We are six months on from Microsoft's big shake-up of the Game Pass services, introducing new tiers and raising prices across the board, including a 50% price increase on the Game Pass Ultimate subscription. Now, new Xbox head, Asha Sharma, is telling employees that Game Pass needs “a better value …

While Overwatch has been available on the Nintendo Switch for a long time now, it was arguably the worst way to play the game. While PC players have access to infinite frame rates, and Xbox and PlayStation players had access to 60FPS, Overwatch on the Switch was limited to 30FPS, …

Nvidia has revealed the next round of DLSS-supported games hitting the market. This week, full path-tracing and DLSS support are confirmed for Capcom's next game, Pragmata. Aside from that though, several other games from smaller studios are also getting DLSS upgrades. Pragmata releases later this week, on April 17th. The …

Starfield has been out on PS5 for a few days. I finally picked it up last night, started up a fresh save and was immediately met with a game crash. Unfortunately, I'm not alone in this experience, with many players experiencing system crashes and hangs during gameplay. However, Bethesda is …

Over the weekend, a rumour began doing the rounds claiming that Fable had been internally delayed, perhaps pushing it as far as 2027 to avoid GTA 6. Playground Games is looking to squash that rumour quickly by reaffirming the game's release plans.  In a new tweet, without directly addressing the …

It came as quite the surprise when Pete Hines left Bethesda. The company's long-time PR lead departed once Starfield hit the market, and it sounds like the merger with Microsoft played a major factor. In a recent interview with Firezide Chat (via VGC), Hines said that it “it was really …

Late last week, a hacking group claimed to have breached Rockstar Games, stealing a selection of data, none of which is believed to be related to Grand Theft Auto 6. Now, Rockstar has confirmed it did suffer a cyber-attack recently. In a statement sent to press outlets like Kotaku and …

Thermal Grizzly continues to expand its liquid-cooling line-up with the ROG Astral RTX 5080 DeltaMate GPU block – featuring borosilicate glass for the first time. The block retains the series’ core features, including 0.2mm microfins, full‑metal construction with an illuminated viewing window, and cooling coverage for all VRAM and VRM …

MSI has announced the Cubi NUC TWG Series, a new compact mini‑PC range powered by Intel’s N Series processors and housed in an ultra-compact 0.55‑litre chassis. The Cubi NUC TWG supports up to three displays, including output over USB‑C, and includes dual‑LAN connectivity with 2.5G and 1G ports. MSI’s cable …

Crimson Desert has been off to a great start. While the game had some lower critic scores than expected, the game has secured high praise from players and that positive word of mouth has led to over 5 million sales so far. Now, the developers at Pearl Abyss are sharing …

A couple of weeks ago, AMD officially announced the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition processor, combining two stacks of 3D V-Cache in one chip. This is going to be AMD's top-end Ryzen desktop processor, so we expected it to be expensive, but the exact cost remained elusive. That changed this …

Nvidia has dropped the next round of DLSS-supported titles, alongside a new batch of games for the GeForce Now cloud gaming service. This week, Samson launches with DLSS Multi Frame Generation, ray‑traced effects, DLSS Ray Reconstruction, and DLSS Super Resolution that can be upgraded to DLSS 4.5 Super Resolution via the …

It has been a couple of months since the last State of Play showcase took place. Apparently, there could be another one happening pretty soon. 

Ten years on from its initial reveal, No Man's Sky is still getting updates. In the latest content drop, Hello Games added a full Pokémon-style battle arena to the game, along with the ability to catch and train different alien species.  The Xeno Arena update is now available for No …

Hazelight Studios has made a name for itself over the years with a series of high-quality co-op titles. At this stage, the studio has managed to sell 50 million copies of its games, but as you may expect, the majority of that comes from 2021 GOTY winner, It Takes Two.  …

Crimson Desert has been dominating gaming discussions for the past week or so. As it turns out, the studio behind Just Cause, had a similar game in the works...

While it looked like 007 First Light would land on Switch 2 alongside all other platforms this May, a last-minute delay has been announced. Now, IO Interactive plans to bring the game to Nintendo's console later in the year, months after the launch on other platforms. Like Hitman: World of …

We've been hearing about the Assassin's Creed Black Flag remake for a couple of years now. Ubisoft has even hinted at the rumours being true themselves. Now, a new leak claims that the game will be revealed as soon as next week.  This isn't the first time we've heard a …

Towards the end of March, it was claimed that Nintendo has a secret new Star Fox game in development, coinciding with the character's appearance in the new Super Mario Galaxy movie. Now, the same leaker claims that the game will be announced later this month. 

It sounds like Halo: Campaign Evolved will be releasing much sooner than expected. The game was announced last year, with a vague 2026 release window but recent leaks point to a July release date.

A massive new wave of titles for Game Pass has just been announced. Over the next few weeks, almost 20 more games will join Game Pass, including he likes of Hades 2 and Vampire Crawlers. The list also contains some previously released titles moving down a tier, so The Elder …

Star Wars Eclipse was first announced in 2021 but very little new information has come out about the game since. As it turns out, the reason for that is simple - development has been moving very slowly, with the game still projected to be 'years away'. 

Each month, subscribers to Amazon Prime are able to claim a wide range of ‘free’ games as part of the company’s Prime Gaming initiative. Over the course of April 2026, subscribers will be able to claim 12 different titles, including legendary strategy games like XCOM and Total War.

Earlier this week we learned that the studio behind Deus Ex Human Revolution and Mankind Divided, Eidos Montreal, was undergoing a third round of job cuts, including the departure of the Studio's head. As it turns out, this most recent round of layoffs may have been spurred by a major …

Sony caught a lot of criticism for cancelling The Last of Us Online a couple of years ago. Recently, the former director on that game talked a bit more about it, sharing that the game was '80% complete' when it was scrapped. 

Valve has continued to remain firm on its plans to not release a Steam Deck 2 until there was a true generational leap in performance. As it turns out, that leap may not be far off, as it has been claimed that the Steam Deck 2 was being planned for 2028. 

During a recent financial presentation, Nexon President, Junghun Lee, commented on the recent successes and failures with its online games over the past year. Interestingly, The First Descendant was named as a struggling title, despite its initially strong launch. 

For around a year now, we have been hearing rumours about a new StarCraft game being in development. Now, we have our strongest evidence yet thanks to new job openings at Blizzard. 

Back at CES, Intel launched its new Core Ultra Series 3 processors, based on the new Panther Lake architecture. MSI has prepared a rollout of new gaming laptops for 2026 with Intel's latest CPUs at the heart of them, alongside RTX 50 series GPUs.

At CES earlier this year, MSI revealed its newly overhauled Prestige laptop line. Following on from weeks of availability over in the US, the new Prestige 16 and Prestige 14 laptops are available throughout the UK.