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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. 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. 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

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

Audio player loading… If you’re into crypto, the Polium One NFT console might sound like an enticing proposition. For everyone else, it’s comedy gold. Polium One’s developers have proposed the console as a portal for ‘Web3’ gaming. Such games typically fall under the ‘play-to-earn’ banner. That is, earning cryptocurrency through play.  Given the controversy surrounding

Audio player loading… PS5 storage space has a tendency to fill up fast, but Western Digital’s latest PS5 SSDs look set to combat that, as well as cut down on long load times. The WD Black SN850 NVMe SSD for PS5 is available now to buy from Western Digital’s official online store (opens in new

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

According to one developer who’s worked on the PS5 remake of The Last of Us, it’s not “just a cash grab.” The developer in question, Robert Morrison, recently put out a tweet on his personal Twitter account responding to criticisms of The Last of Us Part 1 and its existence being purely for profit. “‘It’s

Elden Ring wouldn’t be a true FromSoftware game if it didn’t have people playing it in weird ways, like this one player who beat the game using a piano. With the flexibility of Elden Ring’s builds, there’s a whole number of ways to beat the game. You like big swords? You can get a big

One thing that stood out to me when I saw Studio MDHR show off Cuphead‘s long-awaited DLC – the Delicious Last Course – in a preview session last month was the comparisons the studio made to Fantasia. The developer – as it showed off a soundtrack recorded with more musicians, animation done on larger paper