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Gamescom Opening Night Live opened up with a complete new trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7. The full campaign trailer takes us on a global journey, showcasing levels set in Tokyo, Alaska, Los Angeles, Avalon and other major locations. 

Gigabyte is kicking off a price war in the OLED monitor space with the launch of its new MO27Q28G. This new 27-inch gaming monitor uses the same panel as LG's own UltraGear 27GX700A. However, Gigabyte is bringing it to market at a dramatically lower price point, aiming to make next-gen …

The second wave of Game Pass titles for the month have now been revealed. August is shaping up to be a pretty big month, as not only will Gears of War Reloaded be launching to the service, but BioWare's most recent RPG, Dragon Age: The Veilguard is also joining the …

Lexar has today announced a new variant of its EQ790 M.2 NVMe SSD, now featuring a pre-installed passive heatsink. This new model is aimed squarely at PC and PlayStation 5 gamers looking for a simple, out-of-the-box storage solution with solid performance and built-in cooling. The new heatsink-equipped EQ790 (via TechPowerUP) …

Mark your calendars for November 11th. AMD has officially announced that it will be holding its next Financial Analyst Day, the company's first major strategy and product roadmap event in quite some time. For tech enthusiasts, these events are a treasure trove of information, often providing the first official glimpse …

In the wake of a period of record layoffs, a new survey has revealed that the vast majority of videogame developers are turning to AI to streamline their operations. The poll shows that a massive 87% of developers are now implementing AI agents, as the industry grapples with ballooning development …

Ahead of Battlefield 6’s full launch, EA has released one final major update for Battlefield 2042 – including a free battle pass.

The prices of RTX 50 series graphics cards have slowly been coming down across Europe. This week, the most recent price cuts came into effect on the Nvidia website, showing significant cuts for the RTX 5090, 5080 and 5070. 

Gamescom officially kicks off tonight with the Opening Night Live stream. Alongside this, MSI is running a Gaming Week sale, slashing prices across a range of hardware and bundles until the 26th of August. 

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 …