Gaming

By Dom Peppiatt16 August 2021 20:35 GMT If you’ve been playing Pokemon Unite lately, you’ll be pleased to know that Blissey will be the next creature to enter the arena – and it’s coming later this week. The Pokémon Company has today confirmed the addition of Blissey for the new Pokemon MOBA, Pokemon Unite. Via

Rockstar Games is developing remakes of Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for PC, consoles, and mobile, as per a new report. According to a new report from Kotaku, the remakes are being created in Unreal Engine and will use a mix of “new and old

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. If you’re interested in gaming reminiscent of the past, you only have to look to the future: Retro Games Ltd has announced it will release its Amiga 500 Mini console in early 2022. The $139 A500 Mini, named after the

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. (Image is from Moana, rendered via Intel OSPray, an open-source ray tracing engine.)Intel has hired Anton Kaplanyan to help drive the company’s ray tracing efforts and overall graphics research. Kaplanyan has devoted his career to ray tracing and researching various

By Dom Peppiatt11 August 2021 20:22 GMT Yacht Club has revealed Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon, billed as “puzzle adventure mash-up”, is due to launch later this year. Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon, a spin-off featuring many of the characters you’ll recognize from the original games and its expansions (plus a few new ones, to boot) was first

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. New reports from Bloomberg and conflicting reports on whether the AMD Radeon 6600 XT is available to buy on launch day paint a complicated picture of what’s going on in the semiconductor world right now. The ongoing chip shortage is

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. According to AMD, the newly launched Radeon RX 6600 XT is a 1080p rasterized gaming card. To its credit, the company is very explicit about this. The company’s press releases and public statements mention rasterization in particular and make little

Rocket League Season 4 launches later this week on every platform you can play the game on, and it’s bringing a fair amount of new content with it. Rocket League developer Psyonix has finally announced the release date for Season 4 of Rocket League. The new Season is due to go live on August 11

AMD’s Radeon RX 6600 XT launches today, and AMD knows exactly what this $379 GPU is good for: rasterized 1080p gaming. The company has thumped this point in its messaging and press releases; the PR for today’s launch claims the 6600 XT is “designed to deliver the ultimate high-framerate, high-fidelity, and highly responsive 1080p gaming

By Dom Peppiatt9 August 2021 18:36 GMT The second part of Final Fantasy creator and Mistwalker founder Hironobu Sakaguchi’s latest RPG, Fantasian, launches into Apple Arcade this Friday, August 13. The charming and well-received ‘Diorama Adventure RPG’, Fantasian, is due to get its second part on Apple Arcade later this week. After the first part

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. (Photo: PC Gamer)  Valve’s Steam Deck is shaping up to have the capabilities of a full tower PC with the comfort and flexibility of the Nintendo Switch—but with a few extra features tacked on. Thanks to strong pre-order demand, Valve

Pokemon Go continues to swiftly move from one event to another, and it’s the time of year once more where we get an Ultra Unlock event. The 2021 Ultra Unlock brings with it a bunch of special timed Ultra Unlock research quests that’ll live alongside the current month’s missions, and the opportunity to catch a

By Stephany Nunneley7 August 2021 18:54 GMT Bloober Team has released a video explaining in detail how the PlayStation 5 version of The Medium increases immersion through the DualSense controller. Featuring dual-reality gameplay, The Medium puts you in the shoes of Marianne, a medium haunted by visions who can interact with two worlds: the real, and the

By Josh Broadwell6 August 2021 17:48 GMT The Fortnite Rift Tour kicks off August 6 and runs all weekend with several shows. Epic provided the start time for each of the five Rift Tour concerts, but you’ll want to plan ahead. Not everyone will make it in, and you’ll need to arrive early. Watch on

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Just after hitting 10 million PS5 sales, Sony has announced that its pricier version of the console is no longer selling at a loss. Its $399 Digital Edition, however, still has a while to go.  In a financial pulse check

