We're all well aware of Apple's usual iOS App Store revenue cut, which has been the centre of plenty of legal complaints in recent years. This week, Apple is reassessing its position, halving its revenue cut for smaller app developers. Starting on January 1st 2021, Apple is introducing the App …
Read More »Nintendo faces another lawsuit over Joy-Con drift
Nintendo has faced plenty of lawsuits regarding issues with the Switch Joy-Con controllers. This week, another one was added to the pile, this time claiming that Nintendo is knowingly selling a “defective” device. Polygon shared the legal filing this week, which says: “This defect significantly interferes with gameplay and this …
Read More »Managing Director of Skull and Bones studio is no longer at Ubisoft
Skull and Bones has been in development for a long time now and has often been the subject of delays. This week, the development team is seemingly getting a shake-up, as it has been reported that the studio head overseeing the project has been fired. An internal email sent to …
Read More »PlayStation has taken over the London Underground to celebrate the PS5’s launch
Over the years, we have seen publishers and console manufacturers utilise interesting and unique marketing tactics to advertise their latest and greatest products. Though PlayStation fans in the UK (and much of the world) have had to wait an extra week for the PlayStation 5, Sony appears to still understand …
Read More »ASRock announces its custom Radeon RX 6800 series graphics cards
ASRock has announced its custom-cooled Radeon RX 6800 series graphics cards. The four cards announced by ASRock are the flagship Radeon RX 6800 XT Taichi X 16G OC, the mid-range Radeon RX 6800 XT and Radeon RX 6800 Phantom Gaming D 16G OC, and the entry-level Radeon RX 6800 Challenger …
Read More »Black Friday kicks off early at Cyberpower
Black Friday is coming up fast but many companies in the tech world are pushing their deals out there early. If you are looking to pick up a new pre-built PC or gaming laptop, then you may want to check out Cyberpower's early Black Friday deals. If you're looking for …
Read More »God of War [Ragnarok] may come to PlayStation 4
Though Sony originally positioned many of its PlayStation 5 titles as being PS5 exclusive, the console manufacturer later revealed that a significant number of them would in fact be cross-generational. It appears that one more game thought to be PS5 exclusive may in fact come to the PS4, as PlayStation’s …
Read More »Epic Games brings its Apple lawsuit to Australia
The news cycle this year has been partially dominated by Epic Games' ongoing legal battle with Apple. The case is set to go to trial next year in the US, but Epic Games is looking to bring the fight to Apple in other parts of the world too, starting with …
Read More »Assassin’s Creed Valhalla has biggest launch week in franchise’s history
Many were taken by surprise when it was recently reported that Assassin’s Creed Valhalla managed to outperform Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War during its launch week. Though this data came from third-party sources, we now know exactly how successful Ubisoft’s latest entry in the Assassin’s Creed franchise has …
Read More »PlayStation CEO calls £70 a fair price for PS5 games
One of the biggest changes arriving with the PlayStation 5 is the increase in the standard price for some games from $60 to $70. This has created an even bigger jump in some markets such as the UK, which has seen the price of games such as Demon’s Souls go for £70 (~$92). In a recent interview, PlayStation’s CEO called this price ‘fair’ relative to “hours of entertainment provided.”
Read More »EKWB launches the EK-AIO Elite 360 D-RGB watercooler featuring a push-pull configuration
EKWB is adding a new product to its AIO watercooler portfolio. Following the success of EK's first AIOs, the company decided to take things up a notch by launching the EK-AIO Elite 360 D-RGB featuring six Vardar fans, mounting them in a push-pull configuration, and a new pump casing design …
Read More »Intel claims 32-core Ice Lake-SP Xeon will outperform 64-core EPYC CPU
Intel has confirmed that the Ice Lake-SP 3rd Gen Xeon processors will go into mass-production in Q1 2021. Additionally, Intel has shared a few more details about the upcoming server processors, while also claiming that they are faster than the 64-core EPYC Rome processors at certain workloads. The Intel Ice Lake-SP …
Read More »Google promises ‘largest performance gain’ in years with next Chrome update
Google has pushed out plenty of performance updates for Google Chrome over the years, with many of them focusing on ways to reduce RAM usage. The best is yet to come, however, as Google has said its next Chrome update will deliver ‘the largest performance gain in years'. Chrome project …
Read More »Blizzard updates WoW to run on ARM-based Macs
In a surprise announcement, Blizzard today has announced that World of Warcraft now runs natively on Apple Silicon. The announcement comes just in time for the launch of Apple's latest MacBooks, all powered by the Apple M1 SoC. This is very notable, as it means WoW can run on ARM64 …
Read More »CD Projekt Red shows Cyberpunk 2077 running on Xbox One X and Xbox Series X
CD Projekt Red has already announced one new Night City Wire episode for later this week, but it looks like the studio had a bit more up its sleeve. This evening in a surprise stream, CD Projekt Red aired a Night City Wire Special, showing new gameplay footage captured from …
Read More »BioWare’s next Mass Effect game teased in new images
