Author: Sarah Connor

Nvidia’s RTX 4070 Ti graphics card goes on sale today, offering largely RTX 3090 to 3090 Ti level performance at $799 in the US and £799 in the UK. That’s the narrative, anyway – but how many cards will actually be available at the MSRP/RRP? It’s an important question, because as the old saying goes, there are no bad products, just bad prices. The RTX 4070 Ti is quite a strong option at $799, given its level of performance – particularly for those upgrading from Pascal (GTX 10-series) and Turing (20-series) GPUs or AMD’s equivalents. At $899 or $999 though,…

Fire Emblem Engage feels like the tactical RPG game I’ve been waiting for, yet after a handful of hours in its presence I’m still unsure if I prefer it to Three Houses. It’s a natural evolution for the series with a classic touch, building upon Fire Emblem’s modern gameplay while taking cues from older entries. That might sound obvious when former protagonists like Marth are back, but this goes beyond the 12 familiar faces. Engage reminds me more of Fire Emblem Awakening, the 3DS entry that pushed the series’ popularity to new heights – and even if it might not…

A lawsuit filed by Bungie against the perpetrator behind a series of fake Destiny 2 DMCA strikes is scheduled for a jury trial in 2024. The $7.7m lawsuit was filed last year due to a number of false copyright takedowns sent to Destiny 2 players in March. In June the perpetrator was identified as Nicholas Minor a.k.a Lord Nazo. At the time, Bungie alleged that Minor launched a “malicious campaign to serve fraudulent takedown notices to some of the most prominent and passionate members of that fanbase, purportedly on Bungie’s behalf, in apparent retaliation for Bungie enforcing its copyrights against…

Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, best known in the football world for purchasing small Welsh club Wrexham AFC, have been discovered in a FIFA 23 Easter egg. Smaller clubs like Wrexham aren’t normally featured in FIFA, but the club entered the game in FIFA 22 in the “Rest of the World” category, likely due to the novelty of Reynolds and McElhenney being the new owners. Wrexham then returned for FIFA 23, only this time, players have found some trash talk from Reynolds and McElhenney from the benches. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to…

The brains behind the upcoming Fallout 4 mod Fallout: London have shared another update on its progress. This update (spotted by PC Gamer) includes catchy renditions of Rule Britannia, working trains, and – checks notes – murderous mail worker bots known as Post Boxers that will “stamp you out” if you do them wrong. Huh. This latest update video is truly a sight to behold. Along with the Post Boxers, it also introduces us to another bot out for our blood – the Naval Walker. This is a sentient (in so much as it walks around at its own free…

AMD has announced a raft of new Ryzen processors at its CES 2023 showcase, including the long-awaited Ryzen 7000X3D processors that should provide a stern rejoinder to Intel’s 13th-gen desktop CPUs and could let Team Red reclaim the gaming performance crown. The idea here is pretty simple: take the ‘3D V-Cache’ technology that made AMD’s last-gen Ryzen 7 5800X3D so fast that it challenged even next-gen flagship CPUs, and pair it with some of AMD’s fastest Ryzen 7000 processors. The result is three new chips, the Ryzen 7800X3D, Ryzen 7900X3D and the Ryzen 7950X3D. All three come with dramatically increased…

For those of you who, like me, are quite partial to a live action video game adaptation, I am pleased to tell you we have been given a new look at Sony’s upcoming Gran Turismo film. This trailer covers a few behind the scenes shots that give us a closer look at how the film was made – things like cars rigged up with cameras left, right and centre. It also has some quotes from the film’s actors, including Pirates of the Caribbean and Lord of the Rings’ Orlando Bloom who has promised us all “body vibrating sound” that will…

Many of the lines written for NPCs in The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask relate to crunch, including its infamous “you’ve met with a terrible fate” line. It’s widely known that the game was developed in under two years – an extremely short amount of time that led to huge pressure and Nintendo employees working overtime. As unearthed from Japanese magazines by YouTube channel DidYouKnowGaming, the game’s writers inserted their experience of crunch into the mouths of the game’s NPCs. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational…

Atomic Heart first caught widespread attention all the way back in 2018 with a trailer showing us a Bioshock-like shooter that was set to release “soon”. However, we are now just shy of five years since that initial trailer first splashed its surreal way onto our screens, and with the release now a little over a month away (21st February), the developer has addressed the game’s lengthy development. According to Atomic Heart director Robert Bagratuni, the game’s delay and our subsequent long wait for this release can be attributed to four things – “youth, ambition, innovation and new technology”. Read…

The next generation GPUs from Nvidia – and, as it turns out, AMD – have had a problem: pricing, or rather relative pricing. The issue is that with the Radeon RX 6800 XT and more so the GeForce RTX 3080, we’ve had GPUs that struck an excellent balance between price vs performance. Both were cut down compared to flagship models, but each retained the bulk of their gaming prowess. For whatever reason, their recently released equivalents – RTX 4080 and RX 7900 XT – have not been able to match the same sweetspot in ‘frames for the dollar’. The new…