The tide was against Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag from the start. Coming out just one year after the disastrous, nearly franchise-ending reception of Assassin’s Creed 3, Black Flag needed to prove that the parkour-loving, history-altering tastes of the series were still relevant. That players should still care about the tired Assassins versus Templars beef
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For a while, the Nintendo Entertainment System was the only game console that you could build out of the pieces of an official Lego set – but it’s now got company in the form of a new Lego Atari 2600. Revealed today but rumored for many months, the new Lego recreation of one of gaming’s
We’ve gotten our very first look at Yakuza 8 today, specifically the lovely faces of the star gang of protagonists that we’ll be seeing in the upcoming update to SEGA’s hugely popular RPG. First reported by Famitsu, we see the faces of Ichiban, Koichi, and Yu in engine at the Sega Sammy offices in Tokyo.
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Although Intel won’t be releasing its high-powered Arc discrete graphics in the US for a few more months, its PR rep is already making the rounds. Intel’s Ryan Shrout posted a short video to YouTube giving us the first benchmarks
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. In the current battle over GPU memory speeds between AMD and Nvidia, Micron and Nvidia scored a decisive victory. Together the companies made GDDR6X, which tops out around 21Gb/s. That memory found its way to Nvidia’s high-end GPUs, named the
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Step aside Voodoo 5 6000, there’s a new monster GPU in town so over the top you can’t help but admire the audacity of it. (As a onetime functional Voodoo 5 6000 owner, I take exception to this statement – Ed)
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. (Photo: Tamara Bitter/Unsplash)Sony is introducing a new loyalty program that rewards PlayStation users for everything from purchases to gameplay. The program is called PlayStation Stars, and it’ll be completely free to join, according to an announcement from Thursday. When PlayStation
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. There’s been a lot of news in the past week or so about a crisis of sorts unfolding for Nvidia. The company is gearing up to launch its 40-series GPUs, but it has a little problem: There’s currently way too
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Sega has not forgotten its North American fans. After announcing the Mega Drive 2 Mini Console for Japan, the company has clarified that the device will come to this side of the Pacific later this year. However, when it does,
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. (Photo: Billy Freeman/Unsplash)If you’ve missed the sweet, sweet boot-up noise of Windows 98, we have good news: your Xbox Series X can run the classic operating system. Digital Foundry, a blog and YouTube channel specializing in hardware and game reviews,
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The GPU market seems to have descended into turmoil with the recent crypto crash. What was a slow trickle of GPUs back into the market has turned into a deluge in the past few weeks. Although it was encouraging to
Internal PS5 SSDs are more often than not a costly investment, but this year’s Amazon Prime Day has made that steep hill slightly easier to climb. As part of this year’s Prime Day deals, you can pick up the Seagate FireCuda 530 2TB internal SSD for less. It’s down from its usually steep price of
Audio player loading… A recent leak might have revealed some of the games that will be made available to PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium subscribers later this month. The leak comes from ResetEra user BlackBate (opens in new tab) (via PushSquare (opens in new tab)) who claims to have learned “some of the games” that
Audio player loading… You can’t say Nintendo Switch Online is devoid of interesting inclusions, as an upcoming addition of an N64 classic proves. The Nintendo Switch‘s online subscription service is set to get Pokémon Puzzle League on July 15. The N64 puzzler comes hot on the heels of Pokémon Snap which came to the service
Audio player loading… How quickly can AMD’s FSR 2.0 (FidelityFX Super Resolution) be bolted on to a game? Pretty swiftly indeed, as demonstrated in an eye-opening livestream session conducted by a software development engineer at Team Red. Panos Karabelas (who was previously a rendering programmer at Codemasters, of DiRT and F1 fame) has now posted
Audio player loading… The PS5’s laundry list of amazing features just got a bit longer, thanks to the addition of auto low-latency mode support. Sony quietly announced the new PS5 feature on the official PlayStation support page (opens in new tab). The announcement details exactly what the latest system update brings, with auto low-latency support
Audio player loading… Apple has been keen to display how its own in-house silicon copes with running games, but a recent benchmark in which the recently released M2 chip edges out an AMD Ryzen iGPU really puts its determination to enter the gaming market into perspective. The M2 chip was benchmarked against a variety of
Audio player loading… Meta’s long-awaited follow-up to the Meta Quest 2 (formerly Oculus Quest 2) VR headset might finally have an official name – and no one is surprised about it. Currently referred to by its working title, Project Cambria has long been known to be a more powerful version of the Quest 2. Not