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By Dom Peppiatt23 June 2021 15:10 GMT Microsoft has confirmed that its Cyberpunk 2077 refund scheme is reverting to the company’s more standard refund policy for digitally-purchased games on Xbox in July. Since December 2020, Xbox has been offering refunds to disgruntled Cyberpunk 2077 players consumers on Xbox who purchased the game on the Microsoft

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. PC gamers have been suffering under the weight of the GPU shortage for the last year, but there’s some hope on the horizon. China has effectively banned cryptocurrency, and whether or not you think that’s good for Bitcoin, it’s great

Philips, Acer and Asus are among the first manufacturers to develop monitors tailor-made for the Xbox Series X console. The ‘Designed for Xbox’ program is ushering forward a new fleet of 4K gaming monitors designed to make the most of the Xbox Series X’s powerful capabilities, among which are 4K resolution, 120Hz gameplay, HDR and

By Dom Peppiatt22 June 2021 15:00 GMT Tencent has made another acquisition in the West, this time procuring a majority stake of Yager, the German developer best known for 2012’s Spec Ops: The Line. Following acquiring a majority stake in Don’t Starve studio Klei Entertainment and pumping a major investment into GTFO developer 10 Chambers, Tencent has acquired a

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Samsung’s Odyssey G-series gaming monitors are a popular option for dedicated PC gamers, and there are three new models today. The 2020 Odyssey release focused on curved display panels. The latest ones are all flat, but they’ve still got various

After pining over the Xbox One’s now-defunct Kinect the other day, I’ve decided to take advantage of the Prime Day deals on Amazon Echo devices. If there’s one thing that Microsoft got right with its failed motion-sensing camera, it was that voice commands would be a big hit… albeit many years after the console was

By Dom Peppiatt21 June 2021 14:47 GMT Development staff from Double Fine that have worked on Psychonauts 2 say that the game has been developed with “no crunch”. A senior producer from iconic development studio Double Fine has stated that the game has been developed with no laborious over-time from its employees, adding another company

Forspoken, formerly under development with the working title ‘Project Athia’, is a new action RPG from Square Enix that sees players taking on the role of Frey Holland (played by Ella Balinska), a fairly ordinary young woman who must harness her magical abilities to survive in a fantastical and dangerous land called Athia.  According to

Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin’s concept is based on Final Fantasy 1, but is a story all its own. Speaking in an interview with Weekly Famitsu, Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin’s creative producer Tetsuya Nomura, producer Jin Hujiwara, and director Daisuke Inoue spoke about the game, and how it’s using the original Final Fantasy as

There’s no PS5 restock today, June 19, but Best Buy could be ‘next’ according to our PS5 restock Twitter tracker Matt Swider, who will send you an alert when the Sony console is in stock – if you follow his account and turn on notifications. Matt has helped nearly 50,000 people buy a next-gen console

By Stephany Nunneley18 June 2021 20:38 GMT Phasmophobia’s latest update has moved out of the beta phase and is now live. Today’s Phasmophobia update has added two new ghost types, two more daily challenges, the Willow Street House map, and some changes and bug fixes. Watch on YouTube Speaking of the new ghosts, it’s worth

There’s a secret GameStop PS5 restock today, and our PS5 restock Twitter tracker Matt Swider will send you an alert when the console is in stock – if you follow his account and turn on notifications. When? Follow our PS5 restock Twitter tracker Matt Swider for notifications and live restock news. It’s the fastest way

By Sherif Saed18 June 2021 12:17 GMT It looks like we’re getting an Alan Wake remaster. Today seems to be a big one for Epic Games Store leaks. After references to Final Fantasy 7 Remake were spotted in the store’s database, another unannounced game has appeared: Alan Wake Remastered. Watch on YouTube EpicData, a website

Sony PlayStation VR deals PlayStation VR was launched in 2016 and is now the best-selling high-end VR headset ever. It’s not surprising, given how tempting a purchase it is if you already have a PS4. Why shell out for a high-performing, room-tracking, PC-tethered headset from Oculus or HTC, when you can just plug something into

The PS5 restock today is confirmed for Sony Direct via a virtual queue, and there’s evidence that the PlayStation 5 console will be in stock at Best Buy too. We know that Walmart routinely has a console restock every other Thursday. Our PS5 restock Twitter tracker Matt Swider has helped 43,000 people get a next-gen

The delay of Halo Infinite might have been painful last year, but from the multiplayer showing at E3, it’ll have been worth the extra wait – regardless of how the campaign shakes out. Watch on YouTube As always after the madness of E3, I’ve taken some time over the last few days to reflect on

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. After nine months of interminable drought in the GPU market, a drop of hope. Asrock has reported that it sees weakening GPU demand in China as cryptocurrency weakens. Like all manufacturers, Asrock is currently making money hand over first; the

…And that’s a wrap for E3 2021! It was a strange year for the annual games showcase, having been hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic, it meant there was no physical, in person show, and instead a series of publisher-ran streams to keep up with. The lack of a physical presence meant some major players,

Starfield will not be coming to PlayStation, and Todd Howard doesn’t necessarily see that as a bad thing. At the Xbox and Bethesda Showcase, Microsoft made sure to let everyone know that Starfield, the highly-anticipated next game from Bethesda Game Studios is exclusive to PC and Xbox. Watch on YouTube This confirmation wasn’t entirely unexpected;

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Ever since Ampere’s launch in September 2020, there’ve been questions about how much of the shortage was driven by semiconductors and how much was driven by cryptocurrency demand. Reports over the last 10 months have pointed to various additional causes,