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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Microsoft has given some publications free rein to publish reports on the Xbox Series X — or, at least, on certain features of the Xbox Series X. These are not full reviews; they specifically focus on the Xbox Series X’s

By Joel Franey, Monday, 28 September 2020 15:35 GMT Amazon Prime Day 2020 will be coming on 13th-14th October, and two brands that have been confirmed to be included in a major way are Nintendo and Sony, bringing with them a range of deals and discounts for Amazon Prime members. This is big news for

(Credit: onurdongel/Getty Images)Bots are increasingly ruining launches. What began as a problem for sneaker collectors has become a serious issue across the entire tech industry. Why couldn’t you buy a Switch earlier this year? Bots. Where’s the RTX 3080? Bots. RTX 3090? Bots. Newegg claims all of its orders were human-verified, as did Nvidia, but

Sega is partnering with 1212 Entertainment and Wild Sheep Content to create a film based on the Yakuza series of video games. Currently, there are no writers attached to the project, but Erik Barmack, Roberto Grande, and Joshua Long are listed as producers on the title (thanks, Variety). The movie will follow Kazuma Kiryu and

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. It’s not unusual to see some users posting problems when a new GPU or CPU launches, but there’s early data suggesting that some RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 GPUs have a stability problem when they push near-to or above 2GHz.

By Stephany Nunneley, Friday, 25 September 2020 20:31 GMT A deep dive on Godfall has been published, giving you more insight into combat. The Godfall deep dive posted on the PlayStation Blog goes over various attacks in the upcoming looter-slasher In it, enemy weak points, breaching, and Soulshatter finishes are discussed, along with Arechon modes

By Stephany Nunneley, Friday, 25 September 2020 16:17 GMT When Beyond Light is released, you will need to re-download Destiny 2, according to Bungie. This is because with Destiny 2: Beyond Light, Bungie has revamped its content building and patching pipeline for “speed and install size.” It also means that Destiny 2’s install size will

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. When you order a brand-new $700 GPU at the very microsecond at which it went on sale, and you order it from a well-known, well-regarded vendor, there are certain things you expect to happen. You’ll probably get an order confirmation

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Cloud gaming is not a new idea — companies have been trying and failing to make streaming game experiences stick for a decade, but it seems like we’re finally reaching critical mass. Amazon has joined the likes of Microsoft and

By Stephany Nunneley, Thursday, 24 September 2020 17:42 GMT Microsoft has announced Doom Eternal will arrive on Xbox Game Pass in October. Come October 1, Xbox One users with an Xbox Game Pass subscription will be able to download and play Doom Eternal. It will arrive on Game Pass for PC later in 2020. Players

By Stephany Nunneley, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 17:17 GMT The Early Access period for Baldur’s Gate 3 has been delayed by one week. Larian Studios has announced Baldur’s Gate 3 Early Access will see a slight delay. Instead of going live on September 30 as planned, it will instead go into Early Access on October

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. We’ve been watching the next generation of game consoles evolve from leaks and rumors over the past year, waiting for the day when the new console war would begin. And today is the day. Microsoft launched pre-orders for the Xbox

By Stephany Nunneley, Tuesday, 22 September 2020 16:17 GMT Bungie has released a new trailer for Destiny 2: Beyond Light, and it takes a look at what you’ll be getting up to on Europa. Destiny 2: Beyond Light players will travel to Europa, the smallest of the four Galilean moons orbiting Jupiter, when the new

Over the past decade, Nvidia has more or less invented the modern AI and machine-learning market. The company continues to make remarkable strides generation-on-generation and Ampere’s performance per dollar is very good. Nvidia currently has no serious competition in the GPU AI market. But — having said all that — there’s no such thing as

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Microsoft might have failed to get a piece of TikTok during the recent scramble for a US partner, but it just secured a much more valuable prize: ZeniMax. The company has agreed to pay $7.5 billion in cash to buy

Phil Spencer has confirmed that Xbox plans to honor the PS5 exclusivity commitment for both Deathloop and Ghostwire: Tokyo. In an interview with Bloomberg, Phil Spencer has confirmed that the PlayStation 5 exclusivity agreement Bethesda made with Sony for Deathloop and Ghostwire: Tokyo still stands. Both games will debut on the next-gen Sony console and

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The Ampere launch earlier this week showed few weak points in Nvidia’s RTX 3080 — well, other than launch availability, which was here and gone in an instant. One major question has been how AMD’s RDNA2 will compete against these

By Dom Peppiatt, Sunday, 20 September 2020 16:32 GMT The Elder Scrolls Online will be wrapping up its year-long event, Dark Heart of Skyrim, with new DLC that’s due to land in the game in November. In a livestream, Bethesda announced that the new DLC – simply named Markarth – will go live in the

By Stephany Nunneley, Saturday, 19 September 2020 15:39 GMT A new update called Origins is coming to No Man’s Sky next week. Hello Games has announced its latest update to No Man’s Sky, Origins, will be released next week. According to the studio, more details and the patch notes will be released closer to Origins’

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Nvidia’s hotly anticipated RTX 3080 video card when on sale this week, and most of the people who wanted to buy one were unable to do so. You can thank bots like the one from Bounce Alerts that help resellers

By Lauren Aitken, Friday, 18 September 2020 16:01 GMT Super Mario 64 launches on Nintendo Switch today with Super Mario 3D All-Stars, so if you missed playing this classic, we’ve got a bunch of walkthroughs to get you up to speed. You have until March 2021 to get your hands on Super Mario 64, which

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. SLI — an acronym that originally stood for Scan-Line Interleave, then later for Scalable Link Interface — is, as of today, effectively dead in the form we’ve known it the longest. Modern GPUs that support DX12 support two forms of

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Yesterday was supposed to be the day that Sony announced the PlayStation 5’s official pricing, its launch date, and announced when pre-orders would begin. Two of those things happened as planned, which is why we can tell you that the

By Stephany Nunneley, Thursday, 17 September 2020 16:16 GMT Nintendo has ended 3DS production, according to a notice posted to Nintendo’s regional sites. Nintendo has ceased to manufacture 3DS handhelds, according to a notice on the Nintendo UK and Japan websites. The notice states: “manufacturing of the Nintendo 3DS family of systems has ended,” (thanks,

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. A few weeks ago, rumors popped that Nintendo was working on a new console, purportedly to feature capabilities like 4K gaming and next-generation software. Now, Nintendo has confirmed that it’s working on a next-generation platform, though few other details were

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Almost two years ago, I published a review of the RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti titled “You Can’t Polish a Turing.” The article was as much a deep dive into the history of GPU improvement introductions and the amount

Take-Two’s CEO has a similar outlook on cloud gaming as he once did on virtual reality. Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick, who once said that Google oversold the promise of cloud gaming, doesn’t usually mince words. In an interview with Protocol, he made his feelings on cloud gaming very clear, and they’re not unlike those he

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Numerous production issues have dogged the PlayStation 5 for months, but the most recent news seemed positive, with Sony reportedly increasing its console orders. New information casts doubt on whether the company can achieve its goal, however. Sony has supposedly

By Stephany Nunneley, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 15:34 GMT Epic and Nvidia have announced DLSS and ray tracing will go live in Fortnite this week. RTX is coming to Fortnite on September 17, the companies announced. Once the update is live, you can expect ray traced reflections, shadows, global illumination, and ambient occlusion significantly raising

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Up until now, I’ve had nothing but praise for Microsoft’s backward-compatibility strategy on the Xbox Series X. But a new announcement from the company represents a retreat from its sensible, consumer-friendly stance:  Microsoft’s Xbox Series S won’t offer the enhancements