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One of the biggest video game stories in recent years revolves around the Epic Games v Apple lawsuit, which saw the Fortnite creator have its biggest money maker banned from the Apple App Store. Following the recent conclusion of the trial, it was revealed that the battle royale game may …

Hollow Knight is widely regarded as one of the best metroidvanias in modern times – perhaps ever. This has made the wait for the much-anticipated sequel all the more painful. Announced all the way back in early 2019, very little has been seen from the game. It seems that Silksong …

The Eve Spectrum is here - but is it really as good as it's cracked up to be?

Ever since the Nintendo Switch was first announced, one of the most requested ports was that of the Metroid Prime trilogy. For years now we have heard rumours of its existence, though Nintendo has yet to confirm anything. According to an insider however, fans may finally be able to play …

Rumours around the RTX 30 Super series continue to pick up steam. This week, a known leaker claimed that there would be four RTX 30 Super SKUs, including an RTX 3060 Super, RTX 3070 Super, RTX 3080 Super and an RTX 3090 Super. Some alleged specifications for these GPUs were …

Last night, Microsoft held its annual Surface event, revamping its entire line-up of tablets, phones and PCs. On the tablet side, Microsoft launched three new Windows 11 devices – the Surface Pro 8, Pro X and Go 3.  The Surface Pro 8 looks to be a reasonable upgrade over its …

In recent weeks, we've seen a number of benchmark results for the upcoming Intel Core i9-12900K, mostly coming from the Ashes of the Singularity database. Today, we seem to have the first Cinebench R23 result for the same processor, showing higher performance than a Ryzen 9 5950X.  The screenshots shared …

Over the last decade, game file sizes have grown tremendously, to the point where some titles can take up an entire storage drive on their own. This has also resulted in much longer download times for games. We've seen attempts to get around these download times with a ‘ready to …

AMD has released a new graphics driver, and with it comes multiple bug fixes, support for new games and optimisations for existing ones. The biggest highlight is a significant performance improvement for Diablo II: Resurrected, which now runs up to 13 percent better.  Diablo 2: Resurrected now runs up to …

Rumours have been swirling about the next Nintendo Direct stream for months now. At the start of September, we began hearing that there would be something happening later this month. As it turns out, Nintendo does have a big stream planned, and it will be taking place tomorrow.  Today, Nintendo …

YouTubers are well aware of the issues that the DMCA system imposes and recently, Twitch streamers have been dealing with similar headaches, in large part due to music licenses. After months of lengthy discussions, Twitch appears to have now reached a deal with the music industry, but details on how …

As the video games industry gets more and more mature, concerns have begun to be raised regarding the preservation of video games. Just as how the games are important, so too is the hardware that these titles run on. It was therefore concerning when it was discovered that upon the …

As Microsoft gets ready to officially launch Windows 11 in just a couple of weeks, the PC Health Check app has been improved to give you more details on why your PC may not be compatible with Windows 11. The app's first version was released in June, but back then, …

Just as promised, there will be more Halo Infinite multiplayer tests taking place this month. Those that registered as a Halo Insider by September 13th have begun receiving invites for two public playtests, with the first taking place this week, and the second taking place next week.  From tomorrow, the …

Recently we reported that Quantic Dreams is currently working on a Star Wars game. At the time, we postulated on what the game could be about and how it would fit into the Quantic Dream formula. New information has now leaked, revealing that this game will stray far away from …

Fortnite has long been the game with the highest number of crossover franchises, brands and more. From Marvel to God of War to the NBA and more, the Battle Royle game has become a metaverse of cross promotions and marketing. This latest collaboration is perhaps the weirdest yet however, as …

The ever-popular Liquid Freezer is back, this time with ARGB lighting

People love to hate on Apple and their iPhones, however the smartphone brand continues to dominate when it comes to profits and mindshare. Ahead of the latest iPhone 13’s release on the 24th of September, review embargoes have been lifted, and almost all of the talk surrounding Apple’s latest and …

Last week, Deathloop launched to rave reviews on PS5, but unfortunately, the PC version faced some performance issues. Bethesda was quick to confirm that it was working on a patch and now, that update has begun rolling out.  At launch, Deathloop garnered ‘Mixed' overall reviews on Steam, as many users …

A massive leak on AMD's mid-range Radeon RX 6600 graphics card has just been published, confirming its specifications, embargo dates and hinting at when we will see it hitting the shelves. The leak comes from VideoCardz, which got access to embargoed information on the upcoming Radeon RX 66000 and a …

The Microsoft Surface Pro devices have historically offered a balance of portability and performance, with the devices becoming popular in the school and education space. For the past few iterations, the Surface Pro devices have been lacking in innovations – though this is finally changing. Ahead of the Microsoft Surface …

One of the biggest features that the PS5 and Xbox Series of devices touted is the ability for them to use hardware accelerated ray-tracing, making details such as lighting, shadows and reflections more life-like than ever before. Almost all games which offer ray-tracing have done so across both PC and …

Google has always been experimental with its marketing, from revealing phones prior to its announcement, to announcing a phone only by confirming that the unannounced phone’s purported cancellation was false. The search engine giant has now sent out an email to its fans saying “You're invited to Google's Birthday party.” …

Recently a remaster of the 2010 action-adventure horror title Alan Wake was announced to be coming to modern systems. The game is set to be launching on the PS4; PS5; Xbox One; Xbox Series X|S and PC on the 5th of October. A notable exclusion was that of a Switch …

While it is common to see games get updated with stability improvements, better framerates and more, it is rare for a system software update to increase frame rates. Such is the case however with the recent PS5 2.0 update, which sees a flat improvement in performance across many games. Last …

Corsair's M65 is back and it is better than ever

After a lengthy beta period, the newest version of iOS is out now, though with some of the biggest promised features missing. Even so, those with an iPhone or iPad can look forward to a plethora of improvements and additions (and perhaps a few downgrades too), including a new Safari …

It's finished! AMD Behemoth is running and looking absolutely top notch

It seems to be an unwritten rule that before every major CPU and GPU launch, someone has to run an early benchmark of Ashes of the Singularity using the new component. Well, that's what has happened here with the Intel i9-12900K, and judging by the results, we might be in …

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