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The PlayStation 5 Pro is looking to be an extremely developer-friendly system, as it would require developers little effort to offer better and more stable performance if the leaked specifications going around are real.

Content surrounding one of ' most iconic villains may be locked behind a paywall. The open-world game from Ubisoft's Massive Entertainment is set to see a new character, Kay Vess, explore the criminal underworld as she attempts to build her reputation and carry out the biggest heist the Outer Rim has ever seen.

Nintendo Switch 2 has yet to be revealed, but the wait is not going to be much longer, as a March reveal is very likely.

A new 4.4 leak is hinting at what may end up being the most annoying opponent in the game. As the game pushes further into Version 4.3, the amount of leaks about the next update is increasing, revealing a lot of the planned content that should be added when the patch arrives. This includes playable characters, area expansions, limited-time events and rewards, and even quality-of-life adjustments. One of the most notable ones is that about Xianyun’s leaked kit in 4.4, for instance, which details the new character’s abilities, from her active skills to her Constellation levels.

It looks as though a could be in the works at Insomniac Games, according to leaked details from the company.

A question that The Legend of Zelda fans have been asking for what feels like forever is if the titular princess is ever going to be a playable character in a mainline instalment, and though she’s obviously had crucial roles in many Zelda stories over the years, we’ve never actually got to play as her. But according to series producer Eiji Aonuma, it’s not something that’s out of the question.

South of Midnight was easily one of the standout reveals shown by Microsoft at the Xbox Games Showcase 2023 this Summer.

Although 's modding community is still continuing to grow after the game's relatively recent release, a new update could already be spelling trouble for the game's future mods. Open-world RPGs made by Bethesda have a relatively long history of modding, with games from and seriesboasting some of the most high-profile modding communities in the entire gaming industry. Ranging from community-made fixes, to quality-of-life UI changes, to entirely new content, mods for many Bethesda RPGs tend to enhance the games they're for to a new level, allowing players to change their experience to suit their own needs.

The PC version of Final Fantasy XVI may require an SSD, producer Naoki Yoshida suggested in a new interview.

The latest Steam hardware survey has shown that previous Nvidia graphics cards are still very much in vogue when it comes to PC gaming. However, one of the lower-end 3000 series may be getting pushed aside to make room for a GPU that could be, inexplicably, worse.

Here we go again — the ever-reliable billbil-kun has dug up another impending game announcement. Posting on X (formerly and preferably known as Twitter), the leaker has suggested Josef Fares' debut game is making a comeback.

As we had reported, Grand Theft Auto VI is not launching on PC. Now, we may know the reason Rockstar chose to do it this way.

There are new skins in 4.4, according to a set of leaks that go so far as to describe the design of these alternate pieces of clothes. While not as popular or common as playable characters themselves, skins offer players the chance to change some heroes’ appearances, often equipping clothing that is designed differently and even boasts different color palettes than usual. So far, HoYoverse has introduced 10 different skins for characters in the game, the last ones added being Kaeya and Klee’s skins in ’s Version 3.8. Skins for 5-star characters are usually paid, while those for 4-star heroes are given for free via limited-time events.

A new game mode has been featured in the 4.3 leaks ahead of the version’s release later in December. The upcoming patch is expected to continue the content revolving around the region of Fontaine, introduced to Teyvat earlier this year, even if it does not directly explore main campaign quests within the nation of Hydro – Version 4.2 added the last Archon Quests in the region before a pause, and properly concluded the story involving Focalors, Furina, Neuvillette, and many other heroes. As a live-service game, however, HoYoverse’s popular action RPG will continue to receive content moving forward, much of which has already been leaked.

Elden Ring may be about to get some new content, judging from some recent behind-the-scenes activity on Steam.

Sega says Yakuza and Persona mobile games could be on the way.

Tony Todd has revealed that a huge amount of the work he did for was cut from the final game. The horror icon appeared at Fan Expo San Francisco over the past weekend to talk about his role as Venom in the acclaimed superhero sequel and offered an insight into another storyline involving the symbiote and Miles Morales.

There have been some wild rumors circulating on the Nintendo Switch 2 and its capabilities, but there's a good chance these may be exaggerations, and the only area where the new console by Nintendo will have the upper hand over the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S will be ray tracing thanks to NVIDIA's Ray Reconstruction tech.

Since its launch, Baldur’s Gate 3 has been celebrated, though some players have been complaining about bugs and poor performance. Larian recently explained why this is happening and what the plans to fix it are.

