Ghost Recon Breakpoint had a rough launch back in 2019 but after a year of additional development and several major updates, the game is in much better shape now. If you've yet to give the game a go, then this week is the perfect time as the game is free …
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2020’s top 10 best selling games in the UK revealed
At the beginning of each new year, it is always interesting to take a look back at the past 365 days and reflect upon the games that came out during that time. For the UK market, it has now been revealed which games managed to make it to the top …
Read More »Valve removes AI bots from competitive Counter-Stike: Global Offensive matches
Competitive CS:GO underwent a fairly major change this week, with Valve removing bots from the game. Traditionally, if someone was kicked or disconnected from a competitive match, they would be replaced by an AI bot that another member of the team could take over after dying. This feature has now …
Read More »NZXT’s CRFT 07 is a Mass Effect-themed gaming PC case
The NZXT CRFT range has been dedicated to limited edition, game-themed cases for a while now. The last chassis we saw was based on Rainbow Six Siege but today, the CRFT line's seventh case was officially announced, based on Mass Effect. The NZXT CRFT 07 is a Mass Effect themed …
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Read More »Far Cry 6, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla and Immortals will be 60fps on next-gen consoles
Back in 2014, Ubisoft became somewhat infamous for its defence of 30 frames per second gameplay limits on consoles. As we head towards the next generation of consoles though, the publisher is finally breaking beyond the 30fps barrier for several key titles. Assassin's Creed Valhalla, Far Cry 6 and Immortals …
Read More »Fall Guys peaks as the fourth most played game on Steam this weekend
The top ten most popular games on Steam has been shaken up a few times in the last few years. This week, a newcomer has broken the ranks of Steam's most concurrent players, with Fall Guys gaining more concurrent users than Grand Theft Auto V, Rainbow Six Siege, Destiny 2 …
Read More »Corsair debuts iCUE NEXUS keyboard display accessory
The days of gaming keyboards with built-in LCD displays have been over for a while now but CORSAIR might have the next best thing. This week, Corsair announced the iCUE NEXUS Companion Touch Screen, a new display accessory with a fully customisable interface. The Corsair iCUE Nexus is compatible with …
Read More »Everything announced at the Ubisoft Forward digital event
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Read More »Ubisoft brings back uPlay+ free trial period for July
Back at E3 2019, Ubisoft announced its own foray into subscription gaming with uPlay+. Following on from Origin Access, Xbox Game Pass and PlayStation Now, uPlay+ aims to offer a Netflix style library of content for a monthly fee, with all future Ubisoft games set to be added the day …
Read More »The Steam Summer Sale is now live
The Steam Summer Sale has officially kicked off today. This time around, Valve has brought back £5 discount vouchers to save some extra money and a new ‘Point Shop' has been introduced filled with Steam Community goodies. This time around, whenever you spend £30, Steam will automatically knock £5 off …
Read More »Maneater, Saints Row and various Ubisoft titles headline GeForce Now’s weekly update
Thursday has officially become GeForce Now’s library update day, with new games added to the service every week. This week’s update sees Nvidia furthering its partnership with Ubisoft, as well as the addition of more ‘day and date' supported games for brand new releases. In terms of brand new releases, …
Read More »Area F2 taken offline following Ubisoft lawsuit
Just a few days ago, we learned that Ubisoft was suing Apple, Google and a game developer known as Ejoy over a mobile clone of Rainbow Six Siege. The similarities between Ubisoft's popular shooter and ‘Area F2' were not subtle and now, the mobile game has gone offline. Ejoy was …
Read More »Assassin’s Creed Valhalla won’t be on Steam
Early last year, Ubisoft began moving away from Steam, opting to bring new games to uPlay and the Epic Games Store only. The move started off with the likes of The Division 2, Anno 1800 and Ghost Recon Breakpoint. That deal will be extending this year with Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. …
Read More »Valorant closed beta launch draws 1.7 million Twitch viewers
Riot Games has always had a high ranking on Twitch thanks to League of Legends but it would seem that the buzz surrounding its new shooter, Valorant, is pushing things even further. During the launch yesterday, 1.7 million concurrent viewers were watching various streamers playing the game on Twitch, rivalling …
Read More »PCSpecialist Ignite X1 Gaming PC Review – w/ Ryzen 9 3900
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Read More »Steam sets a new record for concurrent users online
The record was broken twice in two days, with over 20 million users online yesterday...
Read More »CS:GO has set a new record for peak concurrent players
Just a few weeks ago, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive surpassed its all-time concurrent player count, hitting a peak of 876,575 players at once. This appears to have been the start of a snowball effect, as the record has now been broken again. CS:GO's previous peak player count clocked in at over …
Read More »The Division 2 is currently 85% off on the Ubisoft Store
One of the key advantages of a publisher having its own storefront, is the fact that all profits go directly to the publisher, unlike 3rd party storefronts which take a percentage of the profits. This is not only beneficial to the publishers themselves, but also consumers, as it means that …
Read More »The Witcher 3 surpasses 100,000 concurrent players for the first time
It is incredibly rare for a single-player game to break its launch-day concurrent player records without some form of update but The Witcher 3 has defied the odds… twice. After beating out the game's launch-day peak player count on Steam last week, it seems that even more people became interested, …
Read More »The 2019 Steam Awards winners have been announced
Back in December, Valve announced all of the nominees for 2019's Steam Awards and opened the doors for Steam users to vote on which games should win across eight categories. The winners have now all been announced, with Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice being named the Steam community's game of the …
Read More »Valve reveals the best selling Steam games of 2019
We are closing in on the end of 2019, which means we’ll be seeing plenty of ‘top 10’, GOTY and best seller lists over the next week or two. Valve has been revealing the top selling games on Steam each year for a few years now and that tradition is …
Read More »Steam Winter Sale starts today and Steam Award nominees have been announced
We are just a few hours away from the Steam Winter Sale, so if you are browsing the store for something new to play, we have the sale start times so you know exactly when you should actually hit the buy button. The Winter Sale is just half of the …
Read More »Here are all the nominees for The Game Awards 2019
The “Oscars of gaming” are coming again this year, on the 12th of December. At The Game Awards 2019, the best games of the year will be awarded in their respective categories, based on public and press voting, but only one will get the ultimate prize – the Game of …
Read More »Ubisoft wants to enable cross-play for all of its PvP games
Ubisoft's first game to get cross-play was Just Dance, through its World Dance Floor mode. Now, as Ubisoft expressed in its earnings call, the company plans to add cross-play to its remaining PvP games. Although Just Dance was the Ubisoft's first game to get cross-play, the company is on course to …
Read More »Destiny 2 is off to an excellent start on Steam
Bungie’s efforts to reinvent Destiny 2 this year seem to be paying off, with the new expansion being well received so far in addition to the game getting a big show of support from players on Steam. Not only has the game accrued some very high concurrent player numbers, but …
Read More »Cyberpower Hydro-X Ultra Gaming System Review
Cyberpower's range of Hydro-X systems offer custom liquid cooling & high spec, any good for gaming?
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It's up there with the best gaming monitors we've EVER tested, but boy do you pay for it
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