Software & Gaming

With the rapid rate of technological progress over the decades, many older games no longer hold up to current day TVs and monitors both technically and technologically. In some instances, even modern systems are far behind the curve of video output, with a number of Nintendo Switch titles turning into a bit of a blurry/aliased mess when blown up on a big screen. This is where the mClassic comes in: a HDMI-based hardware upscaler offering “Real-Time Redrawing of Each and Every Pixel.”

People Can Fly has been keeping itself busy since the release of Outriders. The studio has had multiple other games in the works, including one known as Project Dagger. While initially planned to be published by Take-Two, this deal was later scrapped, leaving People Can Fly to self-publish. Now, after …

Last week, we reported on the current troublesome state of Cities: Skylines II. Though the devs warned players ahead of launch, the 2023 title has been and continues to be plagued with all manner of performance issues – leading to a recent apology from the devs and publishers. Promising to …

Music can play a major role in elevating video games from being a good game, to a great one. Sadly, access to video game music – especially from Japan – has historically been limited. Fortunately, SEGA has been much more proactive with bringing its OSTs to music streaming services in …

The list of games supporting Intel XeSS keeps growing, with Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Remnant II, and Horizon Forbidden West being the latest titles to support Intel's upscaling technology. Previously, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora only supported Nvidia DLSS 2 and AMD FSR 3. However, with Intel XeSS, it's positioning itself …

The Gran Turismo series is no stranger to adding odd or unique vehicles to its games. From concept cars to a moon rover, Polyphony Digital manages to show its appreciation to vehicles of all sorts. As part of GT7’s latest update, Sony’s own currently-unreleased Afeela Prototype can now be driven. …

As part of the PlayStation 5’s launch, Sony offered 20 PS4 titles for free to all those with a PlayStation Plus subscription. One of the included games was Fallout 4 (since then also finding its way onto PS Plus Extra). With FO4’s next-gen update finally available to download and play, …

BlizzCon made its grand return in 2023, after a four year hiatus. Unfortunately, it looks like the event is on the ropes once again, with plans for BlizzCon 2024 being scrapped.  BlizzCon is by no means a cheap event to run, but it has been a core part of the …

Nintendo has made plenty of headlines recently, having successfully shut down the popular Switch emulator, Yuzu, earlier this year. Now, Nintendo is turning its attention to copyrighted mods, aiming for the removal of hundreds of Steam Workshop items for the game Garry's Mod. Garry's Mod is two decades old at …

Helldivers 2 has been a huge hit over the past couple of months, maintaining a massive playerbase eager to stay up to date on new content across PS5 and PlayStation. Currently, the game is a PS5 console exclusive, but recent rumours suggest that may change.  Xbox Era's Nick Baker has …

For the first time, GeForce Now is getting support for Battle.net titles. This opens the door for many of Blizzard's games to be streamable after years of staying off the cloud. Several Activision titles also joined GeForce Now recently, including Call of Duty. To kick things off, the first wave …

We're still awaiting news on the next major Xbox Games Showcase, which is due to take place this June. Still, the Xbox team does have other announcements to make in the meantime, so there will be an indie-focused showcase next week. The next ID@Xbox Digital Showcase has been announced, scheduled …

After a number of delays, Bethesda is finally rolling out the next-gen update for Fallout 4 today on Xbox Series X/S and PS5 consoles. PC players are also getting an update today, including some new Creation Club content, as well as bug fixes and new features like support for ultrawide …

Sea of Thieves is officially coming to PS5 this month after several years of Xbox console exclusivity. While the game isn't set to roll out to all until the 30th of April, those who pick up the game's Ultimate Edition can start playing this weekend. Those who pre-order the Sea …

Fallout 76 got off to a spectacularly poor start, but after years of updates, the game is in a much better place nowadays. We've already heard extensively about the effect that the Fallout TV series has had on the playercounts for all games in the series. However, it would seem …

While the idea of an open-world Sonic game seemed a bit outlandish at first, the game ended up being a hit amongst fans and sold quite well, picking up more players over time through a series of free DLC updates. Now, it is claimed that Sega is cooking up a …

Recently, new rumours have surfaced claiming that Xbox studio, The Coalition, is ramping up to reveal the next Gears of War game. Now, it would seem that those involved in the series are putting out some teasers of their own. Liam McIntyre, the voice actor who plays the role of …

Lords of the Fallen is an interesting case where both entries in the series were promoted on their utilisation of new tech – only to then receive a rather mild response from players. Fortunately, 2023’s Lords of the Fallen has seen a decent amount of post-launch support – with the …

Over the past few years, the Embracer Group has risen and fallen at a surprisingly rapid rate. From acquiring companies left, right and centre, to then selling those same companies off just a few years later – all the while cancelling projects and firing employees. Embracer has received backlash from …

Throughout the years, we have seen many different methods used by publishers in order to squeeze that little bit extra cash from players. Such techniques have included DLC, microtransactions, loot boxes and battle passes. The latest trend to begin hitting the industry sees publishers charging extra for a couple days …

The adoption rate of Nvidia's DLSS 3 technology continues to improve each week. This time around, Grey Zone Warfare and Remnant 2 are the latest titles to implement DLSS 3, and several other games are also adding DLSS 2.  Madfinger Games' upcoming Gray Zone Warfare is one of Steam's top …

It has been a couple of years since we first heard about Assassin's Creed Infinity, Ubisoft's platform for future Assassin's Creed campaigns. One of the planned campaigns for Infinity currently in development is codenamed Hexe, and recent reports have shed some early details on what fans can expect and more …

While an initial PC system requirement announcement for Homeworld 3 happened last year, the game has gone through a few extra months of development since then. Now, the developers have revealed the revised and final PC system requirements for this long-awaited Space RTS. Homeworld 3 will support ray tracing, but …

Media Molecule is one of PlayStation’s most unique studios, focusing on highly artful/experimental titles, with an emphasis on creativity. Unfortunately, their most recent endeavour – Dreams – seemingly failed to perform, leading to the recent shutdown of all support. Fortunately, it looks like the team are once again working on …

Last year Epic Games surprised many when they quadrupled the scope of their Fortnite Battle Royale game, adding a LEGO building mode, a racing mode, and the Guitar Hero-esque Fortnite Festival. As part of Fortnite Festival’s 3rd Season, Guitar controllers are now supported. Making the announcement on their blog alongside …

Fallout London is an interesting total conversion mod created by Team FOLON which has been in the works for years now. Initially planned to release on the 23rd of April, the game-sized mod was delayed due to the surprise announcement of Fallout 4’s ‘next-gen’ update. Depending on how many complications …

Over the years, Fortnite has added tons of characters and skins into their game from across the world’s industries: from PlayStation and Xbox mascots to 3rd party IPs; successful shows; anime; athletes and artists. Despite this, one major omission has been Nintendo characters. Though rumours suggesting that Samus Aran would …

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora released late last year to a somewhat mixed reception, with critics and fans alike praising the game’s visuals but lamenting its relative mundanity when it came to gameplay and exploration. Fortunately those who enjoyed the former on consoles will now be able to experience the world …

We're coming up to the one year mark since the launch of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Respawn's excellent follow-up to Jedi: Fallen Order. At this point, many of the game's earlier performance problems have been ironed out and now, the game is joining the EA Play library.  While PC players …

The past week has seen hundreds of thousands of people returning to the Fallout games. Many of those revisiting the games on PC are keen to use mods, which has led to a problematic traffic spike for Nexus Mods, which has had to apologise to users for issues. The Fallout …