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The Topaz Supreme R costs £999 - What can a prebuilt for under a grand perform like in 2025?

Following its announcement a couple months ago, the Android reimagining of Disco Elysium is set to launch on the 5th of August 2025.

Epic Games has delivered a significant performance uplift with the recent release of Unreal Engine 5.6. Comparing the Scans Factory Paris tech demo side-by-side on an RTX 5080 in Unreal Engine 5.6 and version 5.4, we can see the framerate improving by up 35% in some scenes, and that's with Hardware Lumen enabled. 

Remedy's FBC: Firebreak has not had the strongest start – with the co-op multiplayer title seeing fewer than 2,000 concurrent players on Steam at its peak.

Earlier this month during the Xbox Games Showcase, Persona 4 Revival was officially announced. Despite plenty of leaks surrounding the project, we did not get much official information during this announcement. Currently, the remake lacks a release date, but recent documents point to a longer wait than fans may have …

Adi Shankar has become a fan favourite TV producer amongst the gaming crowd. So far, Shankar has successfully put out fan-pleasing animated shows for Castlevania and Devil May Cry. Next, Shankar will turn his attention to Duke Nukem.  Adi Shankar recently confirmed in an interview with Esquire that he will …

Sega recently held its annual management meeting. Typically, when the presentations from these meetings are made public, specific sales data is redacted. However, someone at Sega forgot to do this, revealing the lifetime sales for key games like Persona 5, Sonic Frontiers, Yakuza: Like a Dragon and more.  The document, …

It looks like Microsoft has more licensed Xbox hardware products on the way. During the Xbox Games Showcase earlier this month, the Asus ROG Xbox Ally handheld was announced and now, Meta is preparing an Xbox-branded version of the Quest 3S VR headset.  The Meta Quest 3S Xbox Edition has …

It would appear that fans have turned on Monster Hunter Wilds. While the game launched to generally positive reviews earlier in the year, fans have grown frustrated with the gameplay changes made in the sequel, and now the game's Steam review score has dropped down to overwhelmingly negative.  For Monster …

NetEase has primarily focused its game development and publishing efforts on games with broad multiplayer appeal. However, for the first time, NetEase is now working on its first single-player game, and it is coming from the studio behind Naraka: Bladepoint. Blood Message is a new game coming from NetEase and …

This week has been a bit of a wild one in rumour land. A previously reliable source made the bombshell claim that Microsoft had hired the developers behind the Xenia emulator to work on an official Xbox and Xbox 360 emulation tool for PCs and new devices like the Xbox …

For the past six months, EA has been loudly playtesting Battlefield 6 with large pre-alpha gameplay sessions leading to numerous gameplay leaks. Now, Battlefield 6 has reportedly hit a new development milestone, and more content is hitting the Battlefield Labs testing platform.  According to Battlefield Labs playtesters speaking with Insider …

Ahead of its release later this year, FuturLab have detailed some of the many gameplay changes and improvements coming with PowerWash Simulator 2.

Following the announcement that Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled has sold 10 million copies a ‘leaker’ is claiming that a port is coming to current-gen and PC.

After 5 years of silence, Netflix’s Dragon’s Lair film adaptation (starring Ryan Reynolds) has finally found its director.

Following a year of PlayStation 5 exclusivity, Stellar Blade (from studio SHIFTUP) launched on PC last week to huge numbers – selling over 1 million copies almost immediately and breaking records for Sony on Steam. It therefore comes as little surprise that according to new reports, a Switch 2 version of Stellar Blade appears to be on its way.

Gamers who prefer to avoid graphics software from AMD or Nvidia and its overlays might be using Steam's Performance Monitor, assuming they're playing games on the platform. Valve has just introduced an update, adding new metrics and frame generation detection. As first noted by SteamDB, the new Performance Monitor expands …

In a major update this week, id Software added Path Tracing technology to DOOM: The Dark Ages. This enhanced form of ray tracing allows for higher fidelity and more ray bounces. The update has also quietly added an array of new in-game benchmarks to the game for those looking to …

Gears of War: Reloaded is launching very soon. To ensure the game's multiplayer servers and crossplay functionality are all working correctly, a playtest did take place last weekend, but many encountered issues. As a result, a second playtest weekend is now coming up.  The Coalition and Microsoft have confirmed that …

EA's Skate games were a staple of the Xbox 360 era. A few years ago, EA announced its return after more than a decade. The game has been in open development since, with frequent playtests being held. Now, the latest version of Skate is just a few months away from …

In a surprising announcement, Beat Saber has officially ended support for PSVR and PSVR2 – with multiplayer being shut down early next year.

Ahead of their official delisting, SEGA has made all of its classics on Android / iOS free, including Sonic; Crazy Taxi and more.

Following a lengthy bout of silence, the Return to Silent Hill film adaptation is officially set to come to cinemas in January of next year.

Can this new LCD clad AIO cooler from CPS PCCooler really compete with the big boys?

GOG has added a bunch more titles to its Games Preservation Program, including Devil May Cry, Mortal Kombat and a dozen others.

The previously-rumoured 2.5D metroidvania God of War spin-off has reportedly been pushed back internally from this year to 2026.

The video games industry is bigger than it's ever been, with the Nintendo Switch becoming one of the best selling consoles of all time and the PS5 currently outpacing the PS4 despite supply setbacks. Even so, it is surprising to see just how lucrative the current generation has been for Sony, with the PS5 having generated more profit than all previous PlayStation consoles combined.

Supergiant has been hard at work on Hades 2 over the past year. The game's early access period is finally starting to wind down, with the studio putting the finishing touches on the game for PC players, opening the door for an eventual console release. In the latest Early Access …

At the Xbox Games Showcase last week, Microsoft announced its collaborative PC handheld, the ROG Xbox Ally. Now in a new video shared this week, Xbox president, Sarah Bond, teased the future via a continued partnership with AMD on chips.  In an update video this week, Bond confirmed that Xbox …

Fractal Design enter the headset market with their first model, the Scape