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It is Amazon Prime Day, which means now is an excellent time for those shopping for a PC upgrade. Here, we break down some of the best graphics card deals available during the sale. 

This week the FragPunk beta kicks off, with DLSS 3 and a suite of ray-traced effects, Simulakros and Starship Troopers: Extermination launch with DLSS 3, and the much-anticipated Silent Hill 2 Remake arrives with day-one support for DLSS Super Resolution. Bad Guitar Studio’s FragPunk is a fast-paced 5v5 hero shooter …

Nvidia has announced its plans for CES 2025, one of the biggest annual events in the tech industry. CEO, Jensen Huang, will be holding a keynote.

Nixxes have called the upcoming Horizon Zero Dawn Remaster their “first big PlayStation content project,” suggesting further similar remasters are on the way.

With the Switch 2 mere months from its official unveiling, the Xenoblade Chronicles team have revealed that they are working on a new in-house game engine.

With Disney and Epic deepening their Fortnite partnership, it's been revealed that some of the future skins coming won’t be available in the Battle Royale mode.

For decades, Atlus has been most known as the studio behind the much-loved RPG series Shin Megami Tensei as well as its arguably more popular spin-off ‘Persona’. As such, expanding out with a new IP appeared to have been a risky move for the studio – a move which has paid off, as Metaphor: ReFantazio is currently the highest rated game of 2024.

Gigabyte is unveiling a pair of new QHD gaming monitors that should keep budget-conscious upgraders happy. Both monitors sport a VA panel with 180Hz refresh.

Davide Soliani, the director of the surprise hit Mario + Rabbids, and Christian Cantamessa, lead designer of Red Dead Redemption, have teamed up to open a new studio. The new company, Day 4 Night, is working on a new videogame with a group of veteran developers.  Early leads at the …

Ubisoft has responded to recent reports that the company is in talks to sell. Ubisoft does not deny the report, but also stops shy of confirming.

It is the ten-year anniversary of the best Alien game made to date, Alien Isolation. Now, after many years of fan requests, SEGA is returning to Alien Isolation for a sequel.  Today, SEGA officially announced its plans for a new Alien Isolation game. Al Hope, Creative Director at Creative Assembly, …

BioWare is on track to release its first single-player RPG since 2017. Dragon Age: The Veilguard has officially gone gold, ahead of launch in a few weeks' time.

Early performance numbers put the upcoming Intel Core Ultra 285K at the top of the pile for single-thread workloads in PassMark.

There has been a big shake-up behind the scenes at Microsoft for Halo. After the Slipstream engine proved to be a failure that hampered the development of Halo Infinite, future titles will be developed with Unreal Engine 5. On top of that, 343 Industries is now known as Halo Studios. 

There have been many Assassin's Creed games over the years but longtime fans often cite Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag as one of the best in the franchise. Now, a remake of the game may be just around the corner.  Earlier this year, sources told Kotaku that Ubisoft had greenlit a …

When Palworld dropped onto PS5 last month, the one region to not get the game was Japan. Fortunately, after a slight delay, Palworld is now live in the region.

Following a rocky launch last February, Square Enix announced that Foamstars would be going free-to-play – with the game now available for all to download.

With Star Wars Outlaws encroaching on its Steam launch, Ubisoft have released their second big patch for the game, bringing a revamp to its stealth systems.

With Astro Bot officially having been out for a month now, the team at Asobi have published the game’s full OST to YouTube, Spotify and more.

Exactly a year on from the initial launch of Assassin’s Creed Mirage, Ubisoft have announced that the game is finally coming to Steam later this October.

With Halo Infinite failing to become the decade-long platform that Microsoft and 343 Industries were hoping it would evolve into, there have been many leaks and rumours discussing the team’s plan for the franchise’s future. In amongst talk of a switch to Unreal Engine 5 as well as a remake of Halo: Combat Evolved, 343i have announced a surprise 3rd-person mode coming to Infinite next month.

Intel has officially confirmed that the 0x12B microcode update that motherboard manufacturers have already released will be the final mitigation for the instability of the 13th and 14th Generation Core CPUs. The company has assured that no further upgrades will be provided, marking the conclusion of its efforts to tackle …

According to recent reports, Intel's upcoming Panther Lake CPUs will feature a new NPU (Neural Processing Unit) architecture referred to as “NPU5”. Including NPUs in processors is pushing AI into the hands of consumers worldwide, with Intel's Meteor Lake and Lunar Lake CPUs already harnessing this technology to bring substantial …

In a reassuring move for consumers, Arctic has officially confirmed that all coolers purchased after October 23rd, 2023, will be fully compatible with the upcoming CPU based on the LGA 1851 socket. This announcement is a relief for those who wanted to upgrade to the Core Ultra 200 desktop series …

A new leak has emerged regarding the Ryzen 9000X3D series, shedding light on their potential performance. The Cinebench R23 single- and multi-core scores of the 8-core and 16-core Ryzen 9000X3D CPUs have appeared online, showing double-digit performance gains in this benchmark. The source behind this latest leak is CodeCommando (via …

The Golden Joystick Awards return for 2024 to celebrate the year's best games. The nominees for each category have now been announced and voting is open.

The latest Thermalright dual-tower CPU cooler has arrived. The Pretor 130 bucks industry trends, trading in the usual 140mm fan set-up for a thicker 130mm fan.

There may be a future for the Until Dawn series following the remake. A new cutscene heavily hints at plans for a sequel.

The Fallout series has been a huge hit for Amazon and Bethesda, amassing over 100 million viewers for the first season. Season 2 is on the way.

Ubisoft might be preparing for a buyout following a string of poorly received games and rapidly dropping share prices. Guillemot may sell to Tencent.