The issues that some users are experiencing with the PlayStation Portal may be caused by the device's bitrate limitations, judging from a recent discovery.

Death Stranding 2 may be releasing in 2025, according to new information that was discovered online today.

The Xbox Rewards app may be closing down, according to an alleged screenshot from a Brazilian user.

This year’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III hasn’t gone over great guns with fans, and so, a lot of them are already turning their attention to next year’s CoD experience. We know the next Call of Duty is being developed by the dependable folks at Treyarch, will almost certainly come under the Black Ops banner, and recent evidence has pointed to the game being set in around the First Gulf War. Well, new sources have emerged to “confirm” the Gulf War setting.

It's starting to look like Timothée Chalamet could be making an appearance in , and this upcoming role could be the strangest one he's yet taken on. The world of is complex, but the one thing that's consistent about it is the weirdness that it brings to the table. Although post-apocalyptic America isn't an unfamiliar concept, avoids standard tropes like zombies and rigid dystopic societies for a more unusual flavor. Character names like Die-Hardman immediately make it obvious how off-kilter things can be, while the nuances of figures like Higgs combine compelling characterization and memorable quirks seamlessly.

Prime Video has released a new teaser trailer for Invincible season 2 episode 4 – the last episode to air before the series goes on a brief hiatus.

A new job listing for the upcoming Wonder Woman game suggests it may have a live service element.

The casting of Abby in the second season of The Last of Us TV series may be imminent, according to a report.

The PlayStation Portal handheld may become a more enticing purchase for a wider range of players in the future, as Sony will be looking into implementing cloud streaming support in the coming months.

NetEase's popular Chinese MMORPG, Justice, could soon make its Western debut. This speculation is fueled by a trademark application for Sword of Justice by NetEase Interactive Entertainment, filed on September 1, 2023, indicating a possible rebranding for the Western market.

Diablo 4's developers have offered up a slight tease about the sought-after 'cow level'.

X (formerly Twitter) is going through a transformative period. Recently, Elon Musk, the owner of the platform, revealed his plans to turn it into an ‘everything app'. The company is also releasing new features at a break-neck pace. Some of these features are also exclusive to the X Premium members, who pay a monthly subscription fee, to improve its revenue. Now, a new report has highlighted that X is also selling off old user handles to others at a massive price tag of $50000 and up. This revelation has emerged after some reports mentioned that X may actually start a marketplace where users can sell their handles to other users, and the platform takes a cut.

If you've been playing World of Warcraft for long enough, you've probably heard stories about datamined and cut content over the years - much of which has been repurposed eventually. Take the Dragon Isles, for instance, which were a zone originally cut from the game way back in the original game's alpha, but which are now the elaborate setting for the most recent Dragonflight expansion. And now, Blizzard may have just teased the canonization of one of its most notorious, creepy pieces of cut content: the Karazhan Crypts.

Mysterious zombie MMO The Day Before will now launch on 7th December, developer Fntastic has said, and be released on Steam as an early access game initially priced $39.

A Easter egg may be hinting at some unexpected DLC content for the game. While many had expected story DLC for Insomniac Games' acclaimed superhero sequel, much like DLC for the first, most of the theories around its content revolved around continuing a story set up in one of the title's side missions, but this may not be the case.

Two months ago, renowned leaker The Snitch said a God of War Ragnarök DLC/standalone expansion was in the works and around 60% complete. The rumor was more than a bit surprising, as the previous installment received no DLC. Moreover, just after the game's launch last year, Game Director Eric Williams publicly stated fans shouldn't count on a DLC since the game was already very big.

There are so many Five Nights at Freddy’s Easter eggs and cameos that we can barely keep track, but a new theory suggests we may have missed the biggest one. 

Elon Musk is trying to stop users from posting viral misinformation on Twitter/X by clamping down on its revenue-sharing program.

On Twitter, @charlieINTEL posted images of what is alleged to be an upcoming PS5 Slim bundle. The bundle features Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 along with the new PS5 Slim.

Thanks to the expert sluething of dataminers, we now have some pretty compelling evidence that suggests Diablo IV's first expansion will be called "Lord of Hatred," and will focus on everyone's favorite soulstone occupant: Mephisto.

While information continues to leak regarding Intel's new LGA 1851 socket for its upcoming Arrow Lake CPUs, it has been noted that as things stand the physical CPU size is likely to remain the same as the previous generation, albeit in a socket with a greater number of pins. This has started some speculation as to whether coolers designed for the older LGA 1700 socket will be compatible with the new CPUs, and the release of AZZA's latest Cube 240 and Cube 360 AIO units may well confirm it.

