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Game Pass prices are going up again with a complete restructuring of all tiers. Does the Ultimate tier still offer the best value in gaming? Not anymore.

Summer Game Fest has pretty much become the de facto video game event of the Summer, with Geoff Keighley’s annual showcase growing every single year – most recently amassing over 50 million viewers. Though still many months away, we now have an official date and place for next year’s SGF: Going live on the 5th of June 2026.

Steam Next Fest has returned. This week, there are hundreds of new game demos to try, giving you the opportunity to sample a lot of promising new indie titles due out later this year and beyond. Here, we lay out a few of our recommendations for some of the standout demos available this week. 

Last year, the Pokémon Company / GameFreak suffered a massive data breach, causing all sorts of internal documents, codenames and more to be published online for all to see. One year later, the same hacker has resurfaced, offering a ton more details – including Pokémon’s plans for the rest of the decade.

The Battlefield 6 beta was met with a wave of optimism over the Summer, and now, launch day is finally upon us. I've been playing the game in early access over the past week, giving me ample opportunity to see the campaign and dive into multiplayer modes. I'm pleased to report that Battlefield 6 is a strong return to form, doing away with all the controversial changes found in Battlefield 2042 and delivering the quintessential Battlefield experience. On top of that, we have some PC benchmark numbers, so you can get an idea of how well the game runs with DLSS on/off and with Frame Generation enabled and disabled. 

Indiana Jones and The Great Circle launched last year to strong reviews from both critics and fans alike. Since then, the Xbox exclusive found its way onto PlayStation and released the Order of Giants DLC. Now, in celebration of developer Machine Games’ 15th anniversary, a free surprise update has been announced and detailed, adding a New Game+ mode and more.

KitGuru spent six days with Intel in Phoenix, Arizona learning about their ground-breaking 18A fabrication process which will be used in Panther Lake laptops. It is no secret that Intel has had a rotten few years and ended up having their processors made by arch-rival TSMC in Taiwan. 18A is of critical importance to Intel and could literally define the future of the company. On the other hand, if things go wrong, it could potentially be the end of the road for this American giant...

If you've been on the fence about upgrading to Nvidia's latest hardware, a new game bundle might just sweeten the deal. The green team has announced that, for a limited time, it will be bundling a free copy of Embark Studios' upcoming extraction shooter, Arc Raiders, with the purchase of select GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs and systems.

While Bungie had planned to launch Marathon in September, the studio hit a wall during alpha testing earlier this year, as stolen art was discovered throughout the game. As a result, Bungie had to pause public testing and re-do a number of in-game assets to avoid legal issues. Now, it looks like we are finally due for some official news after months of silence. 

With Intel and Nvidia teaming up recently, many had wondered what AMD's next move might be to remain competitive in the rapidly growing AI space. Today, we got our answer, with AMD announcing a new deal with OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. 

The nominations for the 2025 Golden Joystick Awards have officially been announced, and the public is now invited to cast their votes to decide the winners. The annual awards show, held in London, celebrates the best games of the year across more than 20 categories, with the majority of the awards decided by the players themselves.

The past month has been rough for Xbox. Over the past few weeks we've seen console prices go up, studios closed, high-profile projects cancelled and now this week, Game Pass has been restructured, with a 50% price hike for Game Pass Ultimate, which is now the only tier to include day-one games. According to sources, the writing has been on the wall for Game Pass since Call of Duty joined the Game Pass library, as the move apparently cost Microsoft hundreds of millions in lost sales. 

For the first time in many years it feels as though Battlefield might truly be back, with the upcoming BF6 seeing tons of excitement only amplified by the recent open beta. With just under a week to go, analysts have started to weigh in on Battlefield 6’s launch potential – believing the game could sell over 5 million copies in its first week.

The first performance figures for Apple's next-generation M5 System-on-a-Chip (SoC) have emerged, indicating a significant emphasis on graphics performance for the upcoming generation. The leak originates from a YouTuber who had previously accurately previewed last year's M4 MacBook Pro, lending credibility to the numbers.

Earlier this week, we learned that EA has sold to a consortium of investors who intend on taking the company private. Since then, more details have come to light, including the fact that the deal will saddle the company with a ton of debt, and as a result, several studios are bracing for major cuts, including BioWare.

