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This time last year, it looked like Crytek was on the verge of bankruptcy with developers claiming to have not been paid for months and promising talent leaving on a regular basis. Now just 12 months later, the studio is still facing issues, with one former employee suing Crytek over …

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It looks like Apple is set to make another major acquisition before the end of the year to bolster its services. According to sources, Apple is planning to buy music discovery app ‘Shazam' in a deal worth around $400 million. Shazam is an app that lets people identify songs, TV …

Overkill's ‘The Walking Dead' game was announced all the way back in 2014, with just a few small nuggets of information coming out since then. While the game was originally supposed to come out in 2016, it looks like Overkill has settled on an ‘Autumn 2018' release window now, with …

Back in May, we learned that Geralt of Rivia would be returning to our screens sooner than expected, as Netflix had picked up the rights to make a TV series based on The Witcher novels. It has been a while since we've had an update on the show's progress, but …

On Friday, the folks at 4A Games treated us to a brand new trailer for Metro Exodus, adding that the game is due out in ‘Autumn 2018'. However, it turns out that this trailer may have been hiding a more specific release date all along, pointing to the game launching …

Back in October, Valve revealed its plans to let developers send their games directly to Steam Curators. Dubbed Steam's Curator Connect, the process has been in beta for the past few weeks before Valve surprisingly released the platform today. As the backend is only available for Steam developers to view, …

Earlier this week, Destiny 2’s The Curse of Osiris DLC landed and with it came the most overpowered weapon the series has ever had. It seems Bungie has a temporary ‘fix’, if you could call it that, by selling the Prometheus Lens to everyone. The Prometheus Lens came in crashing …

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’s second DLC has been pegged for a December release since July, however Nintendo has kept hush about exactly when players can get their hands on it. That was until it appeared during last night’s The Game Awards 2017, in which the company …

Hideo Kojima’s upcoming title Death Stranding first debuted to the world at Sony’s E3 panel in 2016, and has confused and astounded pretty much anyone that watches its trailers. The title appeared again during The Game Awards 2017 with its longest trailer yet, but with more footage simply comes more …

While The Game Awards 2017 held many big reveals, such as Soulcalibur VI and Beyonetta 3, Dark Souls developer FromSoftware is a little more coy on what it currently has in the oven. Its 30-second teaser has prompted the rumour mill to spin wildly, suggesting a new Souls game, or …

The sixth main entry to the Soulcalibur series has been speculated to appear at numerous events since its 2012 predecessor, always being noticeably absent to the displeasure of its fans. The Game Awards 2017 didn’t disappoint, however, as the series is pegged to return in 2018 for PS4, Xbox One …

This week, RAMBUS began unveiling its early specification outlines for DDR5 memory and HBM3. It will be several years before we see either put into action, but the early specs paint a bright picture for the future, with big performance and efficiency leaps planned for both. As part of an …

It looks like previous rumors that ‘A Way Out' would be delayed until 2019 were incorrect. Last night at The Game Awards, director Josef Fares, took to the stage to not ramble about his love for the gaming industry, but to also show off new footage for A Way Out …

With Xenoblade Chronicles 2 now out, we have come to the end of Nintendo's first-year roster of exclusive games for the Switch. Fortunately, 2018 is already looking bright as last night, Nintendo announced that Bayonetta 3 would be coming exclusively to the console. Bayonetta started out as a multi-platform release. …

Microsoft and Rare have been teasing Sea of Thieves for a long time now. At this point, we have a pretty good idea of what the game will be and quite a few have already had the chance to try it out in various alpha/beta tests. Now, we are gearing …

Just as promised, last night at The Game Awards, 4A Games debuted brand new footage for Metro Exodus. The game had its surprise reveal at E3 earlier this year on the Microsoft stage. At the time, we saw footage showing off scenery we wouldn't expect from a Metro game. This …

Last night, Geoff Keighley's annual ‘The Game Awards' show kicked off, bringing recognition to some of the best games of the year. Awards aren't the only reason to tune in though, as this year's show was also filled with announcements. One of the bigger announcements of the evening was PUBG's …

Out of nowhere, Nvidia has announced the TITAN V- the first Volta powered Titan GPU with 110 teraflops of compute performance.

With every Windows update, your PC gets strengthened against attacks that are both old and new. All versions, however, are vulnerable to a new fileless code injection technique dubbed Process Doppelgänging, as no antivirus can handle it. The process was discovered by Black Hat Europe, in which researchers Eugene Kogan …

It seems that Microsoft is generating excitement for its exclusive deal to launch PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds on its Xbox One next week. The publisher has plans to mimic PUBG’s iconic supply drops by placing three real-life crates across the cities of Australia. One crate will each be placed in Sydney, Melbourne …

Earlier this week, Qualcomm officially announced its Snapdragon 845 chip that will presumably power the majority of flagship smartphones throughout 2018. Details were originally scarce, but the company has since given a full rundown of what to expect from the new mobile processor. Upgrading from the Snapdragon 835’s Kryo 280, …

Despite Rockstar’s push on Grand Theft Auto Online, Heists haven’t been seen since it released back in early 2015. Fans need fear not, though, as The Doomsday Heist breaks that near-three-year dry spell, coming in with an outlandish trailer before its December 12th release date. This comes as a surprising …

If you happen to be an Oculus Rift owner, then you've likely gotten used to UI at this point. Previously when putting on a Rift headset, you'd find yourself staring at a floating screen, with quick access to the store, your list of installed games/apps and your friends list. Now, …

Its an action packed week - Leo ponders some of the latest news and presents his own unique take on it all.

While pricing across the board may be somewhat questionable, there may be a good number of you out there looking for a GTX 1070Ti with a beefy cooler to offer quieter operation. This week, EVGA has launched the GTX 1070Ti FTW Ultra Silent Edition, featuring a new 2.5 slot cooler …

Discord has grown exponentially over the course of 2017, nearing 90 million users in total and projected 100 million by early next year. This is all thanks to the company’s attitude to improving the service, adding new features and addressing the constant security concerns of what is an accessible platform …

This time last year, Sony revealed that it had managed to sell over 50 million PS4s so far this generation. This announcement closely followed the launches of the PS4 Pro and PSVR, so how has Sony's hardware been doing since then? Well unsurprisingly, it is still selling at an incredibly …

A couple of weeks ago we learned that Uber suffered from a hack affecting 57 million users worldwide. The company only came clean about the hack 13 months after it took place, as Uber's former chief of security paid the hacker $100,000 under the guise of a bug bounty to …

Earlier this week, we saw Bitcoin managing to hit the $10,000 value landmark. In the days following, it has shot up well past that number, with the cryptocurrency now sitting at $15,000 in value per coin. Bitcoin crossed the $15,000 mark for the first time earlier today, marking another major …