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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Today’s most popular games are fast-paced shooters like Fortnite and immersive RPGs like Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, but there’s still a place for some good old-fashioned turn-based strategy with Civilization VI. This game remains in active development after four

By Alan Wen, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 21:03 GMT If you’re looking for other gaming deals besides from Amazon Prime Day, you’re in luck. Rival stores are also getting in on the action with their own deals, and Target even has some lower-priced games. Here’s some of the highlights we found: In some cases, the

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The idea of using a fridge as some kind of combined viewing/food storage apparatus isn’t a new one. The first display-equipped fridge was the LG Digital DIOS, which shipped in June 2000. Twenty years later, we can do a hell

By Dom Peppiatt, Monday, 12 October 2020 20:04 GMT Ruffian Games, the development studio behind Crackdown 2, has been purchased by Rockstar’s parent company, Take-Two Interactive, and is now known as Rockstar Dundee. First reported by TheGamer, Ruffian Games became Rockstar Dundee on October 6 after Take-Two Interactive took ownership of the Scottish studio on October

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Amazon has been an integral part of the gaming universe ever since it acquired Twitch in 2014. That’s also when Amazon Game Studios started working with Relentless Studios on a multiplayer shooter called Crucible. The game launched earlier this year,

By Dom Peppiatt, Sunday, 11 October 2020 17:32 GMT Paul W.S. Anderson has shared the first look at the massive monster Great Rathalos from the upcoming Monster Hunter movie. During a virtual panel at BYCC, Paul W.S. Anderson shared a teaser of one of the most iconic monsters from the game series and spoke about

By Stephany Nunneley, Saturday, 10 October 2020 17:13 GMT 505 Games has announced it has stopped production on Indivisible with one final Switch update to be released. In a statement, 505 said the last Indivisible update will bring the Switch version up-to-date with the game on other platforms and is expect to arrive on October

By Stephany Nunneley, Friday, 9 October 2020 20:12 GMT Obsidian’s The Outer Worlds will finally head to Steam later this month. The Outer Worlds will be available through Steam on October 23, it has been announced. The game was an Epic Games Store exclusive for one year on PC. Released in late-October 2019 for PC,

By Stephany Nunneley, Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:42 GMT Rising Storm 2: Vietnam and ABZU are free this week on the Epic Games Store. Both ABZU and Rising Storm 2: Vietnam are free on the Epic Games Store until October 15. The exploration game ABZU finds you as a diver swimming underwater discovering various species

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. MSI has acknowledged that one of its subsidiaries, Starlit Partners, was able to access stockpiles of RTX 3080 GPUs that the reseller should not have had access to, and that at least a few of these cards ended up being

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. When Microsoft unveiled the Xbox Series X, it was obvious that the console was going to have some serious heat to dissipate. Its components — an eight-core Ryzen CPU, powerful SSD, and 52-CU RDNA2 GPU running at over 1.8GHz —

By Stephany Nunneley, Wednesday, 7 October 2020 20:33 GMT Switch users can download a demo for Pikmin 3 Deluxe today. Nintendo has announced that later today it will release a demo for Pikmin 3 Deluxe for Switch owners. The demo version features save-data transfer with the full game, and completing it also gives immediate access

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. When AMD launched Ryzen back in April 2017, the company made it a point to emphasize higher core counts than Intel was selling in the consumer market, with a Ryzen 7 1800X offering up to eight CPU cores, compared with

By Stephany Nunneley, Tuesday, 6 October 2020 20:17 GMT Insurgency: Sandstorm’s Operation Breakaway introduces a new co-op mode, a new map, new weapons, new cosmetics, and more. In Operation Breakaway, Insurgency: Sandstorm players will find security forces have gone rogue and joined the insurgents. Outpost focuses on defense in a new co-op mode. You will

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. For all the strengths of Ampere as a GPU, it’s going to be difficult to get your hands on this holiday season. That’s according to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who claims his company has been hit by a double whammy.

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Jokes about the size of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare have been running for some months. Last year before launch, the company requested that end-users reserve up to 175GB of SSD space for the game, but promised that the final

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Sony and Microsoft are gearing up for a big holiday season. We’ll all still be stuck at home with time to kill thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, and that makes a shiny new gaming console even more appealing than usual.

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. When Nvidia announced Ampere, most of the attention was focused on the RTX 3090 and RTX 3080. It’s the RTX 3070, however, that I suspect will be the most enduring and impactful card in the family. Last generation, Nvidia raised

By Dom Peppiatt, Monday, 5 October 2020 19:46 GMT Microsoft has shared an impressive selection of stats relating to Xbox Game Studios, which has now launched 15 titles since it was rebranded back in February 2019. Xbox Games Studios, the collective name under which all its first-party development studios is known, has had a great

By Dom Peppiatt, Sunday, 4 October 2020 16:06 GMT It looks like we’re definitely going to see The Witcher, Season 3 come to Netflix, even though Season 2 of the show has not yet finished filming A listing for The Witcher season 3 has seemingly confirmed that Henry Cavill and his co-stars will return to

Minecraft Caves and Cliffs is an update in the works for the game, and it will feature all sorts of new items along with goats. Yes, goats are coming to Minecraft with the Caves and Cliffs update, and they are super cute. Announced during Minecraft Live today, the update is being made to the cave

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Nvidia’s RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 sales were the worst examples yet of how badly online bots are damaging product launches, and the company wants to prevent a similar event from happening when it launches the RTX 3070. To that

By Stephany Nunneley, Friday, 2 October 2020 17:50 GMT Frictional Games has released the first gameplay footage of Amnesia: Rebirth. Frictional Games is showing off the first gameplay footage of Amnesia: Rebirth in a five-minute-long video. In it, you will see various environments, puzzles, and some of the gameplay mechanics along with physics interactions. It

By Stephany Nunneley, Thursday, 1 October 2020 17:22 GMT Pikuniku is free this week on the Epic Games Store. The latest freebie on the Epic Games Store is an indie adventure game from Sectordub, published by Devolver Digital. In Pikuniku, you will help characters “overcome struggles, uncover a deep state conspiracy, and start a fun

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. One of the frustrating things about trying to sort out the RTX instability issues from last week’s launch has been the relative paucity of comments from vendors. Now, however, they’ve collectively broken their silence — and they’re all saying pretty

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War will include a Zombies mode, which was detailed today by Treyarch. In the Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War four-person co-op mode DNA: Zombies, players can expect a fresh, new narrative along with a new cast of characters. The mode includes new ways to progress, classic Perks,

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. We’ve covered the reports of instability across the RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 product families, even cards from different manufacturers. An early theory, coined by Igor of Igor’s Lab, is that the issue could be caused by sub-par power circuitry,

By Stephany Nunneley, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 17:41 GMT A new Assassin’s Creed Valhalla trailer has been released, giving you more insight into the story. In the Assassin’s Creed Valhalla trailer, you will see Eivor torn between his duty to his brother and his personal quest for glory. There’s also a bit of fighting with

A new book by ExtremeTech editor-in-chief Jamie Lendino shows how for the first 25 years of the video game industry, arcade coin-ops set the standards all console and computer games aspired to–and that in some ways have yet to be matched. Arcade fans remember the Golden Age of the late 1970s and early 1980s, but

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. There’s been some additional reporting on the RTX GPU instabilities in user forums and Reddit. Before we dig into the findings, I need to stress that Nvidia has not released a statement on this topic. Individual user investigations are intrinsically