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Season 5 of Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War goes live next week on August 12, and in it, you will be able to play as a double agent. As a double agent in Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War, you will set bombs across the map or eliminate Operatives undercover. Watch on

(Photo: RaymanGold22)Updated (8/5/2021): As expected, the entire unveil this morning was a fraud. Feel free to read the below for a non-fraudulent discussion of the Vooodoo 5 6000 and links to my company retrospective and full review coverage, but this “unveil” was a scam. This account is no longer in use. Follow @AtiParody. — 3dfx

By Sherif Saed5 August 2021 09:02 GMT EA is happy with the performance of Mass Effect: Legendary Edition. As part of the publisher’s earnings reveal for the first quarter of fiscal year 22, which ended June 30, EA discussed the sales performance of the quarter’s biggest game: Mass Effect: Legendary Edition. Watch on YouTube Mass

By Stephany Nunneley4 August 2021 20:43 GMT Amazon has delayed the release of its MMO New World. Those looking to try out New World will have to wait an additional month, Amazon has announced. Watch on YouTube The delay announcement states that during the recent closed beta, the team was given “a ton of feedback,”

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Steam has released new-and-improved versions of its downloads page and storage manager, and PC gamers everywhere are rejoicing. The release allows you to view multiple libraries at once, view all download speed details in one clean line, and reorder downloads,

AMD’s 5700G and 5600G dropped yesterday as the latest Zen 3 CPUs and the first major additions to the product line in some months. The 5700G and 5600G combine AMD’s latest Zen 3 architecture with the older Vega graphics core. In order to speed time to market, AMD essentially swapped the Ryzen 4000’s Renoir CPU

By Stephany Nunneley3 August 2021 20:23 GMT A server update will be performed tomorrow for Pokemon Unite. After applying the Pokemon Unite update, you will find some bugs have been fixed along with some changes to Pokemon in the way of stats and moves. For example, Charizard’s Flamethrower will see a reduced cooldown, and the

The third Ultra Unlock bonus for Pokemon Go has been announced, and it will be all about the Galar region. The final Ultra Unlock bonus earned by Pokemon Go players for completing global challenges during Pokemon Go Fest has been announced. Watch on YouTube Niantic announced today the third unlock will feature Sword and Shield

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. If you haven’t had enough of fighting interdimensional aliens to save science and the world, never fear: Half-Life fans are at it again with another remake, this time titled Half-Life 2: Remastered Collection. Valve reporter Tyler McVicker confirmed the legitimacy

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Valve’s decision to get into the console hardware business could have a number of long-term ramifications for the PC market. One apparent consequences will be a better AMD CPU driver for Linux. According to Michael Larabel of Phoronix, AMD’s current

The Ascent Mutual Dependencies quest should be fairly straightforward. You need to find and kill the Fullchromes but there’s a catch. Finding the Fullchromes is the hardest part, and not just because the road to the meeting place is long. Watch on YouTube The Ascent Mutual Dependencies | How to start the main mission Mutual

By Sherif Saed2 August 2021 16:50 GMT DICE doesn’t look to be ready to show off more Battlefield 2042 gameplay just yet. Battlefield 2042 news has followed a fairly steady cadence so far. It started out with the proper reveal in June (and a tonne of information), followed by a first look at gameplay one

AMD’s 6600 XT announcement last week wasn’t about ray tracing — the company didn’t mention the feature much one way or the other — but it got me thinking. We’re coming up on three years since Turing introduced ray tracing to high-end and ultra-high-end graphics cards. Last fall, Nvidia introduced Ampere, which featured substantially better

By Stephany Nunneley31 July 2021 21:09 GMT Apparently, the Steam version of The Ascent and the PC version available through Game Pass are not the same. This is according to players of The Ascent on PC that noticed the Game Pass version does not support Nvidia’s DLSS and that ray tracing doesn’t work. Watch on

Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot has responded to an open letter published by employees earlier this week, and his response hasn’t gone down as well as hoped with those who work at the company. Earlier this week, over 500 (now over 1,000) current and former Ubisoft staff members signed an open letter to the company, criticizing

Dean Hall’s Icarus will not be released in August as originally planned. The space survival game Icarus, from the fella that brought you DayZ, will now be released in November. Watch on YouTube According to Hall, the game needs a “little bit more time to bake to be the most awesome.” An official statement from

By Stephany Nunneley31 July 2021 15:35 GMT Looks like there are some Halo: Infinite spoilers out in the wild. The first technical test for Halo: Infinite multiplayer is live for Halo Insiders, and along with being able to play against bots, something else was included in the test – something 343 Industries didn’t mean to

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Hopefully, you haven’t needed a GPU in the last year because prices have been out of control. The combination of semiconductor shortages and pandemic-boosted gaming pushed prices up, but it was cryptocurrency that made graphics cards worth their weight in

By Stephany Nunneley30 July 2021 20:12 GMT Sony is said to be delaying Horizon Forbidden West to early 2022, according to a report from Bloomberg. According to the report, Horizon Forbidden West will miss its proposed holiday 2021 release and instead arrive sometime in early 2022. Watch on YouTube If accurate, it wouldn’t come as

The Tribes of Midgard Golden Egg is a bit of a mystery at present. It’s one of many Tribes of Migard runes, but unlike most, the Golden Egg seems to have little effect on your stats. In fact, it seems to have little effect at all, though there is one useful thing you can do

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Sony has released details on how end-users should upgrade the storage on their PlayStation 5, as well as some important information on M.2 drive compatibility. There’s a bit of fine print to all this that could impact what kind of

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. AMD has finally announced the next RDNA2 GPU in its 2021 product stack. The Radeon RX 6600 XT is expected to slot in below the Radeon RX 6700 XT and to compete more effectively against cards like the RTX 3060.

Sometimes prequels feel superfluous – but at their best, they feel a masterstroke. The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles is the latter. Watch on YouTube As a fan of the core Ace Attorney series, I’d always sort of written off The Great Ace Attorney. A pair of spin-offs that was previously a Japan-only affair, I found

By Josh Broadwell29 July 2021 17:39 GMT In New World, Aged Wood is a vital item for an early quest and one you’ll need quite a bit of as you progress. While Aged Wood does actually grow on trees, you can’t get as much as you want right away. Get ready for a long bout

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. We don’t know how many Steam Decks have been preordered from Valve, but it’s safe to say the total is “lots.” Valve has continued to shuffle overall delivery expectations as the situation has evolved. When we last checked in a

By Jeremy Signor28 July 2021 21:00 GMT More Mortal Shell is on the way. Developer Cold Symmetry’s Mortal Shell is getting an expansion August 18 that will add a roguelike mode that will shuffle Mortal Shell’s romp through Fallgrim up. It will also add a new shell for players to play as in both the

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. When we covered the news that Alienware will no longer sell most of its desktops in California, Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Vermont, and the State of Washington, we noted that there had to be more to the story. Alienware might be

Since there are no NPC vendors in New World, you’re going to have to get thrifty with your clothes. Here’s where you can harvest fibers from hemp plants to craft cloth. Like most resources in New World, you’ll need a tool to gather fibers from hemp. To harvest plants, you need at least a flint

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Activision’s Los Angeles office in 2018 (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)Warning: This article discusses harassment, sexual assault, and suicide.  Following more than two years of investigation, the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing has filed a lawsuit against Activision

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. New regulations have gone into effect in California, Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington that prevent Alienware from continuing to ship high-end desktops to customers that live in these locations, the company said. While Alienware is the only manufacturer we’ve