The Halo franchise is in a bit of a limbo right now, with fans of the classic franchise patiently waiting to see what the team have been working on ever since announcing the rebranding of 343 Industries to Halo Studios. Following some teasers earlier this Summer, the team have confirmed that they will host a “deep dive” into the future of Halo at the upcoming Halo World Championships.

Nvidia has cut prices across a range of RTX 50 series graphics cards for a limited time. Currently in the UK, you can save up to £250 across a range of ten custom-cooled graphics cards from the likes of MSI, Gigabyte, PNY, Palit and more. 

While the Lord of the Rings universe is rich with stories; lore; characters and more (all of which are perfect to be adapted into video game form), the franchise has struggled to release a quality game in quite some time – with its most recent high being the 2014 open-world ‘Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor’. That said, following the likes of LOTR Gollum and the middling Return to Moria, a big-budget ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ styled 3rd-person Lord of the Rings game is reportedly in the works.

Over the weekend, reports claimed that a group of investors were in 'advanced talks' to acquire EA in a deal worth roughly $50 billion. Now, EA has confirmed this to be true, with plans to sell to a consortium of investors for $55 billion. 

It looks like LG is finally getting in on the glossy OLED action. A new monitor, the LG UltraGear 27GX704A-B, has just been listed on Amazon in the US, and it appears to be the company's first display to use the new and improved glossy version of its popular 27-inch 240Hz WOLED panel.

Borderlands 4 may very well be the best entry in the much-loved looter-shooter franchise. Unfortunately, the game stumbled out of the gate somewhat with a plethora of optimisation issues, performance woes, bugs and a lack of options on console. Though there is still work to be done, Gearbox have now released their first big post-launch patch, introducing stability and performance improvements, refinements, and an FOV slider on console.

Following on from a leak earlier this month, Playground Games has officially confirmed Forza Horizon 6. The game was revealed at the Tokyo Game Show 2025, an apt venue for the announcement, as Forza Horizon 6 will take players to the streets of Japan. 

In the years since its initial release, Larian Studios has continued to update and improve the excellent Baldur’s Gate 3 with new story content; endgame additions; extra subclasses alongside a slew of bug fixes and optimisation improvements. As part of the game’s latest patch, Baldur’s Gate 3 should now run much more smoothly on Valve’s Steam Deck handheld.

While sentiment surrounding Call of Duty is far from the greatest it’s been, the teams at Activision and Treyarch are trucking along with their reveal plans for the upcoming Black Ops 7. Ahead of the game’s big blowout COD NEXT event, Treyarch have now offered a deep-dive look into BO7’s multiplayer.

Humble Bundles are a great way to get your hands on a thematically-linked number of games for a relatively low price. While slightly more costly than your average bundle, Humble is now offering pretty much all of Remedy Entertainment’s output for less than £25.

Last night, following the announcement of Nvidia's $5 billion investment in Intel, the CEOs of both companies sat down for a press conference. Here, we got answers to a few lingering questions about the deal, and a more detailed picture on what impact this will have on both Nvidia and Intel product offerings. 

Intel is about to go through another major change, as Nvidia has just bought up $5 billion worth of stock. With the investment in hand, Intel will also embark on a new joint-development effort with Nvidia to create multiple generations of custom datacenter and PC products.

Ever since its first entry back in 2007, the Assassin’s Creed franchise has vastly expanded its scope with each new title – for better and for worse. With the latest piece of DLC for Assassin’s Creed Shadows available now, the team at Ubisoft have admitted that some of their previous games, in particular AC: Valhalla, became “messy” and was “a monster” of a game.

For the past few years now, we’ve been hearing a bunch of leaks and rumours claiming that Ubisoft is planning to remake the highly-praised 2013 entry in the long-running Assassin’s Creed franchise – AC IV: Black Flag. Though yet to be officially announced, a ton of supposed details for the upcoming project have leaked; including the fact that the remake is getting rid of all the modern day scenes.

The Borderlands series pretty much invented the looter-shooter genre when the first entry in the now ubiquitous franchise launched all the way back in 2009. Two console generations and over 15 years later, Borderlands 4 is finally upon us, bringing with it more freedom, replayability – and of course – loot than ever before. That said, in amongst all of the sequel’s many changes and improvements, by far the most impactful is its overhaul to movement.