The BAFTA Game Awards 2026 are here to round out the last major awards show focusing on games from 2025, and while we're all expecting Clair Obsucr: Expedition 33 to take home the top prize, that's not entirely a foregone conclusion. Is what could be said if Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 didn't win the award for Best Game, but as the awards are now wrapped up, Sandfall Interactive was once again the last team left on stage before the show ended, taking home Best Game and adding another GOTY award to its already impressive supply. But this was not a […]

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The BAFTA Game Awards 2026 are currently ongoing at the time of this writing, and while the only game awards show that regularly includes announcements for upcoming games in between the actual rewards is Geoff Keighley's The Game Awards, the BAFTAs were going to try doing a bit of that this year. They were going to try, at least, with a trailer for The Quiet Things, a first-person narrative game telling an autobiographical story about trauma and child abuse, debuting at this year's awards. Until someone decided the trailer's content wasn't right for the show. That's what Alyx Jones, founder […]

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It's real, and if you have been waiting to upgrade your AM4 system, you will soon be able to upgrade to the fastest gaming processor in the Ryzen 5000 lineup. AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 10-Year AM4 Anniversary Edition Retail Box Surfaces Online; Slightly New Packaging, but the Same Chip Inside After all, the return of Ryzen 7 5800X3D is real, and it's happening soon. Yesterday, we reported that AMD's first-ever X3D processor is making a comeback after having been discontinued last year unexpectedly. Today, we also got to see its retail box, which confirms that the 10-Year AM4 Anniversary edition […]

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Iron Galaxy Studios, the studio that led development on Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4 and also co-developed PC ports for The Last of Us Part I, The Last of Us Part II Remastered, Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection, and several other titles is now the latest studio to announce layoffs in 2026. A statement was posted to the studio's LinkedIn page to confirm the cuts, though the studio did not disclose the number of people who are losing their jobs. A report from Game Developer did, however, add that the company is "drastically" cutting down its size. These cuts come […]

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NVIDIA CEO has said that the AI era will lead to the creation of more jobs, highlighting AI as the new job platform rather than a replacement for mankind. AI Will End Up Creating More Jobs At The End of the AI Revolution than at its beginning, according to NVIDIA CEO Jensen Talking at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, NVIDIA's CEO, Jensen Huang, once again referred to the rise of AI as the Industrial Revolution of the modern world. There have been many talks regarding AI and its benefits, but in parallel, a long discussion has been ongoing on […]

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Nintendo's subscription service for the Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 family of consoles, Nintendo Switch Online, includes a bunch of features for players to take advantage of. The ability to play games online, cloud saves, and most importantly, a library of classic retro titles all the way from the Nintendo Entertainment System to the Nintendo GameCube. Similar to our PlayStation Plus and Xbox Game Pass hubs, this article will break down your options for which tier of the Nintendo Switch Online subscription is worth it for you, followed by a full list of the games available at each tier. […]

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ASRock, Intel & Teamgroup have come together to address concerns related to higher DDR5 memory prices with the new HUDIMM standard. HUDIMM & HSODIMM Standards To Help Enable Cost-Effective DDR5 Memory, Giving Relief To Budget PC Builders Memory prices have affected every spectrum of the tech industry, including budget PC gamers and builders. With each passing day, component prices are rising, and we do not see an end to the crisis. But there's some relief coming for budget PC builders. In a brand new collaboration between ASRock, Intel & Teamgroup, the three companies may finally have a solution that opens […]

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Older-generation LPDDR4 and LPDDR4X memory chips have been in production for about 8 to 10 years, but Samsung is reportedly pulling the plug on manufacturing, likely because it wants to focus more on maximizing profits by supplying LPDDR5 and LPDDR5X RAM chips. This means that all customers who were in line to place orders for the previous-generation standard will have little choice but to make a transition, however costly that may be. It appears that the DRAM crisis isn’t just making components expensive, but it’s also removing options for clients. Companies like Qualcomm and MediaTek will need to revise their long-term […]

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Tech-related tipsters are infamous for making a mountain out of a molehill on the flimsiest of semantics. Over the past few weeks, a relentless back-and-forth ensued vis-à-vis the size of the pill-shaped cutout and the associated Dynamic Island on the Apple iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max. Thankfully, that debate has largely settled in favor of a smaller Dynamic Island. And, along the way, we've also received an intriguing tidbit about the iPhone 18 Pro duo's new 'Dark Cherry' color option. Apple iPhone 18 Pro will likely get a smaller Dynamic Island after all, along with an intriguing new 'Dark […]

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The Intel LGA 1700 platform was launched three years ago in 2021, and it has since seen a total of 3 generations of CPUs: Alder Lake (12th Gen), Raptor Lake (13th Gen), and Raptor Lake Refresh (14th Gen). We have seen at least three generations of motherboards, first with the 600-series, which had Z690 as the top SKU, and then two generations of 700-series based on the top Z790 chipset, which included a soft refresh for the 14th Gen lineup. In late 2024, Intel introduced its next-generation 800-series chipsets, and with the Core Ultra 200S CPU series, the company also […]