A short while after Apple officially announced its October 30 ‘Crazy Fast’ event, an analyst backtracks on his original prediction concerning the company’s launch of the M3 and the MacBook Pro lineup that will feature this chipset. Apparently, he believes that the lack of upgrades provided by the M2 will force Apple to proceed with a launch this year even though the upcoming portable Macs might be produced in fewer numbers.

Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol.1 is likely to get resolution options on PC thanks to modders soon, judging from some discoveries made only a few hours after the game launched on Steam.

Those of you in the market for a new monitor may already be aware of the almighty AW3423DWF, an OLED ultrawide that continues to sit at the top of gaming monitor recommendation lists including our very own best gaming monitor guide. Given its continued success it's no surprise that Alienware are looking to take advantage of that momentum and add more QD-OLED monitors to the range, and it looks like they've teased just that in a recent livestream at TwitchCon 2023.

In the future, Starfield players may be able to build their own space station outposts, judging from some information that was recently uncovered within the game's files.

Chain-smoking occult investigator John Constantine returns in 2024 with Hellblazer: Dead In America. The new eight-issue series is written by Si Spurrier, drawn by Aaron Campbell and colored by Jordie Bellaire. The series is a sequel - and possibly a conclusion - to the same creative team's acclaimed 2019-2021 run. 

Despite its occasional blunders, the Destiny franchise has successfully fostered a community of clever and loyal secret hunters and lore theorists who are always eager to share their thoughts with the rest of their peers. Often, this means veering deep into Destiny‘s most obscure pieces of lore, with expectedly mixed results. One of the latest theories that’s been posted on the r/DestinyLore subreddit, however, has more merit than most, and it may well be on the right track, given everything it’s got going for it.

We can’t be certain just yet, but it’s possible that Nvidia may be working on a Ti version of the RTX 4080 graphics card. If so, it could offer a more powerful piece of kit than the regular 4080 that’s currently on the market.

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 might be missing a popular feature fans are definitely going to be looking for, at launch time.

It appears that is hiding a Secret Stone in its map of Hyrule. Originally belonging to the Zonai, the artifacts greatly amplify the Sages’ magical abilities in . The seven known Secret Stones are mostly discovered in their corresponding ancient temples in , if not already in the possession of other characters. However, there is actually another way to see one of these mystical artifacts in .

NASA is running various space missions to find out the secrets of the universe. One of the major missions of the space agency is the Parker Solar probe. The spacecraft has been tasked with orbiting the Sun to find out crucial data around sunspots, solar flares, coronal mass ejections (CME), and solar storms. However, in its journey, it routinely flies past Venus. And this has allowed Parker Solar Probe to possibly find the reason behind one of the biggest phenomena that has confused scientists for years. It found that the lightning on Venus may not actually be lightning at all. In fact, they are likely to be meteors that are striking the planet and are burning up in its atmosphere.

While Valve has continuously and categorically ruled out the possibility of an immediate Steam Deck successor, this hasn’t stopped it from tinkering with the device’s existing hardware configuration. Now, a recently discovered document may suggest that a further refresh of its handheld PC could be on the cards.

Activision has unveiled PlayStation-exclusive content coming to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 — potentially the last PlayStation-exclusive content Call of Duty will ever get.

Google did not touch on the specifications of the Tensor G3 during its official announcement, though it spoke incessantly about its computational imaging, video capabilities, and leveraging AI to enhance the final results. Even on the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro comparison page, there are no additional details provided on the latest SoC, but we did stumble across information that mentions that Samsung’s older 4nm manufacturing process is being used to mass produce the Tensor G3, not the latest one.

Mortal Kombat 1 creator Ed Boon has teased that we may soon be welcoming a whole new raft of frighteningly new fighters to the roster.

Ghostface from Scream may be coming to Mortal Kombat 1 as a downloadable fighter.

WatchOS 10 was unveiled at WWDC in June 2023. And after that, it took 3 months for Apple Watch users to finally experience this new update, for which they had been waiting for eagerly. Soon after the grand Wonderlust Apple event, the WatchOS was rolled out on September 18 to all eligible devices. Notably, two smartwatches, Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2, were launched during the Apple event 2023.

Batman: Arkham Knight, the latest entry in the series developed by Rocksteady Studios, may be getting new features soon, judging from some recent activity on Steam.

US regulators have started to notify more than 37 million people that they may be eligible for a refund as part of Epic Game's legal settlement with the Federal Trade Commission.

