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It has been roughly one year since Tango Gameworks released Ghostwire: Tokyo on PS5 and PC. Now with Sony's timed console exclusivity deal coming to an end, Microsoft has announced plans to bring the game to Xbox consoles and Game Pass.  Ghostwire: Tokyo will release on Xbox Series X/S, and …

Yesterday Microsoft announced a new deal with a competing cloud gaming provider in an effort to convince regulators that its acquisition of Activision Blizzard won't squeeze the competition out of the market. Today, the company is announcing yet another deal, this time with a more widely known cloud gaming company.  …

For its entire existence, IO Interactive have focused almost exclusively on the Hitman franchise, with their most-recent non-Hitman project being 2010’s Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days. After successfully turning the latest HITMAN trilogy into a ‘World of Assassination’ sandbox, the team at IOI are putting Agent 47 on ice …

Unlike Microsoft with Xbox Game Pass, Sony does not bring its first-party titles to the console manufacturer’s PlayStation Plus subscription service at launch. Despite this, Sony has been rather good with adding partner titles day-one to PS Plus. Such is the case with Behaviour Interactive’s upcoming post-apocalyptic first-person building and …

One of the biggest first-party PS5 titles to have been released so far is Horizon Forbidden West. Despite it being a major improvement over the first game in many aspects, the sequel to 2017’s open world action adventure title still came to PS4 as well as Sony’s latest system. That …

Announced nearly 8 years ago, Nightdive Studios have been working on a remake of the classic 1994 cyberpunk immersive sim System Shock. Development has not been the smoothest, with the title being delayed multiple times over the years. Ahead of the game’s intended March release, the team have now delayed …

In recent weeks, Microsoft has signed legal agreements to bring Activision Blizzard titles to additional platforms, including Nintendo consoles and Nvidia's rival cloud gaming service, GeForce Now. Microsoft is looking to pile on here with additional deals with competing companies. While Sony isn't playing ball with Microsoft's 10-year agreement, other …

Last year, it was claimed that studio Hangar 13 is now working on a new Mafia trilogy, built using Unreal Engine 5. Later on in 2022, the studio confirmed that it is indeed working on Mafia 4 and now through job listings, we have an idea of just how far …

The Diablo 4 beta is just around the corner, with early access beginning this week. Ahead of the beta, Blizzard has announced preload plans, so you can get the game installed ahead of time and avoid waiting for the download when the beta goes live.  Pre-order customers will get early …

Soon after the release of the first RTX 40 series GPUs, we heard several user reports of malfunctioning 12VHPWR connectors, leading to questions around the design of the connector. Nvidia stands by its design and it does appear that unseated cabled was the root cause behind the issues, but Intel …

Ever since Sony announced that it would support the PC market with its first party games, we have seen a good number of major titles find their way onto the platform at a rather consistent rate. With The Last of Us Part I set to arrive on PC at the …

It's an innovative new PSU design from Corsair, but we find out if it is technically proficient

With HBO’s The Last of Us finale recently concluding, Naughty Dog co-president and The Last of Us Part II director Neil Druckmann recently sat down with Kinda Funny for a ‘spoilercast’ in which he revealed a bunch of details on what the team is working on, including the fact that …

Diablo IV is the next big game set to come from Activision Blizzard, and while the acquisition by Microsoft has yet to go through, fans were beginning to wonder whether the upcoming ARPG would find its way on Xbox’s Game Pass service. Unfortunately – though unsurprisingly – this will not …

Nvidia has yet to announce the RTX 4070 officially, but we've heard a lot about it lately. Rumours have loosely pointed to April for the GPU's release date, but a more recent report has been more precise, pointing to an April 13th launch. As reported by VideoCardz, a Twitter leaker …

It seems to be deal season for AMD. Recently we covered a very good discount on the RX 7900XT graphics card. Now, AMD is offering discounted hardware bundles for a limited time, so you can get the CPU, motherboard and RAM you need all together at a lower price.  The …

As great as the visual upgrade has been for The Witcher 3 following the release of its next-gen version, the update didn't arrive without problems. There have been some lingering graphics and performance issues in the game for a while now but today, a sizable new patch began rolling out …

Just last month, prior to rumours of CSGO 2 heating up, we saw a new peak player count record for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, surpassing over 1.32 million concurrent players. Now following mounting evidence that a Source 2 upgrade is on the way, a new peak concurrent player count record has …

GSC Game World has had a rough time over the past year. The company has already had to move countries due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and after dealing with all of that, the studio has faced numerous cyberattacks. In the latest breach, a group of Russian fans of the …

Last year shortly before Google announced plans to shut down Stadia, we learned that the company had been approaching publishers in an effort to license out Stadia's streaming tech as part of a pivot away from direct-to-consumer game sales. Stadia has now shut down for good and it seems those …

The Gears of War series is well known for its third-person gameplay. Prior to selling the IP off to Microsoft, Epic Games had its own ideas for Gears of War 4, including a dramatic shift to first-person gameplay.  Before Microsoft acquired the IP and put together The Coalition studio, Gears …

CD Projekt Red and Nvidia have teased Cyberpunk 2077's RT Overdrive mode previously, with plans to enable full path tracing effects in the game. It has been a while since we last had an update on this, but it looks like CDPR and Nvidia will be teaming up again soon …

A new Cinebench R23 multi-core world record has been set with an overclocked Intel Xeon W9-3945X, beating the previous score that was achieved using the same processor. The previous CB R23 multi-core world record was from safedisk, who had overclocked the Intel Xeon W9-3945X to 5.22GHz, allowing it to score …

Typically, laptop batteries only last a handful of hours before needing a recharge. With that painful truth in mind, Andreas Eriksen set out to build their own laptop, the PotatoP, which can apparently last for up to two years on a single charge thanks to handpicked components to maximise battery …

Way back in 2021 when Square Enix first started raising its game prices to match the new $70 standard that Sony ushered in with the PS5, I talked a little bit about the negative impact this may have on Forspoken. While the game was highly anticipated at the time, the …

Last night during the Capcom Spotlight stream, the publisher officially unveiled the Resident Evil 4 Remake demo. The demo is already available for PC, Xbox and PlayStation, giving players a chance to play a portion of the game early.  The Resident Evil 4 Remake demo, otherwise known as the Chainsaw …

Just as the leaks claimed, last night during the Capcom Spotlight stream the publisher announced a release date for Exoprimal, an upcoming co-operative shooter that pits humans up against dinosaurs.  Exoprimal will be launching for previous and current-gen Xbox and PlayStation consoles, and PC, on the 14th of July 2023. …

EKWB's Limited Edition Velocity² Direct Die LGA1700 kit is here, but just how good is it?

In order to gain a foothold in the digital PC market, Epic Games employed a number of strategies following the official launch of its Epic Games Store, with the two most aggressive being the weekly offerings of free games as well as by making a bunch of PC games EGS …

As far as we knew, all RTX 4090 graphics cards shipped with an AD102-300 GPU. However, that doesn't seem to be the case anymore, as the owner of an RTX 4090 Founders Edition has stripped their card down to find a new variant of the AD102 GPU.  An RTX 4090 …