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Boxing Day and January sales: predictions Every year, the Boxing Day sales and January sales are a chance to bag brilliant bargains on everything from TVs, laptops and appliances through to games, furniture, mattresses and more. Didn’t get that present you really wanted under the tree this year? No problem: there’s an excellent chance it’ll be discounted

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. In a new twist, Sony reps are refusing to grant the Cyberpunk 2077 refunds CD Projekt Red has told its console players to request and are instead telling players specifically to wait. Reports on how Sony does (or doesn’t) feel

By Dom Peppiatt, Monday, 14 December 2020 20:30 GMT For the first time in its history, OpenCritic has issued a warning to Cyberpunk 2077 players intending to purchase the game on either PlayStation 4 or Xbox One. Reviews aggregator OpenCritic has begun to show users of the site a pretty unavoidable warning when they start checking

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. CD Projekt Red, a developer whose stock has sagged 40 percent since it launched the long-awaited, much-hyped Cyberpunk 2077, has finally acknowledged that it launched an unacceptable, execrable product as far as the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One are concerned.

Cyberpunk 2077 isn’t running to its full potential on AMD processors, or at least that’s the case going by a good deal of online feedback. VideoCardz unearthed a report on Reddit into the issue, which appears to revolve around SMT not working – that’s simultaneous multi-threading, and the apparent bug means that AMD CPUs are

By Dom Peppiatt, Sunday, 13 December 2020 15:21 GMT Star Wars: Rogue Squadron will not be an adaptation of the video game titles of the same name, director Patty Jenkins has confirmed. The upcoming movie from the Wonder Woman director may share a name with a series of arcade-style games but in an interview with IGN,

What’s to come from PS5 and Xbox Series X? With both next-gen consoles – and their cheaper, discless counterparts – having launched to market, with the tidal wave of hype that we all expected, the question on our lips is what will be different in the long term.  What will Sony and Microsoft do differently

By Stephany Nunneley, Saturday, 12 December 2020 19:31 GMT Ark: The Animated Series has received an extended cut trailer. Announced at The Game Awards 2020 alongside Ark 2, an extended cut trailer has been released for Ark: The Animated Series. Studio Wildcard has partnered with director Jay Oliva (Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Justice League:

Tradition dictates that the holiday season is a time of gift-giving, which doesn’t come easy for many people – at least, when it comes to giving the perfect present. The act of choosing gifts, after all, is kind of an intricate art that takes time to master. Take PC gamers, for example. They’re not actually

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Polish developer CD Projekt Red has been working on Cyberpunk 2077 in some capacity since 2012, and that’s a long time for hype to build. Anticipation has ratcheted up each time the game was delayed in 2020, but it finally

By Stephany Nunneley, Friday, 11 December 2020 18:32 GMT In Road 96, it’s summer 1996 and you have hit the road for freedom, adventure, escape, and to try and flee the regime. From the creators of Valiant Hearts and Memories Retold, comes Road 96, a procedurally-generated road trip game full of risks, characters, and intertwined

If you’re looking for where to buy Xbox Series S you’re not alone. The cheaper Microsoft console has been out in the wild for just over a month now, however stock has been incredibly difficult to find. However, we are seeing more frequent Xbox Series S restocks than we are the Xbox Series X or

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Cyberpunk 2077 launched this week, but if you’re stuck playing the game on the original Xbox or PS4, what you’ve seen in trailers doesn’t exactly reflect the game you’ll get if you pull the trigger. It’s a given that games

Cyberpunk 2077 has encountered a number of technical issues in its release, from underwhelming console performance to huge downloads for PC. So it might a surprise that some players are finding that their preferred way to play CD Projekt Red’s huge sci-fi RPG is Stadia. Google’s game streaming platform hasn’t really had a real heavy

Cyberpunk 2077 has blown away the previous record for simultaneous players in a single player game on Steam (and for concurrent viewers on Twitch, too). As PC Gamer points out, that previous record was Fallout 4 with 472,962 concurrent players, which Cyberpunk 2077 easily exceeded after its launch, going on to break the million mark.

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Microsoft’s xCloud cloud gaming service is expanding in 2021 and its Xbox Game Pass service is driving new engagement with the Xbox ecosystem. That’s the word from the company in a recent blog post, which highlighted recent developments for both

By Stephany Nunneley, Wednesday, 9 December 2020 18:18 GMT November was also Control’s best selling month. Quick bit of news for you: Remedy announced today that Control has sold over 2 million copies since it was released 15 months ago. The news was announced during a company briefing, according to Remedy’s communications director Thomas Puha.

When AMD launched its new Radeon 6900 XT yesterday, it didn’t just re-enter the high-end GPU market. It also put the final, beautiful paper crown on a fall season filled with a virtual blizzard of it, from multiple manufacturers. Nvidia kicked off this unwelcome trend when stocks of new consumer Ampere cards ran dry seconds

Putting it lightly, it’s safe to say that Halo Infinite‘s global gameplay reveal was met with a less than favorable response from fans back in July, leading developer 343 Industries to push the game’s release into 2021, rather than its originally slated launch alongside the Xbox Series X. Now, 343 Industries has offered a large

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Nvidia rolled out ray tracing capabilities in its Turing-based graphics cards in 2018, which can make in-game lighting effects look eerily realistic. You don’t usually think of Minecraft as a realistic game, but the developers have been hard at work