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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. There’s a new set of slides being passed around that supposedly showcase AMD’s upcoming Radeon 6900 XT. They’re completely fake. Here’s how you can tell: In the first slide, the branding has been updated at the upper right, but the

By Stephany Nunneley, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 21:04 GMT The second season of Rainbow Six Siege Year 5, Operation Steel Wave, is now available. Rainbow Six Siege players can now jump into Operation Steel Wave on PC, PS4, and Xbox One. The new season introduces the new operators Ace and Melusi, a new Attacker and

Nintendo has announced that it is fully aware that players are selling certain Animal Crossing villagers for big bucks online, and that it violates the company’s Terms of Service. The news comes from J-cast, which conducted an interview with Nintendo about the phenomenon via email. After the reporter pointed out that people were selling Animal

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The buzz around upcoming game consoles from Sony and Microsoft has been building steadily, and KFC — yes, that KFC — has evidently decided this is the time to shake up the company’s recipe for success. KFC has declared that

Persona 4 Golden has already smashed the record for the most concurrently played JRPG on Steam – excluding MMOs – in the platform’s history. The news originally appeared over on ResetEra, where a user shared current Persona 4 Golden analytics. Apparently, Final Fantasy 15 previously held the record for most concurrent players in a non-MMO

By Stephany Nunneley, Saturday, 13 June 2020 21:16 GMT Nightdive Studios revealed a look at Shadow Man Remastered today during the PC Gaming Show. Announced in March, Shadow Man Remastered is set for release in 2021. Today during the PC Gaming Show we were provided a look at the spoofed up version of the game originally

By Stephany Nunneley, Friday, 12 June 2020 17:05 GMT Looks like Star Wars Squadrons might be EA Motive’s new Star Wars game if internet rumblings are any indication. Star Wars Squadrons is a new Star Wars game that popped up on the Microsoft Store. According to Venture Beat, this is the rumored Star Wars: Project

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Danny Bittman is a software developer who specializes in VR projects, with more than an estimated 10,000 hours logged in headsets over the past few years. He’s also convinced that virtual reality headsets are to blame for unusual vision problems

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Google launched its Stadia cloud gaming service late last year, but access was heavily restricted. You could only join Stadia by purchasing a controller bundle, and it didn’t even work on most phones. Little by little, Google has opened Stadia

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. AMD has released a comprehensive vision document/roadmap for its various products throughout the next few years. There’s a great deal of broad data about what the company’s plans are and what products it intends to launch through 2022, so let’s

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Rumors about Nvidia’s Ampere and the proposed family of consumer GPUs based on it have been circulating for months. The latest leaks claim Nvidia is prepping some significant improvements at the top end, along with higher power consumption. According to

By Stephany Nunneley, Thursday, 11 June 2020 01:10 GMT All aboard, hahaha. Oh wait, it’s the Voidtrain, not the Crazy Train. Voidtrain is a new title coming to you courtesy of development studio Nearga. It is a first-person action-survival game and was revealed today during IGN’s Summer of Gaming event. In it, you will become

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. One question we’ve raised with the advent of a new console generation is whether US bandwidth will keep pace with game releases. A new analysis suggests the situation has improved markedly over the past seven years. While games are much

By Stephany Nunneley, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 20:38 GMT For Honor with Year 4 Season 2: Tyranny will begin on June 11. Ubisoft announced the launch date for For Honor Year 4 Season 2, and it is to be called Tyranny. You can jump in on June 11. The new season will also contain a

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. When AMD and Intel jointly announced the Hades Canyon NUC would feature an Intel CPU and AMD GPU with an attached HBM memory pool, curiosity across the user community was high. Unfortunately, the driver situation has turned into rather a

The Xbox event planned for June has been pushed all the way back to August, meaning Xbox is unlikely to show off any new games this month. The news comes from reporter Jeff Grubb, who compiled a “Summer Games Mess” list featuring all of the events arranged to fill the void left in the wake

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. AMD is arguing that 4GB GPUs are effectively obsolete, based on performance data showing a distinct advantage for GPUs with more than 4GB of VRAM. The company’s argument boils down to the following slide: Image by AMD Independent reviews back

Animal Crossing: New Horizons was recently knocked off its perch as the best-selling game on the Nintendo eShop. After holding its position as top dog since it launched in March, Animal Crossing: New Horizons was finally usurped by the recently released Minecraft Dungeons, which is now the #1 best-selling game on the Nintendo eShop. This

By Stephany Nunneley, Saturday, 6 June 2020 19:53 GMT Summer Games Done Quick 2020, the charity speedrunning event, will be held online this year. Organizers for Summer Games Done Quick 2020 have announced due to the situation surrounding COVID-19, the charity event will be held online. The charity event was originally scheduled to be a

By Stephany Nunneley, Friday, 5 June 2020 20:10 GMT When Pokemon Go’s Throwback Challenge ends next week, certain Alolan and Galarian forms will be hatching from all 7 km Eggs. Niantic Labs has announced Pokemon Go players can look forward to something special next week. Players will find that Eggs received from Gifts will contain

Talk to anyone about building a new PC, and the question of longevity is going to pop up sooner rather than later. Any time someone is dropping serious cash for a hardware upgrade they’re going to have questions about how long it will last them, especially if they’ve been burned before. But how much additional

By Stephany Nunneley, Thursday, 4 June 2020 17:26 GMT Rockstar Games will shut down its online games for two hours this afternoon to honor George Floyd. The developer announced on Twitter it will shut down online access to GTA Online and Red Dead Online for two hours during the memorial service for George Floyd. Online

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. This year is Sega’s 60th anniversary, and while the company has long since fallen out of the game console market, it has plenty of nostalgia to mine for this new micro-console craze. Following up its launch of the Genesis Mini,

By Stephany Nunneley, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 19:24 GMT Naughty Dog has released its final development diary for The Last of Us: Part 2. The latest inside look at The Last of Us: Part 2 has been released by Sony and Naughty Dog, and it focuses on the game’s world. In it, the team discusses

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Update (6/2/2020): This is a story I’m truly glad to return to. Since this ran in December 2018, there’s been a huge surge in game mods with exactly these kinds of upgrades. Deus Ex now has New Vision 2.0a. There’s

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. HP has revamped its Omen 15 gaming laptop to be thinner, faster, and cheaper. The new Omen 15 starts at $1,000 and has both Intel and AMD CPU options. While it’s thinner and less clunky than the last-gen Omen laptops,

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Updated (6/1/2020): With new consoles on the way, the question of why game installation sizes are perpetually growing feels more relevant than ever. Sony and Microsoft are emphasizing the speed of their next-generation SSDs, but capacities are only growing modestly

By Staff, Tuesday, 2 June 2020 14:07 GMT We stand in solidarity with Black communities in the US, UK and around the world in the fight against systemic racism, police brutality and oppression. Black Lives Matter. We will be donating to Black Lives Matter, Black Visions Collective, Minnesota Freedom Fund, the NAACP and other charities,

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Google is not the first company to try its luck at cloud gaming, but game developers seemed more excited by Google’s Stadia service. In the months leading up to launch, Google signed numerous partners, including Take-Two Interactive, but the bloom

Some people like to mess around with game trailers and make them look better – this guy rebuilds the entire videos with real Lego. Productionetilego is a YouTuber who has been building video trailers using real Lego sets for almost nine years. Yesterday, Productionetilego – whose real name is Etienne – published an Assassin’s Creed