This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. AMD has announced its upcoming 6700 XT. As the name implies, it’s intended as the lower-end sibling of the 6800 and 6800 XT series and as the generational, drop-in replacement for the 5700 XT. The 6700 XT will hit store
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By Stephany Nunneley, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 21:00 GMT To celebrate the release of Yakuza: Like a Dragon on PS5, Sega is handing out the Legends Costume Set for free. Previously available only through pre-ordering Yakuza: Like a Dragon, the set is now available to download for free across all platforms and versions of the
By Alex Calvin, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 16:25 GMT Game shifted 1 million copies in seven days. Viking Early Access title Valheim has hit 5 million sales. The title shifted this many copies within its first month on the market, with users having already spent 15,000 years playing the game. Apparently people have already watched
By Stephany Nunneley, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 20:09 GMT Here’s a Switch gameplay video for Apex Legends. Apex Legends is coming to Switch on March 9 with cross-play support, and now you can get an idea of how it will look in this new trailer. As previously reported, if you purchase the Season 8 Battle
By Stephany Nunneley, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 15:34 GMT Cold Iron Studios in collaboration with 20th Century Games, today revealed Aliens: Fireteam, a new cooperative third-person survival shooter set within the Alien universe. Aliens: Fireteam is scheduled for worldwide release for Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and Steam. The game is
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. One question that’s come up from time to time in gaming is whether older GPUs get slower over time. ExtremeTech has examined this question before with respect to software updates, meaning we checked whether older GPUs lost performance as a
By Dom Peppiatt, Monday, 1 March 2021 20:35 GMT Double Eleven has given us our first look at console version footage for Rust Console Edition, showing off the game we’ll be playing when the survival hit lands on PlayStation and Xbox later in 2021. Rust’s lead developer, Double Eleven, has shared the first footage of what the
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Last year, AMD announced a new feature it dubbed Smart Access Memory. This capability gave RDNA2 GPUs a bit of a kick when compared against Nvidia cards back when AMD launched the 6800 and 6800 XT, with performance improvements of
By Dom Peppiatt, Monday, 1 March 2021 15:17 GMT Destiny 2 developer Bungie appears to have filed a trademark for ‘BungieCon‘, prompting speculation that the studio is planning something big. According to a new listing published over at Trademark247 (no relation to VG247, we assure you), it looks like Bungie has applied for the term
By Dom Peppiatt, Sunday, 28 February 2021 16:42 GMT Respawn’s free-to-play battle royale title Apex Legends has hit a new concurrent user record on Steam, proving it’s still a very popular title. Apex Legends was released on Valve’s storefront back on November 5, 2020, and since then it’s been a pretty popular and enduring PvP game.
By Dom Peppiatt, Sunday, 28 February 2021 14:36 GMT Doom Eternal has generated over $450 million in the first nine months of its release, according to a statement made on a former id Software employee. David Saunders, former product management lead at id Software who held the role from 2017 to 2020, has posted a
After a bit of an issue, Re-Logic’s Terraria is back in development for Google Stadia. Earlier this month it was revealed that Terraria for Stadia has been canceled due to Google having disabled the studio head’s Google account without warning, and being unable to address the problem. Basically what happened was that for some reason,
If you’ve been away from Baldur’s Gate 3 for a while, you may want to log in and apply the latest update. The Druid class has arrived in Baldur’s Gate 3 in a really hefty update. With Patch 4: Nature’s Power, Druid characters will be able to use the Wild Shape ability to transform into
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Google launched its Stadia cloud gaming service in late 2019, but already the bloom is off the rose. A series of increasingly concerning tales from Google’s game division has come to light in the weeks since Google killed its internal
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Sony will allow PlayStation 5’s to finally use their M.2 slots by the summer. The new updates will also unlock support for higher fan speeds, which probably isn’t great news to everyone who likes the current noise profile on the
By Stephany Nunneley, Friday, 26 February 2021 19:51 GMT Techland is celebrating Dying Light’s sixth anniversary by making the game free to play for the next couple of days. Steam users can play Dying Light for free all weekend. If you end up liking what you play, the game is on sale for 66% off
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Earlier this week, news broke that saddened the hearts of at least a few dozen people: The moderately-awaited overhaul to BioWare’s Anthem, dubbed Anthem Next, will not be released. Now, we’ve got fresh BioWare news that manages to be both
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. CDPR has already announced that its upcoming major February patch for Cyberpunk 2077 would be pushed back some weeks as a result of the ransomware attack the company has suffered, but it didn’t give a firm reason why. Cynics might
By Alex Calvin, Friday, 26 February 2021 12:57 GMT Final Fantasy 7 Remake, Maquette, Farpoint, and Remnant: From the Ashes are coming to PlayStation Plus in March. News of the games coming to PlayStation Plus in March was confirmed by Sony after an earlier leak. Original story follows. Original story: It seems almost certain that
By Dom Peppiatt, Thursday, 25 February 2021 23:52 GMT We know that Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time is heading to PC, PS5, Switch, and Xbox Series X/S soon – but now we have more details about what to expect. Activision and Toys for Bob announced that Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time is landing
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Getting a new GPU is almost impossible right now, with prices skyrocketing as supply continues to lag demand. Nvidia has already announced some steps to separate cryptocurrency applications into a new product category, and it’s even got a new gaming
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. BioWare has announced it will not be overhauling Anthem as previously stated. The news is unlikely to sit well with the handful of people still playing the game and it indicates that the trend towards games that are “too big
By Sherif Saed, Thursday, 25 February 2021 13:10 GMT Things continue to get worse for CD Projekt Red. The fallout from the recent, major hack of CD Projekt Red continues. This week, the developer announced that Cyberpunk 2077‘s next patch, a major update initially planned for release this month, has been delayed. Delays do happen
By Stephany Nunneley, Wednesday, 24 February 2021 20:23 GMT Originally slated for release this year, the Team Reptile game has been delayed to 2022. Team Reptile has released a trailer for Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, which was announced last summer. Coming to all “relevant platforms” including Steam, the game features music from Hideki Naganuma who is
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Google’s late 2019 Stadia launch was a bit of a slow start. There were only a handful of games, and most of the fancy cloud features Google promised were nowhere to be found. Google’s in-house game developers were supposed to
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Up until now, Sony has been pretty quiet about their plans for VR on the PlayStation 5. While the company assured gamers that the PS4-era PSVR would still work with the PlayStation 5, it hasn’t said much about how much
Ubisoft has not forgotten about cross-play in Rainbow Six Siege, but says the feature will likely be limited to consoles. Rainbow Six Siege developer Ubisoft seems to address the subject of cross-play and cross-progression every few months, but it’s still nowhere to be seen in the live game. In a recent interview with PC Gamer
By Alex Calvin, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 17:52 GMT Download Insomniac’s platformer and score 90 extra days of access of streaming services Funimation or Wakanim.Sony has brought its Play At Home initiative back for a second year. The PlayStation maker said in a blog post that it is giving away 2016’s Ratchet & Clank for
This week is Pokemon’s 25th anniversary. For months, the internet has been ablaze with speculation, rumours and expectation over what’s coming. All of this excitement brings to mind one thing about the Pokemon community and the gaming community in general: how much we often struggle to maintain a balance between wild expectation and reality. Whenever
By Dom Peppiatt, Monday, 22 February 2021 20:38 GMT A fall is surely brewing as beloved indie icons Cuphead and Mugman get confirmed for the gameshow-inspired battle royale, Fall Guys. “Cuphead and his pal Mugman are coming to @FallGuysGame” reads a tweet from the official Studio MDHR account (that’s the developer behind Cuphead). As per
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