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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Microsoft’s purchase of Bethesda has finally born the fruit most of us were expecting. In a blog post supposedly welcoming its new set of studios to the Microsoft family, Phil Spencer, head of Xbox, laid out the real news: With

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The Nintendo Switch has proven extremely popular with gamers in large part because it’s portable. It’s a bit underpowered compared with the other game consoles, though. A Chinese startup aims to offer a Switch-style device with a lot more power

Comes in the wake of the company insisting that the title isn’t meant to be “political commentary.” The publisher behind the upcoming Six Days in Fallujah, Victura, has backtracked on its stance about the game’s politics. In a post on Twitter, the company said that the events depicted in the upcoming title are “inseparable” from

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Nvidia has won a lawsuit brought against it by multiple investors who claimed the company had deliberately and recklessly misrepresented the provenance of over a billion dollars in crypto-mining sales during the last boom in 2017-2018. To briefly recap: A

There’s a good reason why Zombies mode in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War managed to attract so many new players. Zombies has always been the obscure, niche side of Call of Duty. Of all the different takes on Zombies every new studio tried, it was the original creators of the mode – Treyarch

By Dom Peppiatt, Sunday, 7 March 2021 12:37 GMT Bandai Namco has revealed that Gogeta SS4 is coming to Dragon Ball FighterZ later this week, and revealed a new trailer for the powerful fighter. During the Dragon Ball Games Battle Hour event that took place on Saturday, March 6, the publisher revealed that the newest fighter

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. If you were playing games 20 years ago, you probably spent at least a little time with Diablo II. This game was so popular that some people are still playing it, but an upgrade is on the way. Blizzard is

By Stephany Nunneley, Friday, 5 March 2021 18:45 GMT The Division 2 has 40 million players, and these players can expect a new mode coming to the game later this year. According to Ubisoft Massive, The Division 2 players will be getting a new mode in the next major update and it will be entirely

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. When AMD announced its Ryzen 5000 CPUs, it introduced a feature it dubbed Smart Access Memory, known more generally across the industry as Resizable BAR. Resizable BAR allows a CPU to access more than 256MB of GPU memory at any

By Alex Calvin, Friday, 5 March 2021 11:56 GMT They claim it isn’t related to the discovery of their rather controversial YouTube channel. A lead designer on Hogwarts Legacy, Troy Leavitt, has announced his resignation from Avalanche. The developer said on Twitter that he was leaving the studio and had “nothing but good things” to

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Nintendo has consistently downplayed rumors of new Switch consoles, but a report in Bloomberg says 2021 will see the launch of a new high-end version of Nintendo’s massively successful console. This device will allegedly feature a larger Samsung OLED and

By Dom Peppiatt, Thursday, 4 March 2021 11:59 GMT Nintendo is apparently planning to release an upgraded Nintendo Switch console later this year that will include a 720p OLED screen, according to a new report. As per a new article from Bloomberg, Nintendo is planning to launch an upgraded version of the Nintendo Switch later this

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. AMD has announced its upcoming 6700 XT. As the name implies, it’s intended as the lower-end sibling of the 6800 and 6800 XT series and as the generational, drop-in replacement for the 5700 XT. The 6700 XT will hit store

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. As we head deeper into March, there’s no relief in sight from the ongoing video card shortage. In fact, Nvidia GPU prices are getting worse, at least in the case of the RTX 3080. This data comes from Michael Driscoll,

Sounds bananas to us. Sony has devised some cool new tech that could turn anything into a PlayStation controller. That’s going by an application with US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) – as spotted by GamesIndustry.biz – which outlines how PlayStation reckons it could turn a regular non-electronic object into a game controller. In the

By Sherif Saed, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 11:53 GMT There’s a new Nioh 2 patch on PC, and it’s a good one. Team Ninja has released a new update for the PC version of Nioh 2 earlier. Patch 1.27 finally brings keyboard and mouse icon prompts, something that’s been bizarrely missing since launch. Nioh 2

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. One question that’s come up from time to time in gaming is whether older GPUs get slower over time. ExtremeTech has examined this question before with respect to software updates, meaning we checked whether older GPUs lost performance as a

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Last year, AMD announced a new feature it dubbed Smart Access Memory. This capability gave RDNA2 GPUs a bit of a kick when compared against Nvidia cards back when AMD launched the 6800 and 6800 XT, with performance improvements of

The Pokemon Go Battle League continues on in its new format – with Season 7 of the battle league set to bring players a new chance to rank up and a new suite of Go Battle League Rewards. In late 2020, the Pokemon Go Battle League took on a different format as part of the

By Dom Peppiatt, Sunday, 28 February 2021 11:04 GMT Microsoft is testing a higher resolution streaming solution for the Xbox Game Pass streaming service Cloud Gaming, previously known as xCloud, ahead of a larger upgrade to the service later in the year. According to a new WindowsCentral report, an unnamed (but ‘trusted) game developer source

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Google launched its Stadia cloud gaming service in late 2019, but already the bloom is off the rose. A series of increasingly concerning tales from Google’s game division has come to light in the weeks since Google killed its internal

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Sony will allow PlayStation 5’s to finally use their M.2 slots by the summer. The new updates will also unlock support for higher fan speeds, which probably isn’t great news to everyone who likes the current noise profile on the

By Stephany Nunneley, Friday, 26 February 2021 19:51 GMT Techland is celebrating Dying Light’s sixth anniversary by making the game free to play for the next couple of days. Steam users can play Dying Light for free all weekend. If you end up liking what you play, the game is on sale for 66% off

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Earlier this week, news broke that saddened the hearts of at least a few dozen people: The moderately-awaited overhaul to BioWare’s Anthem, dubbed Anthem Next, will not be released. Now, we’ve got fresh BioWare news that manages to be both

The way Outriders does motion blur is giving people a headache. Following brief problems with server logins, the release of the Outriders demo went fairly well. Away from connection issues, however, the PC version exhibits a number of problems. One such issue is Outriders’ excessive use of motion blur, which not only makes it hard

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Getting a new GPU is almost impossible right now, with prices skyrocketing as supply continues to lag demand. Nvidia has already announced some steps to separate cryptocurrency applications into a new product category, and it’s even got a new gaming

By Sherif Saed, Thursday, 25 February 2021 10:28 GMT The new Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War patch is not without problems. Season 2 officially kicked off in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and Warzone overnight, one day after the release of the big patch. Unfortunately, as is often the case with

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Google’s late 2019 Stadia launch was a bit of a slow start. There were only a handful of games, and most of the fancy cloud features Google promised were nowhere to be found. Google’s in-house game developers were supposed to

The next season in Black Ops Cold War and Warzone is almost here, and it’s time to see everything new in the Battle Pass. Season 2 of Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, and the free-to-play battle royale mode Warzone, kicks off tomorrow. It promises to be one of the game’s biggest, with new

By Sherif Saed, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 10:03 GMT Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is hosting another free week very soon. In celebration of the game’s second season – which kicks off on Thursday – Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War will be making a select assortment of its multiplayer modes free