Featured Tech News

TCL recently unveiled various new display panels at DTC 2023 in Wuhan, China. From OLEDs to LCDs, the Chinese company showed what's coming to TVs, monitors, and smartphones in the next few years. The highlight is probably the dome-shaped 31-inch OLED panel. As noted by ITHome, this 31-inch gaming display …

A brand new entry to the Mana series is coming in 2024. Named Visions of Mana, this new game is the first mainline instalment in the Mana series in over 15 years. The game will be a return to the series' roots, capturing themes of nature and the elemental aspects …

As technology advances, the demand for faster computation is increasing, leading chip designers to seek ways to integrate more components into processors. At IEDM 2023, during a technical session, Intel researchers demonstrated their latest technological breakthrough that will allow just that: 3D-stacked CMOS transistors with backside power and direct backside …

Skull and Bones has had an incredibly turbulent development. After being delayed over half a dozen times and pushed back years beyond its initial release date, the multiplayer Ubisoft pirate game looks to finally, FINALLY be arriving early next year – with an official launch date having been announced at …

During the 2023 Game Awards, Sony Santa Monica and Kratos made a surprising appearance, announcing a free rogue-like DLC in the form of God of War Ragnarok: Valhalla. Alongside the announcement, SSM revealed that the 2022 game has sold an impressive 15 million copies. Taking to the PlayStation blog to …

Back in May of this year, famed video game creator Hideo Kojima announced that he was working on a documentary titled ‘HIDEO KOJIMA – CONNECTING WORLDS’ which “takes you on a journey into the creative mind of the most iconic video game creator in the world”. While we have yet …

As with all game subscription services nowadays, titles are added and removed on a regular basis – typically monthly. While December’s PlayStation Plus Extra games have yet to even be removed, Sony has given subscribers a heads up on what is set to leave in January. As reported by PSXBrasil, …

Leo goes hands-on with the Thermaltake CTE T500 Air - and a lot of smoke!

The 2023 Game Awards was a big night for video game announcements. Even so, SEGA showed up in a greater way than anyone could have expected, announcing nearly half a dozen new titles all at once – including the return of many iconic franchises. In what they have called a …

The debut trailer for Black Myth: Wukong took many by surprise when it was released back in early 2020, showing off what looked to be a highly-stylised and polished action-RPG from a previously unknown studio. Since then the team has continued to work diligently on the title, and following the …

As part of Sony’s pivot to adapting its many original video game IPs into other mediums, we have seen the likes of HBO’s The Last of Us, an Uncharted film, and the Gran Turismo movie come to fruition. Despite these massive properties, perhaps the most surprising success comes from Peacock’s …

Following the overwhelming success of 2022’s God of War Ragnarök, there had been rumblings that the team at Sony Santa Monica were cooking up some DLC for the game. Even so, it came as a great surprise when the studio revealed God of War Ragnarök: Valhalla, bringing a free rogue-like …

We test a custom-made liquid-cooled RTX 4090 from... Acer!

Spun off from parent company Acer back in 2000, BenQ is most widely known for its gaming monitors and Zowie eSports products. For the holiday season however, BenQ is completing the launch of a range of projectors aimed squarely at console gamers who want to convert entire walls within their …

AMD has just launched its latest AMD Ryzen 8040 series mobile CPUs, with select models coming with integrated Ryzen AI NPUs, boasting up to 1.6 times greater AI processing performance compared to the previous generation. In AMD's own benchmarks, it claims that the Ryzen 9 8945HS is up to 64 …

When Larian first announced Baldur's Gate 3, we all thought it looked impressive but there was no predicting the level of success the final release would see. The game went on to become one of the highest-rated games of the year and now, Larian has capped things off by winning …

Capcom's Monster Hunter series finally obtained global popularity in 2018 with the release of Monster Hunter: World. Now, we have our first look at Capcom's first truly next-gen Monster Hunter game – Monster Hunter Wilds.  At The Game Awards last night, Capcom unveiled the first trailer for Monster Hunter Wilds, …

We've already talked about Hellblade 2 and Arkane's Blade but Xbox wasn't stopping there with its Game Awards announcements. Hideo Kojima also appeared on stage, alongside director film Jordan Peele, to discuss his upcoming Xbox game.  Kojima's Xbox exclusive title is officially titled ‘OD', which ties in with previous rumours …

As promised, Xbox Game Studios showed up in force at The Game Awards last night. Not only did we get a new trailer for Ninja Theory's Hellblade 2, but Arkane also made an appearance. The bad news is, we aren't getting Dishonored 3 like rumours claimed. However, they are working …

Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 was first revealed at The Game Awards in 2019. We've had a few more teasers since then, but the game has made one final TGAs appearance before its launch next year with a new gameplay trailer.  Ninja Theory earned plenty of praise for Hellblade's visuals but …

We dig into the details of EXPO and talk about the balance between clock speed and latency...

Bungie's financial struggles this year have been no secret, with Bungie exploring new ways to monetise Destiny 2 players, while simultaneously attempting to draw players back in after a disappointing release in Lightfall. It turns out, the executives may have good reason to be panicking despite Sony's injection of cash …

Many of us had assumed that CD Projekt Red would move away from Geralt being the lead character with its new trilogy. However, the game director on The Witcher 4 has now teased Geralt's return. In an interview with Italian site Lega Nerd (via insider-gaming), Witcher game director, Sebastian Kalemba …

AMD has released its day-one graphics driver for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. Ubisoft's latest open world game has already been available to Ryzen and Radeon hardware buyers through a game bundle, now, you'll get optimisations in time for its launch. AMD has worked with Ubisoft to optimise the Snowdrop Engine …

We're running a lot of competitions this month through our Advent Calendar but we're not the only ones. The folks at be quiet! have launched a huge competition to end the year to give away seven gaming PCs! be quiet! has put together a new PC buyers guide targeting the …

CyberpowerPC had some excellent deals during Black Friday and now, their Christmas deals have arrived. If you are looking to pick up a solid pre-built gaming PC, then we have details on all the deals.  There are three discounted PCs in CyberpowerPC's Christmas sale, each with similar specs but differentiated …

One of Microsoft’s core strategies for the Xbox has been its rapid adoption of cloud streaming as part of the company’s ‘play anywhere’ initiative. With Activision Blizzard now securely under the wings of Microsoft, the console manufacturer has announced that a wave of ABK titles are coming to streaming. Making …

2023 might just be the worst year in the history of gaming – at least when it comes to the health of the development studios themselves. With thousands of devs already having been laid off across dozens of studios, another publisher is now set to drop up to a 3rd …

Last year, in collaboration with Valve, Geoff Keighley’s The Game Awards gave away a Steam Deck for every minute that the awards ceremony was live. The two have partnered up once again, this time giving away a total of 100 OLED Steam Decks to viewers. Making the announcement on Twitter, …

Intel uploaded and swiftly deleted an odd presentation this week. The slides told a story of 'Core Truths', taking aim at AMD's new Ryzen laptop processor naming scheme and accusing AMD of selling 'snake oil'. Leo gives his thoughts...