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After going a literal decade without any new Silent Hill games, last year saw Konami finally unveil a bunch of projects in the works. One of the most exciting was undoubtedly the remake of the classic Silent Hill 2. In development by horror aficionados Bloober Team, the remake is said …

The latest GeForce Game Ready driver has arrived for Nvidia graphics card users. The new update includes optimisations for Resident Evil 4 Remake ahead of its release tomorrow, as well as improvements for the Diablo IV open beta, which takes place this weekend.  The new driver means you'll get the …

Nightdive Studios has amassed a reputation over many years for their work on bringing older video games to modern systems, being updated through remasters and even remakes (in the case of the upcoming System Shock). In a surprise announcement, the classic video game publisher Atari has now revealed that they …

Lords of the Fallen was one of the first major Souls-like titles to be released. Launched in 2014, the game received mixed reviews across the board. The team at Hexworks announced last year that they have been working on a sequel titled ‘The Lords of the Fallen’. As we have …

It's a whopping 1TB microSDXC card, with an equally large price-tag

Epic Games caused a big splash when the platform-holder publicised their disagreement with the revenue-sharing seen with storefronts such as Steam – claiming them to be unfair towards developers. The Fortnite publisher is now bringing this mentality further into their own games, announcing a revamp of their monetisation for Fortnite’s …

For all of its faults, Cyberpunk 2077 is a gorgeous looking game – especially when running on a high-end machine with all of its many ray-tracing features enabled. That said, the team at CD Projekt Red have teased that they plan to bring full path-tracing to the game via an ‘RT Overdrive Mode’. During GDC 2023, it was announced that path-tracing will be arriving next month as part of Cyberpunk 2077’s 1.62 update.

While the Diablo 4 beta had some initial issues, the early access beta weekend was largely successful and led to a wave of positivity as players began to experience the game first hand. Now, Blizzard will be taking the lessons learned this weekend and making improvements ahead of the upcoming …

After weeks of leaks, rumours and some direct teasing from Valve developers, Counter Strike 2 has been officially announced. The game won't be launching quite as soon as we expected, but it is set to release this summer. 

This week, EA announced plans to delist a few games. While plans to delist Mirror's Edge have seemingly been reversed, three Battlefield titles will still be removed from sale later this year, including the much-loved Bad Company titles.  Battlefield Bad Company 1 & 2 are best known for their stellar …

Amazon's cloud gaming service, Luna, has been available in the US for about a year already but now, the service is being made available in more regions. As of today, Luna is now accessible in Canada, UK and Germany.  I have already tested Amazon Luna here in the UK. The …

A short while ago, Arkane Studios confirmed that Redfall would require an internet connection, even when playing in single-player mode. This announcement was predictably met with pushback. Now, Arkane says it is going to try to reverse this decision.  Speaking with Eurogamer during a recent gameplay preview event, Redfall director, …

This week, EA announced plans to delist several games from digital stores, including Mirror's Edge, a single-player game with minimal online features. Fans were quick to point out how silly this was, as the game can be played perfectly fine offline, minimising the need for EA to just stop selling …

If you were wondering if the recent reports about some RTX 4070 graphics featuring 8-pin power connectors were accurate, we appear to now have confirmation. A picture of a low-end RTX 4070 package has emerged online. In it, you can see the card's specifications, including that it will feature a …

With each passing year we have seen physical media decrease in popularity, with both Sony and Microsoft leaning into it by creating discless versions of their current-gen systems. That said, there is still very much a market for physical game discs – though on Xbox in particular this has been …

Ever since the game was first announced back in 2021, fans have been eagerly awaiting the release of Insomniac Games’ Marvel’s Spider-Man 2. Aside from the initial reveal trailer, nothing has been shown, with the studio later confirming that the game is planned for release sometime this ‘Fall’. Thanks to the voice actor for Venom, we now have a much more concrete window – including when we can expect to hear more official news.

Ubisoft has historically been one of the first publishers to adopt any new technology, whether it be cloud gaming, NFTs or what-have-you. With AI being the new hotness, the publisher has officially announced that they will be using an AI ghostwriter to help with the scripting of future games, stating …

Following the overwhelming success of FromSoftware’s SoulsBorne series of games we have seen a whole host of other developers tackle this relatively new subgenre with their own takes on the formula. One of the most prominent titles is Bandai Namco’s Code Vein. Released back in 2019, the anime Souls-like has …

Raja Koduri departed AMD and began working at Intel five years ago, marking the blue team's journey towards releasing discrete graphics products. The Intel Xe GPU architecture is now well established and the groundwork has been laid for future generations of graphics cards. Now, Koduri is departing Intel to start his own company. 

Last year, CD Projekt Red announced a slate of projects, including a sequel to Cyberpunk 2077 and several Witcher games. We know that a Witcher 1 Remake is on the way, as well as a new trilogy of mainline Witcher RPGs. Alongside this, a smaller co-op focused Witcher game is …

Respawn Entertainment hit it big with Apex Legends when the Titanfall spin-off Battle Royale launched in early 2019 – amassing an audience of well over 100 million players. The success of the free-to-play game has allowed for Respawn Entertainment to grow, with them announcing the opening of their 3rd studio; …

There has been a huge amount of evidence that a big Counter-Strike announcement is on the way. A number of backend updates and private blog updates detected on the CSGO website and Steam's backend point to this, and now, Valve has also gained the trademark for Counter-Strike 2.  There is …

Live service games are all the rage nowadays, with many studios vying to have a hit which could last for a decade or more. One game which is well on its way to this milestone is Sea of Thieves. First released 5 years ago back in 2018, the team at …

Following on from an announcement last week, today a fresh batch of games is becoming available to PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium subscribers. This month's PS Plus Extra and Premium update is headlined by the new PS5 version of Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection.  Roughly one year on from its …

A new budget-oriented 1000W Gold-rated PSU, targeting a European audience. Is it any good?

Netflix’s announcement that they were going to get into video games was initially met with some scepticism, however the streaming giant has found great success in bringing a number of major indie titles to mobile via its platform. Netflix seems to have big plans for its gaming division in 2023, …

Gigabyte may have confirmed the VRAM capacity for the RTX 4070 and 4060 GPUs. In the patch notes of the latest version of Gigabyte Control Center, the GPU manufacturer introduced support for two unreleased graphics cards: the RTX 4070 Aero OC and the RTX 4060 Gaming OC.

EK has issued a statement to its customer base regarding upcoming changes to the pricing of some products. In the announcement, it is revealed that a selection of EK products will soon become more expensive, with an average price increase of eight percent starting on the 31st of March.  In …

While we've known about Star Wars Jedi: Survivor for a long time now, EA and Respawn have kept a tight lid on any story details. In previous reveals, we learned that the game takes place years after the events of the first game, with Cal Kestis still on the run …

Asus and Noctua teamed up a couple of years ago, launching Noctua-cooled versions of the RTX 3070 and RTX 3080 graphics cards. Now, both companies are teaming up once again, this time for the Asus RTX 4080 Noctua Edition.