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There is no denying that Elden Ring is the best game of 2022. That’s my pick, by the way. I actually think anybody who picks anything else needs to give their head a wobble (though I respect their opinion, of course, and suggest aspirin for the bumped head). Alex on why Elden Ring is a

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The CES trade show takes place in a few weeks, and AMD’s CEO will be delivering the opening keynote. Dr. Lisa Su will take the stage in Vegas, and is expected to deliver the company’s vision for the future. That

Welcome to VG247’s Best Games Ever Podcast: Episode 31 – the best game that made reminds you of Christmas. Christmas is a time of togetherness, of sharing your table with family, friends, and strangers. In that spirit, we invited a number of our friends and colleagues from across the games media to contribute to this,

God of War Ragnarok did the rounds back in November, and sweeped The Game Awards as a result. For those of you who can’t get enough of Kratos, and are no doubt replaying the original trilogy or weeping at the end credits, there’s some good news.Sony Santa Monica has finally confirmed that New Game Plus

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Though AMD’s all-new Radeon 7900 series cards have been relatively well received by the gaming public, all the news about them post-launch has been surprisingly negative. Reports have already surfaced of broken shader prefetch hardware in some cards using early

I’ll be honest with you: I didn’t play many games this year. I blame our wedding. It consumed most of my free time, what with trying to get the photographer, DJ, florist, videographer, and cake bakery sorted. People were also taking their sweet time RSVPing, so I had to get with everyone individually to get

December 22 is here, which means it’s Christmas time thanks to today’s GTA Online Weekly Update! The game has received a selection of temporary changes and updates as is the norm for the vast amount of the year, although this week is obviously an especially unique week with loads of holiday-themed rewards and content. This

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. (Photo: Tingey Injury Law Firm/Unsplash)Microsoft’s tumultuous attempt to acquire Activision Blizzard has largely focused on the voices of its competitors (namely Sony). But of all who are likely to feel the acquisition’s impact, console gamers have been the quietest bunch—until

Rainbow Six: Siege players are receiving unexpected in-game gifts as of late, as hackers have found out how to post images directly to their screens via the ban messages. As a result, memes, NSFW material, and a peculiar looking cock (as in the animal) have been popping up mid-match. Typically these ban messages just show

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. (Credit: Alvaro Reyes/Unsplash)The Switch has been a big success for Nintendo, even though the hybrid console is much less powerful than the game machines from Sony and Microsoft. Even the best game console is not without some flaws, and for

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. (Photo: Erik Mclean/Unsplash) (Image: IGDB)Epic Games, the developer and distributor best known for Fortnite, has found itself in the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) bad graces. The consumer protection agency has charged Epic $520M for multiple privacy violations and for “tricking”

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has just been released for the seventeenth time and I think it’s time that society at large accepted that it’s just not a particularly good open world RPG. Admittedly, it’s a fairly impressive flow diagram of branching story choices and decisions – it would make a great choose-your-own-adventure book or

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The ink has barely dried on the press release announcing the Radeon RX 7900 XTX, and we’re already starting to hear about its successor. Dubbed Navi41, this next-generation GPU will be a major advancement for the company, especially in ray

Starfield. Redfall. Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty. Minecraft Legends. Persona 3 Portable, Persona 4 Golden, Monster Hunter Rise, Lies of P, Routine, Hollow Knight: Silksong, Atomic Heart, Warhammer 40K: Darktide, Ark 2, Flintlock, Guilty Gear Strive, Valheim on console, GoldenEye 007. And many, many more. Are you going to buy any games in 2023? Or are

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. (Photo: HTC/The Verge)For the past several years Meta hasn’t had to face much competition in the virtual reality (VR) market. Sure, there’s been a few companies with headsets, but none have been able to hit the price-to-performance target like the

If you’re looking for a good excuse to replay Final Fantasy 7 Remake, doing so with an actual Buster Sword is one way to do it. OK, so it’s not like you’ll be able to easily get your own buster sword to do this, but streamer, YouTuber, and controller maker SuperLouis64 has made it possible

It’s that time of year again, when we all tell you which of the games that came out over the past 12 months we like the best. It’s my turn, and I hope you weren’t expecting some out-of-left-field pick; an artsy indie game you never heard of that I’ll try to convince you is 2022’s

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. [Ed: AMD has responded to some of these claims, see the bottom of the article for the update.] AMD’s long-awaited RDNA3 GPUs launched on Dec. 13, and although they didn’t score a knockout victory over their rivals in early tests,

Welcome to VG247’s Best Games Ever Podcast: Episode 30 – the best game that made you uninstall. Uninstalling crap games is one thing. But uninstalling a game that would qualify in some way as a “best ever”? That’s a difficult thing to imagine, or determine. Unfortunately for our panellists, that’s the game. To see this

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Now that Intel has finally launched its Arc Alchemist line of GPUs in the US, it appears to be doing most of the heavy lifting itself. So far the only cards we’ve seen for sale are Intel-branded. ASRock and Acer

Imagine you’re 12 years old – for some of you that’s more of a stretch than it is for others. It’s also the early ‘90s and everyone is wearing a fire hazard because it’s fashionable. Video games are a luxury, and rightly so. They’re expensive and you are happy for what you get given by

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. (Credit: Ramon Costa/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)Microsoft’s storied bid to absorb Activision Blizzard is continuing to heat up, and it looks like the company is switching to a familiar tack by insisting its potential acquisition doesn’t have all that many

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Game developer CD Projekt Red released The Witcher 3 in 2015 to universally positive reviews. The game looked stunning at release, but it has been seven years. The company has been working on a next-gen update for The Witcher 3

PlayStation has revealed the roster of new games that’ll be added to its PS Plus line-up next week, and it’s packed full of tantalising titles to sink your teeth into this Christmas. So, what’s arriving on December 20?Catch a gameplay trailer for Judgment, arriving on PS Plus this week, right here.First things first, those with

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. It looks like Intel won’t be competing head-to-head with the RTX 4090 and Radeon RX 7900 XTX anytime soon. In an interview about the company’s plans for Arc GPUs in India, its graphics chief dished on how it sees the

If you’re old enough to remember when Sony announced that it was getting into the handheld video game system thing, you’ll remember how exciting it was. At that time, in 2003, Sony was at the absolute height of its gaming powers, with the PS2 an absolutely undisputed dominator of the market. The idea that Sony

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. (Photo: EVGA)The entire gaming hardware industry was shocked to learn of EVGA’s plans to pull out of the GPU market earlier this year. However, given how close the announcement was to the RTX 40-series launch, it was rumored the company

The Forspoken demo has received a pretty mixed response, but a recent interview with the creative director has made it clear the final game will be different. It would be fair to say that in general, people have been cautious of Forspoken, in part due to one pretty bad ad (that Square Enix itself admits

Do you like robots that disguise themselves as other kinds of machinery? You might be happy to hear about the recent reveal of Transformers: Reactivate. Revealed at The Game Awards earlier this week, Transformers: Reactivate is the latest title coming from Gears Tactics and Brink developer Splash Damage. You remember Brink, right? It had parkour!

It seems additional content may be coming to Elden Ring, if comments made during Hidetaka Miyazaki’s acceptance speech at The Game Awards 2022 are any indication. During his speech, Miyazaki said the team has “several more things” it wants to do for the Game of the Year winner, as winning the award has provided a