In a surprise update released last night, Ubisoft announced that it is working on a new game in The Division franchise. We aren't getting The Division 3 yet, but Ubisoft is making a free to play spin-off title.  Known as ‘The Division Heartland', this is a new game set in …

Two days ago, Blizzard accidentally leaked a June 1st launch date for WoW Classic: Burning Crusade. At the time, we didn't know if this was the final release date or a placeholder, but that changes today, with Blizzard officially confirming the launch.  The Burning Crusade is coming to World of …

Today, Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition begins rolling out on PC, with totally reworked graphical features and ray-tracing effects. Next month, the Enhanced Edition update will also be coming to the Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5 consoles.  On the console side, the Enhanced Edition will offer ray-tracing on consoles for …

Tencent has invested in a lot of US-based game studios over the years, the biggest of which is ownership over Riot Games and a 40 percent stake in Epic Games. However, depending on negotiations with US authorities, Tencent could be forced to sell its investments.  As reported by Reuters, Tencent …

Last year, we reviewed the Sharkoon Light² 200, which won our ‘Worth Buying' award. Today, a new mouse joins the Light² family – the Sharkoon Light² 180.  The latest mouse from Sharkoon weighs in at just 63g, making it one of the lightest gaming mice on the market. To achieve this low …

Today, Nvidia has begun announcing its GeForce Now library additions for May. Over the course of this month, 61 games will be added to the cloud gaming service, with 17 of those games arriving today.  Nvidia's continued partnership with Remedy Entertainment sees Alan Wake and Alan Wake's American Nightmare joining …

Today, Seagate launches the One Touch SSD, offering NVMe performance in an external, portable form factor, with up to 2TB of capacity. The Seagate One Touch SSD is rated for sequential read/write speeds of up to 1030MB/s, using a USB 3.2 Gen 2 USB-C interface. As a portable drive, device …

Back in 2019, Sony made the decision to stop allowing third-party stores to sell digital PlayStation games, restricting all digital game sales to Sony's own store. Now, a class action lawsuit is brewing to fight this restriction. As reported by Bloomberg, the proposed class action lawsuit, filed as “Caccuri v. …

IBM has announced a new breakthrough today, unveiling the world's first chip using 2nm nanosheet technology. The new 2nm design can bring several improvements, including big leaps in performance and efficiency.

Microsoft has revealed plans to start removing Adobe Flash from Windows 10 this year. Flash officially reached End of Life status on the 31st of December 2020, but remnants of it still remain in Windows to this day. Starting in June, Microsoft will be issuing Windows 10 update KB4577586, which …

Back in February, the Xbox backwards compatible team launched FPS Boost, a method of getting older generation games to run at up to 120 frames per second on Xbox Series X/S consoles without any needed input from the original developers. The feature started off small, supporting just a handful of …

It looks like Dead Island 2 will end up being an Epic Games Store exclusive on PC, assuming the game actually ever sees the light of day. According to court documents revealed through the Epic Games v Apple trial, Epic has exclusivity deals in place for both Dead Island 2 …

Activision is finally opening up about its plans for Call of Duty in 2021. During a financial call that took place last night, the publisher confirmed that Sledgehammer Games is leading development for this year's game.  Speaking on this year's plans, Activision Blizzard COO, Daniel Alegre, stated: “Development is being …

World of Warcraft Classic is going through some changes this year, with Blizzard launching new servers for The Burning Crusade expansion. There is currently an on-going beta for this but a release date has not been announced – although a Battle.net update may have leaked it.  A number of players …

It was revealed this week that Dell is in the process of updating hundreds of PC models to address a security bug affecting machines dating all the way back to 2009. The vulnerability allows an attacker to gain kernel-level permissions in Windows.  The vulnerability was found by security firm Sentinel …

Synology has a new pair of professional-grade storage racks launching this week. The 12-bay RackStation RS2421+ and RS2421RP+, and 16-bay RS2821RP+ will be available starting this month, built to excel in large-scale infrastructure backups, business-level file serving and private cloud services. Speaking on the new racks, Julien Chen, product manager …

We've been hearing about Microsoft's long-awaited Fable reboot since 2018, when Playground Games set up a second studio to take on the project. We are slowly starting to learn more about this upcoming game, with the latest piece of news revealing that Fable is being developed on the Forza Tech …

While it looked like Microsoft may acquire Discord in recent months, those negotiations unceremoniously ended and now, it looks like Discord has chosen to partner up elsewhere. In a surprising announcement last night, Sony announced that it has invested in Discord and plans to integrate the app with PlayStation consoles.  …

Ever since the launch of the iOS App Store, Apple has taken a 30 percent revenue cut from developers. Now known as the ‘Apple Tax', Epic Games is attempting to challenge this revenue split in court. As it turns out, executives within Apple had their doubts that they would be …

A few weeks ago, we learned that Epic Games had spent around $330 million on obtaining Epic Games Store exclusives so far. Now, thanks to testimony given during the first day of the Epic Games v Apple trial, we know that the Epic Games Store is well away from being …

Back at the start of the Xbox One/PS4 console generation, Insomniac Games was initially working with Microsoft, developing and releasing the Xbox One exclusive ‘Sunset Overdrive'. Now years later, it looks like the IP could be heading to PlayStation.  After the success of Spider-Man (PS4) and in light of Microsoft's …

Epic Games has been paying millions to obtain timed exclusive games for its store. We know a smaller game like Control ended up costing Epic around $10 million, but what about a bigger game like Borderlands 3? Court documents reveal that Epic paid well over $100 million for Borderlands 3 …

Recently, Intel announced plans to greatly expand its manufacturing, with a $20 billion investment going towards new chip making facilities. Today, we have an update on that front, with Intel announcing plans to spend $3.5 billion upgrading its factory in New Mexico.  As reported by VentureBeat, Intel CEO, Pat Gelsinger, …

Back when the Oculus Rift and HTC VIVE first launched, there was a constant back and forth in the Steam hardware rankings, with both VR headsets consistently overtaking each other. Now five years on, Oculus seems to have taken the majority lead.  The latest Steam Hardware Survey (via UploadVR) results …

Xbox Game Pass has had a few good months so far this year and Microsoft is looking to continue that trend in May. The first batch of new Game Pass titles for the month have been announced, including the likes of Red Dead Online, Just Cause 4 and Final Fantasy …

Just as promised, the Resident Evil Village demo is now live across all platforms and in a predictable turn of events, PC players have already figured out how to get past the 1 hour time limit.   On the Steam forums for the demo, a user asked if anyone had found …

Last week, we learned that Microsoft would be changing its revenue cut for games sold through its store on PC. According to files revealed ahead of the Epic Games v Apple trial, Microsoft was also considering doing this for games sold on Xbox, but has since backed off on those …

Earlier this year, we learned that Apple is internally testing two designs for a foldable iPhone, with a particular focus on the durability of the hinge. Now, new reports indicate that Apple's foldable iPhone will feature an 8-inch foldable display and will arrive in 2023.

Oculus has a new first-party developer under its wing, as the company has just acquired Downpour Interactive – the studio responsible for popular VR shooter, Onward. The new acquisition was announced in a blog post, featuring statements from Downpour Interactive. When asked why the studio decided to sell, the company …

Epic Games is continuing to expand on its developer tool offerings with another acquisition. The Unreal Engine maker has now acquired ArtStation, which runs a marketplace for game assets and digital illustrations.  ArtStation is a platform used by many artists from major and smaller game studios alike. Under the Epic …