Intel has provided a long-awaited tease for its entry into the desktop GPU market, revealing a radically new design for its first discrete gaming chip that is planned to launch later this year. The tease for the Intel Arc A-series desktop GPU shows a very luxurious design, and one that …
Read More »Elden Ring Is The Best-Selling Game Of 2022 In The US So Far
From Software’s Elden Ring has becoming the best-selling game of 2022 thus far, with strong sales across all platforms helping it dominate this month’s NPD results. The NPD Group results reflect the total content spend across games, DLC, and subscription purchases in the US, and Elden Ring quickly became the …
Read More »Halo Infinite, Gears 5 Are Not Supported On Valve's Steam Deck
Microsoft has detailed which of its games are compatible with Valve’s Steam Deck, with only a handful of titles being unsupported thanks to incompatibility with anti-cheat software. In a post on Steam, Microsoft explained that each developer in Xbox Games Studios is responsible to ensuring compatibility with the Steam Deck, …
Read More »Steam Deck Battery Saving Tips: Five Things You Can Do To Extend Playtime
Depending on what you’re playing, Valve’s new Steam Deck battery can last as long as eight hours or as little as two. More graphically demanding games require more power to drive the hardware that enables them, with SteamOS doing a pretty decent job of load-balancing everything dynamically in the background. …
Read More »Steam Deck Review – Redefinition
Ever since the launch of the Nintendo Switch in 2017, the perception of what a handheld gaming device can be has changed. No longer are handhelds relegated to good hardware trapped by inherently technologically limited games. Instead, they’re now capable of letting you take console-quality experiences on the go. There’s …
Read More »Microsoft Says Call Of Duty Will Release On PlayStation "Into The Future"
Microsoft has reiterated its intention to continue developing Activision franchises for competing console platforms, ahead of its planned purchase of the Call of Duty publisher. In a new blog post addressing incoming app store changes to, presumably, ensure regulatory compliance for the deal, Microsoft explicitly mentions Call of Duty as …
Read More »Horizon Forbidden West Gets First, Short PS4 Gameplay Trailer
Just shy of a week before launch, Sony has released a sliver of new gameplay for Horizon Forbidden West running a base PlayStation 4. The footage, which is just over 20 seconds long, is quite visually striking. That’s especially true when you consider it’s a 2022 game running on hardware …
Read More »Steam Deck: Everything We Know About Valve's Switch-Like PC Handheld
Valve’s first attempt at making a portable gaming device is nearly here. The Linux-powered Steam Deck can be reductively summarized as what the Nintendo Switch could be for PC gaming, but there’s a lot more that the creators of Steam are planning to introduce with this new platform. Ahead of …
Read More »The Worst Wordle Starting Word Makes The Game A Little Harder
If you’re one of the thousands, at least, of people enjoying the popular game of Wordle each day but feel like you’re given one too many guesses to start with, then the game’s worst starting word might spice things up for you. After all, just how hard can it be …
Read More »Gigabyte RTX 3050 Gaming OC 8G Review – The Bare Minimum
There’s no denying that the ongoing semiconductor shortage has made it a challenging time to get your hands on a new GPU. Even if you can, you’re often forced to pay well over the recommended retail price for it, with demand heavily outweighing available supply and thus creating a lucrative …
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