Last year, Embracer Group officially shut down Volition, a long-running studio best known for the Saints Row games. Now, a group of former Volition developers have banded together to start up a new studio, known as Shapeshifter Games.  Shapeshifter Games is founded by former Volition veterans. The new studio won't …

Several months on from acquiring Activision Blizzard, Microsoft kicked off 2024 with the announcement that it would be laying off nearly 2000 employees. Unsurprisingly, this has been followed up by a glowing earnings report from Microsoft executives.  With the acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Microsoft's gaming business is now one of …

Development on Cyberpunk 2077 has been winding down over the last couple of months as CD Projekt Red shifts its focus to new projects. Still, the game has continued to receive some surprise patches and feature updates following on from the launch of the Phantom Liberty expansion. The latest update …

Rocksteady ran into some unfortunate issues with the launch of Suicide Squad into Early Access this week. Due to a progression bug that skipped the campaign and other maintenance, the game ended up being offline for large chunks of time during the first two days of early access. To make …

The RTX 4080 Super has launched today, rounding out Nvidia's latest trio of graphics card launches. As expected, the new card has been accompanied by a new GeForce graphics driver, which also acts as the Game Ready driver for several upcoming releases, including Rocksteady's Suicide Squad.  The latest Game Ready …

Asus's partnership with Noctua continues. The RTX 4080 Super has officially launched today, with reviews now live across the web, including several of our own, covering the Founders Edition and a few partner cards. Soon, Asus will be launching a new Noctua-cooled version of the RTX 4080 Super.  Asus and …

Following on from an announcement at CES, today AMD is officially launching its new Ryzen 8000G series of desktop processors, ushering in a new generation of powerful APUs.

Warner Bros has already made its intentions for future game projects pretty clear, with plans to lean heavily into the live service model for future projects. The company is reiterating those plans now, with ideas of pushing more “always on” games using franchises like DC and Game of Thrones. In …

Bungie has done a few Destiny 2 crossovers at this point. The most recent saw Witcher-inspired armour added to the game. Now, Bungie has nailed down a crossover with BioWare's Mass Effect, with new armour sets inspired by Commander Shepard, as well as his loyal crewmates, Garrus Vakarian and Liara …

Spec Ops: The Line earned a reputation as one of the best first-person shooters of its time. Unfortunately, any newcomers may miss out on the game moving forward, as it has mysteriously been delisted from Steam.  As spotted by Eurogamer, the Steam Store listing for Spec Ops: The Line has …

In a recent leak, we learned about a number of games set to be revealed during Sony's upcoming State of Play stream this week. One of those games was an unannounced Sonic Generations remaster. As it turns out, Sega might actually be planning something much more exciting – a new …

Square Enix made a surprise appearance at Xbox's recent Developer Direct showcase, announcing plans to bring Visions of Mana to Xbox consoles this year, alongside other platforms. Shortly after, a pre-order page for the game on the Xbox Store was listed with a Game Pass tag, leading to rumours that …

Yesterday we received news that Embracer Group had cancelled a new Deus Ex game at Eidos Montreal. Now, that news seems to be confirmed, alongside confirmation that Eidos is also going to suffer a round of layoffs.

Embracer Group hit dire times in 2023 after an investment deal fell through. In the aftermath, some of the studios that have been acquired by Embracer Group in recent years have undergone layoffs, project cancellations and others have been completely shut down. The latest casualty in this saga seems to be an unannounced Deus Ex game...

Since the release of Half-Life Alyx in 2020, we've not really seen a huge boost in high-quality and widely praised single-player VR titles. We could be heading towards another similarly big release soon though, with a new Metro VR game teased to be in the works.  Half-Life translated very well …

Microsoft kicked off its game announcements for the year with a short Developer Direct stream earlier this month. Next up, Sony will be taking the spotlight with a new State of Play stream planned to go over upcoming PlayStation titles, ranging from Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and Death Stranding 2, …

Rocksteady's latest game, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is finally coming out, over eight years on from the release of their last game, Batman: Arkham Knight. While there is some scepticism around this release due to its co-op focused, live service nature, Rocksteady still has plenty of fans looking …

EKWB had a packed room at CES this year with tons of new hardware and custom systems. From a liquid-cooled PS5 to the NoCase, join Leo as we take a closer look at EKWB's 2024 line-up.

At CES this week, we had the chance to swing by the Lexar booth to check out their new line-up for 2024. Aside from new super-fast and gaming oriented SSDs, we also see some new professional storage devices for videographers or photographers. At CES this week, Lexar is showcasing its …

Nvidia's big announcement at CES this year is the RTX 40 Super series, with new RTX 4080 Super, RTX 4070 Ti Super and RTX 4070 Super graphics cards set to launch over the next couple of weeks. In our latest coverage, Leo swings by Nvidia's CES booth to get a …

We've all seen the HYTE Y70 Touch case, now Leo swings by the HYTE booth at CES to take a look at what new cases and peripherals we can expect in 2024...

Today at CES Leo catches up with Corsair at their suite, where we find several new dual-chamber cases on the way, alongside new iCUE Link fans and new Elgato gear for content creators. 

Nvidia's weekly GeForce Now library updates return in 2024 with 10 more games making their way over to the service. This week's update includes support for more Steam and Epic Games Store titles, as well as more games available through Game Pass. Before we get on to the new games …

At CES this week, Cooler Master is showing off quite a bit, including a new Sneaker X Bounce modded PC, available in limited units for those looking for something unique for their setup. Beyond that, we get a look at MSI monitors, power supplies, new cases and more for custom builds. 

At CES this week, be quiet! is launching several new products, including the new Dark Base Pro 901 and Dark Base 701 White cases, along with new white versions of the Silent Wings 4 and Pure Wings 3 fans. There is also excellent news for those who picked up an …

At CES today Leo swings by the DeepCool booth to check out some insane modded PC builds, alongside new hardware launches for new cases and coolers.  Timestamps: 00:00 Quadstellar Monster Case intro 00:24 Mystique coolers 01:58 PC and Software tweaking 02:53 FT9/FT12/FT14 Slim Fans 03:15 Assassin 4S Cooler 03:53 CH160 …

Thermaltake has arrived at CES with a slew of new releases. In celebration of the company's 25th Anniversary, we're getting a new wave of special edition Hydrangea Blue cases, fans and other hardware. The company is also launching its latest flagship CTE series case, the CTE E600 MX. The Hydrangea …

Our next stop at CES this week is Alphacool. Here, Leo gets a closer look at the new Apex Skeleton cases, new CPU coolers and some fantastic liquid-cooled systems. Timestamps: 00:00 APEX Skeleton Case 00:49 ES CPU coolers and ES Quick release fasteners 01:43 Server products 01:55 Core Distro plates …

Our journey around the halls of CES continues today with a stop at Gigabyte debuts its first fully white motherboards and other components, alongside new PCs, laptops, OLED monitors and RTX 40 Super graphics cards. Aside from new all-white versions of motherboards, graphics cards and power supplies, Gigabyte is also …

Today at CES Leo spent some time looking at the new Omen Transcend 14 laptop. It is very thin and light, but packs up to an Intel Core Ultra 9 processor under the hood, which also means it benefits from Intel's new AI Boost technology.