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To celebrate the upcoming Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege UK Ireland Nationals, Asus ROG has partnered up with Ubisoft to giveaway a peripheral bundle every week for the next four weeks. The grand prize will be an Asus PG259QN 360Hz gaming monitor. Ubisoft's has recently kicked off the Summer Season …

Microsoft Flight Simulator launched last year to critical success, offering a hugely ambitious world. With that however came a great level of requirement on hardware, with the simulator taxing even the most powerful PCs. It seems Asobo Studio have been working on making the game more accessible, as an engine rewrite is set to bring with it massive performance gains.

Each month, PlayStation offers a number of games for free to all those with a PS Plus account. Since the release of the PS5, Sony has offered 3 titles each month: 2 PS4 games and a PS5 title. This month’s new games have been announced, including a Call of Duty …

Last week, we learned that a vulnerability has begun affected Western Digital's My Book Live and My Book Live Duo devices, leading to data loss for users when these devices are connected to the internet. Now, WD has discovered that there is also a second exploit affecting these drives. In …

Ever since Apple first began using OLED displays on the iPhone in 2017,  we've been hearing rumours about the first OLED display iPad. Apple went in a different direction with its 2021 iPad Pro refresh, adding a Mini-LED display. However, supply chain sources still claim that OLED equipped iPads are …

Id Software appears to be up to something. This year, the studio has submitted two projects to the Australian Classification Board, one known as Project 2021A and another known as Project 2021B, with neither appearing to be tied to Doom.  Id Software's Project 2021A was discovered earlier this year and …

It is no secret that Microsoft is constantly in acquisition mode at this point and is always keeping an eye out for studios that can bring additional value to Xbox Game Pass. After the Bethesda acquisition, a lot of people questioned whether larger publishers buying up studios is a good …

PlayStation recently announced that it had acquired Housemarque, the studio behind Returnal, Alienation, and Resogun – to name a few. While Returnal represented the company’s most ambitious title yet, the success of the game and the acquisition by Sony has seemingly allowed for their next project to be even bigger. …

Over the past few years, many of the industry’s biggest and most well known names have left their positions at major studios in order to pursue their dreams of creating their own studios. Such was the case with Hideo Kojima, Jade Raymond, and now Casey Hudson, who has announced his …

Back in February, Blooper Team, developers behind titles like Observer and The Medium, revealed that they were working on a new horror game with “a very famous publisher“. That mystery publisher has now been revealed to be none other than Konami, adding more legitimacy to recent Silent Hill revival rumours.  …

Control is the latest game from Finnish video game developer Remedy Entertainment. Known for cult titles such as Alan Wake, Control helped push the studio into new heights. While Remedy Entertainment currently have a lot on their plate – working on 5 different titles – the studio has now confirmed …

Earlier this year, Magic: Legends, an action RPG spin-off for Magic the Gathering, released in open beta on PC, with plans to expand to consoles later down the line. Unfortunately, the game did not get off to a good start and is now being cancelled.  Magic: Legends entered open beta …

Nvidia’s DLSS technology has slowly been making its way to more and more PC games – and for good reason too. While only available on Nvidia cards, the technology allows for a massive boost in performance while maintaining a high picture quality. EA has now confirmed that Battlefield 2042 will …

Distro Plate 2.0 is ready, let the WD_Blackout build commence!

Logitech has been diversifying its peripheral portfolio lately with new colourful combinations. The newly launched G335 gaming headset is no exception, coming in black, white and mint.  The Logitech G335 is a lightweight gaming headset that takes some design cues from the company's G733 headset. Despite the obvious similarities, the …

As we learned recently, Samsung is currently building a new Exynos mobile processor with integrated RDNA 2 graphics in collaboration with AMD. The chip has yet to be officially unveiled, but a new 3DMark Wild Life benchmark has revealed high levels of performance, beating out any other phone on the market by a decent margin. 

Although it was announced alongside the already available AMD Radeon RX 6800M and RX 6600M, the RX 6700M hasn't released yet. A launch could be happening soon though, as the 3DMark benchmark database now includes results for the upcoming laptop GPU.  The benchmark results were shared by Twitter leaker, @ro_game. …

Ghost of Tsushima launched last year to high praise and impressive sales, far exceeding developer Sucker Punch Productions' previous efforts commercially. Just under a year after its initial release, it seems as though Ghost of Tsushima may be getting new content, as the ESRB has now leaked what has been …

Back at E3 2018, Bethesda Game Studios announced its next two major projects – Starfield and The Elder Scrolls 6. We've known for a long time that Starfield will be releasing first, but rumours have persisted regarding the next Elder Scrolls' development. Now, Todd Howard has clarified just how far …

If you're looking for a truly compact and portable case to build a mini-ITX system, then Jonsbo has you covered. Today, the BO 100 mini-ITX case is launching, featuring a minimalist and compact form factor, there is even a handle for carrying the system around. The BO 100 from Jonsplus, …

We check out Corsair's latest case - and it's a BIG one

It looks like EVGA won't just be making Intel-based motherboards anymore. This week, the company began teasing a new motherboard for Ryzen processors. The teaser is just nine seconds long, teasing a new EVGA DARK series motherboard. The Zen logo appears on screen behind the Dark logo, indicating that we'll …

DOOM Eternal's long-awaited ray-tracing update has finally arrived. Support for ray-tracing was announced prior to the game's launch in 2020, although id Software explained at the time that it wouldn't roll out until after launch. Aside from ray-traced lighting features on PC and console, the Xbox Series X/S and PS5 …

Earlier today, Sony officially announced that it has acquired Housemarque, the studio behind PS5 exclusive ‘Returnal'. As it turns out, there may be another acquisition to announce, as Sony may have accidentally revealed that it is also buying Bluepoint Games. In a now deleted tweet, PlayStation Japan tweeted out a …

In the last few days, new information regarding the upcoming Intel LGA socket 17xx came to light alongside the first photos of the socket itself. The socket is currently listed for sale on a Chinese retailer, and according to the photos on the listing, the socket's cover shows it's also …

Microsoft has just announced that Xbox Cloud Gaming (xCloud) is now available on PC and Apple iOS devices in 22 countries. Microsoft is also expanding its “Designed for Xbox” accessory line with new Xbox Cloud-supported game controllers for iPhones.  Microsoft is bringing Xbox Cloud Gaming to more devices by making …

Following on from the success of PS5 exclusive, Returnal, Sony has announced that it has acquired Housemarque. Moving forward, Housemarque will officially be part of the PlayStation Studios family after years of collaboration. Housemarque was first founded in 1996 and has worked with Sony Interactive Entertainment on a number of …

Microsoft recently showed off Windows 11 - a revamp which comes with a plethora of changes - both visually and quality-of-life wise. While the full release is not expected to launch until much later this year, Microsoft did promise early access to those who are part of its Windows insider program. For those brave few, Windows 11 is now available.

Intel has been teasing its Xe-HPG GPU architecture for a long time and now, it looks like the official launch could be happening soon as DG2 sample cards are now heading to board partners.  Raja Koduri has been teasing the upcoming Intel gaming GPUs for quite a while, but now …

While the Resident Evil series is one of the biggest zombie franchises in gaming, The Walking Dead has held that crown in the TV sphere. That being said, The Walking Dead has released many video games over the years, however one of the latest releases has seemingly directly and lazily …