It has been around a year since the Steam Deck first launched and to celebrate the system's first anniversary, Valve is discounting it for the first time. As part of the ongoing Steam Spring sale, you can pick up a Steam Deck direct from Valve for 10% off. 

We've seen many mouse mats over the years, some with softer cloth surfaces, other with harder, textured surfaces, but we've not seen many tempered glass mouse mats. Razer is looking to change that now with the Razer Atlas.  The Razer Atlas is the company's first foray into glass-based design. The …

We've covered many Edifier headphones and speaker systems over the years. Today, the company is expanding its line of Bluetooth speakers with the new Edifier QD35, a very unique-looking speaker that aims to offer high-quality acoustics, Hi-Res Wireless audio and Lumia effects.  The Edifier QD35 is a tabletop Bluetooth speaker …

While we've known for a while now that Sony has been in talks with the CMA to express concerns about Microsoft's planned acquisition of Activision Blizzard, we haven't heard much about studios speaking out in defence of the acquisition. That changed today, with the CMA's filings being updated with responses …

IO Interactive is hard at work on multiple new projects, putting the Hitman series on hiatus for a little while. Currently, the studio's biggest focus is its James Bond game, which will feature a new and original 007. Speaking with Eurogamer recently, IO Interactive's Christian Elverdam and Hakan Abrak revealed …

Techland has been hard at work on updates for Dying Light 2 since its launch but now the studio is ready to start turning its attention to something new. Today, Techland announced that it has begun developing a new IP.  Moving beyond the Dying Light series, Techland is now developing …

Originally premiering in January, NieR: Automata Ver1.1a took the story from 2017’s genre-bending action-adventure RPG and condensed it into a tight season of anime which manages to capture not only the visual styles of the game, but also the essence of its messaging. Unfortunately for some, the show launched with …

While last week was a pretty big one for GeForce Now with five brand-new releases joining the library, this week is a bit quieter. Today's GeForce Now update will bring two titles – Disney Dreamlight Valley and The Legend of Heroes: Trails to Azure.  Disney Dreamlight Valley has been available …

The Radeon 780M iGPU is set to debut in new Ryzen 7000 series laptop processors, but we still don't entirely know what to expect in terms of performance. That is now starting to change through benchmark leaks, the first of which shows the Radeon R780M pumping out similar performance to …

GDC is set to kick off next week but Nvidia is making a few of its gaming-related announcements early. For starters, DLSS is coming to more games, DLSS 3 is getting Unreal Engine 5.2 integration and the next graphics card game bundle is now official.

The Ultra 79 XTX prebuilt from CyberPowerPC goes full AMD

ViewSonic has just expanded the Omni gaming monitor lineup with three new models. Ranging from FHD to QHD, all three have Fast IPS panels featuring a 165Hz refresh rate for a smooth gameplay experience. Starting from the bottom, the VX2428 is a 24-inch FullHD monitor packing a Fast IPS panel …

Late last year Konami broke its years of ‘silence’ on the publisher’s Silent Hill gaming franchise, announcing a bunch of new video game projects as well as revealing that they are once again tackling a Silent Hill horror film. Little was known at the time, though we now have information …

To meet the need for capable computing power in environments with difficult installation conditions, OnLogic has launched its Helix 401 fanless industrial computer. This small device, which has made its premiere at Embedded World 2023, is designed for use in edge computing, IoT, and many other applications. The Helix 401 …

Ubisoft has been rather good in ensuring many of its previously published titles get updated with some level of support for the new generation of consoles. We have already seen a whole host of games get their free upgrades including multiple Assassin’s Creed titles, Rainbow Six and more. Unfortunately, the …

Just yesterday we reported that the HITMAN franchise would be taking a break as IO Interactive moves on to focus on their upcoming James Bond 007 game. It is therefore exciting to see that IOI are opening up another studio – this time in Istanbul – which will assist on …

LG is back with another impressive ultrawide monitor. With a 32:9 49-inch panel, HDR and a 240Hz refresh rate, the LG 49GR85DC-B offers many of the features gamers will be looking for.  Packing a 49-inch curved (1000R) VA panel with 240Hz refresh rate, 1ms G2G response time and 5120×1440 resolution, …

The next batch of games for PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium subscribers has been announced. If you skipped over the PS5 version of the Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves collection, then you are in luck, as it will now be included as part of the subscription, but that is just the …

Square Enix has been talking about experimenting with blockchain technology and NFTs for quite some time. In late 2022, the publisher announced its first step into this market with Symbiogenesis, a “digital collectable art project” designed for “Web3 fans”. Now, this “game” has its first official trailer.  The teaser trailer …

Recently AMD announced its latest game bundle for its graphics cards, delivering free copies of The Last of Us Part 1 to buyers of RX 7000 series and RX 6000 series GPUs. Now, Nvidia is set to unveil its latest bundle, which will offer up free copies of Redfall.  This …

Just recently, we heard that Sony is developing a PS5 Pro console, indicating that the PlayStation 6 should arrive sometime between 2027 and 2028. Now, regulatory filings have confirmed that Microsoft is also working on its next generation of Xbox hardware and services.  The FTC is currently suing Microsoft to …

It has been roughly one year since Tango Gameworks released Ghostwire: Tokyo on PS5 and PC. Now with Sony's timed console exclusivity deal coming to an end, Microsoft has announced plans to bring the game to Xbox consoles and Game Pass.  Ghostwire: Tokyo will release on Xbox Series X/S, and …

AMD Ryzen 7000 series mobile chips have already appeared in various benchmark databases, but up to this point, none were of a Ryzen 7x40U SKU. That has now changed after spotting the first benchmark result of the Ryzen 5 7640U. The Geekbench entry shared by Wccftech is listed as “AMD …

Yesterday Microsoft announced a new deal with a competing cloud gaming provider in an effort to convince regulators that its acquisition of Activision Blizzard won't squeeze the competition out of the market. Today, the company is announcing yet another deal, this time with a more widely known cloud gaming company.  …

Recently, it was claimed that the RTX 4070 would launch in mid-April. Now, another report seems to back this up, claiming that Nvidia will announce the new GPU on the 12th of April, followed by reviews and availability on the 13th. 

For its entire existence, IO Interactive have focused almost exclusively on the Hitman franchise, with their most-recent non-Hitman project being 2010’s Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days. After successfully turning the latest HITMAN trilogy into a ‘World of Assassination’ sandbox, the team at IOI are putting Agent 47 on ice …

Unlike Microsoft with Xbox Game Pass, Sony does not bring its first-party titles to the console manufacturer’s PlayStation Plus subscription service at launch. Despite this, Sony has been rather good with adding partner titles day-one to PS Plus. Such is the case with Behaviour Interactive’s upcoming post-apocalyptic first-person building and …

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One of the biggest first-party PS5 titles to have been released so far is Horizon Forbidden West. Despite it being a major improvement over the first game in many aspects, the sequel to 2017’s open world action adventure title still came to PS4 as well as Sony’s latest system. That …

Announced nearly 8 years ago, Nightdive Studios have been working on a remake of the classic 1994 cyberpunk immersive sim System Shock. Development has not been the smoothest, with the title being delayed multiple times over the years. Ahead of the game’s intended March release, the team have now delayed …