Gaming

By Cian Maher, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 19:49 GMT It was recently confirmed that, among other things, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is set to resurrect the much beloved instakill hidden blade that is ubiquitous to earlier entries in the series. In a recent interview with Kotaku, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla creative director Ashraf Ismail confirmed that the

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. There are persistent rumors that both Diablo II and Diablo IV could drop before the end of the year, alongside the upcoming World of Warcraft expansion, Shadowlands. Blizzard has reportedly come under pressure to show more return on investment on

By Emily Gera, Monday, 11 May 2020 18:31 GMT Four years after its launch, Civilization 6 is getting a new season pass that will deliver six fresh DLC packs. Starting May 21, developer Firaxis Games will release a new DLC pack every other month through to next year. The first on the block is the

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. We’re at the dawn of a new game console generation, and both Sony and Microsoft are hoping to come out of the gate with strong sales. However, numerous reports claim that Sony is having trouble keeping the PlayStation 5’s price

By Emily Gera, Sunday, 10 May 2020 18:17 GMT After two years of inactivity, the official Twitter account for the Mafia series has tweeted out a single word: Family. The tweet coincides with Mother’s Day here in North America, but if recent trademarks are anything to go by it’s more likely the tweet is teeing

There are a few games you can play this weekend for free on Steam. Free play weekends on Steam are available for Heliborne, The Golf Club 2019, Marble Skies, and Memories of Mars. You can also download and keep Showdown Bandit for free now through June 1. Memories of Mars is free to play until

By Stephany Nunneley, Friday, 8 May 2020 16:46 GMT Amazon has posted videos highlighting two of the playable hunters in the upcoming free-to-play shooter Crucible. The free-to-play PvPvE shooter Crucible will feature ten hunters including Earl and Ajonah. Earl is a gunner with high health and self-healing, while Ajonah is a raider who uses a

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Whether you own a Nintendo Switch, a PS4 Pro, or an Xbox One X, you’ve got a platform capable of playing new, cutting-edge games — but what sets these machines apart from each other, or from mainstream gaming PCs? In

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Out of all the video game companies, Nintendo seems to be the one best-positioned to ride out the pandemic sweeping the planet. While Sony and Microsoft are enjoying an increased wave of gamers in their ecosystems as well, the realities

By Stephany Nunneley, Thursday, 7 May 2020 17:55 GMT The Ascent is a new action-RPG coming to Xbox One and Xbox Series X this year. The Ascent was announced today during the latest episode of Inside Xbox, and it’s an action-RPG that blends both sci-fi and cyberpunk elements. In it, players will be able to

By Stephany Nunneley, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 17:42 GMT Skater XL has a release date. Skater XL will be released July 7 on PC through Steam, PlayStation 4, Switch, and Xbox One the developer, Easy Day Studios, has announced. The game will be made available digitally on all platforms and on disc for PS4 and

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Nintendo is notoriously secretive about its development process, but we just got a glimpse of how the sausage is made thanks to a massive leak of data from the Nintendo Wii and N64. Among the thousands of files posted online

By Stephany Nunneley, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 16:19 GMT We’ll hear more about Cyberpunk 2077 and get a new look at it next month. Cyberpunk 2077 news and a look at the game is coming on June 11. The news was teased via the game’s official Twitter account and by CD Projekt Red’s global community

By Emily Gera, Monday, 4 May 2020 17:24 GMT Electronic Arts will still present its annual EA Play Live event in 2020. Unsurprisingly, it won’t be a physical event. This year’s EA Play Live will stream online on June 11 from 4pm PST, and Electronic Arts is promising there will be “world premieres, news and

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Microsoft launched Xbox Game Pass in 2017, seeking to become the long-fabled “Netflix for games.” The company has never talked about subscriber counts, until now. In its most recent investor call, Microsoft revealed Xbox Game Pass has seen strong growth

