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Funcom has officially announced the release date for Dune: Awakening, the anticipated multiplayer survival game inspired by Frank Herbert's seminal sci-fi novel and Denis Villeneuve's acclaimed film adaptations. Players can brave the treacherous sands of Arrakis on May 20th, with pre-orders now live. Three distinct editions are available for pre-order …

It is Spring sale season and MSI is getting into the spirit of things with a round of price cuts on gaming monitors and other PC hardware. We've rounded up some of the best deals, all available through Amazon, so you'll get speedy delivery too.

Months after its initial announcement, Arm has expanded the accessibility of its Accuracy Super Resolution (ASR) upscaling technology, providing developers with more options to integrate it into games. At GDC 2025, Arm showcased pre-built and readily deployable plugins for Unity-powered games, set for release later this year. An Unreal Engine …

Despite seeing very little support from Sony, Bloodborne reportedly managed to become one of the best-selling first-party PS4 titles of all time.

Hazelight Studios’ Split Fiction is seeing a ton of buzz from both in and outside of the games industry, with a film adaptation reportedly in the works.

The upcoming life-sim inZOI has seen a ton of traction ahead of launch – currently sitting as the most wishlisted game on Steam.

Over the past couple years, we’ve seen Microsoft bring over a select number of first-party Xbox titles to both PlayStation and the Nintendo Switch. Despite Indiana Jones and the Great Circle; DOOM The Dark Ages and Forza Horizon 5 all slated for a PS5 launch this year, one insider has claimed that there are “a lot more” titles planned to be ported in 2025 alone.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows seems to be doing all it can to help save Ubisoft from the hole it dug itself into, achieving the 2nd biggest launch in series history.

Spring has arrived and that means it's about time for another seasonal tech sale. This week, Biwin has slashed prices on a large range of SSDs, so you can make the jump to a speedy, high-capacity Gen 4 or Gen 5 SSD at a much lower price. 

The launch of Assassin's Creed Shadows seems to have gone well. Within three days of its release and two days after reaching 1 million players, Ubisoft announced that Shadows exceeded two million. As a result, Shadows has now outperformed the launch figures of Assassin's Creed Origins and Odyssey. On Steam, …

WiFi 7 is becoming more affordable by the day. This week, Netgear is launching its most affordable WiFi 7 router yet, hitting the market at £129.99, adding a true entry-level option to their line-up.

Due to various leaks, we've known quite a bit about Grand Theft Auto 6 for years already. At one point, a slew of game files had leaked and while Take-Two did its best to contain it, those files are still floating around today. With that in mind, it should come …

A group of dataminers on Discord have caused quite a stir this week. People have been able to find early builds for several unreleased games.

Machine Games surprised us all with Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. The game quickly became one of my favourites of 2024 but as is the case with most Xbox exclusives nowadays, the title will not remain locked to one console for very long. The PS5 version of the game …

Recently, Naughty Dog revealed the PC system requirements for The Last of Us Part 2, as well as confirming some of the PC-specific features we'll be seeing in the game. 

On Friday we published our review of the Stormforce Prism 1089 prebuilt gaming desktop. Unfortunately, we ran into issues with it pretty quickly in what can only be described as a quality control issue. A lack of care had been taken putting the system together. Now, Stormforce has acknowledged the issues and is looking to tighten things up before any more of these systems go out to paying customers.

AMD is poised to introduce its Radeon RX 9060 XT graphics card in the coming weeks. Like Nvidia did with the RTX 4060 Ti and is expected to do with the RTX 5060 Ti, the new Radeon GPUs will be available with two distinct memory configurations. While specific RX 9060 …

After well over a decade, Minecraft is set to get its first major graphics overhaul with the Vibrant Visuals update; bringing new volumetrics and more.

Despite being an already solid upgrade, the PS5 Pro version of Assassin’s Creed Shadows will get further enhancements in a future update.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows launching day-one on Steam seems to be paying off, with the title having now broken a record for the franchise.

Capcom is gearing up to release its first Title Update for Monster Hunter Wilds – with a Showcase set to go live tomorrow.

God of War’s 20th anniversary has officially come and gone, and while we did get a couple cool new things in celebration, the rumoured remaster for the OG trilogy was nowhere to be seen. Fortunately, it does appear a God of War game is in fact slated for launch in 2025 – though it’s said to be a Greece-based spin-off.

More detailed specifications for Nvidia's upcoming RTX 5060 Ti graphics card, including clock speeds and a new release date, have been leaked. Moreover, some newly listed systems using the new graphics cards with 8GB and 16GB of VRAM have also been found, further suggesting that the green team's upcoming mid-range …

Designed to keep a large selection of classics playable on PC for generations to come, the GOG Preservation Program now adds Deus Ex, Fallout 2, F.E.A.R. and more.

Following on from the Minecraft movie, Microsoft will continue to invest in bringing Xbox IP to film and TV.

Raijintek has introduced its Cyclops Lite series of AIO liquid CPU coolers, offering a blend of aesthetic appeal and efficient cooling performance. Available in black and white, the series features 240mm and 360mm radiators, catering to various system configurations. A distinctive feature of the Cyclops Lite coolers (240mm and 360mm) …

Cherry has made a significant foray into the wireless audio segment with the launch of the Cherry Xtrfy H3 Wireless, its first multi-platform wireless gaming headset. This headset aims to bridge the gap between professional gaming audio and everyday versatility, offering a blend of gaming-optimised sound, customisable EQ settings, and …

Microsoft unveiled significant advancements in DirectX Raytracing (DXR) 1.2 at GDC 2025, addressing core performance bottlenecks that have traditionally hindered ray tracing adoption. Moreover, it announced that DirectX 12 will soon support neural rendering and cooperative vectors, but it should still take some time before we see them in action. …

Emulation is the saving grace of the video games industry. Despite its controversial nature, the technology will be the only way in which all games are preserved for the future – free from licensing agreements and other such nonsense. Better still is the fact that in a majority of cases, emulation allows for a more accurate recreation of the game’s original experience than official offerings, due to countless complex shaders, filters and tweakable settings. And the best part? Thanks to the progression of technology, your humble smartphone is able to do all this and more – giving you the power of 10,000 games in the palm of your hand.

Dave the Diver has gone on to become one of the biggest indie games on Steam and is consistently one of the most-played games on the Steam Deck. Next month, the game gets a surprising new DLC, introducing characters from Yakuza: Like a Dragon.  The Dave the Diver x Like …