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Apple today seeded the first beta of an upcoming tvOS 17.2 to developers for testing purposes, with the beta coming a day after the release of tvOS 17.1. Registered developers are able to download the tvOS 17.2 update by opting in to the beta through the Settings app on the Apple TV. A registered developer account is required. tvOS updates are often minor in scale compared to other operating system updates, focusing primarily on bug fixes and smaller improvements rather than notable outward-faci...

Following the acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Microsoft has announced changes in the Xbox leadership structure, promoting Sarah Bond and Matt Booty.

I’ve got the urge to Durge.

A massive and devastating storm has wreaked havoc across the tropical islands and towering mountains of Storm Point, leaving a path of destruction in its wake. Previous points of interest lie in shambles and litter the landscape. The storm has passed though and the skies above, once a canvas of gloom, now reveal a masterpiece […] The post Apex Legends: Ignite Launches October 31 and Features New Legend – Conduit, an Overhauled Storm Point, Cross Progression, and Much More appeared first on Xbox ...

Reset Switch. Switch, eh? You think it's had its final bookend game and then another all-timer comes along to extend the library. Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom looked like the perfect finale for an extraordinary console that kicked off with Breath of the Wild, but then Nintendo goes and puts out the best 2D Mario in 30 years with Super Mario Wonder. And between those and continuing on into 2024 you've got fantastic games like Pikmin 4, and (hopefully) the upcoming WarioWare: Move It! and Super Mar...

Every road network I ever constructed in Cities: Skylines had deep-rooted performance issues I'd then spend dozens more happy hours trying to unravel. I hope Colossal Order are having a similarly fun time trying to fix the performance issues present in Cities: Skylines 2, which launched earlier this week. The first patch is out now and it includes optimisations for rendering, fog, depth-of-field and more designed to make the citybuilder's framerates less gridlocked.

As part of its latest earnings report - for the first half of its fiscal year 2023-24 - Ubisoft has announced yet another delay for Skull and Bones, with the beleaguered pirate adventure now expected to arrive sometime in the first few months of 2024. Skull and Bones has been in development since 2013, but the game has seen repeated delays following its official unveiling in 2017. Most recently, Ubisoft shifted the game's release from this March to an unspecified "early" point in its fiscal year...

Microsoft has announced a reorganisation of its Xbox leadership team, bringing closer integration with Bethesda and parent company ZeniMax. In an internal memo sent to staff today, published by The Verge, Spencer described the changes as being part of an effort to make an "expanded content organisation - one that enables Xbox Game Studios and ZeniMax's development studios to collaborate effectively together... to do their best work in growing our portfolio of games players love". Matt Booty, pre...

The update makes a handful of optimizations to LOD, depth of field, and global illumination, and also promises to fix a few crash errors.

What are The Finals Twitch drops? Twitch drops are without a doubt the easiest way to earn some sweet loot to show off in your favorite games, and now The Finals is here in the form of its open beta, the first Twitch drops are available for the upcoming FPS game. There's plenty of time during The Finals open beta to both play yourself and pick up a massive 16 The Finals beta rewards for playing, and watch others for tips, with the latter given you even more cosmetic goodies in the form of The Fi...

Is Ghostrunner 2 Steam Deck compatible? Slicing and dicing your way through enemies in Ghostrunner 2 is anything but a dystopian experience on the Steam Deck, as this cyberpunk slasher runs like a dream on the Valve handheld. However, the high-anticipated sequel by One More Level hasn't yet gone through the necessary compatibility checks by Valve. The Ghostrunner 2 system requirements call for 65GB of install space, before you can get to hacking and slashing your way through enemies with your cy...

We've got four Hunter cards from the rootin', tootin' new expansion for you.

New costumes for Pikachu and Gengar make their debut.

Ubisoft just announced its financial results for the first half of the fiscal year 2023-2024, and they're "much stronger than expected."

What are the best The Finals weapons? Grab the cash, bank the cash, and get out of Dodge - that’s the plan. Depending on your class, you may want to avoid more fights than you take, but ultimately, it pays to know what the best The Finals weapons are so that when you do go toe to toe with your enemy, you come out on top. With The Finals open beta in full flow, players are beginning to get to grips with the game's interesting mechanics, and The Finals beta rewards. One thing that never changes, t...

