Gaming

By Stephany Nunneley, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 20:02 GMT Fate of the Damned is the latest Sea of Thieves monthly update, and it’s available now and free for all players. In the Sea of Thieves update Fate of the Damned, skeletal Shadows of Fate are roaming the seas, and pirates must seek out Flames to fight

Ever since AMD bought ATI, gamers have asked if there was an intrinsic benefit to running an AMD GPU alongside an AMD CPU. Apart from some of the HSA features baked into previous-generation AMD APUs and a brief period of dual graphics support, the answer was always “No.” From 2011-2017, AMD simply wasn’t competitive enough

By Stephany Nunneley, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 19:40 GMT Sony has said it is seeing a “very considerable” demand for PS5 via pre-orders. Pre-orders for PS5 are through the roof apparently, according to Sony Interactive Entertainment boss Jim Ryan. According to Reuters, Sony pre-sold as many PS5 consoles in the first 12 hours in the

By Dom Peppiatt, Monday, 26 October 2020 20:31 GMT Treyarch and Activision have released the Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War launch trailer ahead of the game’s release on November 13. Coming to Xbox One, Xbox Series X, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and PC on November 13, the latest entry in the Call of Duty series has

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. I don’t know that anyone needed another reason to dislike Facebook’s decision to fuse Oculus accounts into its own Borg-like mass, but in case you didn’t have enough of them, here’s another: Delete your Facebook account and your games are

Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & The Blade of Light is coming to the West for the first time this December via a Nintendo Switch release. This week, Nintendo announced that a special localization of the original Fire Emblem game is set to arrive on the Nintendo Switch in December – some 30 years after its original

By Alex Calvin, Friday, 23 October 2020 17:03 GMT Those rumours about a new Sony-made Silent Hill might be a bit more on the money than previously thought. That’s according to Kinda Funny’s Imran Khan, who recently said on a podcast that those reports were “credible.” [embedded content] “If Sony’s also making a Silent Hill

By James Pickard, Friday, 23 October 2020 17:44 GMT Nintendo Switch Joy-Con controllers have been given a rare discount over at Amazon US, where you can pick up a pair for $69. Multiple colours are available including Red/Blue, Grey, Blue/Yellow and Pink/Green. Now, $10 off may not be the biggest price cut on the Switch

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Not long after the RTX 3080 and 3090 debuted, rumors surfaced of high VRAM variants that would supposedly appear in-market by December. The reasoning was obvious — AMD is expected to launch GPUs with more VRAM than Nvidia’s equivalents. This

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Microsoft has declared that beginning in 2021, you’ll have to create a Microsoft account in order to play the game. Up until now, players with a Mojang account created through Minecraft: Java Edition were tied to a different authentication system

By Alex Calvin, Thursday, 22 October 2020 17:07 GMT Electronic Arts is being sued in Canada over its use of loot boxes. The lawsuit first appeared in Business in Vancouver’s Who’s Getting Sued article – as spotted by The Patch Notes – which show that a class action lawsuit is being brought against the publishing

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Ever since the RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 launched, they’ve been nearly impossible to find. Sometimes, an OEM builder will have stock if you’re buying a new system, even if cards aren’t available in-channel, but that doesn’t seem to be

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Apple’s animosity toward cloud gaming services like xCloud and Stadia are well-known at this point, but one iOS developer Zach Knox thought he had a good solution. The free “Stadium” app runs a stripped-down browser on the iPhone and iPad

By Sherif Saed, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 16:31 GMT Halo will look and play great on the next generation of Xbox. Microsoft is looking to continue treating its premier franchise, Halo, well as we transition into the next generation of consoles. After porting The Master Chief Collection to PC, the company is now promising big

Red Dead Online’s latest occupation casts you as a budding Naturalist, carefully studying the natural history of the Old West, conserving its diverse biology, before inevitably shooting as many Legendary Animals as you can find because this is still a video game. Don’t worry though, they’re just going to sleep. And with Halloween on the

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Earlier this month, Sony posted an extensive teardown of the PlayStation 5. Now, the engineer featured in that video has given an exclusive interview to Japanese website 4Gamer, in which he shared some additional details on how the console functions

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. When Microsoft launched the new version of Flight Simulator, it made a great deal of noise about its extensive use of photogrammetry throughout the game. Photogrammetry, if you haven’t heard the word before, is the process of gathering reliable data

By Dom Peppiatt, Monday, 19 October 2020 20:26 GMT The PlayStation 5 is only about a month away, and as we approach the end of the current console generation, Sony looks back at the most defining games of the PlayStation 4. A fantastic sizzle reel put together by PlayStation Access cycles through some of the

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Yesterday marked the 35th birthday of the Nintendo Entertainment System’s launch in North America. On October 18, 1985, the NES went on sale in limited markets across America (a broad launch would follow in September 1986). To say that initial

By Dom Peppiatt, Sunday, 18 October 2020 15:38 GMT Ubisoft has revealed more information about the Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5 versions of Watch Dogs Legion in a Reddit AMA. Ubisoft live producer Lathieeshe Thillainathan took to the social media site to answer players’ questions about the upcoming title, and revealed how the title

By Stephany Nunneley, Saturday, 17 October 2020 17:32 GMT A new Fall Guys update is available alongside a new playlist. The new Fall Guys update had added a new playlist called Slime Survivors and provides a few tweaks to Season 2 items such as nameplates. According to Mediatonic, the new Slime Survivors playlist isn’t just

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Back in August, Facebook announced it would begin requiring a Facebook account to use future Oculus devices. This was received with all the love Facebook’s abysmal data practices and willful disregard for the negative impact of its own policies deserves.

MachineGames is rather excited over really fast storage in the upcoming consoles. While folks have always been able to buy fast storage for PC, having super-fast SSDs in the upcoming consoles is key to the player experience, according to Wolfenstein developer MachineGames. Speaking in an interview on the Bethesda website, chief technology officer Jim Kjellin

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Microsoft has given some reviewers the green light to publish extensive previews of the Xbox Series X. A few weeks ago, we got reports based specifically on backward compatibility. Now, the company has authorized other disclosures regarding the system. The

There’s a rumor going around claiming that an AMD APU called the A9-9820 is capable of offering Xbox One S-class performance. This is potentially interesting to folks because the nameless motherboard with this piece of silicon attached is selling for just $125 — significantly less than the supposedly-equivalent Xbox One S. As a curiosity, the

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Typically, when someone presents a demonstration of “Doom running on X,” it’s a way to demonstrate how powerful low-end computing has become. The reason we use Doom for this purpose, I suspect, is because Doom is more-or-less the father of

By Stephany Nunneley, Thursday, 15 October 2020 18:02 GMT Style is everything in Cyberpunk 2077. You don’t want to run around in Night City looking basic, and Cyberpunk 2077 provides options to sport your own brand of style. In the game there are four styles to choose from: Kitsch, Entropism, Neomilitarism, and Neokitsch. Each style has

By Stephany Nunneley, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 20:07 GMT Learn everything you need to know about Assassin’s Creed Valhalla in this deep dive trailer. In the Assassin’s Creed Valhalla video, it shows how to grow your settlement, customize your Viking, and journey to new lands as you “expand your clan’s influence” throughout England. The game

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Today’s most popular games are fast-paced shooters like Fortnite and immersive RPGs like Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, but there’s still a place for some good old-fashioned turn-based strategy with Civilization VI. This game remains in active development after four

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The idea of using a fridge as some kind of combined viewing/food storage apparatus isn’t a new one. The first display-equipped fridge was the LG Digital DIOS, which shipped in June 2000. Twenty years later, we can do a hell