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The Philips Evnia series of premium gaming monitors now has a great option for those looking for a smaller 1080p screen. The new Evnia 25M2N5200P offers a 25-inch IPS display, FullHD resolution and a 280Hz refresh rate for ultra-smooth gaming.  The Philips Evnia 25M2N5200P is the latest monitor from the Evnia …

Asus already has plenty of different graphics card designs, aimed at both gamers and professionals. Now, Asus is launching its first graphics card line aimed at the creator market, with new ProArt RTX 40 series graphics cards.  While graphics cards are traditionally associated with gaming, that's not true for the …

In one of the weirder acquisitions we've seen, SEGA has reportedly negotiated a deal to acquire Rovio Entertainment for roughly $1 billion USD. Rovio Entertainment is a mobile-focused developer, best known for Angry Birds.  According to The Wall Street Journal, SEGA is close to completing the deal and it could …

Some juicy details have recently surfaced about AMD's upcoming Zen architectures, straight from the LinkedIn profile of one of their engineers. This content has since been removed, but as expected from the Internet, someone was fast enough to take a screenshot. According to the engineer's profile (via Wccftech), he was …

At The Game Awards last year, From Software announced its next big game, Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon, a long-awaited return to the studio's mecha series, which has been on the back burner recently with FromSoft focusing on its Souls games and newer titles like Elden Ring. We didn't …

The famous open-source media player just got even better. Like Chromium-based browsers, VLC now supports Nvidia's RTX Video Super Resolution (VSR) technology for enhancing video playback. This AI-based upscaling technology powered by RTX hardware can be used with Chromium-based browsers like Chrome or Edge. That means you can enjoy higher-quality …

Last night, Sony went live with its latest State of Play stream, focused entirely on Final Fantasy 16. Producer, Naoki Yoshida, presented the stream, giving us a great look at everything from combat and exploration to companion pets.  The stream is roughly 25 minutes long, so there are plenty of …

While it is pretty typical to see new games launching with Denuvo in place, we rarely see games adding the controversial DRM post-release. This week following Ghostwire: Tokyo's Game Pass release and big Spider Thread update, Bethesda has implemented Denuvo.  The new Spider Thread update for Ghostwire: Tokyo does indeed …

Shortly after the poorly received gameplay reveal for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, we heard rumours that the game was due to be delayed. Now, just six weeks ahead of the game's planned release date, Rocksteady has officially confirmed that the game has been pushed back.  While it was …

God-level hardware specs but does it have the performance to match?

A few weeks ago we reported that the actor playing Venom in the upcoming Spider-Man 2 game by Insomniac claimed that the much-anticipated title would be arriving this September. Following this, an industry insider has corroborated the claims, stating that Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 will indeed be launching in September.

Each week, those with an Epic Games account are privy to a number of titles for free. This week, Epic is giving away the first-person co-op multiplayer dinosaur shooter ‘Second Extinction’ as well as medieval multiplayer slasher ‘Mordhau’. Available to add to your library from now until the 20th of …

LawBreakers was a promising Hero Shooter from Boss Key Productions and Cliff Blezinsky (of Gears of War fame). Released back in 2017, the game unfortunately struggled to find a foothold in the then-saturated market – leading it to ultimately be shut down just one year later. Half a decade later, …

AMD has just announced its latest workstation GPUs. The Navi 31-based W7900 and W7800 will represent the high-end segment of the Radeon Pro series, delivering a remarkable increase in performance compared to the previous generation. The W7900 is a powerhouse, packing 96 CUs and 48GB of GDDR6 ECC memory across …

There is no denying that the success of the Nintendo Switch and Steam Deck has helped to inspire other manufacturers to get in on the handheld market. One company which seems to be tinkering with the idea is Microsoft – with a new video showcasing a Windows 11 UI designed …

Over the past few years we have seen Google hunker down and find its own unique yet refined look and feel for the Android operating system. That said, there is always more which can be improved or changed – and Google seems to be focusing on these elements for Android’s …

Ubisoft+ has launched on Xbox today, but not quite in the way we expected. While we anticipated a standalone version of Ubisoft+ for consoles, instead, Ubisoft is launching a new Multi Access plan, a slightly pricier subscription option that includes access to games on PC, cloud and console.  Ubisoft Multi …

A few weeks ago, Nintendo aired a Zelda-focused Direct, showcasing new gameplay for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Now, Nintendo has released the third and final trailer for the game ahead of its launch next month.  The trailer is roughly three and a half minutes long and …

Although AMD's Zen 5 architecture is not expected to debut anytime soon, it seems the company is already hard at work developing Zen 5 EPYC processors. In a recent report, an alleged engineering sample of a dual AMD Zen 5 CPU system has been spotted running the Cinebench R23 nT …

Dead Island 2 is finally coming out in just over one week. The game has been in development for a decade and has been handed to several studios along the way. The game officially went gold back in February and now, we have PC system requirements ahead of launch, with …

It's a budget NVMe SSD, available for less than £50 in the UK - but can it perform?

Ubisoft confirmed plans to bring its Ubisoft+ subscription service to Xbox consoles a long time ago and progress has been very slow. Last week, a prominent Xbox reporter claimed that the service would be heading to Xbox ‘imminently' and now, we have some evidence to back that claim up.  Ubisoft's …

The Trine series is getting a new entry into the franchise. Like all Trine games, Trine 5: A Clockwork Conspiracy is a 2.5D puzzle platformer developed by the Finnish developer Frozenbyte. Featuring Amadeus the Wizard, Zoya the Thief, and Pontius the Knight on a quest to save the kingdom from …

Following the game’s console exclusivity period on PS5, Tango Gameworks’ Ghostwire: Tokyo is now available on Xbox (and PC) via Microsoft’s Game Pass subscription service. Alongside this recent launch, a massive free update in the form of Ghostwire: Tokyo Spider’s Thread is now available, adding a new game mode, more …

With the jump to the Xbox Series X/S, Microsoft made big promises about shifting the gameplay standard to 60FPS and enabling more 120FPS games on console. This has mostly held up so far, but unfortunately, one of its big 2023 exclusives, Redfall, will be letting us down in this department.  …

At this point, Final Fantasy 16 has gone gold and is well on its way towards its June release date. With the game now complete, it is time for Square Enix and Sony to give us another look at the next major game in the franchise.  State of Play will …

While Xbox has spent a great deal of time pushing its cloud gaming services (thanks in no small part to Microsoft’s ownership of the Azure cloud computing service), Sony has focused much more on local gaming solutions. This seems to be shifting somewhat with a number of new job listings – alongside recent rumours – suggesting that Sony is going all-in on cloud gaming.

The RTX 4070 is here and today we put it through its paces in a whole heap of games

Modders have been working on making Half-Life: Alyx playable without a VR headset ever since the game first launched in 2020. Great progress has been made on this front since then and now, the NoVR mod allows you to play the entire game from start to finish.  The NoVR mod …

It's nice to be able to personalise something to make it your own. Last October, Xbox Design Lab responded to fan requests by introducing the Xbox Elite Series 2 to its customisation options. Now, Xbox is taking it to the next level by announcing a new range of colours for …