After finding success in the Battle Royale genre with Warzone, the Call of Duty team has been looking into other popular types of competitive shooter to find its next big thing. It seems the plan is for DMZ to be exactly that, a new game mode inspired by Escape From …
Read More »EA CEO responds to buyout and merger rumours
EA has made a number of big acquisitions in recent years, adding Respawn Entertainment, Codemasters and most recently, Playdemic. Still, that didn't stop EA's name from being mentioned in buyout rumours earlier this year. This week during EA's quarterly earnings call, CEO, Andrew Wilson, addressed the elephant in the room. …
Read More »Bykski introduces the first Intel Arc GPU water block
The first Intel Arc Alchemist desktop graphics card, the A380, can now be paired with a water block. Bykski has created the first GPU water block for the Gunnir Arc A380 Photon 6G OC graphics card. The Bykski I-GNA380-X GPU block (via @Haze2K1) is only officially compatible with Gunnir's A380 …
Read More »Call of Duty lost millions of monthly players in Q2 as Activision earnings take a dip
Activision Blizzard held its quarterly earnings call last night, sharing new stats on how the business and its current games are doing. As we learned last quarter, Call of Duty: Vanguard has heavily underperformed and the situation hasn't improved since, with Call of Duty losing millions of Monthly Active Users. …
Read More »Logitech is planning to launch a gaming handheld this year
Logitech is working on its own gaming handheld, but unlike the Steam Deck, which focuses on installing and running games locally, Logitech's handheld will primarily cater towards cloud gaming. In partnership with Tencent Games, Logitech G has announced plans to bring a cloud gaming handheld to market later this year. …
Read More »Cyberpunk: Edgerunners looks great in latest trailer
Back in 2020, CD Projekt Red announced that it had teamed up with Netflix and Japanese animation studio, Studio Trigger, to produce an anime set in the Cyberpunk universe. This week, a new trailer for Cyberpunk: Edgerunners dropped and so far, it is shaping up to be fantastic. After releasing …
Read More »Xbox Game Pass gets Ghost Recon Wildlands, Cooking Simulator and more this month
It is a new month, which means it is time for another Xbox Game Pass update. In the first half of August, Microsoft is bringing seven titles over, three of which will only be available on PC Game Pass. Ubisoft is continuing to add to the Game Pass library with …
Read More »Intel ‘Raptor Lake’ chips can reportedly reach 6GHz clock speeds
Compared to Alder Lake CPUs, the Raptor Lake chips are expected to bring a decent bump in clock speeds, with the highest clock supposedly coming in at 5.5GHz. However, it seems you'll be able to squeeze a bit more out of them through overclocking, with reports claiming we'll see 6GHz …
Read More »Rumour claims a fully enabled Nvidia AD104 GPU matches the RTX 3090 Ti
We've been hearing rumours about Nvidia's next-generation GeForce graphics cards for a while now. In the latest report, it has been claimed that a fully enabled AD104 GPU is capable of matching the RTX 3090 Ti in performance. According to kopite7kimi, a graphics card (PG141-SKU331) based on a fully enabled …
Read More »Modded AMD graphics driver enables Noise Suppression on older GPUs
AMD launched its alternative to RTX Voice last month. The new feature, known as Noise Suppression, is only officially supported on RNDA 2 GPUs. However, modders have been quick to get it working on older GPUs too using modded drivers. With the 3rd-party graphics driver (based on the 22.7.1 release) …
Read More »Riot’s upcoming fighting game ‘Project L’ will be free to play
Back in 2019, Riot set out on a journey to expand its fanbase well beyond League of Legends. Since then, Riot has launched Legends of Runeterra, Valorant, TFT and Wild Rift, but the company has yet to launch its fighting game, known as Project L. It looks like that will …
Read More »Bungie disables Destiny 2 text chat due to crashing exploit
If you were playing Destiny 2 over the weekend, then you likely had a frustrating experience. On Friday evening and early Saturday, players discovered an exploit in the latest patch, allowing players to use the text chat to crash the game for other players. The exploit was most common in …
Read More »Leo’s be quiet! 20th Anniversary PC Build!
