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If you want to be the very best, you’ll need to stay on top of the Pokemon Go Research Quests – constantly changing missions and activities that players can pick up and complete for bonuses and rewards. Here’s all the current missions for August 2019. Pokemon Go’s research quests are split into two categories: Field

By Stephany Nunneley, Friday, 15 November 2019 14:04 GMT Fortnite players have a new skin available, and it ties into Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. A new skin modeled after the Imperial Stormtrooper is now available for Fortnite. It looks rather cool. I mean, who wouldn’t want to dress up like a Stormtrooper? Sure they

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Ray tracing currently occupies a liminal place in the gaming realm. On the one hand, the technology factually exists — there are game engines with ray tracing components baked in, Nvidia’s entire RTX push has been built around it, and

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Google’s Stadia game streaming service launches in just a few days, and some of the developers have taken to Reddit to host a surprisingly honest AMA (Ask Me Anything). The devs fielded questions ranging from how achievements will work to

By Sherif Saed, Thursday, 14 November 2019 12:00 GMT Red Dead Redemption 2’s biggest PC update yet has arrived. Rockstar has dropped update 1.14 on for all Red Dead Redemption 2 players on PC, as promised. The patch weighs in at 2.91GB and tackles a number of problems. The biggest is the stuttering issue some

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Cloud gaming services are all the rage these days. Microsoft and Google are both making major pushes into the area, joining services like Nvidia’s GeForce Now and PlayStation Now. The exact features of each service differ, however, and they aren’t

Trials mode is once again available to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare players in the Officer ranks. Update – November 13: Infinity Ward has re-enabled Trials mode following the release of this week’s Modern Warfare patch. The mode was first introduced before the end of October, but was quickly taken out after the developer was

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Nvidia’s new GeForce GTX 1660 Super graphics cards are priced just slightly higher than regular Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660s. They have been upgraded with GDDR6 memory to boost performance. In this review, we will look at Zotac’s take on the

By Sherif Saed, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 12:30 GMT It looks like PUBG is going to be getting a lot of exciting content in 2020. PUBG dataminer PlayerIGN has posted a new video featuring a tonne of leaks about content currently in development. According to datamined code, PUBG Corp. is still working on riot shields,

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Rumors began circulating about Google’s game streaming service more than a year ago, and the company began actively testing its technology publicly with Project Stream in late 2018. Project Stream became Stadia earlier this year, and it’s finally set to

YouTube has updated its terms of service, giving it the power to close accounts when it’s no longer profitable to have them. If you use YouTube, you may have recently seen a notification about an update to the service’s terms. While we often ignore these notices, YouTube’s recent update is worrying content creators. The new

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Dell is now shipping GPU upgrades for the Alienware Area-51m that it launched earlier this year, making good its promise to provide upgrades for the laptop. The general inability to upgrade a laptop’s GPU is one of the most significant

By Stephany Nunneley, Saturday, 9 November 2019 19:45 GMT At some point in the future, Overwatch and Overwatch 2 clients will merge. This is according to Overwatch game director Jeff Kaplan, who told Kotaku the team doesn’t wish to fragment the player base, which tends to happen when servers are shut down. “There will be

By Stephany Nunneley, Friday, 8 November 2019 18:03 GMT Ubisoft Spain tweeted an image of Splinter Cell star Sam Fisher, and the internet went nuts. At least those following the Ubisoft Spain account did. How dare they tease us with a Splinter Cell image with no context. Here’s the tweet. Hace falta entender la oscuridad

Red Dead Online’s RP spectrum is riding into the sunrise. “I’m gonna gut you like a fish,” says Mark. I’ve only known Mark for about 15 minutes, but I’m already starting to think he’s a bit of a wrong ‘un. I mean, a wee fishing trip to the San Luis River sounded lovely, but I’m

As you may have heard, Death Stranding is all about cargo – stacking it up, lugging it around, battering people in the face with it. In this guide, we’ll talk you through how it all works and what happens when you lose it. Death Stranding has online functionality that sees signs other players create appear

By Sherif Saed, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 12:10 GMT Rockstar has expanded its hacker and vulnerability bounty programmes to include Red Dead Online. Since 2016, Rockstar has been offering hackers, modders and anyone willing to hunt down bugs and identify vulnerabilities a lot of money. The focus of each bounty changes, but they’ve all been

Looking for a Red Dead Redemption 2 guide? Rockstar’s massive Western adventure comes with a witty new protagonist, revolutionary new systems and a few familiar faces to boot. In this guide, we’ll take a look at how to get the best out of Red Dead Redemption 2, as well as taking a closer look at

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Fresh off the PR firestorm surrounding its suspension of a Hearthstone player for supporting the Hong Kong protests, Blizzard has finally announced the long-awaited Diablo 4 at Blizzcon 2019. We don’t have many details on the game, but the 9-minute

Red Dead Redemption 2’s Dead Eye mode lets you slow down time and pick off enemies with headshots and precise targeting – but it takes some upgrading and getting used to. Dead Eye is best used in the heat of battle when you’re facing off against multiple foes, or when you’re on horseback and need

By Cian Maher, Sunday, 3 November 2019 11:33 GMT A recent BlizzCon announcement has confirmed that Blizzard is making Diablo 4 online-only. The information comes from a GameSpot report, which explicitly states that Diablo 4 will not be compatible with offline play. The report mentions that Angela Del Priore, who is the project’s lead designer,

By Stephany Nunneley, Friday, 1 November 2019 22:07 GMT Want more Diablo 4? Of course you do. Diablo 4 was one of the worst kept secrets of BlizzCon 2019 this weekend. Matter of fact, there wasn’t really any surprise considering everything leaked. Even though we knew Diablo 4 was coming, seeing it at the show

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Sony has unquestionably won the latest round in the console wars. As of this week, the PS4 has officially sold 102.8 million units. That’s significantly more than the PS3 (87.4M units), and there’s still a full year to go in

By Sherif Saed, Friday, 1 November 2019 11:13 GMT Anthem continues to lose its champions within BioWare Chad Robertson, BioWare‘s head of live service, is leaving the studio. Robertson, a 14-year veteran, revealed the news on Twitter this week, promising to share more news about his next job soon. This is my last week with

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The Switch Lite is selling incredibly well for Nintendo. The company revealed during its last quarterly report that it shipped 1.95 million Switch Lite consoles in the first ten days it was available. That compares well even against the Switch,

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Google’s DeepMind AI lab has contributed to some of the company’s most impressive AI feats in recent years such as the Wavenet voice engine and object recognition in Google Photos. DeepMind has also shown off its AI prowess by beating

By Sherif Saed, Thursday, 31 October 2019 10:00 GMT Respawn Entertainment is finally bringing Duos mode to Apex Legends, though only for a bit. The developer has announced that Apex Legends is getting a Duos mode beginning Tuesday, November 5. Although the mode will be available for a limited time, Respawn didn’t say when it’ll

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Microsoft is in the process of testing its xCloud game streaming service, but that’s not the only way to get your Xbox games on more devices. The company has also launched a test of its new Xbox game streaming service.

By Lauren Aitken, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 10:45 GMT The Fortnitemares Halloween event is now live and there are all-new challenges to complete. This year, you’ll be hunting down and destroying haunted household furniture. The haunted furniture will be floating in the air, making it quite easy to spot. Alongside these Battle Royale challenges, you

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Electronic Arts (EA) famously bailed on Valve’s popular Steam platform years ago in favor of its own Origin digital storefront. At the time, EA had some of the most popular gaming franchises like Call of Duty and Mass Effect to