After spending a couple of years in early access, Larian officially launched Baldur's Gate 1.0 last week to great success. Over the weekend, the game rose to the top of the Steam charts, garnering a hugely impressive 800,000 concurrent players over the launch period.  Larian founder, Swen Vincke, admitted that …

A new leak has surfaced, revealing the existence of an Nvidia RTX 3060 with a fully enabled GA106 GPU that never made it to market. This SKU, identified as PG190 SKU 50, was one of the several specs for the GPU that were shared among board partners before its official …

The CS:GO concurrent player count has been growing over the past month, with the shooter consistently breaking its peak concurrent player record. This weekend, following the announcement of Counter-Strike 2, the game saw another surge, surpassing over 1.5 million players online at once.  Since Valve officially revealed Counter-Strike 2, CS:GO …

Since its release, many Fortnite players have been asking for a first-person mode. This has been tested in limited-time events previously, but soon, it looks like first-person gameplay will become a staple mode for the Battle Royale game.  According to HYPEX, three different sources have confirmed the new game mode …

Apex Legends Mobile has only been around for a short while and Battlefield Mobile only just recently began public testing. In a surprise move, it looks like EA has pulled the plug on both projects and it also appears to be shutting down one of its mobile development studios.  Last …

We are closing in on the end of 2022 and in keeping with tradition, Valve has revealed the top selling games of the year on Steam. This year's top 100 has some familiar titles, with the likes of Grand Theft Auto V, Rainbow Six Siege, Dota 2 and CS:GO making the list, in addition to a number of new titles, like Dying Light 2, Elden Ring and Monster Hunter Rise.  

Valve broke new records for Steam concurrent users over the course of the pandemic and this year, Steam has grown once again. Just last month, Steam set a new record for concurrent users, with over 30 million people signed onto the platform at once. Now, that record has been broken …

In a surprise announcement during Krafton's latest earnings call, the company announced it has acquired Neon Giant, the developer behind The Ascent. That makes it the fifth acquisition in the span of two years. Unlike most acquisitions, neither of the two companies has made any public announcements. Instead, we've learned …

Last year ahead of the launch of Battlefield 2042, EA announced plans to develop a new Battlefield mobile game to take on the likes of Call of Duty: Mobile, PUBG, Fortnite and other well-known shooters. Unfortunately, Battlefield 2042 ended up launching in rough shape, so we haven't heard anything about …

Terraria is a quiet titan, with the game having sold over 44 million copies since its launch back in 2011. With so many sales comes a lot of opinions. Fortunately for the game, consensus is overwhelmingly positive to this day, with Terraria now breaking a major Steam record. As discovered …

A few weeks ago, Intel shared the first gaming benchmark results for the Arc A750 graphics card. At the time, we only had performance comparisons between the A750 and RTX 3060 in five games, but now, Intel has benchmarked almost 50 titles and released the results today. 

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. …

Sony has been ramping up its esports efforts in recent years. Last year, the company acquired EVO, the world's biggest fighting game tournament event, and this year, the team is adding the tournament organising platform ‘repeat.gg' to its roster.  This week, Sony Interactive Entertainment announced that it has acquired Repeat.gg, …

The same reviewer that brought us the performance figures of the Intel Core i9-13900K pre-production sample has now shared another analysis showing its gaming performance. While the upcoming 13th Gen processor doesn't make huge gains in average frame rates, it does make a noticeable difference to the minimum frame rate …

At this point, it is well established that Diablo Immortal has one of the greediest gacha systems we've seen in a mobile game to date. Still, the controversy didn't scare off those who can afford to drop piles of cash on mobile games. In the two weeks since launch, Diablo …

When The Callisto Protocol was first announced, it was supposed to be a horror game set in the PUBG universe. This always seemed like an odd move, but fortunately, that decision was later reversed. Now, The Callisto Protocol is its own IP, and we'll be playing it before the end …

Apex Legends launched in a surprise manner back in early 2019 as a fresh take on the battle royale genre, offering a third prong in the Fortnite / PUBG duopoly present at the time. This helped the game carve a significant chunk of the market for itself, now having made …

Prior to the announcement that a remake of 2008’s Dead Space was in development at EA, Striking Distance Studios (consisting of ex-Dead Space devs) announced The Callisto Protocol: a survival horror game set in the world of the battle royale game PUBG. Though only teased back in 2020, we will …

We've known for a while now that Activision is developing a new Call of Duty Battle Royale game for mobile in order to better compete with other popular mobile shooters, like Fortnite, PUBG and soon, Apex Legends. Now, the game has a title of sorts – Project Aurora, and the …

Last year we reported that Warner Bros was looking to sell its games division. This never came to be, with the publisher later choosing to remain within the industry. It seems the latest round of acquisitions has sparked WB’s interest once again, as the publisher is reportedly looking to sell …

It has been three years since Respawn Entertainment first talked about bringing Apex Legends to mobile. Now, six weeks on from the game's soft-launch in select regions, Apex Legends Mobile will be releasing worldwide this month.  Apex Legends Mobile Design Director, Jordan Patz, revealed the early release during a developer …

Prior to the rise of PUBG and reshuffling and rebranding as Krafton, Bluehole was primarily known for MMOs, like TERA. However, it is time for the Bluehole team to move on to new projects, so after over a decade online, Tera is officially shutting down for good.  Bluehole Studio, the …

In recent years, the biggest PC and console shooters have also released mobile counterparts, broadening the audience for these games quite dramatically in some markets. Like Call of Duty, Fortnite, PUBG, Battlefield and others, Valorant will soon be available on iOS and Android devices.  As reported by DannyIntel, Riot appears …

It has been three years since Respawn Entertainment first talked about bringing Apex Legends to mobile. Just recently, Apex Legends Mobile officially soft-launched, allowing players in select countries to download and play the game. It'll be a while longer before the game is available globally though, with Respawn aiming for …

We've known for some time now that Activision is working on another Call of Duty mobile game, with many assuming it would be a portable version of Warzone. This week, Activision confirmed just that, announcing plans to bring Call of Duty Warzone to smartphones. “We are creating an all-new, AAA …

Lost Ark continued to impress over its launch weekend. Last week, the game appeared on our radar after crossing 500,000 concurrent players on Steam during its early access launch. On Friday after servers opened up for F2P players, that record was broken, with over 980,000 concurrent players, but the game …

Earlier this week, the early access launch for Lost Ark impressed us with its massive concurrent player numbers, peaking at over 500,000 active players. Last night, the game had its free to play launch, opening the game up to all players and as you might expect, player numbers jumped significantly, …

Techland finally made it to the finish line this week and released Dying Light 2: Stay Human. The game has garnered mixed to positive reviews from critics and now, players are jumping in for themselves, propelling the game into the top ten most played titles on Steam.  Dying Light 2's …

The Switch has been an interesting system for Nintendo, as not only has the console manufacturer got themselves a device with record breaking sales, but is also seeing the same for its software. Perhaps the number 1 example is Mario Kart 8, which has now sold a total of 50 …

Konami holds many important and historical video game IPs within its walls. Unfortunately, the publisher has spent almost a decade withdrawing itself from the video game market. As Konami comes back, so too are its fans, with the publisher’s latest Steam release being by far its biggest. Described as the …