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It is competition time! This month, we have teamed up with the peripheral experts at MARVO to offer up FIVE bundles for our readers.

I first started using GeForce Now back when it first became available for Nvidia Shield tablets over a decade ago. Back then, we were limited to 30FPS gameplay, with choppy controls and low resolutions. Since then, the service has come a very long way, offering RTX powered servers to bring features like ray-tracing and DLSS directly to you, no matter what device you are using. I've had early access to the new RTX 5080-powered servers for about a week now, so let's jump back in and see if cloud gaming has reached a point where it could comfortably replace a traditional gaming PC. 

While the PlayStation 5 is still going strong, rumours for its successor have begun to surface. According to a new report, Sony plans to adopt a detachable disc drive strategy for the PS6 from its initial launch.

For months, we've been hearing rumours that Valve is working on a new home console, one that would bring the Steam Deck experience to the living room. Now, a recent trademark filing suggests that Valve is close to an announcement.

Earlier this year, we heard from a number of readers who had issues obtaining their paid-for product after pre-ordering RTX 5090 graphics cards from uwgamespecialist.nl, a tech retailer in the Netherlands. Following our initial report, the CEO of uwgamespecialist claimed that an internal investigation would be launched but by July of this year, we learned that the company was in fact still scamming customers. Now another couple of months later, the company appears to have shut down.

As a publisher, Nacon has sat comfortably in the AA space for quite some time now, with the French Holding Company known best for having published the likes of The Sinking City; the WRC series; Session: Skate Sim; RoboCop: Rogue City and perhaps most famously, The Lord of the Rings: Gollum. That said, Nacon looks to be stepping up their publishing game, with the upcoming Hell is Us representing one of their highest rated games ever.

Borderlands 4 marks the next major entry in the long-running looter shooter series, with the progenitor of the sub-genre set to launch their successor in just under two weeks’ time. While the game already features plenty of content to look forward to on day-one, the team at Gearbox have now detailed the post-launch roadmap for Borderlands 4.

Looking back over its few years of service, PlayStation Stars neither grew nor evolved – and as such will die out being just another failed half-baked idea. While there were few who even knew the service existed, and fewer still who enjoyed it, I will be sad to see PlayStation Stars go away; not because of what it was, but due to what it could have been.

Earlier this week, AMD commented on a recent surge of complaints from AM5 motherboard users, who suffered 'burnt out' CPUs and sockets. AMD said this was a BIOS misconfiguration issue. Now, ASRock is rolling out a new BIOS that will improve system stability.

Ghost of Yotei is Sony’s next big first-party PlayStation exclusive, with the upcoming PS5 title set to arrive on the 2nd of October. Ahead of its launch, the team at Sucker Punch Productions have announced that Ghost of Yotei has now officially gone Gold.

Microsoft has been barking up the cloud streaming tree for quite some time, with the company’s xCloud service seeing quite a few different iterations and changes over the years. Previously only available to GP Ultimate members, all Game Pass subscribers can now enjoy access to Microsoft’s xCloud streaming service.

Ubisoft has been making some major changes behind the scenes, splintering the company into new subsidiaries that handle different IP. Now, a few classic Ubisoft titles are changing hands to an unexpected buyer - Atari. 

While the Switch 2 has been on the market for a decent number of months now, many studios are still struggling to get their hands on dev kits for the sequel system. According to one analyst, this may be by design, with Nintendo reportedly “discouraging Switch 2 development to some degree.”

We called the ASUS RTX 5080 Noctua Edition 'a highly impressive feat of engineering' in our review, but were left wondering why the companies involved didn't go all out with an RTX 5090 model. Noctua has since confirmed to us they would 'love' to make an RTX 5090 version, but it doesn't sound like it will be happening any time soon...

The European Hardware Association (EHA) has announced the results of the 2025 EHA Reader Awards. These awards are driven entirely by the opinions of hardware enthusiasts from across Europe. Tens of thousands of votes were cast through the EHA’s nine member publications, giving a clear view of which products have earned the strongest support from hardware enthusiasts this year.

It is competition time again! This month we are teaming up with KIOXIA to give away not one, not two, but THREE PCIe 5.0 M.2 2TB SSDs! Three winners will walk away with a new KIOXIA EXCERIA PLUS G4 SSD, powered by a speedy Phison controller and KIOXIA's 218-layer 3D TLC NAND. 

