Sure, Grand Theft Auto V still sells millions of copies each year, and Fortnite is one of the fastest rising games of recent memory, but it turns out, Minecraft is still king when it comes to overall sales. As part of Minecraft’s ten year anniversary, Microsoft took the opportunity to …
Read More »iOS 13 said to drop support for two iPads and four iPhones
As software continues to move forward and evolve, it becomes harder to support older devices. The number of years you are guaranteed updates for varies between smartphone makers, although Apple tends to keep its devices going for longer than most. With that said, iOS 13 will reportedly drop support for …
Read More »Nintendo may also partner with Microsoft for streaming services
Just last week, we learned that Microsoft and Sony were partnering on a joint development effort for game streaming and services based on Microsoft’s own Azure datacentres. This was an interesting move that will see two of the biggest companies in gaming working towards a unified infrastructure to compete with …
Read More »Bethesda removes Denuvo from Rage 2
Last week, immediately following the launch of Rage 2, it came to light that Denuvo DRM was included on the Steam version of the game but was left absent on the version sold through Bethesda.net. This ultimately made having the DRM on either version pointless, as pirates had already began …
Read More »Google pulls Huawei’s Android license
As tensions between the US and China continue to climb, Google pulls its Android license from Huawei
Read More »CD Projekt Red speaks out on development crunch
The issue of developer crunch has been coming up a lot lately, with extensive reports on the issue plaguing many major studios, including Rockstar, Epic Games, NetherRealm, BioWare and more. CD Projekt Red has been relatively open about the fact that it goes through ‘crunch’ periods during development. Now ahead …
Read More »Riot Games won’t budge following employee walkout
Earlier this month, around 200 Riot Games employees walked out of the company’s LA office to stage a protest against upper management. At the time, heads at Riot allowed the walk out to go ahead and promised that there would be no backlash against employees for participating, Now, Riot has …
Read More »Call of Duty 2020 reportedly in upheaval as Activision switches studios and contemplates F2P
For many years now, Call of Duty has been on a three-year development cycle. Infinity Ward, Treyarch and Sledgehammer take turns on a predictable cadence but a wrench has been thrown into the works for Call of Duty 2020, with development reportedly switching back to Treyarch for Black Ops 5. …
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Read More »Call of Duty: Mobile will be playable on iOS and Android next week
Call of Duty has been one of the most popular franchises in gaming for years now, generating billions for Activision every single year. That number could receive a boost in 2019, as after years of rumours, Call of Duty Mobile is actually happening, and it will be publicly playable soon. …
Read More »Paradox removes Vampire: The Masquerade 2 from Epic Store during sale
Yesterday, Epic Games took a break from throwing cash directly at publishers in order to drum up some goodwill with PC gamers with a ‘mega sale’. As part of the sale, Epic Games put up a blanket £10 discount on all games on the store that cost £14 or more, …
Read More »Hewlett Packard acquires supercomputing company ‘Cray’
Just last week, we learned that AMD would be teaming up with Cray to build the world’s fastest supercomputer for scientists in the US. Now, Cray has more big news, as the supercomputing specialist has been acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise for $1.3 billion. HPE announced today that it has …
Read More »Thermaltake adopts Razer Green switches for its own gaming keyboard
A few years ago, Razer made the decision to leave Cherry MX behind and partner up with a mechanical switch manufacturer to produce its own switch designs. Nowadays, all Razer keyboards ship with variants of Razer’s mechanical switch, and now, third-party peripheral makers are getting involved too, with Thermaltake launching …
Read More »Heavy Rain, Beyond Two Souls and Detroit get PC release dates, demo versions also on the way
Earlier this year, Quantic Dream announced that three of its former PlayStation exclusive games would be heading to PC as part of the studio’s initiative to turn multi-platform. Heavy Rain, Beyond Two Souls and Detroit Become Human are all coming to PC this year, with playable demos set to release …
Read More »Nvidia RTX starts to see growth but revenue is still down compared to last year
Back in Q3 2018, Nvidia reported lower than expected results due to a weakened crypto-mining market and excess Pascal inventory taking longer to sell. Then for Q4 2018, Nvidia had to cut its earnings estimates due to weaker than forecasted sales in the gaming and datacentre markets. Now, we have …
Read More »Adobe warns subscribers of potential legal action for using old versions of apps
Nowadays, digital software purchases all come with legal terms and conditions specifying that you are buying a revocable license to a product, rather than ownership over an application. Usually, this is easily ignored as companies are unlikely to go after its paying customers. That is not the case for Adobe …
Read More »Ubisoft is giving Steep away for free on PC
Ubisoft doesn’t have much of a foothold when it comes to sports games, but a couple of years ago, the publisher did try its hand at it with Steep, a winter sports focused game filled with competitive challenges. In a world where series like Amped and SSX have disappeared, Steep …
Read More »Microsoft and Sony form unlikely alliance for next-gen game streaming efforts
An unlikely alliance has formed between Microsoft and Sony to jointly develop Azure for better AI and streaming services.
