Gamescom: Opening Night Live has become a great tradition in recent years. The new stream adds a digital element to the world's biggest gaming convention, delivering new game announcements, trailers and updates. This year's Gamescom: ONL stream was pretty packed, with 39 trailers shown.
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Borderlands is getting its own ‘interactive series’ after Silent Hill: Ascension
Last year, Konami announced a slew of new Silent Hill projects in development. One of the more interesting projects came from Genvid Entertainment, which is building an “interactive series” using the Silent Hill IP. It looks like the studio has another similar project in the works for Borderlands. Genvid Entertainment …
Read More »The Witcher 3’s latest patch brings upgrades to Switch version
With the launch of The Witcher 3's next-gen update in late 2022, CD Projekt Red added new content inspired by the Netflix live-action series. This content has been available on most consoles and PCs since then, but Nintendo Switch users have been missing out. With this week's update, the Switch …
Read More »The Super Mario Bros. Movie comes to streaming next month
By far the biggest film of the year so far has been The Super Mario Bros. Movie, making more than $1.3 Billion over the past 3 months. After such a successful run on the Silver Screen, The Super Mario Bros. Movie has now gotten its streaming premiere date. As reported …
Read More »Is upgrading your basic broadband router worth the money?
We put a premium WiFi 6E router up against the basic BT Smart Hub... is it worth the upgrade?
Read More »Keighley teases ‘three or four’ big announcements for Summer Game Fest
June is almost upon us, with many publishers planning to announce new games during shows throughout the month. Geoff Keighley's Summer Game Fest will be going live on the 8th of June, but Keighley is looking to set expectations early, revealing that the show will have around three or four …
Read More »SEGA announces Sonic Symphony world tour
Sonic the Hedgehog has had a tumultuous life. Following the past decade or so of mediocrity, the Blue Blur has had somewhat of a resurgence thanks to the likes of the Sonic films, the Netflix original Sonic Prime and of course, the success of the latest mainline video game entry: …
Read More »Assassin’s Creed Mirage reportedly targeting October release date
While Assassin's Creed Mirage was initially expected to release in early 2023, the game has been delayed. Now, according to an Ubisoft leaker with a pretty good track record of accuracy, Ubisoft has pushed Mirage back a bit further from the Summer months to Q4. According to YouTuber J0nathan, who …
Read More »MSI Modern MD272QP Ultramarine 27in Monitor Review
MSI is continuing to expand its professional monitor line-up, and latest to hit the KitGuru test bench is the Modern MD272QP Ultramarine. This is a screen with no pretensions of crossing over into gaming. While it does support AMD FreeSync, it is built around an IPS panel that will be …
Read More »Oxenfree II: Lost Signals launches this July
Oxenfree, the supernatural mystery horror adventure indie title saw a great deal of success following its launch back in 2016. The game’s sequel, originally planned for release back in 2021, was pushed to 2022 – with the title then seeing a further delay to 2023 in order to include additional …
Read More »VLC Media Player now supports Nvidia RTX Video Super Resolution
The famous open-source media player just got even better. Like Chromium-based browsers, VLC now supports Nvidia's RTX Video Super Resolution (VSR) technology for enhancing video playback. This AI-based upscaling technology powered by RTX hardware can be used with Chromium-based browsers like Chrome or Edge. That means you can enjoy higher-quality …
Read More »Multiple LEGO games reportedly cancelled after years of development
For nearly two decades now TT Games has made a name for itself thanks to the team’s work on the LEGO games franchise – having developed dozens over the years. Despite the success of their most recent title (LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga) a new report has revealed that …
Read More »Microsoft Edge now also supports Video Super Resolution
After Google introduced Video Super Resolution support to Chrome, it's time for Microsoft to do the same on the Edge browser. The Chromium-based browser can now increase image quality by removing artefacts and enhancing text sharpness on low-res videos, but only if you're using select AMD and Nvidia GPUs. If …
Read More »MSI RadiX AXE6600 Wireless Router Review
We put MSI's new WiFi 6E router though its paces in today's review
Read More »Assassin’s Creed Valhalla wins world’s first Grammy award for video game soundtrack
This year's Grammy show was special to the video games industry. It was the first to include the Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media award, which was given to the composer of Assassin's Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarök's original soundtrack. Various games have been nominated for a …
Read More »The Last of Us Part 1 sales jump almost 250% following HBO show premiere
Following the launch of Netflix’s The Witcher show, we saw the CDPR-developed RPG The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt balloon in sales, pushing the game’s impressive sales even further. We are now witnessing a similar phenomenon with HBO’s The Last of Us, as game sales have now increased by over 300%. …
Read More »Ubisoft’s upcoming release schedule pins all hope on Avatar and Assassin’s Creed
Recently, Ubisoft revealed that it has cancelled a number of unannounced games internally and the publisher is bracing for difficult times amid slowing sales and a lacking release schedule. While Ubisoft's 2022 was largely empty, the publisher does still have around 11 projects planned to release in the next financial year.
