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The day-one PlayStation Plus launch title ‘Sword of the Sea’ is officially Giant Squid’s highest rated game yet with a Metacritic score of 88.

Ahead of Gamescom Opening Night Live, Nintendo has announced a dedicated Kirby Air Riders Direct – set to premiere at 2pm today.

Following in Valve’s footsteps, Microsoft has unveiled its new ‘ROG Xbox Ally Certified’ verification system - starting with Gears of War Reloaded.

Asus ROG is expanding its presence in the display market with the announcement of a trio of new OLED gaming monitors. The lineup is spearheaded by the ROG Swift OLED PG27AQWP-W, the world's fastest OLED monitor, featuring the new Tandem OLED panel technology for improved brightness and longevity. The star …

Nvidia is kicking off Gamescom week with a band. Today, Nvidia announced a bunch of GeForce-related updates. Here, we break down all of the upgrades coming to the GeForce Now cloud gaming platform, with Ultimate tier subscribers soon to see an upgrade from RTX 4080-powered servers to RTX 5080.

Nvidia had a ton of GeForce-related announcements in store for Gamescom 2025. We've covered all of the major upgrades coming to the GeForce Now cloud gaming platform, but Nvidia also has announcements for new games supporting RTX features like DLSS, and the debut of an entirely new feature – RTX …

For the entire RTX 40-series generation, we've heard about the mythical, fully-enabled AD102 graphics card that never saw the light of day. Now, the “RTX Titan Ada” is no longer just a rumour. Renowned German overclocker Roman ‘Der8auer' Hartung has managed to acquire a prototype of this beastly GPU, giving …

The refresh rate race has just hit a new, frankly absurd, milestone. HKC has officially launched the Ant esports ANT257PF, the world's first 750Hz gaming monitor to hit the market. This new display is aimed squarely at the top of competitive esports, where pro players demand every possible frame. As …

Despite being a massive Kickstarter success, the return of Shenmue wasn't the grand event many backers had hoped for. Shenmue 3 ultimately ended up disappointing both older fans of the original games, and newcomers. Now, creator Yu Suzuki is hoping for a do-over with Shenmue 3 Enhanced Edition.  This week, …

Gamescom Opening Night Live is just 24 hours away. The stream, hosted each year by Geoff Keighley, will bring along a string of new game announcements, as well as updates for previously announced games, including the likes of WoW, COD, Resident Evil and more.  In a teaser posted this afternoon, …

Over the summer, Microsoft announced plans to raise the prices of all its new games to $80 at launch. This decision quickly garnered criticism, in large part due to The Outer Worlds 2 being used as the poster child for this change. Obsidian is famously known for being a lean …

The top 20 best-selling games throughout Europe have now been revealed. Despite much negativity surrounding Ubisoft, Assassin's Creed Shadows still managed to beat out every other major release so far this year. The Game Business has published its list of the top 20 best-selling games of the year, focused exclusively …

Valve claims that with its latest Steam Client Beta update, its in-game overlay provides more accurate GPU utilisation figures than the Windows Task Manager itself. However, in a swift turn of events that suggests the feature wasn't quite ready for prime time, the company has since rolled back the change, …

According to an ex-Ubisoft developer, the publisher was working on a new Rayman game back in 2021 – though the project was ultimately cancelled.

EA appears to want to follow in Call of Duty’s footsteps, with a new Battlefield game releasing every single year - à la Call of Duty.

Sony is set to follow-up its gaming-focused INZONE headset with the new H9 II – reportedly being officially announced in the coming days.

Call of Duty Black Ops 7 is taking in an interesting direction for its story, with the campaign mode set to be integrated into the game's meta-progression.

Pulsar Gaming Gears has officially launched its new flagship esports keyboard, the eS HE 70 ANSI. This new peripheral has been designed from the ground up with the professional tournament player in mind, featuring high-performance magnetic switches and the ability to configure every setting directly on the keyboard without needing …

We're days away from Gamescom and there have been a number of leaks in the lead up. The most recent leaks have come via back-end store updates, which show that Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is bound for PC and consoles in November, but Nintendo console owners will have …

While Path of Exile 2 had a huge launch in December 2024, news around the game has been pretty quiet since. That is finally changing this week with confirmation of the next major version update, bringing the game up to version 0.3.0 with a bunch of new content.  While the …

Intel has just rolled out a new feature in its latest graphics driver (32.0.101.6989) for Core Ultra systems, giving users direct control over how much system memory their integrated Arc GPU can use. The new “Shared GPU Memory Override” feature allows you to increase the iGPU's VRAM pool, which could …

Just when we thought the Zen 3 V-Cache story was over, a new and unexpected chip has surfaced. The first benchmarks for the AMD Ryzen 5 5500X3D have been spotted, confirming the existence of a new budget-friendly gaming CPU for the AM4 platform. The specifications for this CPU have been …

 Razer has expanded the BlackWidow V4 lineup with two new models that embrace a slimmer, more streamlined design. The new BlackWidow V4 Low-profile HyperSpeed and its Tenkeyless variant are the first to feature Razer's brand-new low-profile mechanical switches, as well as other high-performance features. Taking centre stage are Razer's new …

Corsair has launched the Nautilus RS LCD line of AIO coolers, a new model that brings a customisable screen to the proven RS liquid coolers. Better yet, those with an existing RS CPU cooler can upgrade with an additional LCD upgrade kit. As you might've guessed, the key feature of …

Fans eagerly awaiting the spiritual successor to the beloved rhythm-strategy series Patapon will have to wait just a little bit longer. The development team behind Ratatan has announced that the game's Steam Early Access release has been pushed back to ensure a more polished launch experience. The new release date …

Blizzard has already revealed the World of Warcraft team's massive plans for Gamescom next week, but it looks like the Diablo team will have some announcements to make as well. In preparation for the event next week, someone at Blizzard accidentally revealed the next class for Diablo 4.  As spotted …

Following its extremely successful launch last year, Fallout Season 2 is already gearing up for release – officially arriving this December.

While Titanfall 3 is nowhere to be seen, Respawn has announced that wall-running is coming to Apex Legends via a limited time mode.

Valve is bringing further improvements to Steam, with each game’s store pages and descriptions seeing a welcome visual refresh.

The ‘Point Blank’ Humble Bundle offers a variety of unique first-person shooters, including High on Life; Postal: Brain Damage; SUPERHOT and more.