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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Microsoft’s xCloud cloud gaming service is expanding in 2021 and its Xbox Game Pass service is driving new engagement with the Xbox ecosystem. That’s the word from the company in a recent blog post, which highlighted recent developments for both

When AMD launched its new Radeon 6900 XT yesterday, it didn’t just re-enter the high-end GPU market. It also put the final, beautiful paper crown on a fall season filled with a virtual blizzard of it, from multiple manufacturers. Nvidia kicked off this unwelcome trend when stocks of new consumer Ampere cards ran dry seconds

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Nvidia rolled out ray tracing capabilities in its Turing-based graphics cards in 2018, which can make in-game lighting effects look eerily realistic. You don’t usually think of Minecraft as a realistic game, but the developers have been hard at work

By Stephany Nunneley, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 20:32 GMT Constantin Film has issued an apology over dialogue in the Monster Hunter film which insulted Chinese audiences. A rhyme which is considered racist to people of Chinese and Japanese origin in the Monster Hunter film resulted in it being pulled from cinemas in China. Constantin says

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. MSI has announced today that $340,000 worth of Nvidia RTX 3090 GPUs have been stolen from its factory. The theft, which is theorized to have involved as many as 10 GPUs given current prices, may have been an inside job.

Scott Pilgrim vs The World: The Game – Complete Edition finally has a release date, as Ubisoft starts making plans for its 2021 slate of game releases. The awkwardly long-titled re-release of Ubisoft’s 2D beat ’em-up is bringing Scott Pilgrim, Ramona Flowers, Knives Chau, Stephen Stills, and more besides back to consoles and PC early next

By Dom Peppiatt, Sunday, 6 December 2020 16:43 GMT Mediatonic has shown off four more new costumes for Fall Guys that will arrive in the game’s third Season. Fall Guys Season 3 is set to land on PS4 and PC soon, and it’ll introduce a whole new Winter Knockout theme to the multiplayer title. The next

By Stephany Nunneley, Saturday, 5 December 2020 21:01 GMT Dragon Quest 11: Echoes of an Elusive Age has been delisted on Steam with the release of Dragon Quest 11 S: Echoes of an Elusive Age – Definite Edition. Steam has removed Dragon Quest 11: Echoes of an Elusive Age off the store at the request

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Razer has a habit of showing up at CES with wild concept hardware that it never releases, but the Tomahawk gaming PC it showed off at last year’s event is becoming a reality. The ultra-compact PC will be available for

By Stephany Nunneley, Friday, 4 December 2020 18:26 GMT Looks like Oscar Isaac will portray Solid Snake in Sony Pictures’ Metal Gear Solid film. That’s according to a Deadline report (and confirmed by The Hollywood Reporter) stating Isaac will star in the film based on the Metal Gear Solid video game series from Konami. Issac

This week’s free game on the Epic Games Store is live, and next week you will get two free games. Studio Pixel’s rather cute and popular indie game Cave Story+ is free this week on the Epic Games Store. It features an original story full of mystery and fast-paced fun where you will run, jump,

By Stephany Nunneley, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 20:38 GMT CD Projekt RED doesn’t want you posting streams or Let’s Plays of Cyberpunk 2077 before its official release. If you do post these, or any similar content for Cyberpunk 2077 before December 10, it will be taken down by the company. The reason is CDPR doesn’t

By Grace Curtis, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 21:43 GMT The new Humble ‘Explore and Expand’ Bundle contains nine out-of-this-world games for just $10. This month the emphasis is on strategy and conquest, with the entry-level price ($1) netting you retro space RPG Hayclon 6, dystopian adventure Rain of Reflections, and civilizational simulator Sins of a

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Nvidia launched its new RTX 3000-series video cards this fall, not that you’ve probably ever seen one in stores. Resellers managed to buy up almost every RTX 3080 and RTX 3070. Now, Nvidia is releasing a new, less expensive 3000-series

By Grace Curtis, Monday, 30 November 2020 19:43 GMT Long live the artbook! What a fantastic invention. Artbooks allow us to relish – along with the artists themselves – the depth and texture of a video game world, the love and care that goes into every character, every object. Happily, Amazon is running a Cyber

