By Dom Peppiatt, Monday, 8 March 2021 14:19 GMT During today’s Monster Hunter Digital Event, Capcom announced that Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin will be coming to Nintendo Switch worldwide on July 9. The spinoff title from the main Monster Hunter series is a direct sequel to Monster Hunter Stories, and will see the main
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By Dom Peppiatt, Sunday, 7 March 2021 13:09 GMT It looks like the most recent trilogy of Tomb Raider games is due for a release as one big collection if a new listing on the Microsoft Store is anything to go by. Tomb Raider: Definitive Survivor Trilogy has appeared on the Microsoft Store and promises
By Stephany Nunneley, Saturday, 6 March 2021 14:03 GMT Sony has revealed the most popular games on the PlayStation Store in February. FIFA 21 was the most downloaded game on the PlayStation Store in both Europe and the US on PS5. The game also came in first in Europe on PS4, while over in the
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. If you were playing games 20 years ago, you probably spent at least a little time with Diablo II. This game was so popular that some people are still playing it, but an upgrade is on the way. Blizzard is
By Alex Calvin, Friday, 5 March 2021 13:51 GMT The developer has put out seven more minutes of this upcoming release. Skrollcat Studio has shown us a little bit more of its upcoming puzzle-platformer, Hoa. In a seven-minute video given to IGN, the co-founder and art director at Skrollcat Son Tra showed off The Forest
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. When AMD announced its Ryzen 5000 CPUs, it introduced a feature it dubbed Smart Access Memory, known more generally across the industry as Resizable BAR. Resizable BAR allows a CPU to access more than 256MB of GPU memory at any
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Nintendo has consistently downplayed rumors of new Switch consoles, but a report in Bloomberg says 2021 will see the launch of a new high-end version of Nintendo’s massively successful console. This device will allegedly feature a larger Samsung OLED and
Please Nintendo, make your games look good on a 4K TV. The Switch Pro rumours are circling again, and maybe this is the year we finally see it release. As always, the supposed upgrades over the existing Switch (which has already seen a small revision to improve battery life and an entirely handheld version in
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. AMD has announced its upcoming 6700 XT. As the name implies, it’s intended as the lower-end sibling of the 6800 and 6800 XT series and as the generational, drop-in replacement for the 5700 XT. The 6700 XT will hit store
By Alex Calvin, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 13:52 GMT Developer Niantic shows off proof-of-concept using the AR headset. Niantic has shown off what its Pokemon Go mobile game could look like on Microsoft’s HoloLens AR headset. As reported by The Verge, the demo was shown as part of a presentation about Microsoft’s newly-announced mixed reality
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. As we head deeper into March, there’s no relief in sight from the ongoing video card shortage. In fact, Nvidia GPU prices are getting worse, at least in the case of the RTX 3080. This data comes from Michael Driscoll,
Design choice is to help the game’s three-player co-op mode. Developer People Can Fly has explained why there are so many little cutscenes in its upcoming shooter, Outriders. Speaking to Eurogamer, the studio said that the cinematics – which occur for many interactions, like opening doors and jumping gaps – are there to sync up
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. One question that’s come up from time to time in gaming is whether older GPUs get slower over time. ExtremeTech has examined this question before with respect to software updates, meaning we checked whether older GPUs lost performance as a
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Last year, AMD announced a new feature it dubbed Smart Access Memory. This capability gave RDNA2 GPUs a bit of a kick when compared against Nvidia cards back when AMD launched the 6800 and 6800 XT, with performance improvements of
By Sherif Saed, Monday, 1 March 2021 12:20 GMT Deathloop is a game about time loops. Arkane has put together a new trailer for Deathloop, just a couple of days after that slick State of Play trailer. The premise of this one, however, is a little different. In it, Deathloop game director Dinga Bakaba explains
By Dom Peppiatt, Sunday, 28 February 2021 12:07 GMT Reports detailing the situation behind Google Stadia‘s canceled projects shed a little light on a reported Kojima Productions episodic horror game. A VGC report has revealed that Google was talking to Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima about making an “episodic horror game” for the ill-fated
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Google launched its Stadia cloud gaming service in late 2019, but already the bloom is off the rose. A series of increasingly concerning tales from Google’s game division has come to light in the weeks since Google killed its internal
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Sony will allow PlayStation 5’s to finally use their M.2 slots by the summer. The new updates will also unlock support for higher fan speeds, which probably isn’t great news to everyone who likes the current noise profile on the
During the Pokemon Presents stream today, another look at New Pokemon Snap was presented. The previously announced New Pokemon Snap has you taking on the rolled of an apprentice Pokemon photographer in the Lental region. Here, you will work with Professor Mirror who is doing an ecological survey to photograph Pokemon in nature. In the
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Earlier this week, news broke that saddened the hearts of at least a few dozen people: The moderately-awaited overhaul to BioWare’s Anthem, dubbed Anthem Next, will not be released. Now, we’ve got fresh BioWare news that manages to be both
By Alex Calvin, Friday, 26 February 2021 12:57 GMT Titles seemingly coming to Instant Game Collection alongside Farpoint and Remnant: From the Ashes. It seems almost certain that Final Fantasy 7 Remake is coming to PlayStation Plus next month. That’s according to a now-deleted post on the Netherlands Facebook page for PlayStation – spotted by
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Getting a new GPU is almost impossible right now, with prices skyrocketing as supply continues to lag demand. Nvidia has already announced some steps to separate cryptocurrency applications into a new product category, and it’s even got a new gaming
By Sherif Saed, Thursday, 25 February 2021 12:18 GMT Black Ops Cold War’s new Outbreak mode is a little broken right now. One of the biggest new additions in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Season 2 is undoubtedly Outbreak mode, the big-scale Zombies experience taking place on Fireteam maps. Outbreak tasks players with
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Google’s late 2019 Stadia launch was a bit of a slow start. There were only a handful of games, and most of the fancy cloud features Google promised were nowhere to be found. Google’s in-house game developers were supposed to
Ubisoft has not forgotten about cross-play in Rainbow Six Siege, but says the feature will likely be limited to consoles. Rainbow Six Siege developer Ubisoft seems to address the subject of cross-play and cross-progression every few months, but it’s still nowhere to be seen in the live game. In a recent interview with PC Gamer
By Alex Calvin, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 11:52 GMT Players can get a new perspective on the smash-hit survival game. You can now play Early Access blockbuster Valheim in first-person mod. That’s thanks to a mod from NexusMods user Kailen37, which allows people to play the survival title from a first-person perspective. In order to
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. It looks like the reports of PlayStation 5 controller drift are real and the problem isn’t going away. According to a new analysis of the DualSense, the problem is fundamental to the design of the joystick itself. Worse, it’s not
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Ever since World of Warcraft Classic proved there are a lot of people willing to facemash their way through the original, most difficult portion of the game, we began to hear chatter that a follow-up might be in the works
By Sherif Saed, Monday, 22 February 2021 11:19 GMT Valheim has gone from strength to strength. Shortly after Valheim developer Iron gate announced that the game had sold more than 3 million copies in a little over two weeks, the survival game got another boost in active players. After shooting up to Steam’s top-three most
Microsoft has clarified some information about FPS Boost, the newly-announced enhancement feature that can be applied to backwards compatible games. In mid-February, Microsoft announced the first set of backwards compatible titles to take advantage of FPS Boost, a feature that improves legacy games with higher, steadier framerates to make games visually smoother. Working on a system level,
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