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Dive into the best single player games available right now for a gaming experience you’ll never forget. These are titles big and small that have managed to not only capture the imagination but they offer fresh narratives and gorgeous environments to get lost in. It was not that long ago that it seemed like the

Have you too been scarred by the sound of Sonic the Hedgehog drowning after that frantic countdown music starts playing? Have you huffed and sighed in frustration as Lara Croft bonked uselessly against an underwater wall in a cave for the 800th time? Have you rolled your eyes and turned off your PlayStation after making

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Game publishers have taken a real shine to microtransactions in recent years, so it’s not surprising there’s so much interest in NFTs or “non-fungible tokens” in games. These are essentially blockchain-backed microtransactions on steroids. A survey from the organizers of

Audio player loading… It may have taken eight years, but one of the best PS5 features – which it inherited from the PS4 – is now finally available on Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S consoles.  However, the fancy new Xbox feature is actually turned off by default, which means that many of you

Audio player loading… Regardless of where you stand in the so-called “console war”, it’s hard to deny that Xbox Game Pass has revolutionized what we’ve come to expect from gaming.  Sony has been more successful than Microsoft in terms of gaming hardware, with the PS5 outselling the Xbox Series X and Series S. However, so

The ending to the third Assassin’s Creed game was originally intended to end quite differently, according to interviews with staffers that worked on the titles and conducted by a Ph.D. student. In a paper written by Lars de Wildt, who researches conspiracy theories, religion, and other beliefs in digital media culture, the original ending to

Quick bit of news for you: EA is offering up a nice deal on three months of EA Play. From now until February 8, new members can get three months of EA Play for the price of one. This means three months’ worth of service will run you $4.99. After your initial 90-day period is

A selection of official Oculus Quest 2 accessories including the Elite Strap, Carrying Case, and Oculus Link Cable are reduced in both the US and UK.  The discounts are fairly small but do drop the prices of these useful extras to their lowest ever prices. That makes them some of the best Oculus Quest 2

Raven Software workers in charge of quality assurance on Call of Duty: Warzone have formed a union dubbed the Game Workers Alliance which is part of the Communication Workers of America (CWA). Activision Blizzard employees have been threatening to unionize ever since they went on strike seven weeks ago, and of the Raven QA testers,

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Microsoft’s decision to buy Activision Blizzard has raised questions regarding what kind of support Sony PlayStation customers can expect in the future. Microsoft’s treatment of Bethesda after it bought that studio doesn’t suggest great outcomes for current PlayStation 5 owners.

God of War: Ragnarok is on its way, and the latest news from Sony suggests it’ll land on PS5 (as well as the PS4) sometime in 2022.  Since the game’s announcement back in September 2020, there’s been very little official news or firm details about what we can expect from God of War: Ragnarok, other

Acivision CEO Bobby Kotick has always had a soft spot for the Guitar Hero games and recently told VentureBeat he had ideas for a new entry in the franchise. In the interview, Kotick tells VentureBeat that he had a “really cool vision” for the next Guitar Hero game, but unfortunately, Activision didn’t have “the resouces”

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. This week AMD launched launched the first “budget friendly” RX 6000-series GPU with its RDNA2 technology, the RX 6500 XT. The launch was not without controversy however, as in order for AMD to hit its desired $199 price point it

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The smartphone wars were won by apps. That’s why we’re all using Android and iOS phones rather than Palm and BlackBerry. The number of apps on those platforms doesn’t matter as much these days — it’s more than enough. Now,

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. (Image: Amazon)In what is truly a sign of the dystopian times we are currently living in, a Japanese Amazon seller has begun offering “GPU Loot Boxes” for sale, offering some “lucky” buyers the chance at a wide range of both

Refresh 2022-01-19T17:47:51.559Z The big just keep getting bigger Just how big will the combined Microsoft and Activision Blizzard game business be? Daniel Ahmed, who tweets about games under the handle ZhugeEX, did some back-of-the-napkin math with 2020 earnings and found that the combined gaming revenue of the two companies could be $21.9B.  Sony’s game revenues

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. (Image: AMD)Back at CES a few weeks ago, AMD invited people to “step up your game” with its upcoming Radeon RX 6500 XT graphics card. It was marketed as the first “entry level” RDNA2 GPU from the company, and that

DICE is back from the holidays, and one of the first items on the agenda is adressing the XP earn problem in Battlefield 2042‘s Portal mode. Shortly after the launch of Battlefield 2042, some quickly started creating XP farming servers in the community-driven Portal experience. DICE quickly caught on, and decided to disable XP earn