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The numbers looks horrible but it doesn't mean much, for now.

Turns out everyone's hunting for some fresh silicon right now.

How long do you tend to spend creating a character in a video game? The correct answer is three hours. Four hours if it's a Bethesda game, because creating a character in a Bethesda game is like rewinding the Raiders Of The Lost Ark face-melting scene while shooting at your TV with Homer Simpson's Make-Up Gun. It takes patience to extract beauty or even just plain inoffensiveness from the Creation Engine's sticky coils. Hang on, why am I being mean to Bethesda? I should be directing my snide rem...

Taking on your first hunt can feel a little intimidating, but with these top Monster Hunter Wilds tips, you’ll be an expert hunter in no time. Whether you’re trying to master the secrets of the Seikret or figuring out focus mode, we’ve got you covered.

Last week, we asked you to set sail and share swashbuckling moments as a pirate in the game of your choice using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights: call_me_xavii shares leaping into the action in Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii MrioMoreno5 shares a council of pirates in Return to Monkey Island. JLunarTraveler...

We said "final" for the previous release candidate, but good things come in threes, don't they?

Last year, the Dragon Ball franchise turned 40. First begun by manga artist Akira Toriyama in the pages of Weekly Shōnen Jump, it’s grown into a pop culture empire of various TV series, video games, and virtually every other piece of merchandise that one can think of. Multiple generations of anime fans have recognized it...

What are the best Monster Hunter Wilds design codes? We're so grateful to the talented artists working with the Monster Hunter Wilds character creator tool, providing the community with handcrafted iconic warriors. Thanks to their hard work, we're able to hunt monsters as Wednesday's Jenna Ortega, something we couldn't possibly do on our own. If you’d rather spend your time hunting monsters in the action game than creating your character, Monster Hunter Wilds character codes give you instant acc...

Dungeons & Dragons highly anticipated virtual tabletop, Sigil, went live on Thursday according to a blog post. Powered by Unreal Engine 5, the fully three-dimensional system includes integrations with character sheets created in D&D Beyond, a tool for building and customizing miniatures, animated spell effects, and more. Fans can try the tool out and join...

It was only a matter of time.

With Gray Zone Warfare, Hunt Showdown, The Forever Winter, and Zero Sievert, the extraction FPS world is getting pretty full. But Escape From Tarkov remains the biggest and best known, the game that kickstarted the entire genre. Eight years since its initial launch, EFT is still going strong and still getting better. But if you’ve been having problems with Raiders, Scavs, and Rogues lately, Battlestate has just made the AI enemies easier to take on with a new Escape From Tarkov patch.

Limited Run has dropped a new video teaser showing off its upcoming release of Gex Trilogy.

Life sim sickos unite.

Who stole the rest of GTA 5?

Braver than the troops.

Good. Good to know.

Do ya like jazz?

Playing Total War: Warhammer 3's Kislev campaign on release was one of the best storified strategy game times I've had in years, launch issues be thrice-damned, triple cooked, and three times a lady. But the Slavic bulwark against stinky, angry, tricksy and horny invaders has lost some lustre since. The details in Creative Assembly's latest blog are still a work in progress, but give a solid idea of how Kislev as a faction are changing in a patch due mid-March.

AMD have finally confirmed pricing, dating, and specs-ing for their first RDNA 4 graphics cards. The Radeon RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT will be out on March 6th, and start from $549 and $599 respectively. While these are still relatively fat stacks o' cash, AMD say they’ll compete with Nvidia’s RTX 5070 and RTX 5070 Ti – and considering the latter is supposed to start at $749, with most models currently going for above $800, that could make for a tasty undercutting.

All the way back in 2021, Netflix seemed like it was finally making good on its promise to change the way we watch movies. It had already found the (increasingly less successful) binge model for TV, and the experimental Fear Street franchise was supposed to be a shot at giving movies a similarly relentless release...

Picking between Lödwyn or Ryngrim in Avowed‘s “Shadow of the Past” quest leaves you with no good options. People suffer no matter what you do, and your companions hold a bit of a grudge in one outcome, despite offering little help guiding you toward a decent choice. Unlike some big choices in Obsidian’s RPG, this...