Just as expected, the ROG Xbox Ally got its final launch trailer at Gamescom today. The new collaborative handheld gaming system from Asus and Microsoft will begin shipping out in October, the company has confirmed at Gamescom 2025. 

The prices of RTX 50 series graphics cards have slowly been coming down across Europe. This week, the most recent price cuts came into effect on the Nvidia website, showing significant cuts for the RTX 5090, 5080 and 5070. 

Nvidia is kicking off Gamescom week with a band. Today, Nvidia announced a bunch of GeForce-related updates. Here, we break down all of the upgrades coming to the GeForce Now cloud gaming platform, with Ultimate tier subscribers soon to see an upgrade from RTX 4080-powered servers to RTX 5080.

Ever since the death of E3, Geoff Keighley’s Game Awards, Summer Game Fest and Gamescom Opening Night Live have served as the big three gaming events for each year. Ahead of the latter’s arrival on the 19th of August, Keighley and co. have begun to tease some of the many games expected to be shown off during the showcase, including the much-anticipated Resident Evil 9.

Earlier this Summer Microsoft shocked everybody when they announced that a ton of their ongoing Xbox projects would be cancelled, with just some of the victims including Perfect Dark and The Initiative; Rare’s Everwild; Zenimax Online’s Project Blackbird and Turn10 – to name a few. One project which was said to be safe from all this was Avalanche Studios’ Contraband. Unfortunately, it seems as though it too has now been cancelled.

Despite all the hype and excitement surrounding Battlefield 6, Activision is reportedly not worried as Call of Duty is “too big to fail.”

One of the biggest issues with PC gaming is the ability for a publisher to create its own bespoke game launcher. While in and of itself not a problem, many of these launchers are required even when using the likes of Steam or Epic Games. One of the biggest culprits in this regard is EA. Thankfully, the publisher has confirmed that Battlefield 6 on Steam will not require the use of the EA app.

In recent years, we have consistently heard rumours about a new BioShock game. Last year, 2K Games officially confirmed that BioShock 4 was in development, which had fans eagerly anticipating a full reveal of the game. Unfortunately, it seems that right after that official announcement, the game fell back into development hell.

Following months of playtests, EA finally started revving up its marketing machine for Battlefield 6, giving us our first look at the game last week ahead of its multiplayer reveal later today. Those wanting to get their own hands on the upcoming shooter will soon get the opportunity to do so, as insiders have now leaked Battlefield 6’s closed and open beta plans.

Just yesterday, we reported on the lawsuit filed by Sony against Tencent as a result of the announcement of their Horizon: Zero Dawn ‘clone’ Light of Motiram. As part of the filings, the console maker (who typically picks and chooses when to share game sales data) has revealed that PlayStation’s Horizon franchise is nearing 40 million copies sold.

Over the past couple of years, Valve has put a particular amount of focus on improving Steam across the board – from library sharing revamps to visual tweaks and much more. In alignment with this, those on Steam’s beta channel can now check out the brand new ‘Store Menu’.

5 years on from Tsushima’s release and Sucker Punch is gearing up to launch its successor – with Ghost of Yotei set to arrive this October. Given just how much praise Tsushima received for its retooling of the open-world genre, it is not surprising to see the team doubling down on this concept for the upcoming Ghost of Yotei. Whether it will ultimately work out or not, we will have to wait and see, but there’s no denying that in many ways, Sucker Punch is trying to refine the open world with Ghost of Yotei.

Following the surprise announcement last month that Microsoft’s upcoming holiday titles would retail for $80 (starting with The Outer Worlds 2), the console maker backtracked on this decision, instead charging the more ‘standard’ $70. It seems as though Obsidian’s upcoming RPG isn’t the only game being lowered to $70 – with all of Microsoft’s upcoming Holiday titles dropping back down to the previous industry standard.

Following years of somewhat disappointing releases, the Battlefield series looks to be trying to make a big comeback with its upcoming Battlefield 6. While we’ve seen plenty from the game already thanks to numerous ‘Lab’ playtests, EA/DICE are set to finally give us our first proper look at Battlefield 6 tomorrow.