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Originally said to be a mere expansion to last year’s Call of Duty Modern Warfare II, Activision announced that 2023 would see the release of a new standalone ‘premium’ COD entry: Modern Warfare III. Alongside the inclusion of all guns from last year’s game, MWIII will also bring forward a …

The Resident Evil series is by far Capcom’s biggest, with the publisher recently reporting that the franchise has sold over 150 million copies in total. This increasing success has afforded them the opportunity to go bigger with each successive entry – with Resident Evil 9 now said to have the …

This past week has been abuzz with rumours about the apparently upcoming RTX 40 Super graphics cards. The latest one comes from a known Nvidia leaker, who has revealed the expected specs for three RTX 40 Super models. These specs include the CUDA core specifications and probable GPU models for …

Yesterday, news broke that Bungie was laying off a number of employees, while also delaying its two major projects, Marathon and Destiny 2: The Final Shape. Somehow, the situation got worse in the day following, with Bungie's CEO putting out an ill-advised tweet and one well-sourced Destiny-focused reporter sharing some additional insight into the financial reasons behind why this may have happened. 

Last night during Apple's annual Mac-focused announcement event, the company officially unveiled its latest Apple Silicon processor. The M3, M3 Pro and M3 Max processors are heading to Macs imminently, with faster CPU cores and beefier iGPUs with ray-tracing and mesh shading support. While these chips will be faster than …

Last year, Remedy reached an agreement with Rockstar, allowing the studio to remake the first two Max Payne games, originally developed by Remedy. Now over a year later, Remedy has provided an update, confirming that the games are ready to enter production. Remedy is pretty good about providing updates to …

Ubisoft has released the system requirements for its upcoming game, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, and it looks like the game will require some hefty hardware to run at its best. The game will feature ray-traced global illumination, shadows, and reflections, and will be powered by the Snowdrop Engine. Players will …

Due to issues achieving feature parity on the Xbox Series X and S consoles, it certainly looked like Baldur's Gate 3 may skip Xbox entirely. Fortunately, the biggest RPG release of the year is indeed on the way, after Microsoft granted Larian special terms to drop split-screen co-op on the …

We're coming up to November, which means we're due a fresh batch of games for Xbox Game Pass across PC, console and cloud. Today, Microsoft announced the first wave of games, including a new surprise day-one game.  Microsoft seems to be getting a good amount of support from SEGA in …

We're just a couple of days away from the early access campaign release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. We already know the game will utilise a suite of Nvidia features, including Reflex, DLAA and DLSS 3 with Frame Generation. Now, the Game Ready driver is available for the …

The terminology used for AMD's Ryzen 7000 mobile CPUs has been criticised for some time. The series combines several architectures into a single product line, including Zen2, Zen3+, Zen4, RDNA2, and RDNA3. A recent leak suggests that the Ryzen 8000 series will follow the same approach. The Ryzen 8000 APUs …

When Nintendo announced Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, the game’s title could not have been more fitting, with the Switch entry featuring every single fighter from the franchise’s history. By the end of its support, Ultimate included 89 total characters and over 100 stages. In discussing potential future entries in the …

The launch of Dead Space back in 2008 marked a strong start for the then-brand-new IP, offering a survival-horror experience which introduced inventive mechanics in an immersive atmosphere. Unfortunately, by the time Dead Space 3 released in 2013, the series was reduced to a simple action-adventure shooter, stripping it of …

Back in May, Sony announced that they would be expanding their repertoire of PlayStation accessories, announcing the Pulse Explore wireless earbuds, followed by the Pulse Elite over-ear headphones. Now, the console manufacturer has revealed exactly when these accessories will launch – with pre-orders set to go live as soon as …

First announced more than 6 years ago, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is set to finally release in just over a month. Ahead of its launch, previews for the open world game have now gone live – with the consensus being that the game seems to be a bit too immersive, …

The ROG Ally has just received a handful of updates that bring multiple enhancements to the device. Besides numerous bug fixes, this update includes support for AMD's new HYPR-RX function, which significantly improves performance and reduces latency by enabling Super Resolution, Anti-Lag, and Boost technologies to work together. Moreover, it …

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has already had its beta and is on the way to launch on the 10th of November. While many have already had the chance to test the game out on their PCs, Activision has now confirmed the final PC system requirements for the game. …

Every few years, we see publishers shutting down online support for legacy titles. Ubisoft is no different, announcing the next wave of titles set to have their online services revoked in January 2024.  On the 25th of January, Ubisoft will be “decommissioning” online support for ten older titles, covering a …

Bungie joined PlayStation Studios in 2022 for around $3.6 billion. Since then, the studio has been working on its next PvP game, Matter, alongside the big finale to Destiny 2's Light V Dark story arc with The Final Shape expansion. Unfortunately, The Final Shape has now faced a multi-month delay …

Remedy made its plans for an inter-connected universe of games well known with the second expansion for Control, which featured a tie-in with Alan Wake. Now, it looks like this cross-universe worldbuilding will continue with an upcoming expansion for Alan Wake 2.  Alan Wake 2 officially launched last week to …

It looks like Microsoft is going to start blocking “unauthorised” Xbox controllers and accessories soon. Until now, you could release a third-party controller or peripheral and connect it via USB. However, users have begun noticing a new “connected accessory is not authorised” error message. Several users on Resetera have seen …

FromSoftware has become hugely successful over the past decade, with the continuation of the Dark Souls series, Bloodborne, Sekiro and of course, its most beloved game yet, Elden Ring. Now, FromSoftware appears to be ramping up investment in development, with a large-scale recruitment phase underway.  FromSoftware is currently on a …

Last week, Display Specifications caught wind of a new AOC Agon monitor, sporting a massive 45-inch OLED panel with a 240Hz refresh rate. AOC doesn't appear to have officially announced this monitor yet but from what we know so far, it sounds like it is going to be very good. …

While it may not be making as many headlines this month, Starfield is still very popular, ranking amongst the most-played games on Xbox and maintaining high concurrent player counts on Steam. Starfield ended up being the top-selling game in the US in September and as expected, Microsoft has now confirmed …

Since its release last year, the team at Polyphony Digital have been diligently updating Gran Turismo 7 with a whole host of new features, cars and modes. Studio head and GT7 director Kazunori Yamauchi has now teased that a “big update” is set to drop some time this week. Teasing …

Last week, Qualcomm officially announced its new 12-core processor for PCs, the Snapdragon X Elite, planned to become available in 2024. Now just one week later, Qualcomm has released the first benchmarks, comparing the chip to competing Intel and AMD laptop processors. 

Obsidian Entertainment has made a name for itself by creating a whole host of engaging and deep RPGs – perhaps known most fondly for their work on the much-loved Fallout: New Vegas. In 2019, the studio released a spiritual-successor to New Vegas in the form of The Outer Worlds. Celebrating …

A few years ago, Sony began supporting GOG with DRM-free versions of Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition and Days Gone for PC. Now, more PlayStation Studios titles will be getting DRM-free releases. Today GOG has announced that God of War and Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection will be available on …

The Chieftec Hunter was a good looking and affordable case. Now, Chieftec is following it up with the new Hunter 2 Gaming ATX case with a mesh airflow design to increase air intake and provide better cooling for components. The Chieftec Hunter 2 improves on the original Hunter design with …

Call of Duty: Mobile has been a huge success for the first-person shooter franchise, with the free-to-play game having amassed more than 500 million downloads since its release back in 2019. That said, Activision is set to launch its successor next year, with Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile said to …