Gaming

Maybe I’m missing something, but Mass Effect Legendary Edition’s new level scaling system has me baffled. Watch on YouTube There are a lot of little changes beyond the graphical overhaul present in the new version of 2007 classic Mass Effect that’s included in Mass Effect Legendary Edition, the newly-released remaster. These range from changes to

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. One question gamers have been asking more or less since the invention of graphics is, “How long until GPUs can make a game look “real?” This has always been a difficult lift. While it’s possible to create photo-realistic renders, doing

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Buying a new desktop video card can be murder right now. Thanks to the chip shortage and crypto price spike, you’d be lucky to find an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3000-series GPU for less than a thousand dollars. You can get

Call of Duty: Warzone look to be set to receive some sort of cross-over with iconic 80s action movie heroes. For the past few days, the official Call of Duty account on Twitter has been teasing the arrival of two iconic characters from 80s cinema into Warzone. Watch on YouTube This all started with a

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Every console and GPU has been difficult to find for most of the past seven months, but the Switch is in a class of its own. The console has been scarce for over a year and now we know why:

By Sherif Saed6 May 2021 12:18 GMT Treyarch is following up the recent Season 3 launch in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War with a little bit of new content. Thursday’s update in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War brings the usual weekly refresh to the game’s multiplayer playlists, but it also introduces

Here at ExtremeTech, we’ve often discussed the difference between different types of NAND structures — vertical NAND versus planar, or multi-level cell (MLC) versus triple-level cells (TLC) and quad-level cells (QLC). Now, let’s talk about the more basic relevant question: How do SSDs work in the first place, and how do they compare with newer technologies, like

By Stephany Nunneley1 May 2021 20:26 GMT Chris has been announced as the latest character to join The King of Fighters roster. The King of Fighters 15’s roster has expanded with Chris who is part of team Orochi Team. Watch on YouTube In charge of vocals for the band CYS, he and his bandmates Shermie

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Sony sold 7.8 million PlayStation 5s through the end of March, narrowly beating the PS4’s 7.6 million sold through the same period in 2013-2014. PlayStation 5s remain difficult to find on store shelves, both in the US and across the

By Dom Peppiatt28 April 2021 12:10 GMT Pokemon Go Fest 2021 is set for summer, and because Covid-19 is still very much a thing, it’s an online event that’ll occur simultaneously around the world. This year’s Pokemon Go Fest event has been scheduled for July 17 and July 18, with developer Niantic describing this year’s

Tales of Arise is finally releasing in September! We’ve rounded up where you can pre-order the latest of the ‘Tales of’ series, so you don’t have to search for your preferred retailer. This Bandai Namco RPG has been MIA for a while, but we finally know when the next title in the Tales series is

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The point of playing a video game is to play it, but Sony has come up with an alternative. The company has patented a technology that trains an AI in your playstyle and lets it take over if you need

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Anyone who’s been paying attention to Microsoft’s Windows 10 update track record will be unsurprised to hear there’s another bad update rolling out. Numerous reports around the web describe plummeting game performance following the most recent April Windows update, which

By Dom Peppiatt20 April 2021 11:28 GMT A new Xbox Series X/S update is due to land soon that will let players have a touch more control over the system’s Quick Resume feature. The update, which is available now to anyone that’s a member of the Alpha Skip-Ahead group, allows you to see all games that

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Nvidia’s first attempt to block cryptocurrency mining didn’t go well. While the company initially promised a cryptocurrency mining blocker would debut with the RTX 3060, it accidentally released a driver that allowed mining on the card a few days later.

By Sherif Saed16 April 2021 11:10 GMT The Warzone Zombies event is coming to an end, and it’s getting slightly more exciting. As the end of Warzone‘s second season approaches, Raven has added in one last twist to the battle royale mode’s uneventful zombie invasion event, which has been active for weeks and only served

If your SSD is suddenly running out of space, it may be because of Outriders. In what seems to be an endless list of issues, one Outriders player has discovered a particularly strange problem. Though it may not be anywhere near as severe as the inventory wipe bug, or the game’s general instability, it’s still

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. As GPU prices have increased, cryptocurrency miners and gamers have resorted to once-unusual tactics for buying video cards, like paying monthly fees to bot subscription services or paying thousands of dollars on eBay. It’s always fun to watch the cost

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Alienware has announced a new laptop powered by AMD’s Ryzen Mobile 5000 family, while Dell has added a new AMD gaming system to its own product matrix as well. In Alienware’s case, it’s the first time the company has offered

Electronic Arts has patented a dynamic difficulty system that can predict and respond to a player’s mood, and appears directed towards making your gaming sessions longer. The patent was filed in October 2020 (thanks GameSpot) and was made available for the public to see towards the end of March 2021. EA itself is calling the tech ‘Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment’ and

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. According to a recent report, Nvidia is increasing the supply of GTX 1650 cards to the desktop consumer market after having prioritized the GPU for notebooks. This is good news. The GPU market is so overheated, we’re currently recommending readers

By Stephany Nunneley, Thursday, 1 April 2021 19:51 GMT Microsoft has announced three games are free to play this weekend with Xbox Live Gold and Game Pass Ultimate. As part of this week’s Xbox Free Play Days, The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited, Hunt: Showdown, and Steel Rats are all available for Xbox Live Gold

By Sherif Saed, Wednesday, 31 March 2021 10:43 GMT The Warzone side may have the more interesting patch notes with the mid-season update. One day after the mid-season patch for Black Ops Cold War‘s Season 2 arrived in the main game, a similar update has now made its way to Warzone. The list of patch

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. A boutique builder has launched a new lineup of “no GPU” enthusiast PCs, specifically intended for gamers who already have a video card but need to buy everything else. So far, only one company that we’re aware of has taken

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Most of the hottest game releases for next-gen consoles are going to run you $70, an increase gamers are not relishing. That’s nothing compared with a copy of the original Super Mario Bros for NES. This sealed cartridge is set

By Stephany Nunneley, Friday, 26 March 2021 19:55 GMT Twelve Minutes still doesn’t have a release date, but at least we know it’s coming soon. That’s according to Annapurna Interactive’s Luis Antonio which stated as much regarding Twelve Minutes during the ID@Xbox Twitch showcase. According to Antonio, the team putting the finishing touches on the

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti, previously thought to be launching in April, may not actually debut until mid-May. There have been various capacity predictions for the new cards — 20GB units were originally forecast — but the new report suggests

By Sherif Saed, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 09:23 GMT Nintendo’s upcoming Switch refresh is looking like quite the upgrade. A new report from Bloomberg has revealed yet more details about Nintendo’s unannounced, upcoming Switch model. The new Switch refresh, which may be called Switch Pro, will make use of one of Nvidia’s killer technologies. That,

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Microsoft is continuing its quest to make Xbox Game Pass a first-class contender for gaming. The company has now introduced support for dual-screen gaming on devices like the Surface Duo. Here’s how the feature works: Fire up Game Pass on

Evo, the premier fighting game tournament, has joined the PlayStation family. Sony Interactive Entertainment has acquired fighting game tournament Evo. PlayStation now co-owns Evo, along with a new esports venture called RTS. The 25-year-old tournament will return this year, as an online-only event. Evo co-founders Tom and Tony Cannon will remain involved with the tournament