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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. There’s two pieces of Half-Life related news today. First of all, the Half-Life: Alyx dev team has posted an AMA on Reddit, and they actually give some intriguing answers to what sorts of changes and design rules Valve has followed

By Sherif Saed, Thursday, 23 January 2020 10:26 GMT Valve shared a few details about its approach to accessibility in Half-Life: Alyx. As part of Valve’s wide-reaching Reddit AMA on Half-Life: Alyx, the developer answered a number of questions about the sort of accessibility options players can expect in the game. In the AMA, Valve

By Stephany Nunneley, Saturday, 18 January 2020 17:39 GMT Ubisoft has filed a lawsuit against a website, and multiple people around the globe, which offers a DDoS service to users. The company claims the site was used to interfere with the Rainbow Six Siege servers. According to court documents obtained by Polygon, Ubisoft filed suit

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Google’s Chrome OS started out as little more than a browser, but Google has slowly added more application support with Android and Linux modules. Chrome OS might be getting a lot more fun, too. According to a new report, Google

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. GameStop released its holiday earnings report this week, rather than waiting to roll holiday results into its next quarterly report. The company reported that store sales were down 27.5 percent for the Christmas holiday compared with 2018. Of course, GameStop

By Sherif Saed, Wednesday, 15 January 2020 09:56 GMT Look back on your 2019 PlayStation journey with the help of this new tool. Sony has gone live with the Wrap-Up, a site that helps you track everything you did on your PS4 console in 2019. The review shows your most played games, favourite genre, Trophies

The 23rd annual DICE Awards takes place on February 13, with Control and Death Stranding leading the pack with eight nominations each. Both games are up for Game of the Year at the 23rd annual DICE Awards, alongside Disco Elysium, Outer Wilds, and Untitled Goose Game. Death Stranding and Control are also up for Game

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Bethesda released updated versions of its classic Doom and Doom II earlier this year. At the time, the new versions of the classic game mostly got noticed for the initial mandatory login in order to play Doom or Doom II.

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. A powerful gaming PCs used to require a massive tower enclosure, but small form factor PCs are now commonplace. Intel’s latest Next Unit of Computing (NUC) barebones platform could unlock a new era in tiny gaming computers, along with some

By Sherif Saed, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 09:29 GMT If you’ve pining for a trip back to Vice City but don’t actually want to play the original, this GTA 5 mod has you covered. GTA 5 mod creator lunchxbles has released the 1.0 version of their GTA: Vice City mod. The mod brings the entirety

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Ever since AMD launched its high-end Radeon 5700 and 5700 XT GPUs on 7nm, there have been questions about when Nvidia would make a similar move. Competitively, Nvidia was able to respond to the 5700 and 5700 XT by launching

By Sherif Saed, Friday, 3 January 2020 09:31 GMT One of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare’s smallest, but nonetheless annoying problems will soon be fixed. Since launch, avid Call of Duty: Modern Warfare players have been complaining about the limited number of custom classes available in multiplayer. Previous Call of Duty games allowed players to

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Immersion cooling manufacturer CoolBitts thinks there might be a market for immersion cooling systems at the ultra-high-end of the market. The company has announced a kit including chassis, coolant, fans, PCIe tray, power meter, pump, radiator, and rear IO panel.

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Ever since Intel announced Xe, its next-generation graphics processor, there’s been speculation and discussion about what kind of GPUs the company would bring to market. Ice Lake’s new GPU is an important step along this path, with its substantial performance

There are newer games to play this holiday season, but none quite as cool. Whether you’re playing on PC, Xbox, or PlayStation, by now you’ve probably played by the rules in GTA: San Andreas a thousand times, so let’s mix it up with some cheat codes. These codes can spawn any weapon you want, any

It’s been out for ages, but there’s always something new in GTA Online. We’ve seen a new heist and casino DLC, but playing the tables and manipulating the stock market is for dweebs. Grab a gun, let’s plan a big score. Grand Theft Auto 5 is one of the greatest games ever made, and you’ll

As 2019 draws to a close, GTA 5 is still one of the top games in the world. It is, without doubt, a genre-defining game. Let’s rinse it for all its worth.GTA 5 is an outlier. Everyone’s played it, and everyone knows what Grand Theft Auto is. It’s one of a small handful of games

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Blizzard announced Warcraft III: Reforged just over a year ago, promising a 2019 release. Well, that’s not going to happen. However, we do have an official release date for the remastered game. It’s coming on January 28, 2020. It’s no

Earlier this week, I argued that the backward-compatibility features Microsoft is launching with the Xbox Series X will put consoles on an equal footing with PCs for the first time ever. My point was not to claim that PC and console gaming would now literally be identical, but that adding accessory and software backward compatibility

By Sherif Saed, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 08:57 GMT The first season of content in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is due for a refresh today. Later today, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare will receive its last big patch before the holidays. The game’s first season remains underway, and it’s getting a content boost. Activision

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Last night, Microsoft officially unveiled what we’ve been referring to as the Xbox Next (Project Scarlett). Anyone hoping for the sudden appearance of a coherent Xbox branding strategy had their hopes dashed — the follow-up to the Xbox One is

By Stephany Nunneley, Friday, 13 December 2019 20:00 GMT It’s Friday which means Xur is back in Destiny 2. This week you can find Destiny 2’s vendor, Xur, hanging out on Nessus near the Watcher’s Grave. In his bag are a pair of chest pieces, a trace rifle, and a set of gauntlets. Below you

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. A good VR experience can make you feel like you could reach out and touch things in the virtual world. You can’t of course, but the Oculus Quest is getting you one step closer with full hand tracking technology. You

By Emily Gera, Monday, 9 December 2019 23:27 GMT More information about the upcoming Netflix series continues to trickle out ahead of the show’s release later this month. Netflix has released a new character featurette for the upcoming television adaptation of The Witcher, with interviews from the main cast – including Henry Cavill as Geralt

Just when you thought you were out, they pull you back in. GTA Online will get one more Heist, this time set at the recently opened Diamond Resort and Casino. Starting December 12, you will be tasked with breaching the vault and taking revenge on the Duggan family. Here’s the blurb: The Diamond Casino Heist

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. You cannot deny that higher frame rates look nicer when playing a game. That’s why gamers sometimes spend ludicrous amounts of cash on the latest GPUs and monitors to boost their FPS. However, Nvidia recently conducted a study showing that

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. We’re nearing the end of the current game console generation, and that means the next-gen consoles already exist as “developer kits” in game studios around the world. We now have the first confirmed image of the PlayStation 5 dev kit,

By Lauren Aitken, Monday, 2 December 2019 08:06 GMT There’s a new time trial challenge to complete in Fortnite this week as you swim your way to victory around the map. For this challenge, you’ll need to take part in swimming time trials at Lazy Lake and Hydro 16. For those not in the know,

Critics are taking to Twitter with first impressions of the Netflix show. While the actual review embargo for The Witcher Netflix series doesn’t lift until December 20, critics who have watched the first five episodes have already taken to social media with some initial – and spoiler-free – impressions. And so far everyone seems to

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. If you never wanted a Valve controller when they cost $50 but think $5 sounds great for a controller Valve is cancelling, you can buy a Steam Controller for $5. But you’d best order one soon, because as of December