Gaming

By Stephany Nunneley, Thursday, 24 September 2020 20:57 GMT Patch 1.3.1 has been released for Marvel’s Avengers and addresses a handful of large issues. Smaller than last week’s patch, it includes a fix for Marvel Avengers players being unable to accept Faction Missions/Villain Sectors. Because this bug prevented players from being able to earn specific rare

By Stephany Nunneley, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 20:53 GMT Frictional Games has announced Amnesia: The Dark Descent and A Machine for Pigs are is now available as open source. The code released contains all the game code for both Amnesia: The Dark Descent and A Machine For Pigs. It also contains all editor codes. The

By Stephany Nunneley, Tuesday, 22 September 2020 20:55 GMT Just a quick reminder letting you know that Halo 3: ODST is available now on PC through Halo: The Master Chief Collection. Halo 3: ODST lands on PC today and with Xbox Game Pass for PC on the Microsoft Store, and Steam. The game finds you

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. We’ve been watching the next generation of game consoles evolve from leaks and rumors over the past year, waiting for the day when the new console war would begin. And today is the day. Microsoft launched pre-orders for the Xbox

Over the past decade, Nvidia has more or less invented the modern AI and machine-learning market. The company continues to make remarkable strides generation-on-generation and Ampere’s performance per dollar is very good. Nvidia currently has no serious competition in the GPU AI market. But — having said all that — there’s no such thing as

By Dom Peppiatt, Monday, 21 September 2020 20:40 GMT Activision Blizzard has announced BlizzConline, an all-digital, online-only event that will be the alternative to a physical BlizzCon 2020. Earlier this year, Blizzard announced that it would cancel this year’s event – BlizzCon 2020 – ‘in light of all the health and safety considerations’ the company

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Microsoft might have failed to get a piece of TikTok during the recent scramble for a US partner, but it just secured a much more valuable prize: ZeniMax. The company has agreed to pay $7.5 billion in cash to buy

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The Ampere launch earlier this week showed few weak points in Nvidia’s RTX 3080 — well, other than launch availability, which was here and gone in an instant. One major question has been how AMD’s RDNA2 will compete against these

By Dom Peppiatt, Sunday, 20 September 2020 16:32 GMT The Elder Scrolls Online will be wrapping up its year-long event, Dark Heart of Skyrim, with new DLC that’s due to land in the game in November. In a livestream, Bethesda announced that the new DLC – simply named Markarth – will go live in the

By Stephany Nunneley, Saturday, 19 September 2020 19:57 GMT Doom Eternal’s release on Switch is getting close, but id Software still isn’t sure of a release date. Speaking during PAX Online x EGX Digital, Doom Eternal executive producer Marty Stratton stated the Switch version of the game is “very close,” and the team at id Software

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Nvidia’s hotly anticipated RTX 3080 video card when on sale this week, and most of the people who wanted to buy one were unable to do so. You can thank bots like the one from Bounce Alerts that help resellers

By Stephany Nunneley, Friday, 18 September 2020 18:16 GMT Here’s a look at Night City in Cyberpunk 2077 and some of the folks that live there. This new Cyberpunk 2077 video takes you on a tour of Night City and introduces you to some of the characters living in the metropolis. Each clip in the

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. SLI — an acronym that originally stood for Scan-Line Interleave, then later for Scalable Link Interface — is, as of today, effectively dead in the form we’ve known it the longest. Modern GPUs that support DX12 support two forms of

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Yesterday was supposed to be the day that Sony announced the PlayStation 5’s official pricing, its launch date, and announced when pre-orders would begin. Two of those things happened as planned, which is why we can tell you that the

By Stephany Nunneley, Thursday, 17 September 2020 19:48 GMT Rebellion is bringing Sniper Elite 4 to Nintendo Switch. As unveiled during the new Nintendo Direct Mini, tactical shooter Sniper Elite 4 will come to the Switch this winter in both boxed and digital editions. Sniper Elite 4 is the latest in the sharpshooter series, which

