Software & Gaming

The October 2025 Steam hardware and software survey shows that Linux gamers have surpassed the 3% threshold for the first time, while Windows' share dropped by almost 1%. According to the new data, Linux user share rose by 0.41% to hit 3.05%. This growth comes at the expense of Windows, …

It appears Embark Studios is facing a classic case of success-induced server strain. This weekend, Arc Raiders saw its concurrent player count on Steam explode, rocketing past an all-time high of over 350,000 players. While this is a massive milestone for the extraction shooter, the victory wasn't achieved without its …

Following plenty of hype, previews and playtests, the Embark Studios-developed extraction shooter Arc Raiders is finally here. While there is already plenty to enjoy, the studio has now unveiled their 2025 roadmap for Arc Raiders – confirming the addition of new maps, weather, enemies and more.

After well over a decade since its Early Access launch, Escape From Tarkov has finally Gone Gold ahead of the game’s 1.0 launch later this month.

The popular collectible card game Pokémon TCG Pocket has managed to make more money than Pokémon GO in its first year on the market.

In partnership with Kojima Productions, Backbone has announced an officially licensed Death Stranding 2 smartphone controller.

A franchise as big as Call of Duty will always be hampered by its own size, with the series having its hands tied left and right so as to not deviate too far from what has made Activision (now Microsoft) Billions on an annual basis. The most recent Black Ops 6 is in some ways the best entry in the franchise, and in other ways, the worst. With Black Ops 7 coming around the corner, the team at Treyarch seem to be saying and doing all the right things in the lead-up to its release. Unfortunately, the duality of Call of Duty ensures that no future entry will ever truly be the best it can.

AMD is partially reversing course after a recent announcement that it would move RDNA 1- and RDNA 2-based GPUs into “maintenance mode”, halting the development of game-ready drivers for these cards. Following significant backlash from the PC gaming community, the company has clarified that game optimisations for these cards will …

Krafton, the developer behind PUBG: Battlegrounds, has unveiled its new AI-driven companion, ‘PUBG Ally', at Nvidia's “GeForce Gamer Festival” in Seoul. Krafton is labelling it a ‘Co-Playable Character' (CPC), designed to interact and collaborate with live players, going well beyond what you would expect from your typical NPC. The system …

Earlier this week, Amazon underwent a new round of layoffs, removing much of the Amazon Games division and cancelling multiple projects. As it turns out, Amazon's major game, an online Lord of the Rings title, has also been cancelled amid this shake-up.  New World isn't the only major MMO from …

The World of Warcraft: Midnight closed alpha test kicked off just four weeks ago. At that same time, rumours of a February launch date emerged and now, that release date looks even more likely, as Blizzard is quickly moving on to beta testing. World of Warcraft: Midnight has wrapped up …

A few weeks back, we learned that Silent Hill 2 Remake, Blooper Team's excellent re-telling of one horror's all-time greats, might be coming to Xbox. Now, it appears that ratings boards have confirmed exactly that, with an Xbox version of the game now rated.  The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) …

Roughly one year ago, we learned that Nintendo had filed a lawsuit against a creator known online as Every Game Guru. The lawsuit accused the creator of promoting piracy and streaming pirated copies of games, sometimes before those games were even available to buy. Now, Nintendo has won the lawsuit. …

Earlier this month, Microsoft officially announced its next Halo game – Halo: Campaign Evolved, a complete remake of the original Halo campaign in Unreal Engine 5. It sounds like Microsoft won't be stopping there though.  One Halo-focused leaker, Halo Leaks, claims that Halo 2 and Halo 3 will also be …

AMD's latest WHQL driver, Adrenalin Edition 25.10.2, is a major one, though not only for the reasons you might think. While the new driver delivers Game Ready optimisations for Battlefield 6 and Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, its release notes contain a hard-hitting announcement: AMD is officially moving its …

Animal Crossing: New Horizons is getting an official Switch 2 upgrade early next year alongside a massive free 3.0 update.

Epic has announced that Fortnite is adding a new type of cosmetic in the form of Sidekicks - letting you obtain and customise a pet companion.

Following its official announcement in September, the writers and director for Paramount’s live-action Call of Duty film have been revealed.

Capcom has announced a Resident Evil Showcase for Early 2026 in alignment with the franchise’s upcoming 30th anniversary.

Microsoft is rolling out a new feature in the latest Windows 11 Insider Preview build that aims to take some of the guesswork out of diagnosing system instability. The new Proactive Memory Diagnostics tool automatically detects potential memory-related issues after a crash and prompts the user to run a quick …

NEXON and the development team behind The First Descendant unveiled major details for the upcoming Season 3 Episode 2 update during a livestream on Wednesday night. Launching next week, the update introduces a new Descendant named Harris, a new Dungeon, Ultimate Weapons, Trigger and Ancestors Modules, and a long-awaited Trading …

CORSAIR has officially unveiled its first controller designed specifically for fighting games, the Novablade Pro Wireless Hall Effect Leverless Controller. Built with the company’s new MGX Hyperdrive magnetic switches, the device introduces features aimed at delivering faster, more precise inputs for competitive players. The Novablade Pro features 15 adjustable magnetic …

AMD has released its latest Adrenalin Edition graphics driver, bringing new optimisations for Radeon graphics card users in games like Battlefield 6 and Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2.

GeForce Now has another big week in store for gamers, with nine more titles joining the library, including brand new releases like The Outer Worlds 2, ARC Raiders and more. Obsidian's latest RPG, The Outer Worlds 2, launched last week for Premium Edition buyers, but unlocked yesterday for the standard …

Nvidia is celebrating 25 years of GeForce at the GeForce Gamer Festival in South Korea this week. As part of the event, the next batch of DLSS-supported games were announced and on top of that, KRAFTON and NCSoft made appearances to showcase new games.

The Resident Evil franchise continues to perform well, with RE7 now sitting as the 4th best-selling Capcom game and RE2 Remake surpassing 16 million copies.

Ahead of the launch of Arc Raiders, Embark Studios confirmed that The Finals is profitable while teasing that they are working on two more projects right now.

Ahead of the system’s 2nd anniversary, it appears as though Sony is gearing up to introduce new cloud streaming functionality to the PlayStation Portal.

This week’s free Epic Games Store offerings include two indie horrors (FNAF: Into the Pit and Bendy and the Ink Machine) just in time for Halloween.

Alexey “Unwinder” Nicolaychuk is back at work on MSI Afterburner, with the first beta of version 4.6.7 arriving soon. This update brings some significant and long-requested usability improvements to the voltage/frequency (V/F) curve editor, making fine-tuning your GPU easier than ever. Moreover, it also hints at support for a mysterious …