Fortnite generates plenty of profit through its V-Bucks and microtransactions. Over the years, there have been plenty of reports of parents hit with breathtakingly high bills after a child goes on a Fortnite spending spree. Anyone who’s faced such a situation may be able to claim a refund thanks to a ruling by the Federal Trade Commission.

While I've never been sold on Mortal Kombat's theatrical violence and roster design, I've gotta say that Mortal Kombat 1 is rather beautiful. Well, on PC at least. It looks pretty damn good on PlayStation and Xbox, too. Nintendo Switch, however? It, uh, looks like a game alright. If games were total and utter nightmare fuel.

The Nintendo Switch 2 SOC may be produced on a 5nm process node and have a maximum clock speed of over 2.5 GHz, according to information unearthed today.

After being all but abandoned for the last few years, Titanfall has finally received a major update--and a curious shout-out in recently released Apex Legends patch notes.

The Silent Hill 2 remake may be shown again very soon, judging from some recent findings discovered by fans on Steam.

The release of DLC for almost any given game usually coincides with a patch that implements bug fixes and other improvements big and small. Naturally, today’s release of The Teal Mask DLC expansion for Pokemon Scarlet & Violet serves as no exception. Specifically, it came alongside the Version 2.0.1 patch that aims to improve the experience just that little bit more. And arguably the most significant fix that the patch introduces to Pokemon Scarlet & Violet comes in the form of loading time optimizations when scrolling through the PC boxes where you can store your Pokemon.

A new report published today by Reuters reveals that the Embracer Group is exploring the sale of Gearbox Software with the help of Goldman Sachs and Aream & Co.

The Nintendo Switch 2 is sounding to be more and more like a huge step forward over its predecessor, as suggested by new details on how the tech demos reportedly shown during this year's Gamescom ran on the yet-to-be-revealed console.

Apple event 2023: Apple is about to unveil some exciting news at its "Wonderlust" event at the company's Cupertino, California headquarters on September 12 at 10 a.m. local time. One big change you can expect is that Apple is saying goodbye to its Lightning port and embracing the USB-C charging port. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman confirmed this on the latest MacRumors Show podcast.

In an interview with GameSpot, World of Warcraft Game Director Ion Hazzikostas hinted that another old-world revamp of Azeroth is “likely to happen”. The last time this happened was the 2010 WoW expansion Cataclysm. According to Hazzikostas, the development team would learn lessons from Cataclysm which got a lot of negative criticism for deleting parts of the 2004-era WoW that many players loved. The goal would be to use modern solutions to preserve currently existing pieces of the game.

By Sean Hollister, a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget.

It’s been a long time since the initial release of Mortal Kombat: Deception. Why bring that up? Well, that was the last time we had a full-featured single-player extravaganza of mini-games that went beyond the usual trappings of a fighting game. After many years of the team focusing solely on story modes and online multiplayer, there’s a renewed effort to fill the game with other content.

The Resident Evil 4 remake may be getting additional content in the near future, judging from some behind-the-scenes changes that are being made on Steam.

Warning! We’re discussing some big Ahsoka episode 4 spoilers here so please make sure you’re up to date before going any further.

Well, this is a terrible shame. The recent reboot of Saints Row will be free on PS Plus this month, and we’d hoped it’d give embattled developer Volition a shot in the arm. Unfortunately, having completed its DLC and post-release assignments for the title, it’s now been shut down. You may recall its owner Embracer recently went through a restructuring process, which has led to the closure of the studio.

SpaceX has long relied on YouTube to broadcast its rocket activities, but that may be changing. On Sunday, users noticed that SpaceX made footage of a satellite launch exclusive to Twitter.

According to Bethesda, a lot is going to happen between now and 2330, when Starfield is set. Most obviously, if we follow the timeline setout by the developer, humans will be able to gallivant around in space and planet hop as casually as popping across The Channel for a quick visit to France. In fact, possibly even more casually than that.

Meta is reportedly considering a new paid tier of Facebook and Instagram for users in the EU which would allow those customers to use the social networks without seeing any advertisements.

A new trailer on a PlayStation Productions website appears to suggest that a MediEvil movie or show may be coming in the future.

Whether in the incest themes in Otacon's backstory or the series' overall leering approach to women, Metal Gear Solid is no stranger to controversy. Noting this, Konami has seen fit to include a content warning in the opening of each of the major games in the collection, which include Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid 2, and Metal Gear Solid 3 as well as versions of the original 8-bit games.