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Fancy winning a new game this weekend? We are giving away a Vampire: The Masquerade New York Bundle collector's edition and better yet, the winner can pick from either the PlayStation or Switch version of the game. 

Earlier this year, Blizzard surprisingly chose to expand its potential customer base with plans to bring games over to Steam for the first time. We've already seen Overwatch 2 make the transition to Valve's PC gaming platform and now, Diablo 4 is next on the list. 

Despite being known for its story, 2013’s The Last of Us featured a rather fun multiplayer mode known as Factions. Ahead of 2020’s The Last of Us Part II, Naughty Dog confirmed that the sequel would not include a Factions mode – with the team instead working on a standalone multiplayer project. Since then, the title has seemingly struggled to find an identity – with it reportedly now being put on ice.

It has been a bad couple of weeks for the video games industry, as while we are set to enter one of the busiest periods of the year when it comes to game releases, hundreds of game developers have been let go from a wide range of different studios. One of the biggest offenders has been Epic Games – laying off  830 employees last week. Now, the director of publishing strategy – Sergiy Galyonkin – has also confirmed his departure.

AMD's FSR 3 upscaling technology has officially arrived. Late last week, two games were updated to showcase the feature - Forspoken and Immortals of Aveum. Both titles now have FSR 3, allowing users to jump back in and put it to the test. A key component of the FSR 3 launch is the introduction of Fluid Motion Frames, AMD's answer to Nvidia's Frame Generation tech, found in DLSS 3 supported titles. 

EK announced a one-of-a-kind cooling product for the PS5: a full-cover monoblock. The EK-QuantumX CoolingStation Monoblock for PS5 cools all of the key components of the PS5 while giving a unique look to your "console" with D-RGB lighting and a plexi cutout. It is attached using normal ATX motherboard stand-offs, making mATX enclosures ideal for a water-cooled PS5.

Cyberpunk 2077 Patch 2.0 dropped last week and this week brought in the launch of Phantom Liberty, the game's first and only major expansion. With all of the changes and new content added in this month, there were bound to be a few lingering issues. Fortunately, CD Projekt Red is off to a quick start, with the first Phantom Liberty patch arriving today...

While KitGuru was in Malaysia with Intel learning about the secrets behind 14th Gen Meteor Lake chips  we took the opportunity to interview to interview one of their engineers. He is Gokul Subramaniam and his portfolio covers a host of technologies including cooling strategies, power consumption and recycling. Basically, he takes your laptop from its design cradle to its end-of-life grave.

On hybrid laptop designs, the term "hybrid" refers to laptops that include both integrated and discrete GPUs. These two may collaborate to increase power efficiency by routing graphics jobs to either graphics subsystem, depending on their complexity. However, on many computers, this causes an issue that Microsoft hopes to solve with CASO (Cross Adapter Scan-Out).

This week, a ransomware group claimed to have breached "all of Sony's systems", putting the stolen data up for sale on the dark web. Sony has yet to confirm that an attack has taken place but the company is now investigating. 

Previous leaks indicated that Intel's upcoming Meteor Lake architecture would not be making its way to desktop processors. However, in a recent interview, the company has set the record straight, confirming that Meteor Lake chips for desktops will arrive in 2024. 

KitGuru attended the recent Intel Innovation event and heard for ourselves when Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger announced the laptop chips that had been codenamed Meteor Lake would be launched as Intel Core Ultra. Also, in news that surprised none of us, we learned that 'AI is taking over'. We trust Gelsinger meant this in a good and interesting way but the thought of Skynet taking over our lives leaves something to be desired.

Today marks the launch of the hotly anticipated Cyberpunk 2077 2.0 update. That's all well and good, but we have a slightly different reason to be taking a look at the game today, as Nvidia's new DLSS 3.5 technology has also arrived with this latest update. Today we put the new feature through its paces with a whole heap of image quality comparisons, to find out exactly what difference DLSS 3.5 really makes, and how it affects performance...

Over 10 million people have played Starfield. This milestone was achieved within two weeks of the game's release (three weeks if early access is included), making Starfield the largest launch in Bethesda history and one of the biggest launches of 2023 so far...