Leo puts together a be quiet! themed PC as they celebrate 20 years, with a helping hand from Brewdog
Read More »Skull and Bones director goes in-depth on multiplayer-first approach
Somewhere during one of several reboots for Skull and Bones, the game transitioned into a multiplayer-first title. Now, the game's director, Ryan Barnard, has given us more insight into what that means, noting that while the game has an ‘underlying story', narrative is not a focus of the game. Speaking …
Read More »Deadrop is a ‘vertical extraction shooter’ developed by Dr. Disrespect studio
Late last year, Dr. Disrespect announced Midnight Society, his own game studio, as well as plans to release a new first-person shooter developed in Unreal Engine 5. This week, the studio revealed the first gameplay footage, giving us a very early look at the game. Midnight Society’s shooter will be …
Read More »Google denies claim that it is shutting down Stadia
In recent days, a rumour has been circulating, claiming that Google is planning to shut down its cloud gaming service, Stadia, by the end of the year. The rumour quickly spread and was largely being accepted as fact. However, Google has since responded, insisting that Stadia is sticking around. The …
Read More »Leaked casting script reveals details on next Tomb Raider game
Even prior to being sold to Embracer Group, Crystal Dynamics has been working on its next big Tomb Raider game. Nothing else is known officially, but a potential leak has revealed a few details. The Sacred Symbols Podcast (via VGC) claimed to have obtained leaked script pages from the new …
Read More »AMD seemingly confirms Ryzen 7000 launch line-up
In an update to one of its websites this week, AMD may have mistakenly revealed the launch line-up for the Ryzen 7000 series. AMD's next-generation desktop processors are due to launch before the end of this year, and it looks like we'll have four processors at launch, including the Ryzen …
Read More »Diablo Immortal has surpassed $100M in revenue
Diablo Immortal launched in early June and quickly garnered 10 million players and earned just shy of $25 million within the first couple of weeks. At this point, the game has doubled to over 20 million installs and revenue has gone way up, surpassing $100 million. Despite controversy and outcry …
Read More »Destiny 2 PvP is finally getting skill-based matchmaking
PvE content has always been the true centrepiece of the Destiny games, but there is still a pretty big PvP audience. There have been plenty of complaints about Destiny 2's PvP over the years, from its map pool and lack of modes to rampant cheating as well as issues finding …
Read More »Backbone One PlayStation Edition brings DualSense inspired controls to iOS
Sony has been talking about increasing the presence of PlayStation games on mobile for a while now. Ahead of this renewed push into mobile gaming, Sony has announced the first officially licensed PlayStation gamepad for smartphones. The Backbone One PlayStation Edition is the first officially licensed PlayStation controller for iPhone. …
Read More »The mystery behind Nier: Automata’s hidden church has been solved
Fans of the Nier series have been on quite the rollercoaster recently, as the community has scrambled to figure out the mystery behind a secret door leading to a completely new area of the map that had seemingly gone undiscovered since the launch of Nier: Automata. Today, we finally got …
Read More »Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is now coming to PC in November, Xbox delayed further
While Fatshark originally intended to bring Warhammer 40,000: Darktide to PC and Xbox consoles in September, the game has now been delayed again. After being pushed out of 2021 and into ‘early 2022', the game was later pushed again to September. Now, the developers are hoping to release the game …
Read More »The Yakuza series is heading to PS+ Extra and Premium
Despite some initial concerns, Sony's PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium tiers have been pretty well received thanks to a solid library of games available at launch. Soon, the service will get even better thanks to the addition of the Yakuza series. Recently after a brief period off of the service, …
Read More »From Software to bring Dark Souls multiplayer back online for PC
Back in January, Bandai Namco and From Software were forced to take the multiplayer servers for the Dark Souls series offline for the PC platform due to a major security bug. Several months later in May, From Software gave us a small update, stating multiplayer would come back online ‘soon'. …
Read More »Sony is finally enabling 1440p support on PS5
While the Xbox has supported 1440p displays for years, Sony has stuck to supporting the most common TV resolutions, 4K/UHD and 1080p on PlayStation. After many requests from PlayStation players, Sony is now enabling 1440p support on PS5. The 1440p update arrives today for PlayStation software beta testers. The update …
Read More »AMD’s latest graphics drivers add Noise Suppression and OpenGL optimisations
After last week's reports regarding an RTX Voice alternative from AMD, the company has now released a new AMD Software Adrenalin Edition driver with Noise Suppression. Moreover, the new driver brings new features and OpenGL optimisations to improve game performance. The biggest bump comes to Minecraft, with some GPUs seeing …
Read More »Multiversus surpasses 140,000 concurrent players in Steam open beta
MultiVersus, WB Games' Smash Bros-style crossover fighter is now live in open beta form. The game appears to be off to a good start too, as the game managed to gain 140,000 concurrent players on Steam during day-one, accompanied by a ‘very positive' overall user rating. Currently, MultiVersus is in …
Read More »Meta is hiking up the price for the Quest 2 VR headset
Since launch, the Quest 2 VR headset has been a pretty good deal for its price. Unfortunately, the headset is about to get more expensive, with Meta announcing a $100 price hike. In an announcement yesterday, Meta claimed that the cost of producing the Quest 2 has increased since launch, …
Read More »Aspyr’s KOTOR Remake is reportedly ‘on hold’ and may not reappear for years
It looks like Aspyr's ambitious remake of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is still many years away. While the original plan was to have the remake finished this year, sources have confirmed that the project is now being rebooted, seemingly after a poor demo showing that led to two team leads losing their jobs.
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