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Dead Island 2 was announced just shy of a decade ago, and while we haven't had an official update on the state of the game in a while, there have been a number of leaks this year. According to a growing number of sources, Dead Island 2 will be re-revealed …

After finding success in the Battle Royale genre with Warzone, the Call of Duty team has been looking into other popular types of competitive shooter to find its next big thing. It seems the plan is for DMZ to be exactly that, a new game mode inspired by Escape From …

EA has made a number of big acquisitions in recent years, adding Respawn Entertainment, Codemasters and most recently, Playdemic. Still, that didn't stop EA's name from being mentioned in buyout rumours earlier this year. This week during EA's quarterly earnings call, CEO, Andrew Wilson, addressed the elephant in the room.  …

It's a 16GB flash drive for over £60 - but it has some unique security features baked in

The first Intel Arc Alchemist desktop graphics card, the A380, can now be paired with a water block. Bykski has created the first GPU water block for the Gunnir Arc A380 Photon 6G OC graphics card.  The Bykski I-GNA380-X GPU block (via @Haze2K1) is only officially compatible with Gunnir's A380 …

Activision Blizzard held its quarterly earnings call last night, sharing new stats on how the business and its current games are doing. As we learned last quarter, Call of Duty: Vanguard has heavily underperformed and the situation hasn't improved since, with Call of Duty losing millions of Monthly Active Users.  …

Logitech is working on its own gaming handheld, but unlike the Steam Deck, which focuses on installing and running games locally, Logitech's handheld will primarily cater towards cloud gaming.  In partnership with Tencent Games, Logitech G has announced plans to bring a cloud gaming handheld to market later this year. …

Back in 2020, CD Projekt Red announced that it had teamed up with Netflix and Japanese animation studio, Studio Trigger, to produce an anime set in the Cyberpunk universe. This week, a new trailer for Cyberpunk: Edgerunners dropped and so far, it is shaping up to be fantastic.  After releasing …

It is a new month, which means it is time for another Xbox Game Pass update. In the first half of August, Microsoft is bringing seven titles over, three of which will only be available on PC Game Pass.  Ubisoft is continuing to add to the Game Pass library with …

Compared to Alder Lake CPUs, the Raptor Lake chips are expected to bring a decent bump in clock speeds, with the highest clock supposedly coming in at 5.5GHz. However, it seems you'll be able to squeeze a bit more out of them through overclocking, with reports claiming we'll see 6GHz …

We've been hearing rumours about Nvidia's next-generation GeForce graphics cards for a while now. In the latest report, it has been claimed that a fully enabled AD104 GPU is capable of matching the RTX 3090 Ti in performance.  According to kopite7kimi, a graphics card (PG141-SKU331) based on a fully enabled …

Corsair are back with their latest AIO - but is it worth the £165 asking price?

AMD launched its alternative to RTX Voice last month. The new feature, known as Noise Suppression, is only officially supported on RNDA 2 GPUs. However, modders have been quick to get it working on older GPUs too using modded drivers.  With the 3rd-party graphics driver (based on the 22.7.1 release) …

By now you've probably seen from Leo's video that be quiet! are currently celebrating their 20th anniversary, and are launching a new range of FX branded products to commemorate the occasion. After seeing Leo's build, I decided to try and take things to the next level with a second anniversary build, incorporating an LCD display and powder-coated orange panels...

Back in 2019, Riot set out on a journey to expand its fanbase well beyond League of Legends. Since then, Riot has launched Legends of Runeterra, Valorant, TFT and Wild Rift, but the company has yet to launch its fighting game, known as Project L. It looks like that will …

If you were playing Destiny 2 over the weekend, then you likely had a frustrating experience. On Friday evening and early Saturday, players discovered an exploit in the latest patch, allowing players to use the text chat to crash the game for other players.  The exploit was most common in …

We're over six months on from Microsoft announcing plans to acquire Activision Blizzard, kicking off the lengthy process of gaining approvals from anti-trust organisations across the world. Most of the time, these investigations are highly secretive, but we do know that they involve seeking opinions from competing companies across the industry. Now thanks to recent filings in Brazil, documents containing these opinions have been posted online, giving us insight into what the likes of Sony, Ubisoft, WB and others think of the deal. 

Leo puts together a be quiet! themed PC as they celebrate 20 years, with a helping hand from Brewdog

Somewhere during one of several reboots for Skull and Bones, the game transitioned into a multiplayer-first title. Now, the game's director, Ryan Barnard, has given us more insight into what that means, noting that while the game has an ‘underlying story', narrative is not a focus of the game.  Speaking …

Late last year, Dr. Disrespect announced Midnight Society, his own game studio, as well as plans to release a new first-person shooter developed in Unreal Engine 5. This week, the studio revealed the first gameplay footage, giving us a very early look at the game. Midnight Society’s shooter will be …

Valve has consistently provided updates on its production plans for the Steam Deck. This week, those sitting in the pre-order queue got some good news, with Valve confirming that  it has secured enough units to fulfil all reservations made so far. 

In recent days, a rumour has been circulating, claiming that Google is planning to shut down its cloud gaming service, Stadia, by the end of the year. The rumour quickly spread and was largely being accepted as fact. However, Google has since responded, insisting that Stadia is sticking around.  The …

Even prior to being sold to Embracer Group, Crystal Dynamics has been working on its next big Tomb Raider game. Nothing else is known officially, but a potential leak has revealed a few details. The Sacred Symbols Podcast (via VGC) claimed to have obtained leaked script pages from the new …

In an update to one of its websites this week, AMD may have mistakenly revealed the launch line-up for the Ryzen 7000 series. AMD's next-generation desktop processors are due to launch before the end of this year, and it looks like we'll have four processors at launch, including the Ryzen …

Diablo Immortal launched in early June and quickly garnered 10 million players and earned just shy of $25 million within the first couple of weeks. At this point, the game has doubled to over 20 million installs and revenue has gone way up, surpassing $100 million.  Despite controversy and outcry …

PvE content has always been the true centrepiece of the Destiny games, but there is still a pretty big PvP audience. There have been plenty of complaints about Destiny 2's PvP over the years, from its map pool and lack of modes to rampant cheating as well as issues finding …

Sony has been talking about increasing the presence of PlayStation games on mobile for a while now. Ahead of this renewed push into mobile gaming, Sony has announced the first officially licensed PlayStation gamepad for smartphones.  The Backbone One PlayStation Edition is the first officially licensed PlayStation controller for iPhone. …

Intel shares have taken a significant dip this week following the company's quarterly earnings report. Intel missed revenue targets last quarter and the company has also cut down its earnings predictions for the rest of the year. 

Fans of the Nier series have been on quite the rollercoaster recently, as the community has scrambled to figure out the mystery behind a secret door leading to a completely new area of the map that had seemingly gone undiscovered since the launch of Nier: Automata. Today, we finally got …

While Fatshark originally intended to bring Warhammer 40,000: Darktide to PC and Xbox consoles in September, the game has now been delayed again. After being pushed out of 2021 and into ‘early 2022', the game was later pushed again to September. Now, the developers are hoping to release the game …