Software & Gaming

With the PassMark PerformanceTest v9, most of the top single-threaded performance scores were from AMD processors. Now, with the release of the latest version of PerformanceTest v10, the top 34 places for single-threaded performance are held by Intel CPUs, and in the 35th position, there's the Ryzen 3 4300U as …

Control from Remedy Entertainment has been one of the highest rated games to release in the last year, but the journey isn’t over yet. In 2020, Remedy has two story expansions planned, bringing players back to The Oldest House once again to uncover new mysteries. The first expansion is called …

Microsoft has unleashed a ton of information on Xbox Series X hardware specifications and performance capabilities today but that's not all. Two demo videos have also been released, showing off the traditional performance boost enabled by the custom 1TB NVMe SSD, including much faster load times and near-instant suspension and …

Back when the Xbox One X was making its way on to the market, the folks at Digital Foundry were given an early look at the specs and capabilities of Microsoft's mid-gen refresh system. Now as we head towards the launch of Xbox Series X, history is repeating itself, with …

Halo: Combat Evolved returned to PC this month as part of the Master Chief Collection and soon, it looks like Halo 2 and Halo 2: Anniversary will be joining the club. Hot on the heels of Halo 1's release, 343 Industries is readying Halo 2 for testing on PC. Prior …

Following on from the Nintendo Switch's launch in 2017, a company called ‘Gamevice', known for the Wikipad, sued Nintendo claiming that the detachable Joy-Cons infringed on patents. Now almost three years later, the lawsuit appears to be over.  Gamevice has been making smartphone gaming controllers and its own ‘Wikipad' tablet …

The record was broken twice in two days, with over 20 million users online yesterday...

After initially hitting 6 million players in its first 24 hours, Call of Duty: Warzone has now reached 15 million players after its first 72 hours. When compared to other battle royale games, Warzone has more players than the likes of Fortnite BR and Apex Legends had after their first 72 …

Back in January, we reported on a rumour that Konami was working on two Silent Hill titles. The franchise, which has remained dormant since 2012’s Silent Hill: Book of Memories and 2014’s cancelled Silent Hills, was rumoured to be coming back in a big way with two new titles. Since …

The Monster Hunter series has always been one of Capcom’s biggest, but with the release of Monster Hunter World in 2018, the franchise reached new heights becoming the best selling Capcom game of all time with over 15 million copies sold. Back in September 2019, Capcom released the much anticipated …

Google Stadia hasn’t received the most warm response since its release back in November 2019. Despite this, Ubisoft is continuing to support the service, recently announcing that three more of the publisher’s titles would be coming to the service. The games in question are Tom Clancy’s The Division 2, The …

LG Electronics announced this week that it will begin the rollout of its 2020 TV set line-up...

Though the Epic Games Store was only initially planning to offer free weekly games until the end of 2019, the platform holder later decided to extend the deal into 2020. Three months into the year and Epic Games are continuing to offer a number of great titles. This week, three …

The announcement of The Last of Us’ tv adaptation came as a surprise to many. The series which is set to be headed by the Creator of Chernobyl, Craig Mazin, and released by HBO was also confirmed to be receiving talent from the game’s creators themselves. Neil Druckmann was already …

The Prince of Persia series was at one point, one of Ubisoft’s flagship franchises. Since 2010 however, the series has seen very little in the way of releases, save for some mobile incarnations. As we approach 10 years since the last mainline game, Ubisoft have announced that the Prince of …

With Cyberpunk 2077 set to release on the 17th of September, some fans are already looking ahead into the future, curious as to what CD Projekt Red is planning to work on after the completion of Cyberpunk. In a recent meeting, Adam Kiciński, the President of the CD Projekt Group …

Nightdive Studios had to reverse engineer the game's code to get this remaster up and running...

After a succession of leaks, Call of Duty Warzone officially launched earlier this week, finally introducing battle royale gameplay to the COD franchise. Activision later confirmed via Twitter that Warzone had managed over 6 million players in its first 24 hours. In a tweet posted on the official Call of …

The promise of Google Stadia when it was first announced was that the streaming platform would allow for users to play games at 4K and 60fps regardless of the hardware capability of one’s PC. Since Stadia’s release however, many of the games featured on the platform have failed to hit …

Lenovo has announced a new partnership with SentinelOne with an aim to help fight cybercrime by integrating SentinelOne’s autonomous endpoint protection platform with Lenovo’s ThinkShield security portfolio. New Lenovo devices are available to customers with SentinelOne real-time prevention, ActiveEDR, IoT security and cloud workload protection that is powered by Behavioral …

For years now, fans have been eagerly anticipating Rocksteady’s next game. Since Batman: Arkham Knight’s release in 2015, the studio has remained relatively quiet regarding its next project. Furthermore, very little is known about the Harry Potter game which leaked back in October 2018. All this and more was allegedly …

Just last week, researchers found that a security flaw inside the ROM of Intel processors could pose a security risk that is “impossible to fix” and now a new class of security threat has been found in Intel processors that could significantly reduce performance. According to a report by The …

Though E3 2020 has been cancelled, console manufacturers and publishers will still be hosting events around June. In the wake of the cancellation, Microsoft and Ubisoft have both announced their plans for Summer’s announcements, stating that their traditional press conferences will instead be replaced by digital events – though no …

According to recent research by a provider of edge cloud services, people are “binge-gaming” more than ever. Over half of UK gamers have missed sleep to carry on gaming which has put UK gamers up there with some of the top binge-gamers in the world. The “State of Online Gaming” …

Starborne is a free-to-play MMORTS for PC. Developed by the Icelandic studio Solid Clouds, this game has been in development since 2014, and it has been in alpha since 2015. Now, with over 180,000 registered users and 211 years of gameplay time during alpha, Starborne is about to start its …

We heard the rumours yesterday, but it's now official as E3 2020 has been cancelled...

Nintendo Directs have served as a great way for the console manufacturer to keep fans informed on the latest that Nintendo has to offer, ever since the first Direct back in 2011. Though 2020 has already seen a number of Directs dedicated to single games or franchises, the last mainline …

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Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot released earlier in the year to a positive fan reception. The game saw great initial success as Kakarot managed to sell over 1.5 million copies in its first week, with the game launching at No.1 in the UK charts. Since the game’s launch week on the …

When the Epic Games Store first launched in late 2018, one of the core complaints that users had was its lack of features. The store, while featuring a curated list of games, was missing fundamental features such as wishlist support and even a shopping basket. Since then, Epic Games has …