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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Sony’s Mark Cerny, lead system architect of the PlayStation 5, has shared more details on the new console and some aspects of its subsystem behavior. Some of the new details confirm our speculation from March, while others shed light on

By Elizabeth Henges, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 21:39 GMT Need something new to play this month? PSN’s Spring Sale has all sorts of PS4 titles on sale… you just need the hard drive space to download them. The PSN Spring Sale is live in both the US and UK, and there are some great titles

Once upon a time, Microsoft promised a truly impressive 4K overhaul for Minecraft and then canceled it. Shortly thereafter, Nvidia announced that it would create an RTX-powered version of Minecraft, delivering ray-traced visuals to Nvidia owners who own the Windows 10 version of the game and want to play it in this mode. Nvidia has

By Stephany Nunneley, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 20:40 GMT Frontier Developments have announced the second DLC pack for Planet Zoo, featuring animals native to South America Pack, will release next week. The Planet Zoo South America Pack is set to release next week on April 7 and features five new animals and over 250 new

By Emily Gera, Monday, 30 March 2020 22:53 GMT The upcoming chapter of The Elder Scrolls Online is still over a month away, but you can now play the opening prologue quest for free. For the next two weeks, this “bite-sized portion” – as developer ZeniMax Online Studios calls it – of The Elder Scrolls

By Emily Gera, Sunday, 29 March 2020 22:42 GMT Plague Inc. developer Ndemic Creations is working on a new mode that gives players the job of stopping a deadly pandemic rather than creating one. The developer announced the upcoming mode along with its news of a $250,000 donation split between the Coalition of Epidemic Preparedness

By Stephany Nunneley, Saturday, 28 March 2020 15:56 GMT The rights to a live-action adaptation of 80’s video game Dragon’s Lair has been picked up by Netflix, and Ryan Reynolds is reportedly in talks to produce and star in it. According to The Hollywood Reporter, negotiations for a live-action adaptation of Dragon’s Lair have been

By Elizabeth Henges, Friday, 27 March 2020 20:29 GMT Want some awesome retro-style platforming on your Animal Crossing device? You can grab the full set of Shovel Knight games for the Switch at a nice discount! That’s right, if you want Shovel Knight and the three accompanying campaigns (which might as well be full games

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. It’s been a long time since Valve took us to the world of Half-Life, but the wait may have been worth it. The newly released Half-Life: Alyx is being called a true virtual reality masterpiece. It’s actually driving many people

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Two days ago, we covered news from AMD that the company had suffered an IP breach. We now know more about what was taken from the company and how serious the theft is — or more appropriately, isn’t. At first

By Stephany Nunneley, Thursday, 26 March 2020 19:50 GMT Star Wars Episode 1: Racer is coming to PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch, and Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is out today for both consoles. Star Wars Episode 1: Racer will be released for PS4 and Switch with modernized controls for your podracer. In the

By Elizabeth Henges, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 20:13 GMT Need something to play with friends while social distancing? You can grab a copy of Tabletop Simulator and have a bunch of digital board games at your fingertips! The title is currently half off, too. At Fanatical, Tabletop Simulator is half off, bringing the total down

Somehow our family became auto racing junkies. Watching F1 became a bonding experience, following a relative of ours who drives in IndyCar became a hobby, and the action of NASCAR wormed its way into our hearts. Even Formula E has grown on us. So when we were first encouraged to stay-at-home as much as possible

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Sony is in a tricky position with the PlayStation 5. While it heads into the next console generation as the unquestioned winner of the current cycle, it looks as though the PS5 will be markedly less powerful than the Xbox

By Stephany Nunneley, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 19:54 GMT Borderlands 3 players can look forward to a level cap increase later this week, and a new in-game event kicking off next month. During an episode of the Borderlands Show today, Gearbox discussed the level cap increase and the Borderlands 3 in-game event Revenge of the

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. According to the opinion of pretty much every reviewer who has played it, Half-Life: Alyx is one of the all-time best VR game ever made. The question of whether you should buy it is a little more complicated, seeing as

Valve’s road to Half-Life: Alyx wasn’t exactly straight. While the team knew they wanted to test the waters of virtual reality technology, the Half-Life universe was not its original pick for a backdrop. Valve programmer and designer Robin Walker tells VG247 that the developer “spent a bunch of time exploring VR and talking about our

By Emily Gera, Sunday, 22 March 2020 22:20 GMT Amid the US coronavirus lockdown, Blizzard has been delivering care packages of essential supplies to homebound staff in California and Texas. Blizzard project manager Jens Salvesen took to Twitter over the weekend to highlight the thousands of employee care packages of soap, toilet paper and toilet

By Stephany Nunneley, Saturday, 21 March 2020 17:56 GMT Valve believes competition is healthy for the industry when it comes to PC storefronts, even if it is “ugly in the short term.” Speaking in the latest issue of Edge magazine (thanks, Games Radar), Valve CEO and co-founder Gabe Newell discussed his feelings on having a

By Stephany Nunneley, Friday, 20 March 2020 18:47 GMT Sony has posted an update regarding PS5 backward compatibility, stating the majority of PS4 titles will be playable on the new system. According to Sony, the team behind PS5 has made “significant efforts” to enable PS4 users to play their favorite games on the upcoming console.

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. It’s been a few years since Microsoft introduced DirectX 12, and there’s a new set of console introductions coming this fall, so the time is ripe for the unveiling of a new DirectX version. Microsoft has just launched DirectX 12

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. GameStop has told its employees that it considers its own stores “Essential Retail” at the moment and that they should resist any law enforcement efforts to order a store closure. Employees were given flyers with the GameStop corporate number printed

By Stephany Nunneley, Thursday, 19 March 2020 19:40 GMT Skateboarding sim Session has been updated to include the NYC Pyramid Ledges, new tricks, and filmer mode. Session update 0.0.0.4  features 40 new tricks including impossibles, late flips and more. You will be able to perform these tricks across the game and on the NYC Pyramid Ledges

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Many businesses are closed or operating with reduced hours as a way to encourage social distancing. Some countries and US states have even mandated that some types of businesses and public spaces close for the next few weeks. GameStop stores

Now that Sony has finally unveiled the specs for the PlayStation 5, we can do what we’ve been wanting to do for a while and examine overall performance against the Xbox Series X. First impressions count for a lot in the console world, and Microsoft has been quite aggressive in terms of product design. Let’s

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. For the last few months, Microsoft has had the next-generation console PR space all to itself. Nintendo had nothing in the pipe and Sony was staying quiet about the PlayStation 5, which gave Microsoft plenty of room to talk about

By Elizabeth Henges, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 21:25 GMT Spring is almost here! The weather is warming up, the sun is shining, and we’re all stuck indoors. Bummer. Well, at least we can pretend to have a normal life in The Sims 4, which is on sale for only $5! That’s right, for a limited

As if it wasn’t enough to dust yourself off from the last battle, now you have to take on a hulking great Yokai too. Here’s how to beat the Gyuki in Nioh 2– aka the terrifying giant spidery cow thing. Maybe it’s just mental fatigue from the battle with Saika Magoichi, but the Gyuki is

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. We were expecting to get more details about Microsoft’s next game console at the E3 show this spring, but organizers canceled the show as coronavirus continues to spread. Microsoft has decided to make its big announcement without a trade show

Xbox senior designer Ryan Whitaker is offering more details on the next-gen Xbox Series X wireless controller. While the new wireless controller will still look about the same as before, there are a few key differences. Speaking to Xbox Wire, Whitaker describes the main areas that the team wanted to deliver on: improved ergonomics for