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Linus Media Group (LMG) has found itself in hot water over the past couple days – starting with accusations of inaccurate hardware testing and ultimately leading to allegations of sexual harassment in the workplace. The founder has since responded to these statements...

Back in June of this year during Nintendo’s most recent Direct, the console manufacturer announced that the critically acclaimed Batman Arkham Trilogy would be coming to the Nintendo Switch. At the time, no launch date was given, with the collection said to simply be arriving in ‘Fall 2023’. Now, we have an exact release date...

Baldur’s Gate III has quickly become the new hotness, with the Larian Studios-developed RPG amassing a concurrent player count of over 800,000 upon its launch – almost 10x more than the studio expected. It seems the title’s sales success has been matched by its critical reception, with Baldur’s Gate III now becoming the highest rated game of all time on OpenCritic....

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For a while, it seemed as though Call of Duty would be skipping a year, with 2023 set to introduce an expansion-like experience into last year’s Call of Duty Modern Warfare II. Since then, Activision confirmed that we would be seeing a brand new full-blown COD entry this year. Following a number of brief teasers, the team have now officially confirmed that Call of Duty Modern Warfare III’s ‘Worldwide Reveal’ will take place next week.

For a while, it seemed as though Call of Duty would be skipping a year, with 2023 set to introduce an expansion-like experience into last year’s Call of Duty Modern Warfare II. Since then, Activision confirmed that we would be seeing a brand new full-blown COD entry this year. Finally, we have gotten our first official teaser for the game, confirming its name and release date,

In recent weeks there has been evidence of an impending Red Dead Redemption-related announcement from Rockstar. Many unfortunately gave the studio a bit too much credit in thinking that this would be a remaster. Red Dead Redemption is not being remastered, but it is coming out again, this time for Nintendo Switch and 'modern PlayStation consoles', skipping PC and Xbox. 

We recently covered Intel's claim that it would deliver five fabrication nodes in four years which would allow the chip giant to regain its process technology leadership, presumably from TSMC, by 2025. These are bold claims that were immediately challenged by news that Intel would ditch its own 20A process in Arrow Lake and would instead use the TSMC N3 process...

Earlier this year, AMD launched its most powerful Radeon PRO GPU yet, the W7900, as well as the W7800. Now, AMD is filling out its line-up with more affordable options, including the new Radeon Pro W7600 and the Radeon Pro W7500 workstation graphics cards. 

There has been a huge rise in the popularity of handheld PC gaming systems over the last few years. We've seen more OEMs jump on this trend recently, with the likes of the ROG Ally. Lenovo might be the next big name in tech to launch a PC gaming handheld, currently known as the Legion Go. 

While it was assumed we would see an RTX 4090 Ti at some point this generation, plans appear to have changed. According to reports this week, the RTX 4090 Ti has now been cancelled. 

At CES earlier this year we learned about a number of new AMD laptop chips in the 7040HS and 7045HX series. Today we have the opportunity to showcase an HP Omen 16 laptop that uses an AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS processor with eight cores/16 threads that are built on the latest Zen 4 architecture.  This enables the HP Omen 16 to storm along in office work or games while consuming very little power, and that helps to maximise battery life.

A new security vulnerability has been discovered, impacting AMD Zen 2 processors. The bug, known as Zenbleed, can be used to steal sensitive data, but mitigations for the exploit are already on the way.

Samsung recently announced the completion of the industry's first GDDR7 modules. These will go out to partners this year for verification, propelling future development in the graphics industry.

After spending years away from the platform, Activision finally announced that it would bring all future published titles to Steam. This began with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II late last year and since then we have seen a number of missing Activision titles added to the platform. Now, the other half of the publisher – Blizzard – is following suit, starting with Overwatch 2.

Taking the fun out of strong builds isn't suddenly going to make weak ones more attractive. Blizzard's pre-season Diablo 4 patch has soured the player base after a dramatic round of nerfs.

AMD's RX 7000 series rollout has been slow but things are finally starting to pick up. Recently, we saw the launch of the RX 7600 and now, it is reported that we'll see both the RX 7700 and RX 7800 series graphics cards in August, with AMD planning to make announcements at Gamescom. 

Nixxes Software has just unveiled the official PC system requirements for Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart. These PC specifications include information on the desired frame rate, graphics settings, and all popular resolutions - 1080p, 1440p, and 4K...

In a recent development, it has come to light that Nvidia has reportedly updated the power connector on their RTX 4070 and RTX 4070 Ti FE graphics cards. However, recent findings suggest these are not the only cards getting the revised connector, as shown by someone who recently got an RTX 4090 FE graphics card.

This week, a US court officially made its decision on Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard, denying the FTC's request to block the merger. This leaves the UK's CMA as the final hurdle against the deal closing and within an hour of the US court decision going public, Microsoft and the CMA announced a plan to pause their appeal battle to renegotiate. At the rate things are going, Microsoft could officially own Activision Blizzard as soon as next week. 

Earlier this month we learned that AMD was the 'official PC partner' for Starfield. This means the game will support Radeon technologies like FSR and day-one optimisations for RX 7000 series GPUs. Now, the next step in this partnership has been revealed, with AMD bundling free copies of Starfield with its CPUs and GPUs. 

During the RTX 4060 Ti launch a few weeks ago, Nvidia also announced plans to launch a 16GB version of the graphics card. Now, it would seem we know exactly when to expect this high VRAM version, with launch tipped for the 18th of July. 

As part of the ongoing Microsoft FTC hearings, Sony is of course involved due to their vested interest in not wanting the Activision Blizzard acquisition to go through. Over the past week a boat load of documents, internal memos and more have been submitted, revealing previously-unknown details regarding these companies’ inner workings. Thanks to yet another legal document from Microsoft, we now know that a PlayStation 5 Slim could very well be releasing this year.

For years now it has seemed as though Nintendo is mere months away from officially announcing a successor to its highly-popular Nintendo Switch system. While the console manufacturer has remained entirely mute on the matter, a Spanish games studio has reportedly received development kits for the Switch 2.

Assassin’s Creed is by far one of Ubisoft’s biggest franchises, with the publisher having released a total of 12 mainline titles, 17 spin-offs and a bunch of other transmedia titles since the series’ inception back in 2007. Ubisoft has already announced 6 AC games which are currently in development – but according to reports there are in fact 11 titles in the works.

We are a month on from the launch of Diablo 4, with the initial honeymoon period now over and with the first season looming, it is time to take a look back at the game’s launch and it’s future.

We weren't expecting an AMD CPU launch today and yet, one has appeared out of thin air. Today, the Ryzen 5 5600X3D CPU has been officially announced and will be extremely rare, with only one production run planned. 

With each new generation we have seen the development cost of video games rise. Whether it be due to studio ambitions or player expectations, there’s no denying that video games have become more expensive to make. Thanks to some badly redacted documents, we know just how much some of Sony’s recent first-party games have cost to develop.

Intel has been making big strides with its graphics drivers this year. Earlier in 2023, we saw a major update that greatly improved DirectX gaming performance on Intel Arc graphics cards. The latest driver is now rolling out, with some particularly impressive performance improvements, including a 300% performance improvement in Assassin's Creed Unity. 

Today, AMD has unveiled itself as the "exclusive PC partner" for Bethesda's next big RPG, Starfield. Like previous AMD-sponsored PC games, this means we'll see Starfield launch with support for AMD features, like FSR 2.