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NieR: Automata started its life as a pseudo-sequel to a highly niche Japanese title from an equally niche-yet-unique creator ‘Yoko Taro’. In the years since its 2017 release, the Action-JRPG has gone on to see a surprisingly high amount of commercial success – with the team now revealing that Automata …

Dead Island 2 has had a long and seemingly arduous development life. With the sequel first being announced all the way back in 2014, we are finally mere months away from the game’s release. Following the title’s most recent (and final) delay, a Dead Island 2 showcase has now been …

As with seemingly every month now, the list of free titles set to be given away to all those who have an Amazon Prime subscription has leaked ahead of time, with Prime subscribers set to get their hands on the likes of Quake, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons and …

Looking to kickstart your own gaming livestream or YouTube channel? Then we have the perfect competition for you. This month, we are teaming up with AVerMedia to give away a Live Gamer Extreme 3 capture card, capable of recording footage at up to 4K resolution. 

If you want a 4K screen for work, and not gaming, is this MSI panel worth a shout?

The Epic Games Store has been offering free games on a weekly basis ever since it launched. For the holiday season this year, Epic will be stepping things up a notch, with plans to offer a free game every day through Christmas and New Years.  Many gamers have likely heard …

LG's lineup of OLED gaming monitors is expanding again. Following on from the announcement of its 27-inch OLED gaming display, the company has now announced a new 45-inch ultrawide OLED monitor, complete with a 240Hz refresh rate.  The LG UltraGear 45GR95QE-B is LG's new ultrawide gaming monitor, packing a 45-inch …

We already know the specs for the upcoming Radeon RX 7900 series graphics cards, but other RX 7000 series GPUs are still a mystery. We're starting to get a good idea of what the RX 7800 will offer though, as code found in a recent AMD software update has revealed …

Modern Warfare II (2022) represents the latest and greatest from Infinity Ward and Call of Duty, serving as a reimagining of this now 13-year-old game – offering the tried-and-true COD experience while evolving the player movement and controls in order to make it what I believe is the most mechanically perfect multiplayer FPS yet...

The Callisto Protocol is shaping up to be one of the biggest horror games of the year. With the game just one week away from release, Striking Distance Studios has revealed the game's PC system requirements.  Striking Distance Studios is spearheaded by Glen Schofield, a name you should recognise, as …

Each week, Epic offers a game or two for free to all through its Epic Games Store. Right now, those with an Epic Games account can get their hands on the fun and frenetic space shooter ‘Star Wars: Squadrons’. Available to add to your library for free from now until …

Sales season has begun, with Black Friday discounts now live for a wide range of products. If you happen to be shopping around for a new monitor, then there are more than a few good deals to be found!

Black Friday is officially upon us and we're seeing a ton of great discounts on PC upgrades. We've already covered a bunch of the best deals you can find, but now we turn our attention to Gigabyte, with discounts on graphics cards, power supplies and motherboards.  Gigabyte has a handful …

Gaming can be expensive, especially if you are wanting to go all-out with RGB lighting and the like. Black Friday presents an opportunity for you to get your hands on some good savings, with Razer’s Black Friday sale live right now. Live right now, over 100 Razer products have been …

This RTX 4080 doesn't use a vapour chamber - we find out if that's good or bad

Black Friday offers one of the best opportunities for you to get your hands on some gaming tech for much lower than RRP. Alongside all other hardware manufacturers, Corsair’s Black Friday deals are currently live: Corsair's full lineup of Black Friday deals is vast, and ranges from Elgato streaming gear …

Sales season is in full swing and we've been checking around to gather up the best deals our readers might be interested in. MSI has a wide range of discounts currently available, so you can save a good chunk of money across a wide range of products. MSI's Black Friday …

Black Friday is officially upon us and we're seeing a ton of great discounts on PC upgrades. If you are after a new CPU, a prebuilt gaming rig, a new graphics card, a monitor upgrade or anything in between, we have some good options for you.  For starters, AMD's current-gen …

Gaming can be an expensive hobby, and so it behoves us to find savings wherever we can in order to free up as much money as possible for purchasing video games themselves. Fortunately, as part of Black Friday, ASUS is discounting many of its most popular gaming peripherals. Gaming is …

Politico previously reported that the EU would enter a phase 2 investigation into the Xbox Activision-Blizzard merger. Now, the site is reporting that the FTC is planning on filing a lawsuit against Microsoft to block the merger.  The FTC has been stricter on anti-trust cases recently. The commission previously filed …

A few weeks ago when AMD officially unveiled the Radeon RX 7900 series graphics cards, it also announced a 13th of December launch date. At the time, it wasn't specified if custom cards from board partners would be available at the same time and subsequently, there have now been reports …

Like many other brands during this season, AMD is holding some special deals at the moment, cutting down prices for a range of products. We've already seen some good price drops for Ryzen 7000 CPUs. Now, there are also great deals to be had on previous-gen Ryzen 5000 chips, as …

Gran Turismo 7 launched earlier this year to great fanfare – though the title was admittedly missing some necessary features. One major omission was the ability to sell your cars as a means to purchase others. Fortunately, this (and much more) is now available thanks to GT7’s latest free update. …

UPDATE: Following the publication of this article, The Callisto Protocol's Director, Glen Schofield, took to Twitter to clarify that these death animations will be wholly unrelated to the main campaign and as such will not affect those without the season pass, saying “To be clear: We’re not holding anything back …

Does Intel's 13th Gen i7 impress as much as the i5? Or will it disappoint

Recently, we reported that Pokémon Scarlet and Violet had the biggest launch of any game this year in the UK. It seems this sales success was mirrored worldwide, as it has now been revealed that the controversial game has in fact sold over 10 million copies within its first 3 …

Over the years we have seen many first-party Sony titles outperform one another, meaning while 2018’s God of War managed to sell 3.1 million copies in 3 days – making it the fastest-selling PlayStation game at the time, it was soon outdone by both Marvel’s Spider-Man and then The Last …

We've known about a few of the complaints Sony has been sending to regulators in regard to Microsoft's planned Activision Blizzard merger for a while now. As the UK's CMA moves on towards its Phase 2 investigation into the deal, Sony's complaint filing has been made public, revealing some of …

Today CD Projekt Red gave us our first look at the next-gen update for The Witcher 3 and shared many other details of the patch. For starters, the game is getting ray-traced global illumination and ray-traced ambient occlusion. It will also support upscaling techniques like DLSS and FSR 2.0.  On …

Netflix has been building up its gaming business this year, with plenty of studio acquisitions to produce new interactive content for Netflix. Now, Netflix seems to be aiming even higher, as the company has reportedly begun highering for a ‘AAA PC game'.  The new job listings are for the new …