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Last week when Valve announced the Steam Deck handheld gaming PC, we learned that NVMe SSDs were being used for storage, but we did not know if the SSD would be soldered to the mainboard, or if it would be user-replaceable. As it turns out, the Steam Deck is using …

Though it has been years in the making, the Epic Games Store appears to be nearly ready to release its achievements system for its storefront. Announced as far back as 2018, before the store even launched, the Fortnite developer is slowly but surely adding long-promised features to its store – …

Detroit Become Human is the latest game from Quantic Dream, the French video game developer known most prominently for creating choice-based story focused adventure games. Their biggest and most ambitious title, Detroit Become Human, was released in 2018 on PlayStation 4, before coming to PC a year later. Three years …

With Battlefield 2042 set to release later this year, EA is drumming up some extra buzz by giving away Battlefield 1 and Battlefield 5. All Prime Gaming members will get to claim both games over the next month. For those unfamiliar, Prime Gaming is essentially what used to be Twitch …

Tom Clancy’s Elite Squad is a free-to-play action RPG released for mobile devices last year which took many of the publisher’s most well known characters and pitted them against one another. The game was met with controversy due to questionable marketing decisions, and it seems following launch, the game’s reception …

Ghost of Tsushima served as one of PlayStations surprise hits when it was released in July 2020. Since then, the game went on to win a plethora of awards, pushing developers Sucker Punch to new heights. The team recently revealed its Ghost of Tsushima: Director’s Cut, and they have now …

Recent rumours indicated that AMD would launch the Radeon RX 6600 series of graphics cards in August, but other sources have contradicted this claim. According to another prominent leaker, AMD will be launching the Radeon RX 6600 between September and October, followed by the first Navi 24 GPUs at the …

Earlier this week, a number of RTX 3090 owners began reporting issues with their graphics card after playing Amazon's upcoming MMO, New World, which is currently in closed beta. Due to the apparent severity of this issue, Amazon Games has now responded with a statement...

Fortnite has already received numerous crossovers with various brands, games, movies, and series characters, celebrities, and artists, but no car company has ever featured in the famous battle royale game. That soon will change with the launch of Fortnite's first licensed car, the Ferrari 296 GTB. When Epic Games introduced drivable …

Windows 11 preview testers have discovered an early security bug, one that seems to have carried over from Windows 10. This new Windows 10 and Windows 11 vulnerability creates a path for any local user to gain admin privileges. As reported by Bleeping Computer, some Windows 10 and Windows 11 …

Earlier this week, we reviewed the brand new CNPS10X Performa Black, the latest CPU cooler from Zalman. While we had positive takeaways from our performance testing, we were a little let down by the 12 month warranty. As it turns out, the UK distributor for this CPU cooler is now …

It has been many years since Steam first introduced Big Picture mode for PC gaming on a TV. It has also been an awfully long time since the console-style UI has had any form of overhaul or update. That will be changing in the future though, and we have the …

A known leaker has just shared some benchmark results for the Intel ‘Alder Lake' Core i9-12900K, and if these results are accurate, it will be quite the beast. The qualification sample of the processor was running at stock settings, using a water cooler to handle the heat. According to RaichuOne, …

Over the course of a console’s life cycle, manufacturers may offer enhanced versions, such as with the PS4 Pro and cheaper versions (such as with the Switch Lite). There also exists a third type of revision, which serves as a simple SKU change with very subtle refinements. Such is the …

Last night, Amazon Game Studios' long in-development MMO, New World, entered closed beta, granting early access to pre-order customers. Those with an EVGA RTX 3090 graphics card will want to be wary, as reports indicate that the game is bricking these graphics cards.  Over on the New World subreddit, Twitter …

For now, we are still unsure about AMD launching the Radeon RX 6600 XT on August 11th, but while we wait for confirmation, new photos and benchmark results for the card have appeared online.  Looking at the photos shared on Tieba Baidu (via VideoCardz), the card looks like a qualification …

Recently we reported that Netflix appeared to be gearing up to bring game streaming to its more than 200 million subscribers. The service has now not only confirmed that this is the case, but also revealed that this new service will be included free of charge. During its most recent …

While Windows Insiders are already running the Windows 11 preview build, the rest of us are waiting on a ‘late 2021' release window for Microsoft's upgraded operating system. As it turns out, ‘late 2021' could really mean October, according to Intel.  In Intel's support document for the DCH GPU driver …

The Steam Deck has proven to be a popular device, with reservations for the Steam handheld being pushed back deep into 2022 for those who were late to the party. It seems the device has caught the eye of Ubisoft, who now claims that they may support the platform “if …

Doki Doki Literature Club was a surreal and genre-bending freeware visual novel released all the way back in 2017 for PC and was met with great enthusiasm across the industry. Now, nearly 4 years later, the expanded version of the game, which costs money, has sold over half a million …

Microsoft is closing out July with another strong line-up of titles for Xbox Game Pass. Over the next two weeks, 12 more games will be added to Game Pass, headlined by Microsoft Flight Simulator, which is coming to Xbox Series X/S for the first time. Aside from Microsoft Flight Simulator, …

While Psychonauts 2 was originally funded through crowdfunding platforms, over the course of the game’s development, Microsoft purchased the game’s developers DoubleFine Productions. Though the game is still set to come to PlayStation platforms, it seems as though those versions will both look and run significantly worse than the Xbox …

This week, Nvidia has announced that Turtle Rock Studios' upcoming co-op zombie shooter, Back 4 Blood, will support DLSS at launch, enabling AI-assisted performance gains for RTX graphics card users.  We don't know what sort of performance improvement we can expect just yet, but with Back 4 Blood set to …

The Oculus Quest 2 quickly became one of the most popular VR headsets following its release late last year, thanks to its solid hardware and relatively cheap price. One of the system’s few downsides was its base storage, which offered just 64GB. Now, it seems as though Oculus and Facebook …

In the gaming industry, the gold standard for a successful game typically rests at 1 million copies sold. This is even more so applicable to VR titles which have a significantly smaller install base. Even so, a few select games have hit this major milestone, with two new titles joining …

The announcement of the Steam Deck was met with a great deal of excitement. Being one of Valve’s first major forays into the gaming hardware market, the Switch-like portable gives PC players a new way to game. Being a handheld device however, some fans have expressed concern at the attached …

HP's gaming monitor line-up is getting a new entry this month, the HP X34, not to be confused with Acer's own ultra-wide X34 monitor. The HP X34 packs an ultra-wide IPS panel with 1ms response times and a 165Hz refresh rate.  The HP X34 comes with a 34-inch IPS panel …

When Microsoft first announced that its DirectStorage technology would be coming to PC, it was assumed that the feature would work on Windows 10. When the company announced Windows 11, it said that the storage acceleration API would only be supported on the new OS. Fortunately, Microsoft has since reversed …

It has been a few weeks since Nintendo announced the Nintendo Switch OLED model, featuring several design tweaks to the original handheld design and upgrading the display. Recently, reports claimed that the new OLED model did not cost much more to produce compared to the base model, giving Nintendo a …

Last week, it was confirmed that Resident Evil Village's dual-DRM system on PC was causing performance issues, including frame spikes and stuttering. Now, Capcom has begun pushing out an update to fix this, while also adding in AMD's newly launched FidelityFX Super Resolution technology.  The update comes in at just …