Software & Gaming

Earlier this month Valve broke its silence and finally announced its next game – Counter Strike 2. The game is set to release to all this Summer following a few months of playtesting. Now, Valve has announced what this means for the esports scene, confirming that the Paris Major tournament …

Earlier this year Nintendo confirmed the new release date for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, the long-awaited sequel to Breath of the Wild. The game will be launching in May, but in the meantime, we'll be getting a good look at gameplay.  Tomorrow, the 28th of March, …

One year on from its initial launch, Gran Turismo 7 is in an excellent place, with the PlayStation exclusive continually and consistently receiving free updates – most recently seeing uncompromising PSVR2 support as well as experimental inclusions of next-generation racing AI technology. Though perhaps not as expansive, a new update …

Earlier this month, Actor Lance Reddick unfortunately passed away. Reddick has not only had a lot of film and TV roles, but he was also well known in the gaming scene thanks to performances in titles like Quantum Break, Horizon Zero Dawn (and its sequel), and of course, Destiny 2, …

The CS:GO concurrent player count has been growing over the past month, with the shooter consistently breaking its peak concurrent player record. This weekend, following the announcement of Counter-Strike 2, the game saw another surge, surpassing over 1.5 million players online at once.  Since Valve officially revealed Counter-Strike 2, CS:GO …

Chances are if you've been a new subscriber to Xbox Game Pass in recent years, you've had an opportunity to get one month of subscription time for just $1 or £1. This offer was widely used and has aided in Game Pass growth across console and PC. However, all good …

While it may be far too soon to be talking about a sequel to last year’s game of the year contender God of War Ragnarök, one of the title’s voice actors has seemingly confirmed just that – offering a small hint at what fans can expect from the inevitable sequel. …

Resident Evil 4 Remake launched last Friday and so far, it looks like the game has been a huge success. The Steam numbers alone are impressive, with the game peaking at well over 160,000 concurrent players over the launch weekend, making it the biggest Resident Evil launch in the series' …

Back in 2007 Valve and EA partnered with one another to bring the now iconic Orange Box package to PC as well as 7th-gen consoles – consisting of Half-Life 2, Portal and Team Fortress 2. After maintaining online functionality for more than 15 years, Team Fortress 2’s servers will finally …

Dead Cells may have initially launched all the way back in 2018, but the rogue-lite metroidvania-inspired action platformer featuring fast and frantic combat (alongside a near endless number of unique weapons) has only gone from strength to strength with each new update and piece of DLC. Following the release of …

Genshin Impact put studio MiHoYo (now known as Hoyoverse) on the map, with the open-world free-to-play Zelda-like title raking in over $4 Billion since its release in late 2020. The team’s next game following Genshin Impact is the turn-based RPG ‘Honkai: Star Rail. Ahead of its release on the 26th …

Video game cheats used to be a highly popular occurrence across games, so much so that entire physical guides were released in the past in order to collate them. The practice is unfortunately no longer commonplace, but that does not mean that new cheats aren’t being discovered. More than 18 …

Genshin Impact put studio MiHoYo (now known as Hoyoverse) on the map, with the open-world free-to-play Zelda-like title raking in over $4 Billion since its release in late 2020. The team’s next game following Genshin Impact is the turn-based RPG ‘Honkai: Star Rail’. As part of a Boarding Preparation Special …

After a great deal of anticipation, Resident Evil 4 Remake is finally here to the delight of both fans and critics alike. Those wanting to play the game’s Mercenaries mode will need to wait for a little while longer, with Capcom previously announcing it to be coming as free post-launch …

Back in 2021 leaked screenshots from a playtest of the upcoming first-person co-op vampire hunting game Redfall seemed to suggest that the game would feature an in-game store with some form of microtransactions. Fortunately, between then and now, the team at Arkane seem to have reconsidered, as it has now …

Sonic Origins released last year to somewhat of a mixed reception. While the remastered games included in the package were solid, the offering as a whole felt somewhat incomplete. Exactly one year after its initial launch, Sonic Origins Plus will be released – bringing a dozen more games as well …

Last year we reported that a AAA Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game was in development, with the announcement coming via an issue of Toy World Magazine. We now have many more details on this upcoming title, with it said to be an adaptation of the much-loved graphic novel ‘The Last …

Following Fortnite’s upgrade from Unreal Engine 4 to the latest and greatest UE5, we have seen much wider adoption for the new engine, with the likes of Rocket League and others set to make the transition. One other game now confirmed to be getting an Unreal Engine 5 upgrade is the first-person open world factory building title Satisfactory.

Resident Evil 4 Remake is out and as we've already covered, Nvidia GPU users can already download a new Game Ready driver with day-one optimisations for the game in place. If you are using an AMD graphics card and you plan on picking up the game, you'll want to download …

After years of development and a couple of delays, Daedalic Entertainment is finally set to release its Lord of the Rings game. Focused on Gollum, the new title will be the first in a new wave of LOTR-based projects, with many more games on the way.  After acquiring Middle-Earth Enterprises …

We already knew that Sony had a very good year in 2022, thanks to the launches of Horizon: Forbidden West in the first half of the year and GOTY candidate, God of War: Ragnarok, releasing in the second half of the year. Metacritic has now published its annual game publisher …

The CMA has published its latest update into its ongoing investigation into Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard. While previously, the regulator seemed to have many concerns, it has now “narrowed its scope” of issues with the deal and no longer feels that it would “result in a substantial lessening …

Typically when there is an invite-only beta for a game, a certain number of players will search for ways to purchase a beta key in order to skip the queue or guarantee access. With Counter-Strike 2, Valve is granting beta access to a certain number of players with recent playtime …

A couple of years ago, Amazon Games caught a lot of flack for the New World beta, which seemingly had a bug that could kill certain graphics cards. Now, Blizzard might be facing a similar problem with the Diablo 4 beta. 

There have already been quite a few award show events to celebrate the game releases of 2022. Still, the Game Developer Conference Awards event differs slightly from the rest. Unlike other award shows which have a jury and rely on public voting, the GDC Awards nominations and winners are selected …

Epic Games has released multiple tech demos to promote the capabilities of the Unreal Engine 5 at GDC. Some were made specifically for the occasion, but others were taken from games currently in development. One of these titles is Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2, which has been chosen to showcase how …

Months ago, From Software began laying the groundwork for Ray Tracing features in Elden Ring. The game was confirmed to get RT support prior to its release in early 2022 but it is only just now becoming available in an update released today.  Ray tracing has finally arrived for Elden …

It is no secret that Microsoft's acquisition of Zenimax and Bethesda caught everyone by surprise. Some projects, like Arkane's Redfall and Bethesda's Starfield were already in the works at the time of the acquisition and as you likely expect, were planned to release on PlayStation consoles and Xbox.  In an …

Following many years of less-than-stellar video game releases, Sonic Team seem to have knocked it out of the park with Sonic Frontiers. Released back in November 2022, the open-zone platformer has already managed to become one of the franchises better-selling titles, having officially surpassed 3 million copies in just 4 …

After going a literal decade without any new Silent Hill games, last year saw Konami finally unveil a bunch of projects in the works. One of the most exciting was undoubtedly the remake of the classic Silent Hill 2. In development by horror aficionados Bloober Team, the remake is said …