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Each year, hundreds if not thousands of video game related patents are submitted by publishers and console manufacturers alike. While most of them are unlikely to come to fruition in any major manner, these patents do give us insight into the minds of those making games. EA has now patented …

Resident Evil 7 was one of the few major releases to get PlayStationVR support back in the day. Unfortunately, the PC version of the game never received a VR update, but Capcom might be looking to make things right with Resident Evil Village.  Resident Evil Village is getting a VR …

Sony sent out a lot of review codes for God of War: Ragnarok ahead of its launch in November. Unfortunately, some who got early access leaked huge spoilers for the campaign. Now, those spoilers are likely to get worse, as at least one retailer has broken the street date, selling …

Over the summer, we heard rumours that EA had signed a licensing deal with Marvel that will see the publisher working on multiple new games. At this point, EA Motive's Iron Man game has been officially announced, and there is a rumour that another EA studio is working on a …

Meta has been having a few issues with its services recently. Earlier this month, there was a major WhatsApp outage, stopping millions from being able to send and receive messages. Now, Instagram is facing some problems, with millions of accounts getting an unintended suspensions.  The Instagram outage began this morning, …

Sonic the Hedgehog has had many TV shows over the years, ranging greatly in tone, scope and quality. Though it has been a while since the last Sonic show, the Blue Blur is returning to the medium, with the Sonic Prime Netflix show announced to be coming in December. Back …

While 2022 initially looked very promising for Xbox, a number of high-profile delays have left a pretty big gap in major first-party releases. Halo Infinite struggled out the gate and with Starfield and Redfall now coming in 2023, there is no major holiday season exclusive this year, a fact that …

In the wake of regulatory scrutiny over the Activision Blizzard acquisition, Microsoft has attempted to make its plans a bit clearer, confirming that Call of Duty will continue to be a multiplatform game. While some do doubt how true this is, Microsoft is continuing to reiterate this statement.  In a …

Each month, those who are subscribed to Xbox Live Gold are able to get their hands on a number of free games. Ever since the launch of Game Pass however, the Games with Gold offerings have dwindled in value, with November’s games being rather paltry. Making the announcement on their …

With the release of the Steam Deck saw Valve create a new user interface focused on controller navigation. Upon its reveal, it was announced that the new UI would come to Steam’s PC client in the future. While not yet fully released, the new Steam Deck UI is available for …

As part of SEGA's recently released annual fiscal report, the publisher revealed the sales data for its franchises. The Persona series landed as SEGA’s 9th biggest with more than 15 million units sold. Interestingly, nearly half of these sales are related to Persona 5. In the same report which revealed …

We're still over two weeks away from the release of the RTX 4080 graphics cards, but some UK retailers have begun listing the new graphics card, giving us an early look at pricing. As things currently stand, it looks like the cheapest RTX 4080 graphics card will hit the market at £1,289. 

As part of SEGA's recently released financial reports, the company listed the sales data for its biggest franchises, revealing that the company’s mascot – Sonic the Hedgehog – has in total across its paid and free games been played by over 1.5 Billion people. Sonic the Hedgehog has been the …

Final Fantasy is one of the most recognisable names in gaming and as such, it is unsurprising to see it being by far the most successful franchise published by Square Enix. The company has now released its latest figures, revealing that the Final Fantasy franchise has sold almost 175 million …

Recently, we reported that the Head of Xbox Phil Spencer discussed the potential for its gaming products to increase in price. This statement has been met with some apprehension from fans and in the wake of this, Spencer has offered details on just how much the company is supposedly subsidising …

Call of Duty Modern Warfare II (2022) represents the first COD title in years to be released on the Steam platform. As such, we are able to see much more transparent data on how the game is performing. After half a decade away, COD’s return to Steam is record-breaking. Recently, …

AMD Ryzen 7000 series processors come with up to two chiplets, each with eight Zen 4 cores. Depending on the SKU, the Zen 4 cores are enabled to match the specifications. For Ryzen 5 7600X CPUs, a single CCD would suffice. However, it seems that's not the case for every …

A couple of weeks ago, Nvidia officially cancelled the RTX 4080 12GB model. The 12GB version used a further cutdown GPU core, offering considerably less performance compared to the 16GB version. The gap was big enough that grouping both together as RTX 4080s seemed misleading to the consumer. While the …

Valve recently filed a trademark for a brand new video game – Neon Prime. Recent rumours have pointed to this being a Dota spin-off with a sci-fi theme.  When the trademark first came to light, a former Valve employee revealed that the company had been working on a ship-building game …

Henry Cavill impressed many fans with his performance as Geralt of Rivia in the first seasons of The Witcher. Unfortunately, with Cavill now returning to his role as Superman in the DC movies, he is stepping away from The Witcher, and a replacement has already been chosen.  Since The Witcher's …

Firaxis has been working on its big new Marvel strategy game, Midnight Suns, for years now. While the game was almost delayed to 2023, the game is now arriving on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S before the end of the year. In the runup to launch, the game's season …

Recently, early Arc A770 16GB buyers found that their graphics card's memory wasn't running as fast as it should. While Intel announced these GPUs with 17.5Gbps memory speeds, customers found their memory running at 16Gbps instead, reducing maximum bandwidth down from 560GB/s to 512GB/s. Now, Intel has fixed the issue …

AMD announced it would host an event on November 3rd to reveal the first RDNA 3 graphics cards. However, while the announcement date is coming early in the month, actual availability will arrive later. According to one leaker, the RX 7900 series graphics cards will arrive in early December. 

While the PC gaming market shifted over to digital games years ago, many console owners still buy physical discs. However, we are now starting to see publishers pulling back on physical releases. This year for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, Activision chose to put almost no data on the …

With Microsoft looking to acquire Activision Blizzard, there has been a lot of discussion around the popularity of Xbox Game Pass and whether or not Microsoft can become dominant in the market using the service. While Xbox Game Pass is currently profitable, Microsoft has observed a slowdown in growth for the …

While Denuvo isn't as popular nowadays as it once was, several major publishers still use the anti-piracy protection for PC games. Gotham Knights launched earlier this month with Denuvo in place, until a patch earlier this week mistakenly removed it from the game. Now, Denuvo has been put back in …

The PS5 has been a fast seller ever since its launch. Even now, almost two years later, the console is still difficult to pick up at retail and requires some planning on the customer's part. With the console selling out as fast as they can be made, we've seen Sony …

It has been a while since Valve last released a game, and even longer since the company started a new IP. While it initially looked like an upcoming game called Neon Prime would be a totally new series from Valve, a recent report claims it will be set in the …

Unlike consoles, PC players have many options to choose from when it comes to video game stores and clients. Two of the biggest are the Epic Games Store and CD Projekt’s GOG Galaxy. In an interesting move by both parties, GOG Galaxy is now available to download through the Epic …

First released back in 2016, Paragon was a 3rd-person MOBA developed by Epic Games which was eventually shut down following the overwhelming success of Fortnite. Nearly half a decade later, Paragon is coming back in an official capacity thanks to the efforts of a South Korean studio. Paragon: The Overprime …