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. A few weeks ago, rumors popped that Nintendo was working on a new console, purportedly to feature capabilities like 4K gaming and next-generation software. Now, Nintendo has confirmed that it’s working on a next-generation platform, though few other details were

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Almost two years ago, I published a review of the RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti titled “You Can’t Polish a Turing.” The article was as much a deep dive into the history of GPU improvement introductions and the amount

By Stephany Nunneley, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 19:35 GMT During today’s Facebook Connect, which revealed Oculus Quest 2, it was confirmed that Ubisoft is developing Assassin’s Creed and Splinter Cell games for VR. Ubisoft is now bringing Assassin’s Creed and Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell universes to Oculus. Both games are being developed “from the ground

By Stephany Nunneley, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 19:26 GMT Ubisoft has released the PC specs for Watch Dogs: Legion ahead of its release on October 29. Below you’ll find options for 1080p low, 1080p high, 1440p high, and 4K ultra settings for Watch Dogs: Legion. The game will support ray-traced reflections and DLSS Ultra Performance

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Numerous production issues have dogged the PlayStation 5 for months, but the most recent news seemed positive, with Sony reportedly increasing its console orders. New information casts doubt on whether the company can achieve its goal, however. Sony has supposedly

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Up until now, I’ve had nothing but praise for Microsoft’s backward-compatibility strategy on the Xbox Series X. But a new announcement from the company represents a retreat from its sensible, consumer-friendly stance:  Microsoft’s Xbox Series S won’t offer the enhancements

By Dom Peppiatt, Monday, 14 September 2020 18:59 GMT Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members can play over 150 games as part of their subscription, starting tomorrow (September 15). After announcing the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S prices just last week, Microsoft is on the warpath again. The company has renamed Project xCloud to

By Dom Peppiatt, Sunday, 13 September 2020 16:50 GMT Sometimes, flinging a knife into the air in the vague hope it hits an enemy player is the best bet you’ve got. Most of the time – probably 99% of the time for your average Call of Duty Modern Warfare player – that knife will plop

By Stephany Nunneley, Saturday, 12 September 2020 17:22 GMT Contents included with PS5 and PS5 Digital Edition have leaked online. According to analyst Daniel Ahmad at Niko Partners, contents of the digital and standard edition of PS5 will contain the same items. The information comes from a distributor in Hong Kong, so the contents may

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Apple has maintained an iron grip on the iOS software ecosystem since the platform launched, but 2020 has brought new challenges. While Apple wrangles with Epic in court, Google and Microsoft are pushing to get cloud gaming on iOS. Apple

In Wasteland 3, while there were multiple interwoven quests involved in dislodging Val from his hiding place, The Psychopath is one long, sprawling story that takes a good while to complete. To get Victory Buchanan back to Ranger HQ in custody, you’ll need a fair few high stats. Before making your way to Aspen at

If you’re a seasoned Borderlands 3 player you’ll be no stranger to boss battles, but the first one in the new Psycho Krieg DLC really is one big Fustercluck. As you progress on the quest with Sane and Psycho Krieg to siege the Crimson Castle, you’ll soon stumble across your first boss battle against Evil

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Microsoft announced the price of the Xbox Series X yesterday, one day after the Xbox Series S price and positioning leaked. Finally. Now that they have, we know the bigger, more powerful platform will be $499. That’s an amazing price,

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. AMD has just announced major events on Oct 8 and October 28, focused on Zen 3 and RDNA2, respectively. While the PC market has been pretty quiet as far as new launches lately, that’s about to change with hardware refresh

By Stephany Nunneley, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 17:05 GMT Some of the PS5 game covers aren’t final, though. Amazon Australia posted five new PS5 box covers on earlier today, although some of the box art isn’t final. The pages seem to have been removed, but our search skills may be lacking today, but at any