In what seems to have been a big oopsie by the FTC, a great deal of documents have leaked pertaining to the hearings regarding Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard. From internal emails to unannounced games and more, a whole boatload of confidential details seem to have been accidentally published for all to see – including the fact that Microsoft is planning to launch a cylindrical Xbox Series X refresh...

Nvidia has been rather rapidly improving its DLSS image reconstruction technology, with the company most recently revealing DLSS 3.5 and its ray-tracing-focused enhancements. After a great deal of anticipation, Nvidia has now announced that DLSS 3.5 will begin to roll out in just a few days, starting with Cyberpunk 2077...

While early reports have already claimed that Nvidia will wait until 2025 to release the RTX 5090, the first rumours about the upcoming GPU are already making the rounds online - including reports that it could be as much as 70% faster than the RTX 4090.

As expected, Apple's Bionic A17 Pro SoC is overall faster than the A16. In multi-core CPU performance, early Geekbench results suggest just a small bump, but in single-core loads, we see a 10% increase. As for the GPU, we see bigger gains in this department, with Geekbench Metal entries for the A17 Pro GPU scoring almost 20% higher than the A16...

After first including the Xe2 architecture reference in Intel GPU drivers, Intel developers have now begun work on Mesa support. The Xe2 architecture, also known as Battlemage, is the architecture that will be used in the next generation of Intel desktop and mobile GPUs and supposedly on the iGPU of the future Lunar Lake client CPUs.

Much like Final Fantasy 7 Remake, the sequel, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, will be a timed exclusive for PlayStation consoles. Yesterday during Sony's latest State of Play stream, a ton of new details about the game dropped, including a February release date. 

This month, it has come to light that Lian Li is suing multiple rival PC case fan makers, alleging patent infringement. Thermaltake and Phanteks are both in the crosshairs at the moment, but Phanteks has responded, denying that it is infringing on Lian Li's daisy-chain fan patent...

At Computex earlier this year, be quiet! gave us a preview of the upcoming Shadow Base 800 family of cases. Towards the end of August, these cases officially launched and now this month, we're teaming up to give FIVE of them away. 

It has been a week since Starfield officially became available worldwide. While the launch version of the game is pretty stable, there are lingering bugs and feature requests that the player base would like to see addressed. Bethesda is now hard at work on patches, promising to add features like DLSS. 

As mobile hardware has gotten more and more performant over the years, we have seen an increasing number of console games find their way onto iOS and Android platforms. Apple looks to be taking this one step further, announcing a suite of modern AAA console titles which are set to be natively playable on their latest and great iPhone 15 Pro.

We have a rare difference of opinion at KitGuru this week. While Matt has loved Starfield from start to finish, Mustafa is less impressed. In today's KitGuru Games, Mustafa offers his critique of Starfield and its space-exploration offering. 

Starfield is Bethesda Game Studios’ first brand-new IP in over two decades. Microsoft even went as far as to call it one of the ‘most important’ RPGs ever made at its summer showcase this year. Microsoft may need to chill a little there, but overall, Starfield is nothing short of fantastic.

Sapphire is locked and loaded for today's RX 7700 XT and RX 7800 XT launch. The company has unveiled a new line-up of Sapphire Pure graphics cards for launch.

When Star Wars Jedi: Survivor launched earlier this year, it arrived with a few performance issues. These were most notable on PC but as I noted at launch, the next-gen console version wasn't holding up super well either. The game's performance mode was consistently under 60FPS, leading to constant screen tearing. Now with the game's seventh major patch, that should finally change.

We've known for a while now that Square Enix is planning to bring Final Fantasy 16 to PC but we've had little news on the progress of this new version. That is finally changing this week, with the studio confirming that Final Fantasy 16 is now in development for PC, and the game is set to get a couple of DLCs too. 

KitGuru was a founder member of the European Hardware Association and, across Europe, the member publications of the EHA reach an audience of more then 20 million readers. Those readers are enthusiasts, gamers, early adopters and influencers – and they are always looking to get the best performance and quality possible – at an affordable price. Once a year we ask you, our readers, to vote for the brands that you love best. All of those local results are fed into the EHA awards and now we have the winners!