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The Steam Next Fest is back with hundreds of game demos spread over seven days, and it's the perfect opportunity to discover new games. This event happens three times a year, and it's a chance for gamers to try out upcoming games before their release. The current Steam Next Fest …

EA is bringing back Skate this year, with plans to re-launch the series as a free-to-play game. While the game was first announced for consoles, it is also coming to PC and better yet, it will be on Steam.  Skate doesn't have an exact release date yet but EA has …

Microsoft going multiplatform could finally end the 'console war' for good and PC gamers stand the most to gain...

Recently, MSI quietly released an interesting Beta BIOS update for their Intel 700 and 600 chipset motherboards . This new update allows users to expand memory support beyond 192GB, allowing users to install 64GB memory modules for a total of 256GB of memory across four DIMM slots. The BIOS update …

There's more evidence that Arrow Lake-S CPUs might not have Hyper-Threading. Following previously leaked slides, an entry on Intel test machines with an undisclosed Arrow Lake CPU with 24 cores and 24 threads has been found. Hyper-Threading is a multithreading technique that enables physical cores in Intel CPUs to accomplish …

For decades, the Persona series remained exclusive to Sony’s PlayStation platforms. Back in 2020 however the PS Vita exclusive Persona 4 Golden was remastered for the PC. Since then, many more ATLUS titles have been added to the platform – to great success. Even so, the release of Persona 3 …

Shortly following the launch of The Last of Us Part II Remastered, Naughty Dog released Grounded II: Making The Last of Us Part II. The two-hour long documentary holds many revelations within it, but one of the most interesting is the fact that Naughty Dog’s next game is not a …

Back in 2020, ahead of the much anticipated launch of Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us Part II, the entirety of the game’s major plot points were released online, marking one of the single biggest leaks for a game in the industry’s history. Though the team of course addressed these …

The Resident Evil series is by far Capcom’s biggest, with the decades-long franchise seeing more than 150 million copies sold across its many games. Following its continued success with the likes of Resident Evil Village and RE4 Remake, the publisher is said to currently be working on nearly half a …

During Sony’s PlayStation Showcase last year, the console manufacturer showed off a number of new titles, including Phantom Blade Zero – an action heavy experience which features some of the most flashy and bombastic combat seen in a video game. While we have yet to get a release date, a …

Starfield is finally getting AMD FSR 3 support. Six months on from release, the sci-fi RPG developed by Bethesda will finally support AMD's latest upscaling technology. As we saw with DLSS 3, FSR 3 will first be tested as part of the Starfield beta on Steam, before rolling out to all players a few weeks later...

Earlier this week, Deep Silver announced plans for a brand new Metro game. While this won't be the next major game in the series from 4A Games, it will be an exciting spin-off, bringing the tense world of Metro to VR for the first time. Metro: Awakening is an origin …

Palworld has taken the gaming world by storm since its debut earlier this month. It has become the largest third-party Game Pass launch in just ten days, reaching over 7 million players across Xbox consoles, PC and the cloud. The Steam version of Palworld is a few updates ahead of …

Dave the Diver, one of 2023's most renowned games, will be available for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 in April. Mintrocket also revealed that a free Godzilla DLC titled “King of the Monsters” will be released in May. The game is a mash-up of adventure, exploration, management, and life simulation …

The RTX 3050 lives on in 2024 with a new model hitting the market with some rather major spec changes...

The start of a new year is always exciting, filled with opportunities to reset, evaluate, and plan for the future. And for the Age of Empires team, 2024 is shaping up to be a big year. Rather than create a single blog post with all the news, the team has …

Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth is the latest mainline entry in the long-running Yakuza (now Like a Dragon) franchise. Though it was originally a rather niche series, the Yakuza games have seen a strong and rapid growth over the past generation – with Infinite Wealth having managed to ship an …

These new mice can support up to 8000Hz polling rate - but does it really matter?

In recent weeks we have heard a great deal about Microsoft and their alleged plans to adopt a more multi-platform approach with their games. This was followed up by an update to Xbox exclusive Hi-Fi RUSH which seemed to suggest that the game would be coming to PlayStation. Now, thanks …

First shown off all the way back in 2013, Media Molecule’s Dreams served as one of the most interesting first-party PlayStation titles in recent memory. The community-driven game creation toolkit had seen a great deal of post-launch support following Dreams’ release in early 2020. Unfortunately, in April of last year …

One of the biggest marketing points for the upcoming second part of the Final Fantasy VII Remake – FFVII Rebirth – is the fact that (as was the case with the PS1 original), Final Fantasy VII Rebirth will be released on two discs due to its sheer size. Now, with …

When most thought that Intel was done with the LGA 1700 socket after launching the Raptor Lake Refresh (14th Gen), a new report suggests that might not be the case. It seems Intel will extend the LGA 1700 socket for yet another generation that will coexist with Arrow Lake-S. This …

Supermassive Games had its first major hit back in 2015 with the PS4 exclusive, Until Dawn. Now almost nine years later, we're getting a remake, but this time, it will be landed on PC alongside PlayStation.  If you never had the opportunity to play Until Dawn on PS4, you'll seen …

While we expected to get a good look at Final Fantasy VII Rebirth during last night's State of Play stream, it would seem that Sony wants to give the game a bit more of an exclusive spotlight. At the end of last night's stream, Sony announced plans for a second …

As promised, Death Stranding 2 returned to the spotlight yesterday during Sony's State of Play stream, but we were caught off-guard by the massive trailer we ended up seeing...

We've entered a new month which means it is time for a new PlayStation Plus update. For February, PS+ Essential subscribers can expect three new games, including Square Enix's new Splatoon-inspired shooter, Foamstars. Foamstars was announced during a PlayStation Showcase last year as one of Sony's major upcoming live service …

Scythe is updating the Mugen series with a new set of coolers. The new Mugen 6 series will include two models: the Mugen 6 (SCMG-6000) in silver with a single fan and the Mugen 6 Dual Fan Black Edition, sporting an all-black look with dual fans. The Scythe Mugen 6 …

505 Games has recently unveiled the official PC system requirements for the upcoming Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons Remake. Additionally, the publisher has released a gameplay trailer, showing us a bit more of the upcoming title. The gameplay trailer shows segments of the game, some of which you might …

Last year, Embracer Group officially shut down Volition, a long-running studio best known for the Saints Row games. Now, a group of former Volition developers have banded together to start up a new studio, known as Shapeshifter Games.  Shapeshifter Games is founded by former Volition veterans. The new studio won't …

Several months on from acquiring Activision Blizzard, Microsoft kicked off 2024 with the announcement that it would be laying off nearly 2000 employees. Unsurprisingly, this has been followed up by a glowing earnings report from Microsoft executives.  With the acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Microsoft's gaming business is now one of …