While current gen consoles such as the PS5 and Xbox Series have been a similar feature. Microsoft have finally released DirectStorage API for both Windows 10 and Windows 11. The main purpose and benefit of having DirectStorage capabilities is allowing a GPU to directly access game data on your NVME SSD – almost completely avoiding […]
Microsoft set to purchase Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion
Microsoft is taken another step to become the biggest game developer in the market with the complete purchase of Activision Blizzard for a earth shattering $68.7 billion. This purchase will bring such titles as Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Crash bandicoot (yes the PlayStation mascot), and many many more under the Xbox brand. […]
Sony tease PlayStation VR2 for PS5 at CES2022
CES2022 is currently underway and Sony have a few announcements planned, with one being a quick tease of their upcoming sequel to the PlayStation VR headset that launched just over 5 years ago. Straight up we have zero info on pricing or even a hint on availability, but Sony did share most of the specs […]
Microsoft celebrating 20th anniversary of Xbox by surprise releasing Halo Infinite Multiple early
Microsoft are celebrating the 20th anniversary of Xbox by surprise releasing Halo Infinite Multiplayer early on Xbox and PC. The multiplayer side things was announced to be free to play, but it was assumed it was launching along side the full game on December 8th. Some rumours were floating around recently hinting at a possible […]
Lord Gaben smiles on PC gamers. Valve Announces SteamDeck, an AMD Powered Switch-Like Handheld starting at €419
Right on the heels of Nintendo’s much anticipated, if not underwhelming update to the Nindendo Switch, Valve has announced what seems to be the real “Switch Pro” that gamers have been begging for. Rocking a Custom AMD APU that fuses Four SMT Enabled Zen2 Cores with 8CUs of RDNA2 graphics, this potent pocket rocket promises […]
AMD Radeon RDNA2 reaches mobile computing with RX 6000M series
2020 has been a busy year for a busy AMD. It’s RX 6000 series Desktop GPUs have finally brought back competion to the graphics card space and given Nvidia a reason to look over their shoulder. Ryzen 5000 continues to embarass Intel in basically every segment, needless to say AMD are putting the A in […]
AMD unveils their Radeon 6700XT whilst supply chain constraints affect the industry.
Much speculated but finally unsheathed to the world, AMD have introduced yet another member to it’s RDNA2 family, the Radeon 6700XT. Navi 22 XT is the chip powering the show, fabricated on TSMC’s 7 Nanometer process technology, paired this time with a paired back 12GB of GDDR6 on a 192 bit memory bus, compared to […]
PlayStation 5 storage expansion slot may be enabled by the Summer
Games are big, and their getting even bigger. It was recently announced that the likes of COD Warzone and Cold War would no longer fit on a standard PS4 – simply due to lack of avaialble storage space for the massive installations files required. Both the PS5 and Xbox Series launched with high speed SSD […]
Nvidia resurrects Pascal back from the Dead! Why this is a good idea.
2020 and so far 2021 has been a miserable time if you’re a gamer looking to make some upgrades. Ryzen, Big Navi, Ampere are damn near impossible to get a hold of. Scalpers continue to hoover up PS5/Xbox Series inventory and Cryptominers any high end GPUs they can get their mitts on. Lead times for […]
Sony Pulls Cyberpunk 2077 from PlayStation Store, CDPR offering refunds directly if needed
After the huge outcry of bugs and performance issues with Cyberpunk 2077 on last generation consoles CDPR released a statement admitting the game was simply still not ready for last gen hardware. They went on to promise big updates to improve performance in the coming weeks and months, but that users could still avail of […]