Read More »Samsung introduces four new ground-breaking monitors at CES 2023
Samsung kicked off its CES announcements this week with the introduction of four new ground-breaking monitors, including the new Odyssey Neo G9, packing a massive 57-inch curved Dual UHD Mini LED panel with a 240Hz refresh rate and HDR. Starting with the Odyssey Neo G9, this monitor packs a curved …
Read More »Cuphead The Delicious Last Course has sold 2 million copies
After years of waiting, eager fans were finally able to play Cuphead’s much-anticipated DLC. Having released back in June, the team at Studio MDHR have now revealed that The Delicious Last Course has already sold over 2 million copies. Making the announcement on Twitter, Studio MDHR said “Much to our …
Read More »Patch notes for The Witcher 3’s next-gen update have arrived
The Witcher 3's next-gen update will be rolling out later this week and just as promised, CD Projekt Red has now revealed the full patch notes. We already knew about some of the marquee features arriving with this update, including ray-traced graphics and new performance options for consoles. Now, we …
Read More »Cyberpunk 2077 sales surge leads to CD Projekt Red’s best Q3 ever
Ahead of its launch, Cyberpunk 2077 had millions of pre-orders and within two week's of the game's launch, around 13 million copies had been sold. Of course, that was before we all learned how bad the launch version was. This caused Cyberpunk 2077 sales to slow quite a bit in …
Read More »God of War Ragnarök director wants to make a Castlevania game
God of War: Ragnarök has launched and earned great critical and fan acclaim so far. With this project now out of the way, Sony Santa Monica can turn its attention to other games. Interestingly, Ragnarök's director is pretty clear about what he'd like to do next – a Castlevania game, …
Read More »CD Projekt Red will give us our first look at The Witcher 3’s next-gen update tomorrow
This month, CD Projekt Red finally gave us a date for The Witcher 3's long-awaited ‘next gen' update. The update not only includes enhanced graphics for PC and consoles, but also new in-game content. We've yet to see what the game looks like with this new update, but that will …
Read More »The Witcher 3’s ‘next gen’ update is finally arriving in December
While initially CD Projekt Red had planned to release next-gen updates for The Witcher 3 in 2021, it was later pushed to 2022. The enhanced version of The Witcher 3 was being developed by Saber Interactive, but CD Projekt Red took over development earlier this year, planning for a Q4 …
Read More »Dragon Age: Absolution is coming in December
Back in June, Netflix, EA and BioWare announced that a Dragon Age animated series will be coming to Netflix. Now, that series has a release date, and it is very close. Dragon Age: Absolution, an animated series based on BioWare's fan-favourite fantasy RPG series, will be released on Netflix on …
Read More »The Gears of War franchise has sold over 40 million copies
The Gears of War franchise has long been one of Microsoft’s biggest, with the Xbox console exclusive dominating the zeitgeist during the Xbox 360 era. To this day, the franchise remains strong, and in the wake of the announcement that a Gears of War Netflix film and animated series are …
Read More »Henry Cavill is leaving The Witcher, Liam Hemsworth to play Geralt
Henry Cavill impressed many fans with his performance as Geralt of Rivia in the first seasons of The Witcher. Unfortunately, with Cavill now returning to his role as Superman in the DC movies, he is stepping away from The Witcher, and a replacement has already been chosen. Since The Witcher's …
Read More »Phil Spencer reveals Xbox streaming device codenamed ‘Keystone’
Phil Spencer has done it again, revealing an upcoming piece of Xbox hardware sitting on his famous office shelf. This time around, we get a direct look at the company's upcoming streaming device, codenamed ‘Xbox Keystone'. Microsoft confirmed that it is working on a cheap, dedicated streaming box for TVs …
Read More »Tencent is reportedly looking to acquire more game studios, particularly in Europe
For years, Tencent has grown its portfolio of gaming investments. The company owns minority stakes in many publishers and studios across the industry, but it doesn't have as many majority stakes, or wholly owned studios. That could change soon, as sources claim Tencent is now planning to be more aggressive …
Read More »Oxenfree II: Lost Signals delayed to 2023 to add more language support
Oxenfree, the supernatural mystery horror adventure indie title saw a great deal of success following its launch back in 2016. The game’s sequel, originally planned for release back in 2021, was later delayed to some time this year. With just a few months left in 2022 however, Night School Studios …
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