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AMD is launching its new RTX 5600 XT today ($279) and we’ve decided to examine the GPU in what’s become a rather unusual method for primary hardware reviews: We’re going to examine AMD’s performance on an AMD X570 motherboard and compare against Nvidia cards on that basis. Ryzen has been a solid CPU for gaming

By Emily Gera, Monday, 20 January 2020 16:09 GMT Dying Light 2 will be delayed past its planned spring 2020 release. Developer Techland made the official announcement today over social media. “We were initially aiming for a Spring 2020 release with Dying Light 2,” writes CEO Pawel Marchewka in a statement, “but unfortunately we need

By Stephany Nunneley, Saturday, 18 January 2020 17:39 GMT Ubisoft has filed a lawsuit against a website, and multiple people around the globe, which offers a DDoS service to users. The company claims the site was used to interfere with the Rainbow Six Siege servers. According to court documents obtained by Polygon, Ubisoft filed suit

By Stephany Nunneley, Friday, 17 January 2020 20:54 GMT Xur: Agent of the Nine is back. Destiny 2 players will find Xur this week on Nessus hanging out at Watcher’s Grave. He is peddling a grenade launcher, a helmet, gauntlets, and leg armor this week. Get what you need before the reset rolls around on

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Google’s Chrome OS started out as little more than a browser, but Google has slowly added more application support with Android and Linux modules. Chrome OS might be getting a lot more fun, too. According to a new report, Google

Capcom has identified and fixed the cause for two major problems in the PC release of Monster Hunter World: Iceborne. Update: Capcom has delivered the patch it announced earlier this week. The 254MB update released on Steam overnight, bringing the game’s version to 10.12.01. As promised, the patch allows the game to convert the old

By Sherif Saed, Thursday, 16 January 2020 11:00 GMT Rainbow Six Siege’s Road to Six Invitational in-game event has returned with new content. The 2020 iteration of Rainbow Six Siege‘s Road to Six Invitational has now kicked off. The in-game event is available now until February 16 for all players. Road to SI brings a

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. GameStop released its holiday earnings report this week, rather than waiting to roll holiday results into its next quarterly report. The company reported that store sales were down 27.5 percent for the Christmas holiday compared with 2018. Of course, GameStop

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. I’ve always been fascinated by the Xbox Kinect. When Microsoft debuted the platform, then known as Project Natal, the company promised it would enable an entirely new type of gaming, one in which your entire body would serve as the

By Stephany Nunneley, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 20:48 GMT Red Dead Online players can earn XP bonuses this week along with special boosts in role-specific Free Roman Events. Those on the Bounty Hunting, Trading, and Collecting train in Red Dead Online this week will receive 25% Character XP and Role XP boosts playing role-specific Free

By Emily Gera, Monday, 13 January 2020 23:34 GMT PlayStation will not be making an appearance at this year’s E3. Instead, the company is planning to attend “hundreds” of consumer events internationally, stating it doesn’t feel E3’s vision is right for what is has planned in 2020. In other words, don’t expect a PS5 announcement

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Most high-end gaming mice have the same basic features like RGB lighting, high DPI, and lots and lots of buttons. The upcoming Asus ROG Chakram has all that, but it aims to set itself apart with a feature other mice

Howdy folks. Back in November, I asked you to submit hardware issues, questions, and problems to see whether I might be able to help. It took a lot longer than I wanted to come back to this topic. I had multiple members of my family sick in December, including me. One of the challenges of

By Emily Gera, Sunday, 12 January 2020 22:41 GMT One gamer in the US saved her teammate’s life from over 5,000 miles away after hearing him have a seizure while playing a game together online. Aidan Jackson, a 17 year-old resident of England, was playing a game with 20 year-old Texan Dia Lathora earlier this

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Bethesda released updated versions of its classic Doom and Doom II earlier this year. At the time, the new versions of the classic game mostly got noticed for the initial mandatory login in order to play Doom or Doom II.

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. While Intel didn’t launch any hardware at CES this week, the company did show off its upcoming Tiger Lake CPUs and the DG1 discrete GPU in a brief gaming demo. What Intel didn’t show, however, was an independent graphics board.

