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Journey to the Savage Planet is a fun and unique first person shooter which sees you explore a number of wonderful and weird worlds while offering fun gameplay to boot. Almost exactly three years after its debut on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, the game is getting a free PS5 …

Back in 2019, Apple acquired Intel's smartphone modem business for roughly $1 billion, giving Apple everything it needs to develop its own WiFi chips for future devices. We've yet to see Apple make the jump to its own WiFi modems in the iPhone and it looks like the company will …

Forspoken might not be the best game of the year, but the fact that it's the first PC game to use DirectStorage makes it worth investigating. PC enthusiasts have been testing the game to see how the storage technology affects the gameplay experience and discovered something unexpected. Indeed, loading times …

Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin is an interesting title. The game was initially met with skepticism in the wake of its reveal, however sentiment grew much more positive following the game’s release – with its camp and cheesiness being contributing factors. A sequel has not yet been confirmed, however …

One of the most consistent Ubisoft franchises is that of Far Cry, with the open world FPS series being generally liked across the board. It is therefore unsurprising to see that Far Cry 7 is reportedly in development. Interestingly, so too is a standalone multiplayer title. As reported by Insider …

The Day Before has garnered a lot of hype over the past year, going on to become the most wishlisted game on Steam. Unfortunately, just over a month from the game's supposed March 1st release date, the game has been delayed and fans are beginning to question the game's existence. …

EA surprised us all last year with the announcement of Dead Space Remake. Given EA's checkered history, there was some concern that a 'modernised' version of the game would bring about unwanted changes, similar to what happened with Dead Space 3. Fortunately, the reviews are now in and it looks like the team at EA Motive has delivered an impressive and faithful retelling. 

SK Hynix announced the development of the world's fastest mobile DRAM – LPDDR5T, otherwise known as Low Power Double Data Rate 5 Turbo. LPDDR5T runs at a transfer rate of 9.6Gbps, 13% faster than the LPDDR5X memory introduced in November 2022. The new LPDDR5T memory modules follow JEDEC's ultra-low voltage …

While many fans enjoyed The Last of Us Part II, some elements of its story were divisive among fans. Naughty Dog has not yet announced any plans for a third game, but the team is kicking around some ideas. This week, The Last of Us co-creator and director, Neil Druckmann, …

Among Us hit it BIG in 2020, with the social deduction game becoming one of the most viral titles of the year – and its popularity has not waned since. Despite being a significantly smaller market, Among Us VR has already managed to sell over 1 million copies in just …

Our regular readers will know that we like to run many competitions ourselves, but sometimes we see a giveaway running elsewhere that we think you'd all be interested in. This month, be quiet! is running a competition for its new generation Dark Power 13 ATX 3.0 power supplies.  If you …

Atomic Heart has intrigued players for years, ever since the alternate-history action-adventure FPS RPG was first announced all the way back in 2018. Since then, news on the game has been rather sporadic, though late last year it was announced that the game is coming in February. Nearly one month …

Following the massive success of Adult Swim cartoon Rick and Morty, one of the show’s co-creators and lead voice actor Justin Roiland expanded his horizons into the video games space, founding Squanch Games (who later made the recently-released High on Life). The past few days however has seen a swath …

Up to now, the only known Intel Arc GPU with 16 Xe-cores is the A550M for laptops. However, a new and unknown Intel Arc GPU packing the same number of Xe-cores has now been spotted, but unlike the A550M, the high clock speeds suggest it's a desktop card. The card …

The past few months has seen Ubisoft commit itself to bringing its previously Epic Games Store exclusive titles to Steam. We have seen the likes of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Roller Champions, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game and more added to the storefront slowly but surely. Three years since …

Typically Microsoft announces and adds titles to its Xbox Game Pass service on a consistent basis twice a month. January 2023 however was rather light on additions…until now as during the Xbox and Bethesda Developer Direct a bunch of games were announced to be coming before the end of the …

The Xbox and Bethesda Developer Direct has come and gone, bringing with it some expected announcements as well as a few surprises. Though its existence was leaked beforehand, Tango Gameworks of The Evil Within fame simultaneously announced and released Hi-Fi Rush – a rhythm focused action game “where the world …

While Microsoft saw a decline in gaming revenue last quarter, the number of monthly active Xbox users is up. As of last quarter, Xbox set a new record of 120 million MAUs.  As VGC reports, in the second quarter of Microsoft's fiscal year, Xbox has registered record-breaking numbers of game …

The Day Before has garnered a lot of hype over the past year, going on to become the most wishlisted game on Steam and earning spots in big public keynotes, including Nvidia's recent GeForce Special Event at CES. However, fans are growing increasingly concerned about the game's development progress, as a promised gameplay trailer has been pushed back, along with the release of the game. 

Apple's new M2 Max seems quite promising on paper. However, according to a recently spotted GPU benchmark, it may not meet the high expectations some were putting on it. As of now, we can't say much about its CPU performance, but thanks to the Geekbench OpenCL entry spotted by Wccftech, …

We are less than two months away from the release of Respawn's highly anticipated Fallen Order sequel, Star Wars Jedi Survivor. The game is set to launch on PC (as well as consoles) on the 17th of March and now ahead of that date, EA has announced the game's minimum …

All through last year, we heard rumours that Rare was remastering its classic N64 shooter, GoldenEye 007, for Xbox consoles. As it turns out, this revamped version of the game is heading to both Xbox and Nintendo Switch, and it will be available later this week. Months on from the …

AMD's product pages for the upcoming Ryzen 7000X3D processors haven't been entirely accurate in the lead-up to launch. Previously, a page was updated to show a February 14th launch date, but this was later removed. Now, the product page has been updated again, this time with mention of unlocked overclocking.  …

Microsoft has already confirmed that Starfield won't be part of tonight's Xbox Developer Direct steam. Instead, the company will be focusing on titles like Redfall today. We may not be waiting long to get our next look at Starfield though, as Bethesda will reportedly host a media event in March.  …

Liquid metal is known to be an extraordinary thermal conductor, but if not used properly, it can do more harm than good. One example of misusing this thermal product is to transfer heat from a chip to an aluminium heatsink, as you can see in Der8auer's latest video. Liquid metal …

Here's the latest addition to Noctua's popular NH-L9 line of low-profile CPU coolers: the new NH-L9a-AM5 and NH-L9a-AM5 chromax.black. With just 37mm of height, both models are aimed towards silent, ultra-compact HTPCs and Small Form Factor systems using AMD's new AM5-based Ryzen CPUs. Receiving over 100 awards, the original NH-L9a …

We've known about Nvidia's GDDR6X RTX 3060 Ti for a while now, but due to limited availability, the latest revision has not seen much public testing. That is starting to change, with one new review arriving, revealing a small performance bump over the original RTX 3060 Ti with GDDR6 memory.  …

As AMD and Nvidia have mostly stopped releasing MXM-based products, we thought the standard would be dead by now for GPUs. However, that doesn't seem to be the case, as Intel and Gunnir have just made an Arc A380 GPU available using that form factor. As spotted by BionicSquash, Gunnir …

TT Games have long been the go-to studio for the many LEGO video game adaptations released over the years, and this seems to not be changing anytime soon. That said, while the studio was reportedly working on a big Disney-focused title, the project has since been shelved, with TT Games …

In most console generations we have seen systems updated and refreshed halfway through their life cycles, offering a slimmer, cheaper or in some other way different console to the launch variants. Surprisingly, last generation we saw the introduction of a PS4 Pro – being the first PlayStation system to get …