By Stephany Nunneley, Saturday, 2 May 2020 20:38 GMT He actually made it fit. YouTuber Equalo has turned an NES console into a PC case, and with a few modifications, managed to fit a GTX 1660 Super into it. While he used a riser cable to allow the CPU to sit flat inside the case,

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. For fans of retro game consoles and home computer systems, it’s been a long time coming: RetroPie 4.6 has launched, with the star feature being official support for the Raspberry Pi 4. The RetroPie team took its time on purpose

Ever since 3dfx debuted the original Voodoo accelerator, no single piece of equipment in a PC has had as much of an impact on whether your machine could game as the humble graphics card. While other components absolutely matter, a top-end PC with 32GB of RAM, a $4,000 CPU, and PCIe-based storage will choke and

By Emily Gera, Sunday, 26 April 2020 22:26 GMT Void Bastards, a strategy-shooter from Irrational Games co-founder Jonathan Chey, is coming to Nintendo Switch next week. The announcement was made today by Humble Bundle and developer Blue Manchu, and comes just a week after confirmation of a PS4 release coming May 7. Void Bastards first

By Stephany Nunneley, Saturday, 25 April 2020 20:28 GMT Dovetail Games has outlined the five areas where you will cast your line when The Catch: Carp and Coarse is released. Fishing enthusiasts will be pleased to hear about the lovely fishing areas in The Catch: Carp and Coarse, slated for release later this year. There

By Stephany Nunneley, Friday, 24 April 2020 19:43 GMT Xur is back with new items in Destiny 2, and he will be hanging around until the reset next week. Destiny 2 players can find Xur stationed on Nessus, hanging out on the Barge at Watcher’s Grave. Exotics on offer this week are a grenade launcher,

The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has upended economic activity around the globe and made it rather difficult to plan a PC upgrade. With tens of millions of people recently out of work and everyone stuck at home, boosting the performance of the hardware you’ve got on hand suddenly became a lot more interesting. Before we kick-off,

By Stephany Nunneley, Thursday, 23 April 2020 20:10 GMT You can dive into Call of Duty: Modern Warfare multiplayer this weekend for free through Warzone. This weekend, Activision is making five Call of Duty: Modern Warfare multiplayer maps free to play in Warzone until April 27. Starting tomorrow, April 24, you can play across five multiplayer

By Sherif Saed, Thursday, 23 April 2020 11:53 GMT The leaked Team Fortress 2 code has some very colourful notes from developers. By now, anyone who wants to check the leaked Team Fortress 2 source code can. Though Valve did confirm that it’s from 2017, and doesn’t pose a security risk, this won’t stop people

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Computers today are so enormously improved from the devices I used in my childhood, it scarcely feels accurate to refer to them with the same word. Mostly, that’s a good thing. I do not miss the days when hard drive

By Lauren Aitken, Wednesday, 22 April 2020 12:26 GMT The Travis Scott Astronomical event begins this week and as part of the new challenges, you’ll need to find and bounce on some giant Astro heads. The Astronomical event takes place around the Sweaty Sands area of the map and a new stage has been built

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Nvidia’s GeForce Now service has lost another set of publishers. As of Friday April 24, games from Codemasters, Klei Entertainment, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and Xbox Game Studios will be leaving the service. They aren’t the first. Activision-Blizzard, 2K, Bethesda,

By Sherif Saed, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 11:41 GMT Death Stranding will miss its PC release date. Kojima Productions has announced today that Death Stranding will now arrive July 14 on PC, a six-week delay from its previously announced June 2 release date. The reason for this delay is simple, and it has to do

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. If you haven’t updated your graphics drivers recently, you may not be aware of a change Nvidia instituted in December of 2019. Starting from that date, the Nvidia Control Panel is no longer distributed in the version of Nvidia drivers

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Early benchmarks of the Ryzen 7 4800U’s integrated graphics solution suggest that the 15W APU can nearly keep pace with an Intel system equipped with a GeForce MX250. While the MX250 is a modest performance target, it’s still impressive to