Gaming

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. If the rumors about Nvidia’s next-gen lineup are true, well-heeled gamers will have GPUs worth drooling over (except please don’t – Ed) All the rumors about outrageous power consumption and triple-slot coolers have done little to diminish peoples’ appetite for

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Over the years AMD and Nvidia have battled on a number of fronts. The hardware angle is obvious, but the software battle has been a bit more behind the scenes. Both companies have worked for years to not only round

Audio player loading… Xbox players can jump into a bunch of classic Bethesda and id Software games for free right now, as Microsoft has rolled out a slate of new game previews for Xbox Insiders. If you’re signed up to Microsoft’s free beta platform, you can play The Elder Scrolls: Arena, The Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall,

Audio player loading… Rare has announced a slight delay to the start of Sea of Thieves season 7 to ensure quality and avoid crunch.  The announcement was made in a blog post (opens in new tab) on the official Sea of Thieves website. In the post, executive producer Joe Neate explains that the ambitious nature

Audio player loading… Tempted by PS Plus Premium but turned away by the monthly cost? It now has a 7-day free trial for new subscribers to try out. If you’re curious about what the newly revamped PS Plus offers, you can try it for free right now. Sony is currently offering a weeklong trial so

Audio player loading… The latest bunch of games coming to Xbox Game Pass have been announced, and there’s a few big names among them. The most tantalizing game in the new Xbox Game Pass line-up is Torment: Tides of Numenera. It’s the spiritual successor to Planescape: Torment that harkens back to the early days of

Audio player loading… The first story details of God of War Ragnarok have been inadvertently revealed, confirming the game will feature all nine realms of Norse Mythology. The PlayStation Store description of God of War Ragnarok was recently updated, giving us our best look yet at the upcoming sequel’s plot. While brief, it goes beyond

Audio player loading… Sony is facing a class action lawsuit regarding a game-crashing PS5 defect. But do the accusations hold any weight? Plaintiff Christina Trejo of Illinois filed the lawsuit after discovering the PS5 was prone to shutting down entirely during gameplay. The court documentation (opens in new tab) states that the defect “affects users’

Audio player loading… I love the Switch, to the point where I can forgive many of its shortcomings. Sure, it can’t do 4K. It often can’t muster a stable performance. It’s inundated with terrible ports. Oh, and the online infrastructure could be much, much better. All things worthy of criticism. But they’ve never been outright

Audio player loading… Alienware breaks through the refresh-rate ceiling as its new m17 R5 and x17 R2 gaming laptops come with the industry’s first 480Hz displays. Admittedly, it’s tricky to conceptualize what a 480Hz display even looks like in action. Dell describes what this tech brings to the table (opens in new tab) and it

Audio player loading… Blizzard is giving away beta access to dedicated Diablo 4 fans who get permanent tattoos. In the lead-up to Diablo 4’s release next year, the publisher is offering free Diablo-inspired tattoos as part of its Hell’s Ink promotional campaign. The event is running now until September 10, and offers winners of a

Audio player loading… Star Wars: Hunters, an upcoming team-based arena shooter set in the galaxy far, far away has been delayed to next year. The competitive multiplayer brawler pits teams of characters against one another in fights across the Star Wars universe. It’s scheduled to release on Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android devices. Although it

Obsidian Entertainment’s backyard survival adventure game Grounded will get its own animated series. As reported by Deadline, the game is being adapted by Star Wars: Clone Wars writer Brent Friedman. Friedman, who also wrote on Star Trek: Enterprise, will work on the story with Brien Goodrich, who worked on the Halo videogame and is attached

PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 users will be able to play Inscryption when it arrives on the systems in August. Set for an August 30 release, the game will run you $19.99 and is available for pre-order through the PlayStation Store. Inscryption is a roguelike deck-building game developed by Daniel Mullins Games and published by

Over the past few months, Arena Net has been re-adding narrative episodes of Living World season one to Guild Wars 2 – the premier collection of limited-time patches that added important new quests, bosses, zones and more to the game. These eventually became permanent additions for all players, but that wasn’t always the case. Today,

No More Heroes 3 is coming to PC and PlayStation, and Xbox consoles in October. In the game, our hero Travis Touchdown has been forced out of retirement to defend Santa Destroy, and the whole world. Using his beam katanas and the all-new Death Glove, Travis will fight various bosses to get to the evil

One particular little joy for me is the B-movie. I love a big-budget Hollywood blockbuster or a well-oiled auteur-driven masterpiece as much as the next person – but I have a particular respect for and interest in the smaller, sillier, and generally less-successful projects. The same is true for my taste in games. That’s why

Century: Age of Ashes, the free-to-play dragon-riding game from Playwing, will miss its July release on PlayStation consoles. Set to release today, according to the studio, the game will arrive later this summer, with more details to follow later. “Please accept our humble apologies,” said the studio. “Pushing back a release is never pleasant, even