Pictures of the alleged unreleased Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti Founders Edition graphics card have appeared online alongside photos of what looks to be an RTX 4060 Founders Edition card. When Nvidia announced the RTX 4070 Ti, it said that the Founders Edition model of this card wouldn't be available. However, …
Read More »MSI is reportedly discontinuing some 700 series motherboards supporting DDR4 memory
With the prices of DDR5 coming down, demand for motherboards supporting DDR4 memory is dropping. As such, it's expected that manufacturers will stop producing as many DDR4-supporting motherboards. According to reports, MSI looks to be the first manufacturer that has started to do this. The report comes from Board Channels …
Read More »Intel Arc Revisit: 2023 driver update (Acer Predator BiFrost A770)
We see how far Intel Arc has come since its launch back in October
Read More »Six game studios tell CMA Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal would improve competition
While we've known for a while now that Sony has been in talks with the CMA to express concerns about Microsoft's planned acquisition of Activision Blizzard, we haven't heard much about studios speaking out in defence of the acquisition. That changed today, with the CMA's filings being updated with responses …
Read More »IO Interactive’s James Bond game will be an origin story
IO Interactive is hard at work on multiple new projects, putting the Hitman series on hiatus for a little while. Currently, the studio's biggest focus is its James Bond game, which will feature a new and original 007. Speaking with Eurogamer recently, IO Interactive's Christian Elverdam and Hakan Abrak revealed …
Read More »Techland’s next game will be a new fantasy RPG
Techland has been hard at work on updates for Dying Light 2 since its launch but now the studio is ready to start turning its attention to something new. Today, Techland announced that it has begun developing a new IP. Moving beyond the Dying Light series, Techland is now developing …
Read More »New Radeon R780M iGPU benchmark shows it matching the Radeon RX 5500M
The Radeon 780M iGPU is set to debut in new Ryzen 7000 series laptop processors, but we still don't entirely know what to expect in terms of performance. That is now starting to change through benchmark leaks, the first of which shows the Radeon R780M pumping out similar performance to …
Read More »Far Cry 5’s next-gen update will include a “highly requested feature”
Ubisoft has been rather good in ensuring many of its previously published titles get updated with some level of support for the new generation of consoles. We have already seen a whole host of games get their free upgrades including multiple Assassin’s Creed titles, Rainbow Six and more. Unfortunately, the …
Read More »Ghostwire: Tokyo is coming to Xbox and Game Pass, expanded story update also coming
It has been roughly one year since Tango Gameworks released Ghostwire: Tokyo on PS5 and PC. Now with Sony's timed console exclusivity deal coming to an end, Microsoft has announced plans to bring the game to Xbox consoles and Game Pass. Ghostwire: Tokyo will release on Xbox Series X/S, and …
Read More »Xbox signs deal to bring first-party games to Switch cloud gaming provider Ubitus
Yesterday Microsoft announced a new deal with a competing cloud gaming provider in an effort to convince regulators that its acquisition of Activision Blizzard won't squeeze the competition out of the market. Today, the company is announcing yet another deal, this time with a more widely known cloud gaming company. …
Read More »The HITMAN series is going on hiatus while IOI focus on 007
For its entire existence, IO Interactive have focused almost exclusively on the Hitman franchise, with their most-recent non-Hitman project being 2010’s Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days. After successfully turning the latest HITMAN trilogy into a ‘World of Assassination’ sandbox, the team at IOI are putting Agent 47 on ice …
Read More »Dead by Daylight studio’s upcoming game will launch day-one on PS Plus
Unlike Microsoft with Xbox Game Pass, Sony does not bring its first-party titles to the console manufacturer’s PlayStation Plus subscription service at launch. Despite this, Sony has been rather good with adding partner titles day-one to PS Plus. Such is the case with Behaviour Interactive’s upcoming post-apocalyptic first-person building and …
Read More »Guerilla explains why Horizon Forbidden Shores is a PS5 exclusive
One of the biggest first-party PS5 titles to have been released so far is Horizon Forbidden West. Despite it being a major improvement over the first game in many aspects, the sequel to 2017’s open world action adventure title still came to PS4 as well as Sony’s latest system. That …
Read More »System Shock remake gets one final delay as PC release date is announced
Announced nearly 8 years ago, Nightdive Studios have been working on a remake of the classic 1994 cyberpunk immersive sim System Shock. Development has not been the smoothest, with the title being delayed multiple times over the years. Ahead of the game’s intended March release, the team have now delayed …
Read More »Microsoft signs new 10-year deal to bring COD and Xbox titles to rival cloud gaming service
