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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Unity Technologies released a new “cinematic teaser” last week showing just how detailed graphics can be that are made with its platform. The company makes the cross-platform game development engine named Unity. The demo, called “Enemies,” opens on a woman

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. There’s been a drumbeat of news lately about GPU prices slowly falling back to earth. The cause of this decline has been somewhat hard to pinpoint, as it’s the result of several factors. Now however, Asus has announced it will

Turtles are everywhere in Elden Ring. From the first time you encounter a player message telling you there’s a “dog ahead” only to find a shelled creature wandering aimlessly, to the multitude of turtle-themed items you can find, it’s clear that someone in the FromSoftware team has a soft spot for these sweet, docile reptiles.

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. With the arrival of the DirectStorage API for Windows, game developers have begun talking about what it could mean for future games. The technology is currently in-use on the Xbox Series X and is part of the console’s Velocity Architecture.

Netflix has acquired its third game development studio, Boss Fight Entertainment. Since the firm made mobile games available to its members around four months ago, Netflix has been building its in-house creative development team bit by bit. Its first acquisition was Oxenfree developer Night School Studio followed by Finnihs studio Next Games. “Boss Fight’s mission

Valve has announced its next Steam Fest will take place in June. Steam Next Fest: June 2022 Edition will start on June 13 and end the following week on June 20. As usual, you can expect tons of free demos from all sorts of upcoming games on Steam. This incentive gives developers a chance to

We may finally hear about Sony’s answer to Xbox Game Pass next week if a new report is any indication. According to Bloomberg, the PlayStation Plus mixed with PlayStation Now service, codenamed Spartacus, will be revealed “as soon as next week.” The report states the service will debut with a nice lineup of “hit games

EA and Respawn Entertainment have announed a limited-time Warriors Collection Event is coming next week to Apex Legends. From March 29 to April 12, the Warriors Collection Event will showcase the return of the 9v9 Control mode, a new map,cosmetics, and more. With the event, the limited-time 9v9 mode Control is returning for two weeks,

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The latest Microsoft and Sony game consoles are still hard to find, but there’s still plenty of time to track one down before you have to start planning for the next generation. Sony hasn’t even rolled out all the promised

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. If there’s one thing that applies to almost every person who purchased an RTX 30-series GPU, it’s they paid an inflated price for it. Nvidia’s Ampere series of GPUs have literally been sold out since launch, as bots and scalpers

The April Pokemon Go Community Day will be the first Community Day event since the pandemic started to last only three hours instead of six. According to Niantic, it is shifting back to a three-hour event because apparently only 5% of players particpate for more than three hours. Also, the company said people aren’t out

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The first reports of Steam on Chrome OS surfaced about two years ago, but Google has been mostly mum on the topic. Not anymore, though. Get ready to hear a lot about Steam on Chromebooks, starting with the new Alpha

Elden Ring has been out for around a month, offering up hundreds of hours of Souls-y goodness. And while there’s plenty to keep players at bay for the foreseeable future, many have been at fever-pitch with speculation as to what may come next for the game. FromSoftware has a rich history of adding meaningful and

A new Witcher game has just been teased via the official Witcher Twitter account today. The post shows an image of a Witcher necklace partially covered in the snow, alongside the words “A new saga begins”, indicating the start of a whole new narrative set within the beloved franchise. The post also links to a

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. In what we certainly hope will soon be a global phenomenon, the price of RTX 3080 GPUs has officially cratered in Australia. What’s even more remarkable is the fall wasn’t the result of the slow decline we’ve been seeing. Instead,

On March 24, as part of Patch 2.3, the War Table in Marvel’s Avengers will be reworked to streamline missions and to improve the overall user experience. The onboarding process for newer players is also being reworked, and this includes bringing back Nick Fury to the Helicarrier as a guide. One of the first major

As you know, there are hidden walls in Elden Ring, but one particular wall takes some work to knock down. Discovered by reddit user teristam, there is a wall over in Volcano Manor that will only come down if hit 50 times. See for yourself here. Once the wall disappears, you will find Rya and

Ubisoft has announced a new cloud-native technology for game development called Ubisoft Scalar. Using this cloud computing tech, developers will use the power and flexibility of cloud computing for Ubisoft’s game engines reducing dependency on players’ hardware and providing new possibilities for game development and player experience. The tech takes the components and systems of

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Apple recently unveiled its fastest SoC yet: the M1 Ultra. Its new flagship silicon fuses two M1 Max chips into a single component with “Ultrafusion” technology, and powers the new Mac Studio. When Apple unveiled it at its Peek Performance

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. It’s a sad day for overclockers the world over, as AMD has announced it will not allow overclocking on its newest gaming CPU, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. This was rumored to be the case pre-launch, but now it’s official. The

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. AMD has a habit of periodically dropping major new driver features via updates several times a year, and the company has unveiled the features it’s planning for 2022. This year, the new AMD Software Adrenalin Edition contains a new method

2K and Supermassive Games have announced The Quarry, a new horror narrative game where your every choice, big or small, shapes your story and determines who will live and who will die. The game takes place on the last day of Summer Camp and the teenage counselors of Hackett’s Quarry decide to throw a party

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. We don’t want to get your hopes up or anything, but it seems like GPU prices are finally — finally — starting to fall back to earth. There have been a number of reports over the last few weeks confirming

Guerrilla Games has released patch 1.08 for Horizon Forbidden West. While plenty of things have been addressed with the patch, there are still a few the team is looking into. This includes continued tweaks to the reported graphical issues regarding shimmering, sharpening and screen saturation. There’s also a really specific one where some players have

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Google’s interest in cloud gaming is evolving. At the company’s Games Developer Summit, the technology underlying Stadia has become an enterprise cloud product called Immersive Stream for Games. It’s not the best name, but that’s typical of products in the

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. For the past few months Meta (formerly Facebook) has been evangelizing its vision of the metaverse, but not everyone is buying it. The latest critic is former Nintendo of America COO and president Reggie Fils-Aimé, who laid down some serious

Anybody who claims to have any fond memories of playing a PS2 launch game other than TimeSplitters is a filthy liar. It was a miserable wave of sports and racing games, with a couple of absolutely honking action RPGs thrown in to keep people happy until Dark Cloud came out. Don’t talk to me about

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Valve’s Steam Deck has finally started shipping to those who pre-ordered the machine early. It will take a long time for everyone to get their handheld game machine, and maybe Windows will work well by the time they do. It

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Last week, eagle-eyed customs officials in China noticed something fishy about a shipment of XFX GPUs coming in from Hong Kong. Authorities spotted that some of the GPUs had specification labels taped over previous labels. Upon closer inspection, the specs

Handing over a brick of heroin to a visibly paranoid dealer, I finalise the sale price using the DS stylus – and can’t help picturing a disapproving Shigeru Miyamoto. As the constantly smiling creator of Mario – the huggable godfather of gaming – Miyamoto seems endearingly innocent. Now, I’m using the device that brought us