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We recently reported that EA will be publishing an Iron Man video game developed by Motive Studio. This is not the only Marvel project coming from EA however, with the publisher confirming it has multiple games in the works. As part of the Iron Man announcement press release, EA teased …

God of War Ragnarök is one of the most anticipated games still to release in 2022. Ahead of the game’s launch on the 9th of November, the file size for God of War Ragnarok has been revealed – and it’s a big step up from the last game. As reported …

Ever since its initial launch back in 2020, the team at Asobo Studio have continually improved all aspects of Microsoft’s Flight Simulator, with various tech and content updates making for a much more complete and bespoke experience. Content update 10 may be the biggest one yet, adding DLSS, DX12 improvements …

A Netflix Original Sonic the Hedgehog TV show was announced back in early 2021, with little seen from the show since. Finally, ahead of the series’ debut later this year in December, a teaser trailer has been released, giving us our best look at the show yet. Alongside the caption …

Xbox systems have suffered from some DRM-related issues in the past, with the company’s consoles requiring an online connection in many instances in order to play even single player titles. Fortunately, a new update to the Xbox family of devices has made the system’s DRM much less intrusive. As discovered …

It seems the Arc A770 graphics cards will soon arrive at retailers. Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger recently shared on social media a photo of him receiving an Arc A770, where he also stated that the first batch of the company's flagship graphics card is now ready for retail. It may …

Back in February, PlatinumGames publicly stated that it wants to revive Scalebound and work with Microsoft once again. Microsoft had not responded to this at the time, but now in a Japanese interview, Xbox lead, Phil Spencer, has finally commented on the situation.  The cancellation of Scalebound was a huge …

This week, Deathloop finally launched on Xbox after a full year of PS5 exclusivity. The end to the Sony deal also meant that Deathloop could come to Xbox Game Pass. Microsoft isn't leaving PlayStation players behind though, as Deathloop will also be available to subscribers of Sony's PS+ Extra and …

Take-Two is having a rough week. One bad actor already managed to worm their way into Rockstar's network, leading to a massive GTA 6 leak. Now, one of Take-Two's other subsidiaries, 2K Games, is having security problems of its own. Someone managed to gain access to the company's help desk …

Back in April, we began hearing that Twitch is planning a big shakeup to its partner program, which would see revenue splits decrease for streamers and introduce other changes to incentivise broadcasters to run more ad breaks. Now, Twitch has confirmed much of this, with plans to swap out the …

Blizzard has been making good progress with Diablo 4 this year. Not only did we finally get a gameplay trailer back at E3, but the development team has also been posting monthly updates on the game's progress. In the latest update, Blizzard set out plans for Diablo 4's beta.  We've …

As usual, AMD will be hosting a keynote at CES 2023 to share upcoming products. At the moment, it's unclear what the company will be showcasing, but it should be something big, considering Dr Lisa Su herself will be hosting it. For those interested in checking it out, the keynote …

Last night, Nvidia officially announced the first RTX 40 series GPUs - the RTX 4090 and a 16GB and 12GB version of the RTX 4080. Like most GPU launches, these announcements are accompanied by a range of custom-cooled cards being announced by board partners. Here, we round-up the custom cards announced so far. 

Last night alongside the new RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 graphics cards, Nvidia also announced DLSS 3, the next big evolution of its AI-driven, performance-enhancing technology. Continuing on from the success of DLSS 2.0, it seems that DLSS 3 already has quite a bit of industry support, with over 35 …

Recently, Bungie has been handing out lawsuits against cheat sellers and cheat creators, looking to stamp out cheating in Destiny 2. For the most part, Bungie is winning these cases, but it ran into a wall earlier this year when a lawsuit against AimJunkies was dismissed by a judge. Now, …

In recent weeks, we have heard that EA is working on multiple Marvel projects – one focused on Black Panther, and another focused on Iron Man. In an announcement this week, EA confirmed that it is indeed working with Marvel, and the first game will be Iron Man.  Back in …

Today's Nvidia stream didn't just deliver the announcements for RTX 4090 and RTX 4080. We also saw a number of other announcements for Nvidia Omniverse, a software stack featuring AI and ray-tracing tools that can be used to generate new content. Nvidia used these tools to create the newly announced …

Announced earlier today at GTC 2022, the RTX 40-series is official, with Nvidia confirming the RTX 4090 as well as two versions of the RTX 4080, with slightly differing specs. Interestingly, it appears the RTX 4080 12GB will only be available through Nvidia's board partners (AIBs) and will not be …

Today, Nvidia officially announced its first next-gen GeForce graphics cards using the new Ada Lovelace architecture. So far, we're getting an RTX 4090, and two versions of the RTX 4080 with differing amounts of memory. Due to the current situation with Nvidia's RTX 30 series GPUs, older-gen graphics cards will …

Earlier this year we reported that Sony’s revitalised PlayStation Plus service – namely the Premium tier – ran into some issues when the service’s PS1 titles did not adhere to the correct region settings for players, making for a less-than-stellar experience. After announcing that they would fix the issue, we …

Nvidia's in-house Lightspeed Studios has worked with several game developers in recent years to bring RTX features to various titles. During that time, this team has also created its own fully ray-traced remasters of games like Quake II and Minecraft. Today, alongside the RTX 40 launch, Nvidia announced Portal RTX.  …

Today during a GeForce Special Event stream, Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang, officially announced the RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 graphics cards. Powered by the new Ada Lovelace architecture, featuring 3rd Gen RT Cores, 4th Gen Tensor Cores, and plenty of new optimisations to enable next-generation performance. 

If you have an MSI motherboard and you're having issues with undervolting and overvolting your Intel CPU, it could be due to a recent Windows 11 update, which appears to have mistakenly blocked these features.  According to this post on MSIGaming subreddit (via Tom's Hardware), since a relatively recent Windows …

The past few weeks has seen Microsoft’s desired acquisition of Activision Blizzard come into scrutiny, with Call of Duty being placed at the centre of it. In the wake of this, EA’s CEO Andrew Wilson has commented on the matter, claiming that Battlefield will take this opportunity to try and …

Today, AMD unveiled its new Ryzen 7020 Series and Athlon 7020 Series Processor line-up. Built on the Zen 2 core architecture and featuring AMD RDNA 2 graphics, the new processors are geared towards mainstream laptops to handle every day tasks and productivity applications.  According to a recent survey from Wakefield …

If you're a fan of Naruto, you might be interested in this. HyperX has just announced the release of limited edition Naruto: Shippuden gaming peripherals, including a mouse, a mousepad, a mechanical keyboard and a headset. One set is themed after Naruto himself, while another set is themed after Itachi …

Just hours ahead of Nvidia's planned RTX 40 GPU reveal, AMD has announced its plans for RDNA 3. We've known for sometime now that AMD's next-gen GPUs would debut in 2022, but we didn't know exactly when. That changed today with the announcement of a November launch event.  AMD's Senior …

After a slow start to the month, Microsoft has now revealed the next batch of titles for Xbox Game Pass, which will fill out the final two weeks of September. This time around, Microsoft is packing a lot more punch, with Deathloop finally debuting on Xbox, and Obsidian's excellent survival …

Earlier this year, we reported that PlayStation exclusive Sackboy: A Big Adventure looked to be coming to PC thanks to an update on SteamDB which seemed to suggest that the platformer would be leaving the closed walls of the PlayStation ecosystem. Though we have yet to get an official announcement …

MSI has started teasing the release of a new series of motherboards. The announcement itself doesn't specify which motherboards MSI is talking about, but a close look at the image shared by the company suggests Intel Z790. Over the weekend, in a now deleted tweet, MSI announced its own live …