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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Mechanical keyboards used to be a niche item, but they’ve gone mainstream in recent years. While some people (myself included) are still fiddling with boutique custom boards, it’s easy for your average gamer or writer to pick up a passable

Prime Gaming members are getting a nice batch of titles this month. There’s something for everyone on the list too: driving, simulation, action, adventure, you name it. Games this month include Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order, Total War: Warhammer, WRC 7, Two Point Hospital, Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Remastered, and more. Here’s the full list of

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. In a somewhat surprising announcement at CES, Sony has spilled the beans on what’s in store for the Playstation 5’s next-gen Virtual Reality hardware, and it sounds like Sony is really swinging for the fences this time around. Dubbed Playstation

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. (Image: Alienware)People who own televisions have been able to bask in the glory of OLED technology for some time now, but gamers have been largely relegated to the ancient world of LCDs as the primary type of display to use

Pokemon Go is going classic on Community Day in January with Bulbasaur as the featured Pokemon. On Saturday, January 22 from 2-5pm local time, players will return to the roots of Community Day during the Season of Heritage with the grass/poison-type Pokemon. During this time, Bulbasaur will be appearing more frequently in the wild and

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Nvidia pulled the wraps off some of the worst kept secrets in the tech world today in its CES keynote address, revealing several new GPUs for both desktop and mobile, updates on the adoption of several of its technologies such

A new report from Bloomberg (via Kotaku) details the status of Ken Levine’s small studio, Ghost Story Games, as being in a perpetual state of development hell and nowhere close to releasing a game. The studio, founded in 2014 at the same time Bioshock developer Irrational Games shuttered, was meant to be a small studio

Square Enix president Yosuke Matsuda published a letter for the new year to discuss the company’s future in gaming, and apparently that involves NFTs and the metaverse. In a move that mirrors other companies’ interest in these trends, Matsuda said Square Enix was preparing to look into these emerging technologies. First, he addressed the metaverse

Xbox Achievements site TrueAchievements (thanks Wario64) posted a list of achievements for Goldeneye 007, a curious thing since that game doesn’t exist on Xbox platforms and indicates a possible leak of an upcoming port of the foundational FPS. This is exciting because we haven’t seen a port of the game ever, leaving it trapped on

Joe Ziegler, game director of Riot Games’ Valorant, is moving on from the game to work on something new. In a post on the Riot Games website, Ziegler announced his move after eight years of working on the popular competitive shooter, a year of which was worked on after the official launch. In the post,

As the end of the year rolls around, it’s a time to reflect — in this case, on some of the games we played throughout the year. Most of us at ExtremeTech are gamers of one sort or another, and we’ve rounded up both what folks have played and what they liked. Note that games

The Halo Twitter account announced the release of a cosmetic pack featuring the Mister Chief meme for Halo Infinite, which includes a gun charm, a new AI skin, and other ways to kit out your character with the power of memes. Truly, we’re living in a charmed future where corporations are charging us real money

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Inside one of Riot Games’ offices. (Photo: Hughes Marino) Current and former Riot Games employees have found victory in a $100 million payout soon to be made by the video game publisher. In settling a three-year discrimination class action lawsuit,

I’m not sure why choosing a Game of the year is so hard. Do I pick the game I spent the most time with? Or do I choose a game because it invoked a certain feeling the other games didn’t? I think it’s a mixture of things actually, and if I’m very honest and I’m

Game Developer reports that Riot Games has agreed on a settlement of the class-action lawsuit against the company to the tune of $100 million, a massive increase from the $10 million settlement attempt previously made that was rejected for letting Riot off too easily. The class-action lawsuit came after blockbuster reports of sexism and abuse

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Valve’s Steam storefront has been nominally available in China for years, but the company launched a China-specific store earlier this year. Now, the other shoe has dropped. Chinese authorities appear to have blocked the global Steam domain, leaving affected gamers

Final Fantasy 16 producer Naoki Yoshida recently took to Twitter to inform fans that the game would be delayed by a half a year due to COVID-related difficulties. He previously stated that we’d have more solid info in the back half of 2021 but given that we’re already preparing to ring in 2022, that ship

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. (Photo: Ubisoft) During these unprecedented times, Ubisoft has found itself joining the ranks of many other shocking firsts. The video game studio is losing employees much faster than it can hire them, and for uglier reasons than it’d probably like

CNN reports that Tesla has opted to give up on allowing drivers to play video games while driving Tesla cars after a federal safety probe showed what should have been obvious from the start: Playing video games while driving is unsafe. Dubbed “Passenger Play”, the feature allowed passengers to interface with the touchscreen and play

IGN reported that the latest patch notes for Final Fantasy 14 included a technical improvement that will make many very sad. In Patch 6.01, many quality-of-life improvements were made, but the most noteworthy one is in changing the infamous low-poly grapes found in expansion Endwalker. Initially found in the early days of the expansion’s release,

Kotaku reports that SWAT-inspired tactical first-person shooter Ready or Not from Void Interactive is parting ways with its publisher, Team17. The separation comes after a controversial response from the team to a Reddit post asking whether Void would be putting in a school shooting level in a future update. The response was “you better believe

Halo Infinite made waves in the gaming community as the first Halo game in over 6 years. It hinged on promises from devs to both bring back and reinvent the Halo experience to please long-time fans and attract newcomers. Thankfully, it delivered — along with attractive promotional items for Halo fans.

In an interview with Decrypt (thanks Eurogamer), Ubisoft’s blockchain director Didier Genevois says the company will be plowing ahead with its NFT plans while staying true to its “principles”, as he puts it: “This experiment is meant to understand how the value proposition of decentralization can be received and embraced by our players. We know

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Ask any gamer what they want right now and most will say a GPU, but when you say, “besides that” most will state they always want more immersion. It’s why we have ultra-wide monitors, 3D audio, and high-fidelity graphics, after

Like all live service games with a passionate online community, Dead by Daylight is liable to the occasional silly drama and debates surrounding gameplay intricacies every now and again. Lo and behold, the current discussion surrounding the Lightborn perk, and the topic of survivor vs killer enjoyment it seems to have uncovered. First, a bit

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. It has been 15 years since The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion got horse armor, and games have never been the same. Almost every release from major publishers like EA and Ubisoft have microtransactions, which can let them print money for

Aroged (via GamesIndustry.biz) reported that Quinn Duffy, design director at Age of Empires 4 developer Relic Entertainment, announced his departure from the studio via a post on LinkedIn. He was at the company for almost 24 years. “At Relic, I had a passion for both history and the real-time strategy genre. That’s why I could

The Hugo Awards announced the first winner of its newly created Best Video Game award, and it’s Hades, the roguelite action RPG from developer Supergiant Games. Though the Hugo Awards is a literary awards show dedicated to science fiction and fantasy, this year it branched out into the world of video games and gave Hades

Publisher Super.com announced Deadlink, a new first-person shooter with cyberpunk theming and a roguelite structure. It comes from Gruby Entertainment, an indie development studio made up of devs that previously worked on Outriders and Giant Machines. In a press release, Super.com describes Deadlink as “a fast-paced, guns-blazing cyberpunk FPS with rogue-lite elements” where you become

Ubisoft announced today that the two DLC missions in Far Cry 6 featuring Hollywood icon Danny Trejo that were previously pulled are back and in complete form, adding to the already content-rich first-person open world shooter. Out today, the free update allows players to team with Trejo in two sequential missions. “Danny & Dani vs.