Deciding whether to have the Emerald Stair animancers relocate to Thirdborn or Paradis in Avowed seems like a choice with a major outcome during the “Ancient Soil” quest, but that’s only halfway true. The outcome is influential – though you never get the chance to see it until later. Unlike most of Avowed‘s important choices,...

“Nature vs. Nuture” is a side quest in Avowed that highlights the divisions in Emerald Stair between animancers and everyone else. In a dispute over farming methods, you have to decide which side is right. This sounds low-stakes, but things quickly turn violent depending on your choices. At the end of it all, though, you...

“That Which Remains” is a side quest in Avowed that, like many side quests in Avowed, poses a choice with seemingly no good outcome. This Shatterscarp side quest sees you investigate the folly of a group of researchers and explore possible ways to save them from it, though no choice ends with making everyone happy....

Game on, folks. Game on.

Monster Hunter Wilds makes for a confusing PC release, with staggeringly poor performance on lower-end graphics cards - to the extent that we don't recommend the game at all on these systems - and relatively meagre visual rewards given the performance requirements. That's a harsh assessment, but it's unfortunately a justified one based on the profound performance problems here that must be addressed.

Editor’s note: This is the next topic in our new CUDA Accelerated news series, which showcases the latest software libraries, NVIDIA NIM microservices and tools that help developers, software makers and enterprises use GPUs to accelerate their applications. Traditional cybersecurity measures are proving insufficient for addressing emerging cyber threats such as malware, ransomware, phishing and Read Article

Polygon sat down with writer Kelly Thompson earlier this week to discuss her best-selling Absolute Wonder Woman, which she co-created with artist Hayden Sherman — but we couldn’t help asking about another of her comics co-creations who has been making a big splash lately: Jeff the Land Shark, who appears in Marvel Rivals.  We asked...

Microsoft today announced that it will officially retire Skype on May 5, 2025, concluding its 14-year tenure as the owner of the once-dominant internet calling and messaging service (via Bloomberg). Microsoft acquired Skype in 2011 for $8.5 billion in what was then its largest-ever acquisition. At its peak, Skype had more than 300 million monthly active users and was synonymous with internet-based voice and video calling. The service steadily declined in relevance in recent years, with its activ...

There is bad news for anyone hoping to play Assassin's Creed Shadows on the Steam Deck as the technology director for the game confirms that it won't be compatible, at least not on release day. While the Steam Deck is still the best handheld gaming PC for most, it's aging hardware and limited power is starting to become an issue for anyone hoping to play the latest triple-A games. The Assassin's Creed Shadows system requirements cover everything up to ultra ray tracing, and Ubisoft believes ther...

A new Witcher novel is due out later this year, from original author Andrzej Sapkowski, which will follow a teen Geralt.

Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 transports you to the heart of 15th century medieval Europe for a deeply immersive, story-led action RPG. While it drops you into the lifestyle of the time, ultimately you’re still playing a videogame, meaning that there are myriad convenient features that help make your life easier. But that’s all about to change. Developer Warhorse Studios had previously teased the potential for a KCD2 hardcore mode, and now it’s revealed exactly what that looks like and roughly when...

Well sure, why not? Pokémon's no doubt been at the forefront of everybody's minds this week as we finally got our first proper glimpse at Pokémon Legends: Z-A ahead of its launch later this year. As part of the wider Pokémon Day celebrations, the BBC recently caught up with The Pokémon Company's CEO, Tsunekazu Ishihara, to discuss the franchise and its future. Crucially, Ishihara reckons that Pokémon has the potential to reach its 100th anniversary, so long as the company maintains focus on its ...

Oh, and you may need to actually get an SSD.

The Triumphant Light cards are out now Pokémon TCG Pocket, adding 96 new cards to the competitive mobile game. The Triumphant Light expansion offers one new booster pack with Arceus as the figurehead Pokémon plus a new battle mechanic in the form of Link Abilities. This expansion is roughly the same size as the Mythical...