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Earlier this week, those who got into the closed alpha playtest for Marvel Rivals quickly got to work datamining for leaks. As it turns out, the developers behind Rivals have ideas for as many as 39 characters. However, currently only 14 of them are in the game.  One player who …

It is time to update those graphics drivers once again. Today, Nvidia is rolling out its latest GeForce Game Ready driver, including optimisations for Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut, which finally comes to PC next week.

Corsair has made a few key acquisitions in recent years, picking up companies like Scuff Gaming and Elgato to expand into new product categories. Corsair's dominance in the gaming peripheral world appears set to continue, with the company now looking to acquire Fanatec, a leading brand in the Racing Sim …

EA must have a funny definition for the term ‘unannounced' because the last time that we checked, Dragon Age: Dreadwolf was definitely announced at The Game Awards several years ago. Still, fans will be pleased to know that EA has two ‘unannounced' games coming this year and yes, one of …

This week, Nintendo finally confirmed its next-gen console plans. The company's president, Shuntaro Furukawa, confirmed that a new console will be announced during the current fiscal year. We were already expecting this new console to be a ‘Switch 2', but Furukawa's additional comments appear to confirm that.  During an investor …

Asus recently listed some of its upcoming VivoBook S16 laptops featuring an unannounced 12-core AMD CPU. Based on the information so far, it would appear that AMD is positioning itself to launch a new line of ‘Ryzen AI' processors for laptops.  As shared by @harukaze5719, AMD is apparently altering its …

Recent reports claiming that Nvidia's next-generation flagship GPU, the RTX 5090, would be the only model released this year may not be accurate. A prominent Nvidia leaker with a solid record claims that the RTX 5080 will be released before the RTX 5090.  That leaker is none other than Kopite7Kimi. …

Marvel has not had much success with its AAA games so far, with titles like The Avengers and Guardians of the Galaxy failing to meet sales expectations. However, the company has found great success in the free to play market with games like Marvel Snap and other mobile-focused titles. The …

Roland Wooster, an engineer at Intel who also heads the VESA Display Performance Metrics group, characterised the latest version of VESA DisplayHDR as a “tightening” of the specification while broadening the scope and criteria of the testing. The idea is to enhance the visual quality of the monitors you purchase, but one of …

We check out a very compact PSU from Enermax, but still specced for 850W power delivery

While CD Projekt Red said it had ‘no plans' for advanced modding tools for The Witcher 3 back in 2015, the times have changed. The studio announced plans to launch a proper editor for the game, allowing much more comprehensive user-generated content. Now, the RED Kit is officially becoming available.  The RED Kit …

After a longer wait than anticipated, Hades 2 officially launched into Steam Early Access this week. Supergiant's big sequel is getting off to a hot start too, garnering over 100,000 players at launch.  Supergiant first launched Hades in 2020, with the game being an Epic Games Store exclusive for its …

In late 2023, Remedy gave us an update on Project Vanguard, announcing that the game was rebooted under the working title ‘Kestrel'. This was one of two experimental multiplayer games in the works at Remedy. Unfortunately, after evaluating the project once again, Remedy has now made the decision to cancel …

Today Microsoft announced some major changes to its first-party studio line-up. Several of Bethesda's studios are being closed down, including Arkane Austin, the studio responsible for Prey (2017) and Redfall (2023). Due to the closure of Arkane Austin, Redfall's promised DLCs will no longer be coming out.  While Redfall didn't …

While Microsoft hasn't interfered with Bethesda's operations much since acquiring the company in 2020, that is slowly starting to change. A round of lay-offs earlier this year impacted several Bethesda teams. Now, a few studios are also being shut down, including Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks. An announcement penned by …

Helldivers 2 has made plenty of headlines since launch but it was finding itself in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons last week. On Friday, Arrowhead and Sony announced plans to require PSN accounts in the PC version of the game, despite the fact that the game was sold …

Typically whenever Nintendo is asked about its next-gen console plans, the company simply states that it is always exploring new opportunities but that there are ‘no immediate plans' for a new system. That has finally changed this week, with Nintendo acknowledging plans to announce a new console for the first …

Apple's new iPad Pro launch event today brought about more surprises than expected. This year's iPad Pro will not only be the first to feature an OLED display, but it will also be the first Apple product powered by the new M4 processor.  The Apple M4 processor at the heart …

MSI recently released a firmware update for some of its QD-OLED monitors, promising to fix bugs and introduce new features, like support for additional aspect ratios. For now, the new firmware is rolling out for MPG QD-OLED monitors, with MAG series QD-OLED monitors expected to follow.  The latest firmware version …

Since the release of the Intel 13th Gen Core K-series (extended to the 14th Gen series CPUs), users have reported stability issues, particularly with the Core i9 SKU. The reason for that seems to be linked to motherboard vendors using what would be considered “overclock” settings by default. Intel has …

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Vicarious Visions is one of the more underappreciated Activision Blizzard studios, with the team responsible for the excellent Crash trilogy remake as well as Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 ultimately being reduced to a support studio for Blizzard. Not only had the team previously been working on a remake of …

Back in 2022, the excellent and much-loved free-to-play Halo/Portal-inspired FPS Splitgate was announced to be ceasing development, with the team at the time saying “in order to build the game fans deserve – and to build it in a way that isn’t trying to retrofit and live operate an existing …

The Resident Evil series is one of the most acclaimed and well-loved in the video games industry, with a majority of the franchise’s mainline releases being both commercial and critical juggernauts. Unfortunately, Resident Evil has not fared as well in the film space. This does not appear to be stopping …

The full release for Hades put SuperGiant Games on the map back in 2020, winning multiple BAFTAs, Game Awards and more. Following the surprise announcement of a sequel back in late 2022, Hades 2 has now officially entered Early Access. It was already known that Hades 2 would launch in …

Valve's Proton, the open-source tool for running Windows games on Linux, has received a significant update that promises to enhance game compatibility for Linux gamers. The latest version, Proton 9.0, is now available on GitHub, bringing several new features and improvements to the table. These improvements will be of particular …

The Corsair One is back and upgraded for 2024 with a 14900K and RTX 4090

Asus might be indirectly teasing the release of a new ROG Ally. For some time now, the original ROG Ally official product page has been referred to as “ROG Ally (2023)”, suggesting a new version of the console might be coming in 2024. With Computex just around the corner, official …

Recently, new screenshots have revealed the existence of an upgraded version of the Ryzen 9 7950X3D processor. These CPUs are already well known for their 3D V-cache, which can bring a notable boost to gaming performance.  As seen in the screenshot shared by HXL, Windows Task Manager and CPU-Z both …

Intel's next-generation desktop flagship CPU, the Core Ultra 9 285K, is rumoured to have a turbo clock speed of up to 5.5GHz, which is lower than the current generation flagship CPU, indicating that most of the performance benefit from Arrow Lake will come via architectural upgrades, rather than increased power …