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Following its discontinuation in the West last year, Final Fantasy: Brave Exvius is finally set to shut down in Japan this October.

Ahead of its arrival this week, reviews for SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance have officially gone live – marking it as one of the highest-rated games of the year.

While the Switch 2 has been on the market for a decent number of months now, many studios are still struggling to get their hands on dev kits for the sequel system. According to one analyst, this may be by design, with Nintendo reportedly “discouraging Switch 2 development to some degree.”

Intel has taken the stage at the Hot Chips 2025 to lift the curtain on Clearwater Forest, its next-generation E-core Xeon processor and the successor to Sierra Forest. The new data center chip is an absolute monster, packing up to 288 cores per socket and serving as a showcase for …

Fans have been eagerly awaiting more for more information on upcoming first-party Nintendo games like Metroid Prime 4. It sounds like Nintendo will finally be lifting the curtain on a few new games in September, as reports claim another Nintendo Direct is scheduled.  Sources speaking with VGC have claimed that …

Last week a leak led to fans figuring out that the next Forza Horizon game is likely set in Japan. Another leak has since come to light, pointing towards plans for Xbox to announce the new game at the Tokyo Game Show in September. 

After a long and patient wait, fans of the upcoming anime MMO Blue Protocol: Star Resonance finally have a release window to look forward to. The developers have confirmed the game will launch this October. For some lucky players, the wait is even shorter, as the game's large-scale closed beta …

While we wait for a new Splinter Cell game, the previously-announced animated Netflix adaptation ‘Splinter Cell: Deathwatch’ has finally gotten a release date.

Almost a year after it was first teased, Satisfactory is set to officially come to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S this November.

PlayStation has offered an update on its Middle East and North Africa Hero Project – unveiling 4 new and upcoming PS5 games.

The studio behind the upcoming Sekiro: No Defeat anime adaptation have confirmed that no AI is being used in the show’s production.

At GamesCom 2025 in Cologne, ASUS presented KitGuru with the ROG Matrix RTX 5090 30th Anniversary Edition graphics card, and it's a bit of a monster. The card is currently at the engineering sample stage, but it already highlights the challenges of designing hardware at this scale. There's no real …

Nintendo booked itself a large section of the Gamescom exhibition this year to show off the new Switch 2 console and give attendees hands-on time with new-releases and upcoming games for the console. Unfortunately, early impressions show that upcoming titles like Elden Ring and Borderlands 4 are already pushing the …

Assassin's Creed Mirage released back in 2023, offering long-time fans of the series a return to the stealth-action gameplay mechanics of the original trilogy. We weren't expecting to hear much about this game again, but as it turns out, Ubisoft has been cooking up a major DLC update.  Assassin's Creed …

Activision has been slow with the Call of Duty reveals this year. We had an initial teaser trailer at the end of this year's Xbox Games Showcase in June, followed by another campaign-focused trailer at Gamescom earlier this week. We won't have to wait much longer to see our lingering …

Bethesda has been quiet on Starfield all year, with no new DLCs announced, along with a lack of headline-grabbing updates. As it turns out, Bethesda may be saving up for 2026, with plans to re-launch Starfield as a multiplatform game.  Starfield first launched in 2023 and while the game was …

After the success of the Steam Deck, fans began anticipating a potential return to living-room gaming for Valve. A decade on from the failed ‘Steam Machine' concept, leakers found evidence of a device codenamed ‘Fremont', a dedicated TV box for Steam gaming.  Brad Lynch, a Valve-focused enthusiast with a history …

We recently heard that things weren't going so well for the next BioShock behind the scenes. All of that came to a head this week with reports indicating that roughly 30% of the development team was let go as the project undergoes another reboot.  According to Bloomberg's Jason Schreier, 2K …

Friday the 13th: The Game shut down last year, but a new classic horror franchise is now taking its place in the gaming world. Halloween: The Game has been announced, coming from Gun Interactive.  Gun Interactive had published Friday the 13th: The Game in 2017, but the license expired by …

The Battlefield 6 open beta was insanely popular, breaking multiple franchise records. Intel is being quick to capitalise on this hype with the announcement of its new hardware bundle, giving away free copies of Battlefield 6 with a range of CPUs and graphics cards.  Starting on this coming Monday, August …

For the dedicated and long-suffering community of Escape From Tarkov, the end is finally in sight. After years of perpetual beta testing and development, developer Battlestate Games has officially announced that the game's full 1.0 release will be arriving this year. The date was revealed in a new live-action trailer …

The Battlefield 6 open beta was a huge success across both of its weekends. DICE has had a week now to collect all of the stats and as predicted, this beta set new records for the franchise.  The Battlefield 6 open beta set a record high player count across all …

Earlier this month during Sony's most recent earnings meeting, executives made comments alluding to Bungie losing its independence and becoming more integrated with PlayStation Studios. Now just weeks later, Bungie's long-time CEO, Pete Parsons, has announced that he is leaving the company.  Pete Parsons first became CEO of Bungie in …

Earlier this year, Microsoft laid off a huge chunk of the Turn 10 studio, the one responsible for Forza Motorsport. With that in mind, we're expecting Forza Horizon to be the flagship racer for Xbox going forward, and the next game in the series may end up being the biggest …

NZXT has launched its latest motherboard for the AMD platform, the N7 B850. Designed for the new Ryzen 9000 series CPUs, the new board brings NZXT's signature minimalist aesthetic to the AM5 socket, providing a clean and stylish foundation for your next Zen 5 build. As is tradition for the …

Years following the game’s last sales update, Team Cherry has revealed that the original Hollow Knight has now sold over 15 million copies.

7 years on from its initial conception, Hollow Knight: Silksong is finally launching in just two weeks’ time – set to release on the 4th of September.

We called the ASUS RTX 5080 Noctua Edition 'a highly impressive feat of engineering' in our review, but were left wondering why the companies involved didn't go all out with an RTX 5090 model. Noctua has since confirmed to us they would 'love' to make an RTX 5090 version, but it doesn't sound like it will be happening any time soon...

As they have done many times now, Overwatch 2 is set to crossover with another anime franchise – this time ATLUS / SEGA’s popular JRPG sub-series Persona 5.

The European Hardware Association (EHA) has announced the results of the 2025 EHA Reader Awards. These awards are driven entirely by the opinions of hardware enthusiasts from across Europe. Tens of thousands of votes were cast through the EHA’s nine member publications, giving a clear view of which products have earned the strongest support from hardware enthusiasts this year.