Over the years, a number of high profile video games have been set to get film adaptations, only for the projects to be stuck in development hell and never move forward. Mass Effect is no exception, and at long last, we've finally learned why the Mass Effect movie never got …

Team Fortress 2 has just hit a new all-time high player record on Steam. Valve's classic 2007 shooter has remained popular over the years, but the player base has dwindled due to various issues, the most significant being bot players. Valve finally tackled this problem and as a result, over …

Back when EA Motive was first founded, EA hired former Ubisoft executive, Jade Raymond, to lead the studio. Now, the studio is gaining another prominent former Ubisoft employee, with the director behind Assassin's Creed Valhalla joining the studio.  As spotted by Axios, Assassin's Creed Director, Eric Baptizat, is leaving Ubisoft …

Earlier this month, Cyberpunk 2077 was finally welcomed back onto the PlayStation Store and Microsoft's extended refund policy for the game will soon be lifted. Now, CD Projekt Red has discussed the state of the game, which the studio now considers to have reached a “satisfactory level”. Speaking with Polish …

One of the main highlights at Ubisoft's E3 showcase this year was the reveal of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. Built for next-gen consoles and PC on an enhanced Snowdrop Engine, Ubisoft has now gone into a bit more detail on the technical side of the game. 

At the start of the Xbox One generation, Microsoft brought back Killer Instinct as a free to play fighter with new character updates that rolled out for several years. The series has been dormant for a while now, but Xbox is looking to bring it back again. Speaking on Dropped …

A few weeks ago, we learned that a Far Cry map maker had managed to completely recreate Rare's classic shooter, GoldenEye 007, within Far Cry 5's level editor. The project quickly garnered popularity but unfortunately, Ubisoft was forced to take the maps down after a DMCA notice from James Bond …

Back in March, Cold Iron Studios officially revealed Aliens: Fireteam Elite, promising a ‘Summer 2021' release window. Now, the three-player co-op shooter has a new trailer, as well as a final release date.  Aliens: Fireteam Elite, formerly known as just Aliens: Fireteam, is a third-person, squad-based survival shooter. It sounds …

The GOG Summer Sale is coming to an end soon. To celebrate the final few days of discounts, GOG has a big giveaway, making the Shadowrun trilogy free for all to claim and keep forever.  Shadowrun is a tactical RPG series based on a tabletop game from decades ago. The …

This week, Gearbox officially brought crossplay to Borderlands 3 across PC and and console. Players can now team up across PC, Xbox and even Stadia, but as previously announced, PlayStation is not included. As of yesterday, crossplay is live for Borderlands 3 across Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Mac, Stadia, …

Western Digital has issued a warning for owners of My Book Live and My Book Live Duo devices. These external HDDs received their final firmware update in 2015 and now, some users are finding their external HDDs compromised, leading to a factory reset and data loss. The issue was first …

One of Sony's big launch titles for the PlayStation 5 was none other than Spider-Man: Miles Morales, a smaller, expansion-sized standalone game. Now, it looks like Ghost of Tsushima will be getting something very similar later this year.  According to known insider, Shpeshal_Nick, Sony will be announcing a Ghost of …

While Halo Infinite did have a good showing at E3 this year, the lack of specific release date has led to plenty of concern in the week following the event. Fortunately, Xbox head, Phil Spencer, recently clarified the lack of final release date in an interview, indicating that the team …

Today, Seagate is launching its fastest PC gaming SSD to date – the FireCuda 530. The new SSD benefits from a new controller, enabling even faster speeds over PCIe 4.0, capacities are also taking a jump, with this drive being available with up to 4TB.  The FireCuda 530 sports a …

As expected, today Microsoft officially announced Windows 11. A number of the new UI changes were already leaked earlier this month, but now, we have full details on new features, redesigned apps and other improvements. 

A lot of PC gamers at one point or another have used a VPN to buy a game from a country where it is sold at a cheaper price. Moving forward, doing this on Steam is going to be much more difficult, as Valve has implemented some changes to discourage …

We have yet to see Apple's plans for this year's batch of iPhones and yet, we're already hearing details on what's to come in 2022. Next year, it is expected that Apple will finally introduce an under-display version of Touch ID, as well as a price cut for its cheapest …

Ever since WarnerMedia announced plans to merge with Discovery to form a new company, we've been wondering what will happen to a number of WB Games' studios. While some studios will be staying, others are being sold off. The first studio to be sold is none other than Playdemic.  This …

Nvidia started off this month promising to bring over 30 games to GeForce Now. As we near the end of June, the final batch of GeForce Now games for the month have been announced, with another 13 titles joining the library. Due to the inclusion of DLSS and ray-traced lighting …

Samsung has another foldable phone coming later this year. The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3, which has yet to be officially announced, is currently going through FCC approval, giving us an early look at some of the features we can expect.  The Galaxy Z Fold 3 was certified by the …

Usually in precision platformers, we jump and dash around to get through levels. Super Magbot takes platforming in a different direction, with players using magnets to traverse around. Super Magbot launched this week for PC via Steam and on the Nintendo Switch. Players take on the role of the robotic …

Back in 2019, Microsoft became the third company to reach a $1 trillion market cap. Now in 2021, Microsoft has hit a new milestone, becoming the second company to be worth $2 trillion USD.  Microsoft reached the $1 trillion milestone in Q2 2019, just behind Apple and Amazon. In August …

Over the last few years, Epic Games has been working on making Fortnite’s online feature set accessible and free to all developers. Today, Epic has an update on just that, announcing that its voice chat technology and Easy Anti-Cheat system is free for developers to use in any game being …

Earlier this month, Microsoft revealed that it would soon be expanding Xbox cloud gaming to more devices and soon, servers would be upgraded from Xbox One S hardware to newer Xbox Series X server blades. Now, it looks like the rollout has begun, bringing next-gen console power to the cloud. …

Marvel’s Avengers released its latest content patch earlier this week and immediately, players noticed something very wrong. For some reason, the patch made it so that the game displays the player’s IP address on screen at all times.  This would be particularly problematic for anyone looking to stream the game, …

Earlier this week, Cyberpunk 2077 was finally welcomed back on to the PlayStation Store after months of bug fixing patches. Now, Microsoft has announced it will be lifting the revised refund policy on purchases of the game on Xbox consoles.  As of the 6th of July, Xbox Store purchases of …

AVerMedia has been supplying game capture and streaming gear since the early days of gaming on YouTube and Twitch. If you're looking to get into streaming yourself, then we'd like to help you with that. This month, we're teaming up with AVerMedia to give away a 4K/HDR/240FPS capable capture card and a Full HD webcam. In all, this prize is worth around £330! 

Over the last couple of years, there has been a massive increase in the number of console gamers using gaming monitors, rather than TVs. Now, Xbox is partnering with monitor makers across the industry to deliver “Designed for Xbox” displays. All certified ‘designed for Xbox' gaming displays will have to …

Yager Development, the studio behind Spec Ops: The Line, The Cycle and a cancelled version of Dead Island 2, is now the latest game developer to attract interest from Tencent.  Following on from acquiring a minority stake in Remedy Entertainment last month, Tencent has now acquired a majority stake in …

It is time for another GeForce Game Ready driver update. This time around, Nvidia is introducing RTX support for three titles – Lego Builder's Journey, DOOM Eternal and Rust. The driver also enables DLSS in Vulkan games using Proton to play on Linux-based systems.  Starting off with our RTX games, …