Read More »Google has apparently stopped working on ChromeOS and Windows dual-booting
Last year, Google's ChromeOS developers began working to implement a dual-boot option to allow Chromebooks to run Windows in addition to the native operating system. News on this upcoming feature first popped up in April 2018 but things went very quiet in the months following. Now, the ‘Alt OS' mode …
Read More »Samsung may have found a fix for Galaxy Fold, re-release could happen soon
After five years of rumours surrounding Samsung's foldable smartphone experiments, this year the Galaxy Fold was officially announced. The initial launch should have happened already but reviewers swiftly began experiencing display failures, forcing Samsung to push back its release. Things have been quiet since then, but Samsung has apparently found …
Read More »Epic Games Store hopes to win people over with first sale
The Epic Games Store has been a point of controversy thanks to its exclusive games strategy but some people might be won over by the store's first big sale. Today, the Epic Mega Sale was announced, with discounts on every single game currently available on the store, even games that …
Read More »EA’s E3 plans have changed slightly
Back in March, EA announced that it would not be holding a traditional press conference for E3 this year and would instead host a series of live streams with developers and famous content creators. These streams would be used to show off gameplay for currently announced games, the EA Sports …
Read More »Ubisoft’s Skull & Bones delayed but four new games are coming in its place
We've got E3 coming up very soon and Ubisoft has already given us a good idea of what to expect from them in 2019. During its latest quarterly shareholders report, Ubisoft confirmed that Skull & Bones has unfortunately been delayed again, pushing it out of the 2019-2020 fiscal year. However, …
Read More »Valve’s Steam Link app is finally available for iOS
It has been almost one full year since Valve first announced that it would be bringing the Steam Link app to mobile devices. The Android launch went down swiftly without a hitch but for some reason, Apple took issue with Valve's app and withdrew its approval from the iOS App …
Read More »A new Intel CPU security flaw has been discovered, security patches have begun rolling out
It has been just over a year since CPU vulnerabilities like Spectre and Meltdown last dominated the news cycle. Efforts have been made to fix these flaws and newer CPUs have extra protections in place. Unfortunately for Intel, a new issue has now popped up, known as ‘Zombieload', which has …
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Read More »WoW Classic enters beta, release date set for August
Back in April 2016, Blizzard shut down Nostalrius, one of the most popular vanilla WoW private servers around. This kicked off a lengthy discussion for Blizzard, with the studio ultimately announcing plans to launch WoW Classic. That announcement came in late 2017. It wasn't until Blizzcon 2018 that we saw the game …
Read More »The PC Gaming Show returns to E3 with Epic Games Store as the sponsor
The PC Gaming Show has had a rocky history at E3 over the years but in 2018, it felt like the presentation had finally found its footing. With that in mind, it is good news that the show will be returning for E3 2019, with Day9 hosting and several developers …
Read More »AMD will be at E3 this year with next-generation gaming hardware
AMD has been making a habit of showing up at E3 for a few years now. Back in 2015, we saw Lisa Su arrive to launch the Radeon R9 Fury. One year later, AMD returned to the gaming-focused event to show off DOOM running on Ryzen, while also announcing the …
Read More »Bethesda managed to make Rage 2’s Denuvo DRM pointless
Denuvo has been the number one choice of DRM for major publishers for quite some time now. Occasionally though, a studio will screw up its implementation and pave the way for swift piracy despite intentions to protect at least the first week of sale. We saw this happen with Mass …
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