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Rainbow Six: Siege players are receiving unexpected in-game gifts as of late, as hackers have found out how to post images directly to their screens via the ban messages. As a result, memes, NSFW material, and a peculiar looking cock (as in the animal) have been popping up mid-match. Typically these ban messages just show

Audio player loading… Sci-fi roguelike Risk of Rain is getting a total remake, as publisher Gearbox Games buys the series off developer Hopoo Games to co-create it with brand new content. Risk of Rain Returns is a complete remake of the 2D 2013 roguelike, taking everything in the original game, adding in items and heroes

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. (Credit: Alvaro Reyes/Unsplash)The Switch has been a big success for Nintendo, even though the hybrid console is much less powerful than the game machines from Sony and Microsoft. Even the best game console is not without some flaws, and for

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has just been released for the seventeenth time and I think it’s time that society at large accepted that it’s just not a particularly good open world RPG. Admittedly, it’s a fairly impressive flow diagram of branching story choices and decisions – it would make a great choose-your-own-adventure book or

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. (Photo: Erik Mclean/Unsplash)(Image: IGDB)Epic Games, the developer and distributor best known for Fortnite, has found itself in the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) bad graces. The consumer protection agency has charged Epic $520M for multiple privacy violations and for “tricking” users

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The ink has barely dried on the press release announcing the Radeon RX 7900 XTX, and we’re already starting to hear about its successor. Dubbed Navi41, this next-generation GPU will be a major advancement for the company, especially in ray

Audio player loading… Games publisher Epic Games has settled a dispute with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to pay $520m / £428.4m/ AU$778m in fines and relief following violations of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Epic Games, creators of online battle royale Fortnite, will be paying one cash penalty of $275m /£225.8m /AU$411.9m

Starfield. Redfall. Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty. Minecraft Legends. Persona 3 Portable, Persona 4 Golden, Monster Hunter Rise, Lies of P, Routine, Hollow Knight: Silksong, Atomic Heart, Warhammer 40K: Darktide, Ark 2, Flintlock, Guilty Gear Strive, Valheim on console, GoldenEye 007. And many, many more. Are you going to buy any games in 2023? Or are

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. (Photo: HTC/The Verge)For the past several years Meta hasn’t had to face much competition in the virtual reality (VR) market. Sure, there’s been a few companies with headsets, but none have been able to hit the price-to-performance target like the

This year’s Boxing Day sales are just around the corner now and we’re already starting to see many retailers offer up early promotions. If you’re looking to do some post-Christmas bargain hunting this December, then now’s the time to get that shopping list ready. We’ve rounded up all the best early Boxing Day sales into

If you’re looking for a good excuse to replay Final Fantasy 7 Remake, doing so with an actual Buster Sword is one way to do it. OK, so it’s not like you’ll be able to easily get your own buster sword to do this, but streamer, YouTuber, and controller maker SuperLouis64 has made it possible

Audio player loading… Amazon Games has announced that it will work alongside Crystal Dynamics on the next Tomb Raider title. Originally announced in April 2022, this new Tomb Raider game is in the works at Crystal Dynamics, the studio behind 2013’s Tomb Raider and its sequel, Rise of the Tomb Raider. However, the publishing reigns

It’s that time of year again, when we all tell you which of the games that came out over the past 12 months we like the best. It’s my turn, and I hope you weren’t expecting some out-of-left-field pick; an artsy indie game you never heard of that I’ll try to convince you is 2022’s

Audio player loading… Windows 11 was hit by an unfortunate bug in November which caused stuttering frame rates in some games with the 22H2 update, as you may be aware, but the issue has now been fully resolved by Microsoft (after the cure was implemented in testing last month). Clearly everything went well with that testing

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. AMD’s long-awaited RDNA3 GPUs launched on Dec. 13, and although they didn’t score a knockout victory over their rivals in early tests, they’re clearly worthy competitors. Their main flaw, reviewers noted, was lackluster ray tracing performance, to the surprise of

Welcome to VG247’s Best Games Ever Podcast: Episode 30 – the best game that made you uninstall. Uninstalling crap games is one thing. But uninstalling a game that would qualify in some way as a “best ever”? That’s a difficult thing to imagine, or determine. Unfortunately for our panellists, that’s the game. To see this

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Now that Intel has finally launched its Arc Alchemist line of GPUs in the US, it appears to be doing most of the heavy lifting itself. So far the only cards we’ve seen for sale are Intel-branded. ASRock and Acer

Audio player loading… Valve has shared some new info on what advancements will be made with the Steam Deck 2 – including better battery life – and further expressed a desire to make a Steam Controller 2. Valve has made no secret that there will be a sequel to the Steam Deck – indeed, multiple