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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The semiconductor shortage shows no signs of slowing down and GPUs of every stripe have been difficult to find for months, to the point that prices are now the most-skewed they’ve ever been. It’s never been harder to buy a

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. A few weeks ago, we wrote about the possibility the rumored Switch refresh coming from Nvidia and Nintendo later this year would use DLSS. Rumors have claimed that the new Switch (sometimes referred to as the Switch Pro) would target

By Stephany Nunneley, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 19:45 GMT The featured creature for this April’s Pokemon Go Community Day will be Snivy, the Grass Snake Pokemon. Pokemon Go Community Day will be held on April 11 from 11am to 5pm local time. During this time, Snivy will be appearing more frequently in the wild. If

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. For the past six months, every CPU, GPU, and console gamers have wanted to buy has been between difficult and impossible to find, depending on your luck, skill, and willingness to pay scalpers a monthly fee for a chance to

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. At least some manufacturers have followed through on putting old GPUs back on the market again. Japanese vendor Kuroutoshikou has restarted sales of the GTX 1050 Ti, with a 4GB card retailing for 22,800 yen, or roughly $200. The card

AMD’s 6700 XT launch last week gives us a bit of an unusual opportunity. Typically, generational GPU comparisons are a bit limited because core counts, texture units, and ROP configurations don’t align perfectly between the families. AMD’s Radeon RX 6700 XT is an exception to this rule, and it allows for a tighter comparison of

By Sherif Saed, Monday, 22 March 2021 14:07 GMT Team17 seems to have picked up a knack for publishing PC tactical shooters. Team17 has announced today that it’s going to be publishing Ready or Not, the tactical shooter from Void Interactive. Though a release date wasn’t announced today, the game is coming to Steam Early

According to Remedy‘s communications director Thomas Puha, developing games across two different console generations at once isn’t particularly fun, or easy. In a new interview with IGN, the Control developer’s head of communications outlined some of the issues with developing games at this point in time – when consumers and developers both are caught in

By Stephany Nunneley, Saturday, 20 March 2021 14:11 GMT Activision Blizzard is set to issue another round of layoffs, which will affect its European publishing offices. Right now, a consultation period is in effect at offices in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, and the UK. According to GI.biz,  Activision Blizzard is planning to consolidate its

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Microsoft is continuing its quest to make Xbox Game Pass a first-class contender for gaming. The company has now introduced support for dual-screen gaming on devices like the Surface Duo. Here’s how the feature works: Fire up Game Pass on

By Stephany Nunneley, Friday, 19 March 2021 13:14 GMT Starbreeze has announced a release window for Payday 3. Coming in 2023, Payday 3 will be made available on PC and consoles. While console platforms weren’t announced, it’s safe to assume PS5 and Xbox Series X/S will be included. Additional content and functionalities are planned for

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Microsoft has announced it will bring the Xbox’s Auto HDR feature over to Windows 10. Over 1,000 titles will have HDR support retroactively added, vastly expanding the reach of the feature inside the PC ecosystem. This is a great announcement

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Nvidia has been trying to make cloud gaming workable longer than any of the other major players. Its current GeForce Now platform has gone through a few incarnations, and the current one is changing in a way subscribers won’t like

By Stephany Nunneley, Thursday, 18 March 2021 14:34 GMT That’s according to Ninja Gaiden: Master Collection developer Team Ninja. Earlier this month, a Microsoft Store listing stated Ninja Gaiden: Master Collection will run at a 4K resolution and at least 60fps. Today, this was confirmed to be the case for some PlayStation and Xbox systems. According

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. AMD and Nvidia often look for ways to differentiate themselves from the competition and one of those ways going forward, apparently, will be cryptocurrency mining. Unlike Nvidia, which opted to limit RTX 3060 mining performance before releasing a driver that

By Sherif Saed, Wednesday, 17 March 2021 14:36 GMT We’re finally going to see actual gameplay of the mysterious Age of Empires 4. Microsoft has announced a new kind of live event today, one dedicated to Age of Empires. Dubbed Age of Empires: Fan Preview, the digital event will bring us a first proper look

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Today, AMD is launching the RX 6700 XT, a new high-end GPU that at least dips below a theoretical $500 price point. Just as the 6800 XT and 6800 filled in the top ranks of RDNA2, the 6700 XT fills

By Stephany Nunneley, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 14:21 GMT Play as iconic characters Drizzt, Cattie-brie, Bruenor, and Wulfgar in the cop-operative action-RPG Dungeons and Dragons: Dark Alliance. Announced in 2019, Dark Alliance is currently in development from Tuque Games – a Montreal studio formed by former Ubisoft veterans. The game is a spiritual successor to Baldur’s

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Up until now, claims that miners had found a way around Nvidia’s Ethereum mining limitations on the RTX 3060 have been fake. That’s now changed after Nvidia inadvertently provided a beta driver capable of mining at full speed on the

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. If you’ve been jonesing for a PlayStation 5 and unable to find one, there’s a good explanation for it: insane demand. We’ve known for a while that Sony’s PS5 was selling well, but a new report from the NPD suggests

By Dom Peppiatt, Monday, 15 March 2021 13:55 GMT Iron Gate’s survival-RPG, Valheim, has taken the world by storm. But as the game gets more and more popular, creative players are finding interesting ways to bypass the game’s mechanics. Enterprising players in the hit survival game have figured out that you can easily move carts

By Dom Peppiatt, Sunday, 14 March 2021 13:55 GMT Ninja Gaiden: Master Collection will run at a 4K resolution and at least 60fps, a new listing on the Microsoft Store confirms. During the Nintendo Direct presentation back in February, the Ninja Gaiden: Master Collection was announced for Switch – and shortly after, it was confirmed that the game

By Stephany Nunneley, Friday, 12 March 2021 20:08 GMT From now until March 15, you can play the original Metro 2033 for free through Steam. The original Metro 2033 will also leave the service on March 15, so you only have a few days to play it. The game is free to play this weekend

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Microsoft’s Game Pass has been around for a while, offering a range of reasonably popular games with a single monthly subscription. Game Pass is about to get a big boost in its game catalog courtesy of the Xbox maker’s recent

By Alex Calvin, Friday, 12 March 2021 13:14 GMT One small tweak that will make a huge difference to players. A new update to Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War makes it easier to see what weapon attachments you have attached. Developer Treyarch announced the tweak as part of its patch yesterday (Thursday March

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The devastating snowstorm that hit Texas in mid-February killed at least 70 people and set record cold temperatures all across the state. Insufficiently winterized power infrastructure failed, plunging millions of people into darkness. Houses burned as homeowners attempted to light

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. A new report on the state of the graphics market finds that the space grew briskly in 2020 compared with 2019, but the growth wasn’t evenly distributed. While the numbers vary depending on whether you consider the entire GPU market

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. MSI has launched an experiment to test how much cryptocurrency revenue one of its laptops can generate. According to the company, it’s using a GE76 Raider and will report how much revenue it earned from the machine at the end

By Dom Peppiatt, Thursday, 11 March 2021 12:36 GMT The Magnificent Trufflepigs is a unique metal-detecting narrative adventure game from the lead designer of Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture. The newly announced game – which is a collaboration between ex-The Chinese Room developer Andrew Crawshaw and his new studio, Thunkd, and publisher AMC Games –

By Alex Calvin, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 13:22 GMT More Viking Grand Designs content, please. One Reddit user has made themselves a pretty cosy home inside a rock in Valheim. User CartronMat showed off one of his “little hidey holes,” which is hidden away inside a fairly innocuous-looking rock in the Viking survival game. A