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Battlefield V finally gets its long-awaited Firestorm battle royale mode
DICE has finally launched its Firestorm battle royale mode on all platforms, four months after releasing Battlefield V. Although it won’t cost any extra for existing players and EA has accompanied its release with a complimentary sale, the paywall could prove detrimental to its longevity when free-to-play games Fortnite: Battle …
Read More »Netgear debuts its Nighthawk Pro Gaming XR300 Wi-Fi Router
The Nighthawk Pro Gaming series of routers have frequently impressed the KitGuru labs with their extensive range of features, gaming focus and clean DumaOS interface. Netgear is now adding another one to the line-up, unveiling its Nighthawk Pro Gaming XR300 Wi-Fi Router during the SXSW Gaming Expo. The Nighthawk Pro …
Read More »Battlefield V’s Battle Royale mode is arriving this month
In September last year, DICE and EA announced that Battlefield V would indeed have its own battle royale mode. Unfortunately a month later, they also announced that it wouldn't be coming until 2019. Now, several months later, it looks like Firestorm is officially ready and will be out before the …
Read More »Battle royale pioneer Brendan ‘PlayerUnknown’ Greene will no longer lead PUBG
For the past five years, Brendan Greene’s life has been about the battle royale genre, initially crafting the ARMA 2 mod, consulting on H1Z1 and eventually creating the highly successful PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. Greene has announced that he will be handing over PUBG’s reins, stepping down as the head of PUBG …
Read More »EA will not be holding a press conference at this year’s E3
E3 already has a noticeable hole in its 2019 line-up, as Sony announced it will not be appearing at the event. Now, EA has revealed that it will be taking a ‘show, don’t tell approach’ as it ditches its annual keynote in favour of a pre-show livestream. The Star Wars, …
Read More »Nvidia explores whether newer technologies have real-world impact on battle royale K/D ratios
With the boom in popularity of the battle royale genre drawing millions of users per day, there has been an increased focus on squeezing every last bit of performance out of hardware. Better components certainly offer more frames per second, but Nvidia wanted discern whether more frames truly translated to …
Read More »Nvidia: new driver, three more G-Sync compatible displays and new RTX game bundle
Nvidia has kicked off this week with three announcements. For starters, a new Game Ready driver is debuting today with optimisations for Apex Legends, we've received news that the list of ‘G-Sync compatible' displays is expanding to include more options and a new RTX GPU bundle is also on the …
Read More »The latest version of OBS should allow Nvidia users to ditch that second ‘streaming PC’
While livestreaming is more accessible than it’s ever been before, many professionals continue to utilise a second PC in order to maximise performance. Nvidia is aiming to make this a thing of the past, as the latest version of OBS has improved support for the company’s proprietary NVENC hardware encoder, …
Read More »Nvidia launches its GeForce GTX 1660 Ti starting at £259.99
Nvidia has officially unveiled its Turing-based GeForce GTX 1660 Ti graphics card, starting at £259.99/$279.
Read More »Call of Duty: Black Ooops 4 adds controversial loot boxes after four months of bliss
Contrary to Activision’s usual business choices, the publisher surprisingly allowed Treyarch to release Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 without controversial loot boxes. Sadly, 4 months of bliss has come to an end, as Operation Grand Heist introduces paid Reserve Crates. The change isn’t entirely unexpected given that the series …
Read More »Respawn is working on a premium Titanfall game slated for this year
After the surprise launch of battle royale Apex Legends, Respawn Entertainment confirmed yesterday that it wasn’t working on Titanfall 3. This seems to contrast EA’s recent earnings report, which states that the studio will deliver another premium Titanfall game by the end of the year. Apex Legends is already doing …
Read More »Battlefield V sales fall short of EA’s expectations
Despite reportedly topping 7.3 million sales in just two months since its release, EA has revealed that Battlefield V has failed to meet expectations. Although this is a worrying dip for the flagship series, the company acknowledges that it was the result of “intense competition” throughout the 2018 Holiday period. …
Read More »Nvidia & Excel Esports highlight the benefit of low latencies and high frame rates
KitGuru was recently invited to the headquarters of Excel Esports, a British esports organisation with rosters in League of Legends, Valorant, Fortnite and FIFA. Unfortunately I was not there to be signed up to the professional esports ranks. Instead, Excel teamed up with Nvidia to show, first hand, the real-world benefits of low latencies and high frame rates for gaming...
Read More »Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order sells less than Battlefront II at launch
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order was released on the 15th of November to much praise and anticipation. It’s the first Star Wars game since Disney’s partnership with EA to primarily focus on its single player narrative. While its performance in the UK physical charts were solid, it didn’t manage to …
Read More »Riot launches Summoner’s Rift interactive map for Season 5
Riot Games announced earlier this year that for Season five of League of Legends, it was going to be making big changes to its most classic of maps, The Summoner's Rift. Now with the Season four World Championships behind us, those changes have come into effect and they bring a …
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