Software & Gaming

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 …

Earlier this week, we learned through leaks that Stray would be one of the big games offered up for free to all PlayStation Plus subscribers in November. Now, Sony has confirmed the official list of freebies, adding two more games to the list. Stray is a third-person adventure game where …

While Monster Hunter Wilds had a successful launch, the game's sales have been dwindling ever since, in part due to Capcom's unwillingness to address the title's underlying technical performance issues. Sales have continued on a downward trend all year, with Capcom's latest quarterly earnings showing it losing out to much …

As part of Amazon's big round of job cuts, the company has also announced plans to cease development on its most successful game to date, New World. Season 10 will be New World's last and the servers will go offline next year. In a statement released this week, the developers …

Amazon has been spending millions on its gaming division over the past decade, with very few shipped games to show for it. Now, as cost-cutting measures come into effect, thousands of Amazon game developers, and those working on the publishing side, are set to be let go.  Bloomberg's Jason Schreier …

After a lengthy period of early access for Premium Edition buyers, The Outer Worlds 2 officially launches for all today. I've completed my first playthrough of the game and while I do want to play another character and make a few different choices, I'm not sure Obsidian has done enough to address the first game's problems.

Vampire Survivors has gotten yet another free DLC, this time crossing over with the equally-as-addictive Balatro, bringing 4 new characters, weapons and more.

Following 4 years in service, the free-to-play Battle Royale ‘Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodhunt’ is officially shutting down next year.

Ever since they broke away from the Life is Strange franchise, developer DON’T NOD has struggled somewhat to find its new identity. Following the release of a variety of different games, the studio has shared their latest financials to mixed results – though a Netflix deal is in the works.