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There are several big games coming to PC in May, including the likes of Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition, Resident Evil Village and the Mass Effect Legendary Edition remastered trilogy. Nvidia is getting GeForce GPU users prepared ahead of time, with a new driver release today.  The GeForce driver version 466.27 …

When the soulsborne genre was first introduced in 2009 with Demon’s Souls, it was nothing more than a niche interpretation of the action-RPG genre. Since then, not only has the gameplay stylings expanded outwards into its own genre, but souls-like games are competing on a commercial front too. Such is …

Back in 2019, EA finally broke its Star Wars curse with the release of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, an excellent single-player adventure set between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope. Now later this year, the game will be upgraded to take advantage of Xbox Series X/S and …

Each month, Sony offers a number of titles for free to all of those who are subscribed to its PlayStation Plus service. For the Month of May, subscribers can get their hands on Battlefield V, the next-gen version of Wreckfest and more. Beginning on the 4th of May, PS Plus …

Earlier this week, we heard that Microsoft was due to make some announcements about its PC gaming store. Now, we know what changes are coming, as Microsoft is reducing its revenue cut for PC games sold through its store from 30 percent to 12 percent.  This is the same strategy …

Earlier this month, Nvidia announced plans to bring 34 more games to GeForce Now throughout April. We're now down to the last week of the month, with the remaining seven titles joining the GFN library today.  This is a quieter week for GeForce Now, with seven games joining the service versus …

With the Epic Games V Apple trial set to get underway in just a matter of days, court documents are starting to reveal some interesting facts about both companies. One court document reveals that Epic Games is keeping Fortnite off of Microsoft's xCloud streaming service, as Epic views it as …

Samsung Unpacked just took place this week and this time around, Samsung introduced a new gaming laptop – the Galaxy Book Odyssey. While we have seen listings and rumours about laptops equipped with an RTX 3050 Ti GPU, the Galaxy Book Odyssey is the first one to be officially announced.  …

Nvidia AIB partners have reportedly been informed about the GAxx2 GPUs with new anti-mining capabilities and Resizable BAR support enabled by default. Named LHR (Lite Hash Rate), the revised RTX 30 GPUs should start shipping in the middle of May. We've already shared that Nvidia was planning to introduce crypto …

The current GPU shortage has been quite troublesome – it's really hard to buy a GPU nowadays, especially if you're trying to buy it at MSRP. However, AMD wants to change that in the coming months.  According to AMD's Q1 2021 earnings call transcript, AMD CEO, Lisa Su, stated that …

Sapphire is back with an even faster Radeon RX 6900 XT. The new Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6900 XT Special Edition is launching today, with faster out-of-box overclocks, pushing the GPU up to 2365MHz.

Back in February, 4A Games announced that it would be releasing an Enhanced Edition of Metro Exodus, complete with a ton of graphical upgrades. Now, just a couple of months later, we have our first look at the new version in action, as well as a release date.  Metro Exodus …

We're still some ways off from seeing AMD launch its Zen 5 architecture, but nonetheless, the rumour mill is churning out some early information. Apparently, AMD's Zen 5 APUs, codenamed ‘Strix Point', will be based on 3nm process technology and feature the emerging hybrid core architecture.  According to MoePC (via …

This year's Call of Duty game could be in some trouble. According to a notable leaker, the game has been encountering development issues for sometime now and as a result, Activision has reportedly lowered its expectations for the release and already has a ‘recovery roadmap' planned months ahead of time. …

The Last of Us is one of the PlayStation’s most prestigious first-party franchises, with both entries garnering near universal critical acclaim (despite Part II seeing more controversy from fans), and selling millions of copies. Therefore, it may come as little surprise that the team at Naughty Dog already have a …

With COVID-19 vaccinations now rolling out in many countries across the world, in-person events are in a better position to finally return in 2022. In the tech world, we'll be kicking this off with the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which returns to its usual format next year.  Today, the Consumer …

Asus is on a monitor announcement spree. Following the Strix XG43UQ and the XG27AQM, the company has now announced the Strix XG349C, featuring a curved panel with a 180Hz refresh rate and a UWQHD resolution. The Asus ROG Strix XG349C features a Nano IPS panel with a 1900R curvature, a …

NetherRealm Studios, known best for the Mortal Kombat series, has developed a reputation for making visually stunning and high production fighting games. Aside from Mortal Kombat, the studio worked on the DC universe’s Injustice series. It would appear as though NetherRealm may be tackling the other half of the comic …

At this point in time, CD Projekt Red has picked up work on upcoming, new content for Cyberpunk 2077 but there is still a team working to squash lingering bugs and improve performance. The latest patch does just that, with some more open world and quest fixes, as well as …

Alongside the upcoming Resident Evil Village, Capcom announced that the latest entry in the long-running survival horror franchise would be accompanied by a standalone multiplayer experience titled Resident Evil RE: Verse. Following a couple betas however, it seems as though the publisher may have decided to delay RE: Verse. Fans …

We might be just three weeks away from seeing the RTX 3080 Ti announced. The upcoming graphics card has been rumoured for a long time now and has reportedly been hit with multiple delays. However, sources now reckon we'll finally see the GPU in action next month.  The rumour first …

With Microsoft’s renewed brand focus for Xbox revolving around making games as accessible to players as possible, the console manufacturer has been putting more effort into the PC market than ever before. According to industry insider Jeff Grubb, Xbox is set to provide an update on its commitments to the …

Back when Microsoft first introduced Windows 10, it had a lofty goal of reaching 1 billion active users within its first three years. That milestone ended up taking five years to reach, with Windows 10 being found on 1 billion active devices by March 2020. Now a year later, Microsoft …

Microsoft revealed its quarterly earnings results last night, giving us a good idea as to how well Xbox is doing right now to start off the new console generation. Microsoft unfortunately doesn't reveal specific sales numbers, but everything appears to be on the up, with the gaming division generating $15 …

Sony just released its quarterly earnings report, giving us a look at how well PlayStation has sold during its first full quarter on the market. At this point, Sony has sold 7.8 million PlayStation 5 consoles, boosting gaming revenues to new heights.  By the end of 2020, Sony had sold …

Razer is back with another gaming mouse this week. This time around, the Razer Orochi is getting a tune up with the Orochi V2, a compact and ultra lightweight wireless gaming mouse capable of up to 900 hours of use on a single charge. The Razer Orochi V2 is equipped …

NFTs have become the latest controversial blockchain technology, allowing people to (in theory) sell digital art in a similar way to that of a physical piece of media – offering an authenticated sense of ownership over a particular piece. The practice has been steep in controversy due to a number …

An unknown AMD processor has appeared online, known as the ‘4700S'. The specifications of this processor don't line up with any of AMD's announced CPUs or APUs, but based on some of the details, this could be a reused Xbox Series X|S APU with the graphics cores disabled.  As per …

The chip shortage is really causing quite the stir in the electronics industry. Besides GPUs and cars, display panels are also severely affected by the ongoing chip shortage and could end up halting their production. According to Samsung, while this year's supply is under control, 2022 could see a turn …

Last week, when AMD released the Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.4.1, the patch notes included a slew of upgrades, features, and optimisations, but as it turns out, there was another sneaky improvement that we weren't told about. Reportedly, the new driver also improves GPU power consumption, reducing it by as much …