sunday, 15 March 2020 21:52 GMT Yes, Xbox Live is down. Xbox Live has been experiencing issues since roughly 5pm ET today, with many homebound gamers taking to Twitter to air their grievances. Microsoft is currently investigating the situation, tweeting from its official Xbox support account: “We understand some users may be

By Stephany Nunneley, Saturday, 14 March 2020 19:22 GMT Reporters Without Borders has created an area in Minecraft in which to publish censored articles. The in-game area provides a safe space in which to publish articles that have been censored in a reporter’s country of origin. Minecraft users can visit The Uncensored Library which is

By Elizabeth Henges, Friday, 13 March 2020 22:43 GMT Looking for some diversity in your gaming? The Humble Female Protagonist sale offers great deals on some video games starring women. Sometimes you just want to step into the shoes of someone different. Humble’s Female Protagonist Sale is all about the ladies, and you can save

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Modern system power management is anything but simple. Modern CPUs (or APUs in AMD’s parlance) have complex sensor networks and power management schemes that take temperature reads from multiple points inside the system, including its skin temperature. A recent investigation

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. It may have wowed the world with its “Whale” demo a few years ago, but after raising over $2B and selling an estimated 6,000 headsets in the first six months after launch, Magic Leap may have met its Snake River

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Playing high-end desktop VR games currently requires some serious PC hardware, but that may not be the case for much longer. Cloud gaming service Shadow has announced a “VR Exploration Program,” which we think is a fancy way of saying

By Stephany Nunneley, Thursday, 12 March 2020 18:36 GMT It’s time to head back to the archives in Overwatch. The annual Overwatch Archives event is live now through April 2. While the event is live, you will earn Archives Loot Boxes which contain emotes, highlight intros, skins, and sprays. New to the event this year

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The E3 game show — formally expected to be held from June 9-11, 2020 — has been canceled. The show drew some 66,000 thousand people to LA last year, including yours truly, but the show’s future had been on the