In recent weeks, Microsoft has signed legal agreements to bring Activision Blizzard titles to additional platforms, including Nintendo consoles and Nvidia's rival cloud gaming service, GeForce Now. Microsoft is looking to pile on here with additional deals with competing companies. While Sony isn't playing ball with Microsoft's 10-year agreement, other …
Read More »Hangar 13 seemingly staffing up for Mafia 4 on Unreal Engine 5
Last year, it was claimed that studio Hangar 13 is now working on a new Mafia trilogy, built using Unreal Engine 5. Later on in 2022, the studio confirmed that it is indeed working on Mafia 4 and now through job listings, we have an idea of just how far …
Read More »You can pre-load the Diablo 4 beta starting tomorrow
The Diablo 4 beta is just around the corner, with early access beginning this week. Ahead of the beta, Blizzard has announced preload plans, so you can get the game installed ahead of time and avoid waiting for the download when the beta goes live. Pre-order customers will get early …
Read More »Intel recommends using 4-spring 12VHPWR connection over 3-dimple design
Soon after the release of the first RTX 40 series GPUs, we heard several user reports of malfunctioning 12VHPWR connectors, leading to questions around the design of the connector. Nvidia stands by its design and it does appear that unseated cabled was the root cause behind the issues, but Intel …
Read More »The next PC port from PlayStation might be Ratchet & Clank
Ever since Sony announced that it would support the PC market with its first party games, we have seen a good number of major titles find their way onto the platform at a rather consistent rate. With The Last of Us Part I set to arrive on PC at the …
Read More »Corsair RM1200x Shift Series PSU Review
It's an innovative new PSU design from Corsair, but we find out if it is technically proficient
Read More »Naughty Dog’s next game after TLOU Factions is already in development
With HBO’s The Last of Us finale recently concluding, Naughty Dog co-president and The Last of Us Part II director Neil Druckmann recently sat down with Kinda Funny for a ‘spoilercast’ in which he revealed a bunch of details on what the team is working on, including the fact that …
Read More »Diablo IV is not coming to Xbox Game Pass
Diablo IV is the next big game set to come from Activision Blizzard, and while the acquisition by Microsoft has yet to go through, fans were beginning to wonder whether the upcoming ARPG would find its way on Xbox’s Game Pass service. Unfortunately – though unsurprisingly – this will not …
Read More »Nvidia’s RTX 4070 graphics card reportedly launching in April
Nvidia has yet to announce the RTX 4070 officially, but we've heard a lot about it lately. Rumours have loosely pointed to April for the GPU's release date, but a more recent report has been more precise, pointing to an April 13th launch. As reported by VideoCardz, a Twitter leaker …
Read More »AMD rolls out discounted Ryzen 7000 hardware bundles
It seems to be deal season for AMD. Recently we covered a very good discount on the RX 7900XT graphics card. Now, AMD is offering discounted hardware bundles for a limited time, so you can get the CPU, motherboard and RAM you need all together at a lower price. The …
Read More »The Witcher 3’s latest next gen patch promises improved DX12 performance
As great as the visual upgrade has been for The Witcher 3 following the release of its next-gen version, the update didn't arrive without problems. There have been some lingering graphics and performance issues in the game for a while now but today, a sizable new patch began rolling out …
Read More »CS:GO achieved a new peak concurrent player count record over the weekend
Just last month, prior to rumours of CSGO 2 heating up, we saw a new peak player count record for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, surpassing over 1.32 million concurrent players. Now following mounting evidence that a Source 2 upgrade is on the way, a new peak concurrent player count record has …
Read More »GSC Game World warns of security breach and potential Stalker 2 leaks
GSC Game World has had a rough time over the past year. The company has already had to move countries due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and after dealing with all of that, the studio has faced numerous cyberattacks. In the latest breach, a group of Russian fans of the …
Read More »Google no longer licensing Stadia tech to game publishers, service has completely shut down
Last year shortly before Google announced plans to shut down Stadia, we learned that the company had been approaching publishers in an effort to license out Stadia's streaming tech as part of a pivot away from direct-to-consumer game sales. Stadia has now shut down for good and it seems those …
Read More »Gears of War 4 almost became a first person shooter
The Gears of War series is well known for its third-person gameplay. Prior to selling the IP off to Microsoft, Epic Games had its own ideas for Gears of War 4, including a dramatic shift to first-person gameplay. Before Microsoft acquired the IP and put together The Coalition studio, Gears …
Read More »Nvidia and CDPR will showcase Path Tracing in Cyberpunk 2077 at GDC
CD Projekt Red and Nvidia have teased Cyberpunk 2077's RT Overdrive mode previously, with plans to enable full path tracing effects in the game. It has been a while since we last had an update on this, but it looks like CDPR and Nvidia will be teaming up again soon …
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