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Crashing issues in PRAGMATA on PC can occur before you even start the game proper, with Fatal D3D errors also happening when trying to enable Path Tracing or changing Frame Generation options. Some users have reported these crashes even without touching these settings, suggesting a possible hardware conflict. To solve these issues and enjoy the game on PC, two workarounds have currently been found. Disable GPU Overclocking Games powered by the RE Engine (such as Resident Evil Requiem and Monster Hunter Wilds) are notoriously sensitive to GPU overclocking and software such as MSI Afterburner. As such, disabling any overclocking and […]

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PRAGMATA is CAPCOM's new third-person shooter, combining a sci-fi setting with unique combat mechanics mixing shooting and puzzle solving. This unique combination turns every encounter against the bots roaming the dilapidated Lunar Base into an intense and exhilarating experience. In this Complete Walkthrough and Guides Hub, you will find everything you need to master the game's unique combat system and character progression system, discover every secret, and survive against the dangers lurking all over the lunar research base. Getting Started PRAGMATA is quite different from a traditional third-person shooter. These guides will help you get started on the most basic mechanics […]

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The official X account of Phantom Blade Zero has posted a brief video interview with S-GAME founder and creative director Soulframe Liang, in which the developer seemed to outline an Honor system not unlike the one in Rockstar's masterpiece, Red Dead Redemption 2. In that game, most player actions, such as helping strangers or killing innocents, affected a full-fledged morality mechanic that influenced NPC behavior, shop prices, loot quality, and even the story's ending. Fans understandably started to get excited about this. Very few games since RDR 2 have attempted something like that. However, Phantom Blade Zero's X account quickly clarified that there is no […]

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Almost a decade ago, Activision was looking like it would be moving forward with a Call of Duty movie. But it wasn't too much longer before that project was put on hold, and years later, here we are with no film based on the long-running military shooter franchise. Now, after rejecting a pitch from legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg, Activision will look to make a film that "feels really real and infuses that with epic scope" off the backs of Yellowstone co-creator Taylor Sheridan and Battleship director Pete Berg in time for June 30, 2028. That's the latest update on the […]

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One of the first recipients of TSMC’s 2nm ‘N2P’ process will be the Dimensity 9600 Pro, enabling MediaTek to move over to a new CPU cluster while also rumored to target higher 5.00GHz clock speeds for significantly improved single-core and multi-core performance. Now, one tipster has shared the first Geekbench 6 scores belonging to the chipset, with the results being up to 25 percent faster than the A19 Pro, Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, and the Dimensity 9600 Pro’s immediate predecessor, the Dimensity 9500. At a 5.00GHz clock, the Dimensity 9600 Pro has already been pointed out to overheat, suggesting that commercial […]

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Intel & AMD are facing severe shortages of CPUs, prompting a global disruption in PC and industrial segments, driving costs further up. Intel & AMD CPU Prices Surged By 15% As Supply, Not Prices, Led To Severe Shortages Currently, the global CPU market is witnessing massive shortages. We have already shared how CPUs are the next component that will be affected by the Agentic AI frenzy. The relation between enterprise and client processor shortages is very simple. AI is the bigger market now, and production lines need to be prioritized to keep up with the demand. Hyperscalers and cloud providers […]

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Cliff Bleszinski, the American game designer known primarily for his work on the Gears and Unreal franchises at Epic, shared his positive outlook on the upcoming prequel, Gears of War: E-Day. In a video interview with The Expansion Pass, the game developer highlights that The Coalition has made the right choice in focusing on making the Locust scary again, rather than presenting enemies like the DeeBees robots. Bleszinski added that he has high hopes for this game, which looks like a return to the original trilogy's dark tone that was a bit lost in Gears 4 and 5, and he […]

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Apple's Stan Ng, an emblem of the old guard, has retired.

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Although Hideo Kojima's games, such as the Death Stranding series, can be divisive, anyone who has experienced them cannot deny that the legendary game designer's approach is unique. According to actor Troy Baker, who plays Higgs in the series, this stems from a vision that prioritizes making the player "walk away impacted than entertained," a philosophy that allows him to "swing big" in a way that feels miraculous. "I think that there's a lot of people that are making games – and I don't blame them – that, right now, are trying to razzle dazzle the player the entire way […]

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The PlayStation 6 is said to deliver up to 10 times the ray tracing performance of the base PlayStation 5, but gamers shouldn't expect this massive performance uplift to deliver 10 times the FPS in games. According to known leaker KeplerL2, AMD documents are being significantly misinterpreted, and the overall real-world performance of the system should be, on average, in games that don't use much ray tracing, closer to 3 times that of the base PS5. “I've explained this before but MLID (Moore's Law is Dead) is misinterpreting AMD docs,” the leaker said on the NeoGAF forums. “He thinks if […]

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