Back on N7 Day, BioWare officially announced Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, a remaster of the original trilogy. During the festivities, BioWare also teased the next Mass Effect game with one piece of artwork. Now this week, we have a few more images to tease what's coming. The three teaser images …
Read More »NVIDIA’s official GeForce RTX 3060 Ti performance charts have apparently leaked
Even if Nvidia hasn't officially announced the RTX 3060Ti, leaks about this graphics card have been emerging nonstop. The latest one is the official performance charts, showing the RTX 3060Ti performing slightly above the RTX 2080 Super and up to 80% faster than the RTX 2060 Super. The slide shared …
Read More »Another batch of games are rolling out Nvidia DLSS support this month
As the year comes to a close, there aren't many more games left on the release calendar. A good chunk of the ones left though will ship or be gaining RTX features. As we already know, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War has already shipped with RTX features, including …
Read More »Capcom hopes to offer more diverse representation in its future games
Capcom recently suffered from a massive data breach, which saw over 1TB of private data leaked. While this is undeniably unfortunate for Capcom, one of the documents acquired offers positive news for the industry’s future, detailing how the publisher hopes to offer a more diverse representation of characters in its …
Read More »Bethesda games will be “either first or better” on Xbox systems, claims Microsoft
Since it was first announced that Microsoft had purchased ZeniMax Media for $7.5 Billion, fans of Bethesda and its titles have been curious as to whether the console manufacturer intends to limit the publisher’s titles to Xbox platforms in the future. The company’s CFO has offered a hopeful statement on …
Read More »AMD isn’t planning to bring Smart Access Memory to older hardware
Following the announcement that Nvidia is developing a Smart Access Memory alternative, AMD has released a statement sharing new information about its technology. According to the company, Smart Access Memory won't be supported on older hardware, but AMD is welcoming other hardware vendors to use it.
Read More »Halo Infinite will offer a “high level update within the next few weeks”
Ever since its delay was announced, fans of Microsoft’s Halo series have been eagerly anticipating news on when the next-generation Halo Infinite will be announced, and what changes – if any – have been made since the disappointing demo from a couple months back. According to the game’s developers, fans …
Read More »Fall Guys officially sells 10 million copies on PC
When Fall Guys first launched in August, the Takeshi’s Castle styled Battle Royale game saw immediate success, selling over 7 million copies in less than one month. Though talk surrounding the game has subsided substantially since, the game has continued to see support both from the developers and players, with …
Read More »AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT AoTS benchmark results have surfaced
We are very close to the end of the RX 6000 embargo period. Ahead of reviews, Ashes of The Singularity benchmark results for the Radeon RX 6800XT graphics card have been added to the database. The Radeon RX 6800XT was tested on both the Crazy_1080p and Crazy_4K presets. The system …
Read More »Microsoft expects Xbox Series X/S stock shortages to continue in early 2021
The Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S are officially out in the wild but actually getting hold of one at retail is going to be a tricky task for a while. Currently, Microsoft estimates stock shortages well into 2021. Speaking at the Jefferies Interactive Entertainment conference, Xbox CFO, Tim …
Read More »Capcom confirms huge data breach
Earlier this month, Capcom revealed that it was the victim of a cyberattack. In an update this week, the publisher elaborated on the severity of the issue, which has seen personal information leaked. Initially, the group behind the attack claimed to have stolen 1TB of data from Capcom's network, including …
Read More »Apple’s macOS Big Sur update is ‘bricking’ some older MacBook Pros
Apple officially began rolling out macOS 11.0, otherwise known as Big Sur, just last week but unfortunately, a chunk of MacBook owners are having issues. According to recent complaints, the update is causing a black screen bug on some older MacBook Pro models. The Big Sur update was announced during …
Read More »AMD Instinct MI100 launches as the ‘world’s fastest HPC accelerator’
While AMD's new Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards are likely to steal most of the headlines this week, AMD is also quietly disrupting the professional GPU market. Today, AMD officially announced the Instinct MI100, the “world's fastest HPC accelerator”. AMD claims that the Instinct MI100 accelerator is the world's …
Read More »Developers apologise for buggy XIII remake launch
Earlier this month, a remake of cult-classic shooter XIII launched. The game was mostly known for its comic-book art style but unfortunately, the remake went in another direction. Beyond that, the game has arrived in an unpolished state with lots of bugs, forcing the developers and publisher to apologise to …
Read More »Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is the second-best selling game of the past 12 months
When Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order first launched, many fans celebrated the title for being an action adventure title with a focus on fun gameplay and a single player story. It is no surprise therefore that the game sold well. What may come as a surprise however is the fact …
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