Gaming

Audio player loading… Last week’s Xbox and Bethesda Showcase shone a spotlight on Starfield’s character creation, and it looks like Bethesda’s hidden a neat little easter egg in the system’s sliders. Following last weekend’s gameplay reveal, fans were quick to pour over the details, like studio boss Todd Howard’s confirmation that Starfield will include banking. Spotted

Overwatch 2 is releasing on October 4 as a free-to-play live experience, and the game will feature regular seasonal updates and a Battle Pass. The Battle Pass will feature new content including new heroes, game modes, maps, cosmetics, and more. Blizzard said Overwatch 2 going free-to-play is “a natural step forward” for both the game

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. (Photo: Intel)The big day has finally arrived. Intel has officially launched its very first desktop GPU, the Arc A380. (Cue the noise makers and confetti.) Now, before you get in your car and ask Siri to point you towards the

Audio player loading… As if there weren’t enough people already trying to become multi-platform stars, soon they’ll all have to compete with ANA, a hyper-realistic virtual human from Krafton. The company, which also makes the popular PlayerUnknown Battlegrounds battle royale game unveiled (opens in new tab) a pair of images of ANA on Wednesday. The

Sony has attached an August 11, 2023 release date to its upcoming Gran Turismo film. According to Deadline, the film will be based on a true story where a teenage boy who loves playing Gran Turismo wins a series of Nissan competitions to become a professional race car driver. The film is to be directed

Audio player loading… PS Plus Premium and PS Plus Extra subscribers have noticed a handy new feature that adds new functionality to your console’s wishlist, making it noticeably more useful than ever before. If you’re subscribed to the new PS Plus service with the higher Extra or Premium tiers, you’ll receive a notification if and

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Diablo fans were momentarily sated earlier this month when the mobile-centric Diablo Immortal launched more than three years after it was announced. However, the game’s deep web of microtransactions has turned the response sour. It’s such a turnaround that an

Your first real look at The Texas Chain Saw Massacre came today during the extended Xbox Games Showcase. Coming day one to Xbox and Windows PC with Game Pass, the first gameplay of the third-person asymmetrical horror experience was shown off during the Xbox Game Showcase Extended today. In the game, college student Maria Flores

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Sony announced a redesigned PlayStation Plus program several months ago, and today is the big day in the US. You can now sign up for Sony’s new three-tier Plus program, unlocking access to hundreds of games. This includes the latest

Audio player loading… The full list of PS Plus Premium games is now available to view on the official PlayStation website, and there’s plenty of retro goodness to indulge in if you’re willing to pay a bit more each month for the Premium tier. We were treated to the first batch of PS Plus Premium

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Many gamers spent the early phases of the pandemic trying and failing to get their hands on a decent video card, but the spike in crypto prices and intensifying component shortage made that almost impossible. Anyone who gave up and

The System Shock remake got a brand new trailer at the PC Gaming Show over the weekend, and it’s looking good, even if we still don’t have a release date. Nightdive showed off another look at System Shock yesterday (June 13), showing off plenty of atmospheric lighting and first-person shooting. All paired with a suitably

Audio player loading… Half-Life: Alyx Leviathan, an upcoming fan-made mod for Valve’s acclaimed VR FPS, has received its first full gameplay reveal – giving us a glimpse at its ambitious scope and gunplay. Revealed as part of the PC Gaming Show (opens in new tab) after the Xbox and Bethesda Showcase, the 7-minute gameplay clip

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

Persona 5 Royal, Persona 4 Golden and Persona 3 Portable are all making their way to Xbox platforms. On October 21, 2022, Persona 5 Royal will launch on Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PC and Xbox Game Pass. This is the expanded version of Persona 5, featuring new storylines, social links and an updated traversal

Audio player loading… Despite contemporary gaming consoles sharing similar hardware designs to PCs, there’s one major reason why individuals pick sides between Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo. Performance specs and feature-set aside, exclusives have been the defining choice for gamers without deep pockets to go multiplatform.  Besides the hybrid form factor of the Nintendo Switch, the

Turbo Golf, the racing / golf hybrid from developers Hugecalf Studios, is set to be released on Steam, Microsoft platforms and Game Pass on August 4. Announced via a swanky new trailer during the Future Games Show, players won’t have long to wait before they can take their skills behind the wheel to an unfamiliar

Audio player loading… In lieu of Valve not having its own dock for the Steam Deck yet, one Redditor 3D printed their own customized cradle for the system, and it looks as good as anything Valve might come up with. The Reddit user in question, Hannover2k (opens in new tab), built the dock by converting