It has been around six months since Microsoft first announced plans to acquire ZeniMax Media for $7.5 billion. Now, it looks like the final hurdles have been cleared, with reports indicating that the merger has been approved by regulators.  Today, the EU has approved Microsoft's acquisition of ZeniMax without conditions, …

The Microsoft Store has become a good source of leaks over the last year. This time around, an early listing revealed Tomb Raider: Definitive Survivor Trilogy, indicating that we're getting a re-release of the Tomb Raider reboot trilogy soon. The listing was eventually removed, but not quickly enough to keep …

Ubisoft was finally set to release the multiplayer mode for Watch Dogs Legion across all platforms later this month but unfortunately, there has been another delay for PC players. Ubisoft discovered some lingering issues with the mode on PC, so it has been delayed indefinitely.  According to the announcement, the …

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority has also decided to investigate Apple over anti-competitive business practices. Apple has been accused of violating anti-trust rules a number of times, but things have picked up considerably since Epic Games' legal assault, filing lawsuits and official complaints across the world. The UK's competition …

One of Microsoft's big improvements with the Xbox Series X/S was improvements to controller latency. Unfortunately, there are people picking up the new controller and facing issues, with some complaining that the controller is unresponsive at times. Now, Microsoft is looking into the issue.  The issue here is that sometimes, …

A few weeks ago, Ubisoft Massive announced that it would be delivering new content for The Division 2 this year. Now, the studio has revealed its roadmap, which will include re-runs of old seasonal content for a few months, leading up to a big update later in the year.  Initially, …

Over the last week, Destiny 2 players discovered a bug that allowed 12 players to join a single raid. As you would expect, this completely changed raid runs and opened up new ways for players to tackle challenges. As a result, there was some hope that Bungie wouldn't patch it …

This week, a federal jury in Texas has found Intel guilty of patent infringement. The jury found that Intel infringed on two patents held by a company known as VLSI and has ordered that over $2 billion should be paid in damages.  The patent infringement lawsuit has been going on …

Earlier this week, Cold Iron Studios finally revealed the Alien game it has been working on for the last several years. Aliens: Fireteam is a co-op survival shooter, pitting squads of marines up against the Xenomorphs. The initial announcement came with a short trailer, but now we also have a …

It looks like Echtra Games now has new ownership, as an acquisition agreement has been reached with Zynga. The San-Francisco based studio is best known for bringing back the Torchlight IP with Torchlight 3, which exited Early Access in 2020.  While Echtra has developed one PC and console game, Zynga …

People Can Fly seems to be off to a good start with Outriders. At the end of February, the team released a demo version of the game and so far, over 2 million people have downloaded it and tried it out. To keep the ball rolling, a patch for the …

While a small team at Valve has been working to keep Artifact alive over the last couple of years, at this point, the player count has dropped too low. As a result, Valve is officially cancelling future development on Artifact 2.0. Valve announced back in March 2019 that it would …

Elite Dangerous: Odyssey is still on track to release this year and soon, we'll have the chance to try it out for ourselves. This week, Frontier announced an upcoming alpha playtest and detailed the features and content we can expect to see.  The PC alpha test for Elite Dangerous: Odyssey …

At the Tokyo Game Show last year, Koei Tecmo announced Dynasty Warriors 9: Empires, a new take on the hack and slash formula with a bigger focus on siege battles and fortress-based skirmishes. While the game was initially due to release in ‘early 2021', the game has since been delayed …

If you happen to have a bunch of characters stored away on the original version of Diablo 2, then you may be pleased to hear that you can bring them along with you when jumping into Diablo 2: Resurrected later this year. This week, Blizzard revealed that Diablo 2: Resurrected …

Antec is revamping its Cube Mini-ITX chassis for 2020. The new Antec Dark Cube comes with two panel options, allowing users to choose between tempered glass for aesthetics or a mesh front panel for optimal airflow. The Dark Cube is described an untraditional case, but it still maintains support for …

It looks like NCSoft is bringing the Unreal Engine 4 upgrade to Blade & Soul worldwide after all. Initially, the UE4 upgrade was only available on a Korean server, but this summer, the developers will be bringing the new features to the full live game in the west. This summer, …

Elgato is introducing more accessories for streamers and content creators this week. Two new accessory lines have just been announced, the Elgato Light Strip and Elgato Wave Panels, both of which aim to help people personalise their home studios. Starting off with the Elgato Light Strip – as you would …

GeForce Now returned to its weekly library update schedule earlier this year, which means a new batch of games are being served up today. This time around, we also have a sneak peek at what else is coming throughout March.  This month, 21 games will be added to the GeForce …

Last night during AMD's RX 6700 XT reveal, we also got a small update on Resident Evil Village. AMD confirmed that the developers will be utilising both raytracing and AMD's FidelityFX features in the PC version.  In a tweet from the Radeon Twitter account, we also get a video demo …

It is always nice to get some gaming freebies with PC hardware purchases. We typically see games bundled with graphics cards from AMD and Nvidia, but occasionally, Intel will bundle games with CPUs too. Until the end of July, Intel CPUs will be shipping with free games, including Hitman 3 …

Western Digital was amongst the first SSD makers to jump on PCIe Gen 4 with a series of WD_Black NVMe M.2 SSDs. If you're looking to make the jump to faster PCIe 4.0 SSD speeds, then now is an excellent time, as 1TB and 500GB WD_Black SN850 models are currently …

We're all used to gaming on PC monitors and TVs, but what about projectors? This week, BenQ has revealed its new gaming projector line-up, promising low response times, 4K resolution and more.  The BenQ TK700STi is a short-throw projector, meaning it is capable of projecting images onto a screen or …

Microsoft first revealed the Hololens all the way back in 2015, before shipping the first developer units in 2016. Since then, we've seen concepts for the Hololens running experiences based on Halo and Minecraft. Now, Pokémon is joining that list, with Niantic and Microsoft teaming up to show off a …

Mediatonic has had a very busy month, having announced Fall Guys for Xbox and Nintendo Switch consoles. Now to kick off March, the studio has announced that it has been acquired by Epic Games. Epic Games has reached an agreement to acquire the Tonic Games Group, which houses two studios …

Last month, Sony announced plans for a PSVR 2 headset and brand new VR controllers for the PlayStation 5. The company didn't show anything yet, but teased that some DualSense features would be added to Sony's new and improved VR controllers. Now, we have our first look at what the …

To cap off 2020, Double Eleven, the team behind bringing Rust to consoles, announced that the game was still on the way, promising to share more significant news in 2021. Now, the studio is delivering on that promise, revealing a new trailer for Rust: Console Edition and announcing an upcoming …

We've reviewed a lot of Edifier speakers over the years, often larger, bookshelf sized speakers. This year, Edifier is seeing what it can do in a much smaller form factor with the new D12, which aims to offer the best sound in its size class. The D12 is a desktop …

Cold Iron Studios has been quietly working on a game based on the Alien IP for quite some time now. The game has been in the works for years now, having first been revealed in 2018. Since then, news has been quiet, but that changes today with the announcement of …

While Apple moved the iPad Pro over to USB-C connectivity years ago, the company has been resistant to bringing this change to iPhone, opting to stick to its own ageing Lightning interface. Unfortunately, it sounds like Apple won't be changing its mind on this in 2021.  According to Apple analyst, …