The Galar region is expanding with the new Pokemon Sword & Shield Expansion Pass, new DLC adding the new Isle of Armor and the Crown Tundra areas. While Pokemon Sword & Shield had its shortcomings, it was still in many ways the most ambitious Pokemon game ever released. In many ways, those shortcomings whiffed of

Yakuza: Like a Dragon is sounding more interesting by the week. Sega has released more information on Yakuza: Like a Dragon and it pertains to the underground “dungeons” you will travel to. According to the information, as the story progresses, Kasuga and others will use the underpass to move to the headquarters of a hostile

The Lord of the Rings: Gollum has been confirmed for Xbox Series X and PS5. News that The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is coming to next-gen consoles isn’t surprising considering the developer announced it would release on “all relevant platforms at that time.” Still, confirmation is nice. Along with the platforms, the developers also

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. A powerful gaming PCs used to require a massive tower enclosure, but small form factor PCs are now commonplace. Intel’s latest Next Unit of Computing (NUC) barebones platform could unlock a new era in tiny gaming computers, along with some

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Origin PC has a new method of solving the PC-versus-console question — it’ll sell you both in the same chassis. When the company debuted the “Big O” last year, it was a proof-of-concept system that had an Xbox One, PS4,

By Emily Gera, Monday, 6 January 2020 23:46 GMT Microsoft revealed the Xbox Series X last month, but until today we’ve only gotten a glimpse of the front-end of the upcoming console. The Xbox Series X backside was on full display during AMD’s CES keynote, where we were briefly shown the console’s rear-end connecticity ports

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Nvidia says a new generation of ultra-high refresh displays are coming, and Asus is on hand at CES with the first demo. The G-Sync Esports Displays will support 360Hz refresh, a significant increase over the previous top-of-the-line 240Hz technology. As

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. It’s CES 2020 and Intel is busy talking about its product lines for this year and beyond. We’ve got some updates for you on a variety of products. First up — Comet Lake-H, the high-end version of Comet Lake with

By Emily Gera, Sunday, 5 January 2020 19:48 GMT Toss a coin to your Witcher in the latest mod for the original The Witcher game. The Witcher on Netflix has already made an impact on its gaming counterpart. Thanks to modding magic, you can play The Witcher 3 on PC with a Henry Cavill-faced Geralt.

By Stephany Nunneley, Saturday, 4 January 2020 15:55 GMT The Ni No Kuni movie will be released on Netflix later this month. The Ni No Kuni movie hits Netflix on January 16. It’s the English dub of the film. It was originally released in Japan in August 2019. It was directed by Studio Ghibli animator Yoshiyuki

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Ever since AMD launched its high-end Radeon 5700 and 5700 XT GPUs on 7nm, there have been questions about when Nvidia would make a similar move. Competitively, Nvidia was able to respond to the 5700 and 5700 XT by launching

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. One of the improvements to the high-end monitor space over the last few years has been the inclusion of additional features in top-end displays rather than forcing gamers to pick between various capabilities. It’s become more normal to see capabilities

By Stephany Nunneley, Friday, 3 January 2020 15:05 GMT Another Ape Escape tease has been posted to Twitter by the piposaru20th account. Pipo Saru is the Japanese name for Ape Escape and the Twitter account posted the following tweet on New Year’s Eve. あけましておめでとうございます。本年も、ウキウキ、ステキ！な情報をたくさんお届けできますように！#サルゲッチュ #サルゲッチュ20th pic.twitter.com/eYxJ4DSWlT — 【公式】サルゲッチュ20周年 (@piposaru20th) January 1, 2020 Translated it reads:

By Stephany Nunneley, Thursday, 2 January 2020 14:47 GMT Bumblebee’s Travis Knight is the sixth director to bow out of Sony’s Uncharted film project. Knight became attached to the Uncharted film after Dan Tractenberg, who replaced diretor Shawn Levy, left the project in August 2019. Mark Wahlberg is set to play Sully in the film, and Spider-Man: