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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Late on Wednesday, CD Projekt Red co-founder Marcin Iwinski posted a video in which he apologized for Cyberpunk 2077’s abysmal console launch. Iwinski took responsibility for the decision to launch the title and its subsequent unacceptably poor performance on the

By Stephany Nunneley, Wednesday, 13 January 2021 20:09 GMT This February’s Pokemon Go Community Day will feature Roselia. Roselia will be the featured Pokemon during the next Pokemon Go Community Day, scheduled for February 7. The event will run from 11am to 5pm local. During this time, Roselia will be appearing more frequently in the

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. There’s no in-person CES this year, but companies are still rolling out new products for the virtual event. Among them is Lenovo, which has unveiled a complete revamp of its Legion gaming laptops. The new machines combine AMD’s latest CPUs

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Nvidia’s new RTX 3000 graphics cards represent a significant improvement over the last-gen RTX GPUs, but finding the latest and greatest can be a challenge. Supply might loosen up a little next month with the launch of Nvidia’s latest GPU,

By Stephany Nunneley, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 20:34 GMT As it couldn’t get any scarier. Ghosts in Phasmophobia can now hear you, thanks to the latest update to the game by Kinetic Games. Now, when talking or taunting the ghost before a hunt, it will now appear and interact in the game. Plus, the ghost

Awesome Games Done Quick 2021 is over now, and as ever, the seven-day speedrunning marathon introduced us to some legendary moments. AGDQ 2021 is the second-highest earning marathon in the event’s colorful history, raising an impressive $2,758,847 in donations from the game-playing public for the Prevent Cancer Foundation. That means this year’s charity donation is

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Last week, a report surfaced claiming that Microsoft and Duracell have a secret agreement between them in which Microsoft agrees to keep AA batteries as the default power standard for its Xbox controllers. Microsoft denied the rumors, which began when

By Dom Peppiatt, Sunday, 10 January 2021 16:02 GMT If your next run through a Fire Emblem game needs more drama and emotional nuance, someone has modded Gilmore Girls into Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones. Developer Marlowe Dobbe (the artist behind Dicey Dungeons) has created the inspired mod, called – unsurprisingly – Fire Emblem: Gilmore

By Stephany Nunneley, Saturday, 9 January 2021 20:24 GMT Valorant Episode 2 will arrive on January 12 alongside a new agent, Riot has announced. The new agent for Valorant is Yoru, who has the ability to teleport for short distances. You can see Yoru in action in the trailer for Episode 2 below. Yoru’s abilities

By Alex Calvin, Friday, 8 January 2021 20:30 GMT The cause of death is not known at the time of writing. Video games voice actor Brad Venable has passed away. The news was broken on social media by fellow actor Darrel J Delfin, who paid his respects to their peer with the permission of his

By Stephany Nunneley, Thursday, 7 January 2021 19:55 GMT Microsoft has reassured Final Fantasy fans that more games in the franchise are coming to Xbox Game Pass. Speaking with TrueAchievements, a Microsoft spokesperson confirmed that missing Final Fantasy titles announced at X019 are still heading to the Xbox Game Pass service. “As we announced at

By Stephany Nunneley, Wednesday, 6 January 2021 20:50 GMT Super Nintendo World will be available for Universal Studios Japan park-goers soon, and those unable to attend can take a virtual tour of it. This virtual tour of Super Nintendo World gives you an idea of what visitors can expect when they go to the amusement

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Cyberpunk 2077’s launch may have been a dumpster fire, but it was undeniably a successful dumpster fire; the company reported 13 million copies sold after taking refund requests into account. The game ran far better on PC than on consoles

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The Super Nintendo is an iconic part of early 90s gaming with classic titles like Super Mario World, Star Fox, and Chrono Trigger. However, the machine itself was woefully underpowered compared with the competition. Nintendo used a series of enhancement

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. AMD has filed for a patent on a chiplet-based approach to GPU design. One of the key goals of this approach is to create larger GPU configurations than are possible with a single, monolithic die. AMD is the third company

Cyberpunk 2077 has lost players three times faster than 2015’s The Witcher 3. CD Projekt Red’s recently-released Cyberpunk 2077 has seen a 79% decline in players on Steam since its launch. The figures, collated by Githyp, reveal that while the game boasted one million concurrent users when it first came to the PC platform in

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The ongoing shortage of Xbox and PlayStation consoles has been a story since these platforms launched in November. The shortage isn’t unique to console gaming — there are problems with hardware availability across both PCs and consoles as recently launched

By Sherif Saed, Monday, 4 January 2021 13:12 GMT Team Ninja looks to be teasing a big year for the Japanese studio. Team Ninja, the developer of Nioh, Dead or Alive and many musou games, has revealed that it’s working on a number of unannounced games, set to be revealed this year. In 4Gamer‘s big

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Earlier this year, Cloud Imperium Games, makers of Star Citizen, declared that it would publish a new roadmap, laying out both recently completed work and showcasing new goals to be completed over the coming year. In his discussion of the

By Grace Curtis, Wednesday, 30 December 2020 16:04 GMT Epic’s second last free game is here, and as predicted, it’s the 2012 action-RPG Torchlight 2.  Log into the Epic Store any time between now and 8am PT / 11am ET / 4pm GMT tomorrow to download the game. You can also get the original Torchlight

By Grace Curtis, Wednesday, 30 December 2020 15:33 GMT Let’s do a little experiment. Flex your shoulders back and count how many times your spine goes pop. Personally I’d put it at somewhere between fifteen and thirty, but that’s just me. Maybe it’s time to invest in a better chair – like those gigantic cushioned

By Grace Curtis, Wednesday, 30 December 2020 14:31 GMT Didn’t get that snazzy gaming laptop you wanted for Christmas? No sweat. Best Buy is running a surprisingly good end of year sale, which includes savings in the hundreds on new gaming laptops.  As is often the case, discounts are proportional to price – that is

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Google launched Stadia just over a year ago to a distinct lack of cheers, and for good reason. There weren’t many games, the controller bundle was expensive, and the service was unreliable. Stadia has not been completely rehabilitated in the

By Grace Curtis, Tuesday, 29 December 2020 16:24 GMT Drumroll please! Okay, maybe not. The list of free games in the Epic Games Store Winter Sale leaked quite a while ago, so there’ll be no monocle-popping or tea-spitting or expressions of indignant surprise in any form. But yes, the prophecy is true yet again, and

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Fresh leaks suggest that Nvidia’s next-generation GPU will be named after computing pioneer Ada Lovelace with an enormous jump in maximum GPU core counts relative to current parts. The leaks, written by @kopite7kimi, suggest the chip could pack 12 GPU

By Grace Curtis, Tuesday, 29 December 2020 15:49 GMT Hello! While the rest of the VG team are away for the holidays, we here at Jelly Deals are burning the midnight oil, so you’ll see a little activity between now and the 4th. First things first: Cheap drives. They don’t look terribly flashy, but extra

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The original Nintendo Game Boy was among the most popular electronic gizmos for several years running in the late 80s and early 90s, so naturally, there were a lot of accessories. Not all Game Boy accessories were given Nintendo’s explicit

By Tom Orry, Thursday, 24 December 2020 16:50 GMT That’s your lot from VG247 this year. Have a good holiday, everyone. Image credit: funny.pho.to It’s that special time of the year when work stops. Team VG247 is signing off for the rest of 2020 as we all take a well-earned holiday. We’ll return on January

2020 was a good year for Fallout games. Oh ho ho, no, I’m not talking about Fallout 76 retconning its entire storyline to reanimate long-dead characters in what must be one of the biggest gaming u-turns ever. What? No NPCs? Nah, you’re thinking of Fallout 75; there’s always been a dive bar there. Fetch our

I was one of those FF fans that didn’t even want a Final Fantasy 7 Remake to begin with – but there’s no denying that Square Enix nailed it. I never quite saw the point in a remake. Yeah, Cloud and his friends looked incredibly dated in the PS1 game, but as far as I