By Matt Bassil, Sunday, 29 November 2020 21:39 GMT For Xbox owners with a love of variety, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is a package that’s hard to beat. A subscription nets you access to more than a hundred titles, covering every genre under the sun – along with Xbox Live Gold, so you can play

By Matt Bassil, Saturday, 28 November 2020 17:05 GMT Rat-a-tat-tat, Neoooow, Ba-ding, Kaboom! These are just a few of the lovely sounds that games have to offer. With such a scrumptious selection of auditory delights to be sampled, a good set of headphones has become an essential gaming accessory.  Fortunately, Amazon has knocked a third off

By Henry Stockdale, Friday, 27 November 2020 21:59 GMT GameStop have entered Day 3 of their 5 day Black Friday sale and with it, a new slate of limited-time offers have just emerged, this time focused on Xbox One and PS4 controllers. There’s a range of additional discounts going elsewhere, but for those looking to cover

By Grace Curtis, Thursday, 26 November 2020 22:01 GMT Play a Nintendo Switch for long enough and you’re bound to build up lots of wonderful memories. Memories of beating Gannon for the first time in Breath of the Wild… memories of lapping your friends in Mario Kart 8… and, of course, digital memories, the kind

By Grace Curtis, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 21:09 GMT Walmart have announced they’re relaunching a deal that may just be the best Switch offer available this week. As well as the iconic red and blue console, customers can expect a free copy of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. As usual, Nintendo have been pretty miserly with

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Two pieces of news on the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X today. First, ongoing performance reviews of the two consoles continue to find that the PS5 outperforms the XSX in specific game modes, and sometimes in entire titles. As

By Stephany Nunneley, Tuesday, 24 November 2020 20:37 GMT Microsoft Flight Simulator has been updated with plenty of new points of interest and new airports. USA world update 1.11.6.0 is now available for Microsoft Flight Simulator. It comes with four new airports and almost 50 new points of interest. In addition to the above, you

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’s most notable mini-game, Orlog, is getting a dedicated board game that’s due to hit the market in 2021. The dice game, which you will have most likely encountered if you’ve booted up the latest game in Ubisoft’s open world series, tasks players with depleting their opponents’ health tokens by stealing dice, firing

By Matt Bassil, Sunday, 22 November 2020 20:03 GMT The Nintendo Switch is always a tricky console to get hold of around Black Friday. Deals go up, and Switches come flying off the shelves like they’ve been hurled by an angry poltergeist. To capture this elusive blue-and-red box, you’re going to have to be a

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. When AMD announced its Smart Access Memory, it sounded as if the company had finally designed a method of allowing Ryzen CPUs and GPUs to specifically work together in order to deliver higher performance than either could achieve together. Our

By Stephany Nunneley, Friday, 20 November 2020 20:45 GMT Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War players will get a new map next week. Nuketown ’84 will drop for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War players next week on November 24. Alongside the map comes some other Nuketown goodness via a weapon bundle. [embedded content]

By Stephany Nunneley, Friday, 20 November 2020 20:32 GMT The Last of Us has received the green light from HBO. According to The Hollywood Reporter, The Last of Us will now go into production. Back in March, it was announced the Naughty Dog developed title was getting its own HBO series. It is being helmed

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The Nvidia RTX 3000 family isn’t going to be any easier to find as we head into Christmas, 2020. Any hope to the contrary was dashed during the company’s conference call for calendar Q3 2020. According to Colette Kress, executive

By Stephany Nunneley, Thursday, 19 November 2020 20:14 GMT A new mini-event in Borderlands 3 has kicked off. From November 19 through December 3, Borderlands 3 players will get Legendary item rewards for completing select campaign missions during the free Golden Path Mini-Event. You will be able to acquire the Lyuda Legendary Vladof Sniper Rifle,

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. So you want to stream some video games from the cloud? Apple hasn’t made that very easy on its devices thanks to some heavy-handed App Store policies, but the open internet is coming to the rescue. Both Nvidia and Google