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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Cloud gaming services are all the rage these days. Microsoft and Google are both making major pushes into the area, joining services like Nvidia’s GeForce Now and PlayStation Now. The exact features of each service differ, however, and they aren’t

By Emily Gera, Monday, 11 November 2019 22:55 GMT It took over 25 hours for one player to finish The Outer Worlds on the highest difficulty without killing anybody. Yep, it’s possible. Game streamer Kyle Hinckley tested it out for himself, managing to complete the game as a pacifist while playing on its highest difficulty.

By Stephany Nunneley, Thursday, 7 November 2019 20:37 GMT If you’re attending X019 London, you’ll be able to get your hands on over 24 playable titles. Those attending X019 next weekend will have plenty of titles to try out. Microsoft announced the playable games today, and the list includes Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition, Battletoads,

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Fresh off the PR firestorm surrounding its suspension of a Hearthstone player for supporting the Hong Kong protests, Blizzard has finally announced the long-awaited Diablo 4 at Blizzcon 2019. We don’t have many details on the game, but the 9-minute

One of the most controversial recent changes to Overwatch is the addition of the role queue, a pre-match decision where players must choose one or more roles they’re happy to play as – Tank, Support, and DPS – before being assigned one at the character select screen. The role queue makes for tighter matches, ensuring

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Sony has unquestionably won the latest round in the console wars. As of this week, the PS4 has officially sold 102.8 million units. That’s significantly more than the PS3 (87.4M units), and there’s still a full year to go in

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The Switch Lite is selling incredibly well for Nintendo. The company revealed during its last quarterly report that it shipped 1.95 million Switch Lite consoles in the first ten days it was available. That compares well even against the Switch,

By Stephany Nunneley, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 19:54 GMT You can now pre-load Red Dead Redemption 2 through the Rockstar Games Launcher. Those who have pre-purchased Red Dead Redemption 2 for PC can now pre-load the game through the Rockstar Games Launcher. You will need to make sure you have 109.47GB of free space available.

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Much of this story presented firmly tongue-in-cheek. War. War never changes. On October 23, 2077, the Great War between China, the United States, and the USSR broke out. By the time it ended, two hours later, the world had been

By Stephany Nunneley, Saturday, 26 October 2019 20:43 GMT Epic Games is suing a beta tester for leaking details about Fortnite Chapter 2 ahead of launch. Ronald Sykes is being sued by Epic for violating a non-disclosure regarding Fortnite Chapter 2. According to the suit, reported by Polygon, Sykes was a beta tester who revealed information

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Great roleplaying games don’t come along very often, but the reception for The Outer Worlds suggests the title is a genre gem. The game releases on October 25 and reviews have come in from a number of publications. The overall

By Stephany Nunneley, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 20:15 GMT Ark: Survival Evolved is once again getting in Halloween spirit. Ark: Survival Evolved players can now participate in the annual Ark: Fear Evolved Halloween event. Try not to get too spooked. Running now through November 5, the in-game event will see candy corn-themed supply drops, randomly

By Emily Gera, Friday, 18 October 2019 22:10 GMT United States politicians are now weighing in on Blizzard’s recent ban against a professional Hearthstone player who spoke out in favour of the Hong Kong protests. Today prominent Democrats and Republicans released a joint letter urging Activision Blizzard head Bobby Kotick to reverse course on the

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Razer made its name creating flashy gaming peripherals like mice, headset, and of course, keyboards. It has since moved into the laptop space with the Blade series of gaming-oriented notebooks. Its previous innovation in laptop keyboards has been mostly limited

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Toss another body on the burn pile. During the same event in which it launched the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL, Google killed off the Daydream VR platform. Neither of the new devices is compatible with the Daydream VR

By Emily Gera, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 05:23 GMT A console and mobile version of League of Legends is in the works from Riot Games. The developer revealed the new title as part of a slew of new game announcements made today during its 10th anniversary celebration. “Wild Rift is not a port of LoL

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Earlier this year, Nvidia launched a very old game into the modern era with an RTX-enhanced version of Quake II. The new version of the very old game was generally well-received. It helps that Quake II was an iconic title

With so many evolutions to choose from, you want to make sure that you get your favorite – so let’s talk about how to evolve Eevee in Pokemon Go. For our money, Eevee is one of the coolest Pokemon. It’s one of the cutest of the original Red/Blue/Green generation of Pokemon games, yes, and it’s

By Lauren Aitken, Saturday, 12 October 2019 20:22 GMT The Season 10 finale is just about to begin, so here’s where you can watch it. If you don’t feel like logging into Fortnite and dealing with some mighty lag, you can watch The End in-game event here. We’re expecting The Visitor’s rocket to take up

By Stephany Nunneley, Friday, 11 October 2019 19:51 GMT Another patch has been released for Borderlands 3, and like the last one, it features balance changes. The latest Borderlands 3 patch is live on all platforms, and addresses passive abilities, gear balance, and quality-of-life issues. Players can expect further adjustments to gear in the coming

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. As the PlayStation 5’s launch date draws closer, we’re learning more details about the system and its expected feature set. A new patent granted to Sony, published on October 3, suggests that the firm is working on a follow-up to

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Valve has added a new capability to Steam that should make it much easier to find other people to play local cooperative multiplayer games with. If it works, it might encourage more developers to invest in this capability in the

By Stephany Nunneley, Thursday, 10 October 2019 20:22 GMT Switch has sold over 10 million units in Europe, according to the latest figures from Nintendo. Nintendo of Europe announced today over 10 million Switch units have sold in the region since its 2017 release. The figure represents both the standard model and the new Switch

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. One of the problems facing Google Stadia — beyond Google’s habit of slaughtering every project that doesn’t become an instant, industry-dominating hit — is that there’s an intrinsic latency baked-in to using it. There’s simply no way to send data

By Stephany Nunneley, Wednesday, 9 October 2019 21:07 GMT Sony may have promised to continue supporting current PlayStation VR headsets, but that should’t keep it from releasing an updated version. A patent for a new PlayStation VR model filed in February as surfaced, via LetsGoDigital. What’s most interesting is that the headset is wireless, which

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Back in 2017, Intel launched a radical new product. Kaby Lake-G, which powered the company’s Hades Canyon line of NUCs (New Unit of Computing), combined a Kaby Lake CPU with an AMD GPU, using Intel’s then-new interconnect technology, EMIB. Intel

By Stephany Nunneley, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 21:11 GMT Quick bit of news for you: someone broke in to Valve and stole quite a bit of stuff. Last month, 32-year-old Shawn Shaputis broke into Valve and ripped off over $40,000 worth of equipment and games. He was even caught on camera selling some of the

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. To date, Sony has kept pretty quiet about the PlayStation 5. Thanks to a new interview with PS5 system architect Mark Cerny, we can now confirm one detail — the machine will officially be known as the PlayStation 5. That’s

By Emily Gera, Monday, 7 October 2019 19:51 GMT Monster Hunter World has shipped over 14 million copies globally since its launch in 2018. That includes both 10 million in physical units and four million in digital copies. The milestone was announced over the game’s official Twitter account today. Monster Hunter: World is the fastest-selling

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. With the RX 5700 and 5700 XT in-market since June, it was inevitable that AMD would refresh the lower end of its product family. Big Navi may not drop until 2020, but there’s plenty of room at the lower end