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. News broke (or “broke”) yesterday on the fact that AMD’s Fidelity FX Super Resolution (FSR) is derived from a Lanczos sharpening filter. The reason we put “broke” in quotes is because AMD literally published statements in its own publicly available

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. (Photo: RaymanGold22) If you haven’t been paying attention this week, some individuals who appear to have acquired (or at least used) some old logos and references to 3dfx have claimed they will bring its products — and new products —

Evil Dead: The Game has been delayed to next year. Originally slated to release this year on PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S, Evil Dead: The Game has instead been delayed to February 2022. Watch on YouTube According to the developer, Boss Team Games, the extra time will give the team

Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin Update 2 is coming tomorrow, and Capcom has released the patch notes for it alongside a look at the content roadmap. The version 1.2.0 update for Monster Hunter Stories 2 will arrive on August 5, and it adds a new co-op exclusive quest monster Kulve Taroth (thanks, Gematsu). Watch

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Steam has released new-and-improved versions of its downloads page and storage manager, and PC gamers everywhere are rejoicing. The release allows you to view multiple libraries at once, view all download speed details in one clean line, and reorder downloads,

AMD’s 5700G and 5600G dropped yesterday as the latest Zen 3 CPUs and the first major additions to the product line in some months. The 5700G and 5600G combine AMD’s latest Zen 3 architecture with the older Vega graphics core. In order to speed time to market, AMD essentially swapped the Ryzen 4000’s Renoir CPU

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. If you haven’t had enough of fighting interdimensional aliens to save science and the world, never fear: Half-Life fans are at it again with another remake, this time titled Half-Life 2: Remastered Collection. Valve reporter Tyler McVicker confirmed the legitimacy

Tribes of Midgard Unfrozen Talisman is crucial for crafting some of the game’s stronger, cold-resistant equipment. Finding the Unfrozen Talisman locations is a bit of a puzzle itself, however. You’ll need some culinary flair to grab the Talismans and make it out alive. Watch on YouTube Tribes of Midgard Unfrozen Talisman | Unfrozen Talisman locations

The Ascent Mutual Dependencies quest should be fairly straightforward. You need to find and kill the Fullchromes but there’s a catch. Finding the Fullchromes is the hardest part, and not just because the road to the meeting place is long. Watch on YouTube The Ascent Mutual Dependencies | How to start the main mission Mutual

AMD’s 6600 XT announcement last week wasn’t about ray tracing — the company didn’t mention the feature much one way or the other — but it got me thinking. We’re coming up on three years since Turing introduced ray tracing to high-end and ultra-high-end graphics cards. Last fall, Nvidia introduced Ampere, which featured substantially better

By Stephany Nunneley31 July 2021 21:09 GMT Apparently, the Steam version of The Ascent and the PC version available through Game Pass are not the same. This is according to players of The Ascent on PC that noticed the Game Pass version does not support Nvidia’s DLSS and that ray tracing doesn’t work. Watch on

By Stephany Nunneley31 July 2021 15:35 GMT Looks like there are some Halo: Infinite spoilers out in the wild. The first technical test for Halo: Infinite multiplayer is live for Halo Insiders, and along with being able to play against bots, something else was included in the test – something 343 Industries didn’t mean to

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Hopefully, you haven’t needed a GPU in the last year because prices have been out of control. The combination of semiconductor shortages and pandemic-boosted gaming pushed prices up, but it was cryptocurrency that made graphics cards worth their weight in

The Tribes of Midgard Golden Egg is a bit of a mystery at present. It’s one of many Tribes of Migard runes, but unlike most, the Golden Egg seems to have little effect on your stats. In fact, it seems to have little effect at all, though there is one useful thing you can do

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Sony has released details on how end-users should upgrade the storage on their PlayStation 5, as well as some important information on M.2 drive compatibility. There’s a bit of fine print to all this that could impact what kind of