Dave the Diver! Frog Detective! VISCO Collection! The latest Nintendo Download update for North America has arrived, and it's bringing new games galore to the eShop in your region. As always, be sure to drop a vote in our poll and comment down below with your potential picks for the week. Enjoy!Switch eShop - HighlightsJust Dance 2024 Edition (Ubisoft, 24th Oct, $59.99) - The popular music video game franchise is back with its latest update! Just Dance 2024 Edition features 40 songs from new hit...

The Steam Deck remains a high-powered PC gaming handheld, more than capable of playing some of the biggest AAA games of the year. However, all technology has its limits, and the cracks have already begun to show in the handheld's ability to play Cities Skylines 2, and other big releases of the year.

Annapurna collection has 12 brilliant games on a single piece of plastic.

Alan Wake 2 is already setting itself up to be a visual feast on PC, as one of the first games to fully utilize the power of Nvidia DLSS 3.5 and path tracing. The highly-anticipated sequel doesn't stop there when it comes to supporting some of the best tech available today, as the game will also have PlayStation DualSense controller support on PC.

Amid a pop-punk revival and an uptick in UFO news, the Monsters of California director is thriving.

Researchers are taking deep learning for a deep dive, literally. The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Autonomous Robotics and Perception Laboratory (WARPLab) and MIT are developing a robot for studying coral reefs and their ecosystems. The WARPLab autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), enabled by an NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX module, is an effort from the world’s ...

This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we discuss this week's Xbox Partner Preview showcase, which featured around a dozen intriguing titles coming to Microsoft's console in the near-ish future. Tomorrow's Alan Wake 2 got a final airing and it looks just as creepy as we'd have hoped. Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth has an Animal Crossing mode, and Liv in particular is delighted. Oh and Still Wakes The Deep - the spooky game from Everybody's Gone To The Rapture set on a Scottish oil rig, looks great...

Chinese gadget manufacturer Honor just teased its forthcoming flagship smartphone, the Magic 6, at Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit. While many details of the phone remain mysterious, the company did announce that it would include built-in eye-tracking and an on-board artificial intelligence powered by a large language model (LLM.) One of the phone’s key features is something called Magic Capsule, an “eye-tracking based multimodal interaction.” Eye-tracking has some potential real world uses when it...

Mollie, Lauren and Fraser Brown talk about using spreadsheets to organise their gaming lives.

The post Alan Wake 2: The Dark Place Is An Entirely New Experiment for Remedy appeared first on Xbox Wire.

Arizona Sunshine 2 has finally reemerged and given us not only a release date, but a brand new gameplay and story trailer to go with it. The hugely popular zombie game is one of the first flagship games for VR, and the sequel looks to continue with that reputation, and better yet, is coming to multiple VR platforms later this year.

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 hit PlayStation 5 exclusively last week and it's already Sony's fastest-selling first-party game. While we loved the game – read Game Informer's Marvel's Spider-Man 2 here – once players got their hands on the game, some encountered a few bugs and issues, like one where their character model became a small white cube that looks like tofu. Plus, players discovered a Cuban flag was displayed inside and outside the Morales household rather than the expected Puerto Rican flag. ...

Today Square Enix released a new gallery of Final Fantasy XIV screenshots providing a look at the content included in update 6.51.

There are initiatives in place to help, but the studio's developers need certainty.

The first Cities Skylines 2 patch has arrived, which aims to fix a variety of technical and performance problems in the new Colossal Order and Paradox city builder. As noted in our Cities Skylines 2 review, the game struggles on PC owing to freezing, texture pop-in, long load times, and more. Colossal Order says it anticipated these issues but chose to stick to the original launch date for CS2 regardless, and plans to improve and update the game for a long time. However, the first Cities Skyline...

I think that's how Dixie Flatline died.

I want to be Spider-Man!.

Starting Thursday, Uber users in Phoenix might find themselves taking a ride in a driverless car. The company, which sold its own self-driving unit a few years ago, has teamed up with Waymo to offer driverless rides. It’s the first time Uber has offered fully autonomous rides. When someone in Phoenix requests an UberX, Uber Green, Uber Comfort or Uber Comfort Electric ride, they may be matched with a Waymo vehicle if they’re in the service area and there’s one available. Users will be able to re...

PowerWash Simulator developer FuturLab has announced the next expansion pack for the game, a Back to the Future collaboration, will release on 16th November. The crossover was initially teased last month, when FuturLab co-CEO Kirsty Rigden called Back to the Future a "dream IP" for the developer. Players will get to scrub up iconic vehicles and buildings from the film series, including the Time Machine, Doc's van, Hill Valley Clock Tower, the Holomax Theatre, and Doc's Time Train.