Alienware, Dell's gaming sub-brand that will be celebrating its 30th birthday in October, has unveiled two rather lovely OLED gaming monitors that both feature LG's tandem OLED tech delivering better than ever brightness. Most recently, our Jeremy was impressed by another tandem OLED from Alienware, and offers a breakdown of what it is in his AW3926QW review.During the announcement, head of product Matt McGowan said that Alienware were aiming to...
The situation surrounding Doom: The Dark Ages – Revelations was already grim. Id Software put out a fantastic expansion that addressed many issues present in the (still pretty good) base game, placing it among the best works the FPS specialists have ever produced. The reward for many of The Dark Ages team was to be instantly laid off, as Xbox cut 136 members of the studio's workforce.Now, it also appears...
World of Warcraft housing has become an amazing spectator sport, with dozens of streamers and creators entrancing players and viewers with their amazing works of art.With WoW's new patch 12.1 adding piles of new housing decor items, rooms, house exteriors, and tools to use them with, it felt like the perfect time to ask those artisans for a little help. Without further ado, here are five top tips from those...
Sick: Ace Combat 8 has online airbase lobbies where you can bum around as your own bespoke pilotsona
If Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve isn't one of your most anticipated releases in this fall's overstuffed launch calendar, I'm just going to say it: It should be. You might be wondering, 'But isn't Ace Combat just, like, planes?' And it is. But it's some of videogames' most ridiculously indulgent anime-ass melodrama, mediated through high-g fighter jet maneuvers and the constant refrain of a missile lock alert. It's like...
The recent GTA 6 "extended look" on Netflix wasn't' very clear on whether you can swap between its protagonists Jason and Lucia at will. Apart from a moment where the camera pulls away from Lucia and back down to Jason miles away, there wasn't a lot of swapping going on, especially during the action.According to an interview on Famitsu with Rockstar North's co-studio head Rob Nelson (translated by GamesRadar+), the...
The game industry is—to use the lightest possible language—in an interesting spot. While videogames are as profitable as ever on paper, we've had a few consecutive years of brutal layoffs and studio closures, as well as all of the knock-on impacts that the advent of generative AI (and the subsequent and boneheaded insistence that it's the future) has had. Billions in spending, skyrocketing hardware prices, the whole kit and caboodle.Which,...
With Fable (it's just called Fable, but it's technically Fable 4) set to release on February 23 next year, we finally have its system requirements. And for a big budget game launching in 2027, they're not too bad. That's according to the newly updated Fable FAQ, which says you will need an Intel i7 6850K or an AMD Ryzen 5 2600, paired with either an RTX 5050 / RTX 2060,...
The studio behind Star Wars Zero Company furloughed up to 80 percent of its staff in the lead up to the RPG's launch, a Game File report reveals. That means affected staff are technically still employed by the company, but will receive no wage during the furlough period.A representative from Bit Reactor confirmed the furloughs to Game File, though didn't indicate how many employees are affected. The rep said uncertainty...
Longtime FromSoftware dataminer Zullie the Witch has come out with a new video showing off the close-up details of Elden Ring's two new NPC invaders. Knight Leontiel and Noble Broken Mask were both added to the game as part of Elden Ring's Tarnished Edition DLC.Knight Leontiel is a straight "hey, I know them" reference to Lucatiel of Mirrah from Dark Souls 2, boasting an HD remaster of her signature conquistador...
Blizzard is scrubbing through its new World of Warcraft Mythic Plus Dungeon top-1% rankings for people who paid for carries, World of Warcraft game director Ion Hazzikostas says.The timed dungeon mode offered its first-ever rewards at that level this past season in the Midnight expansion, which ended August 11. Unlike similar high-end rewards in PvP combat, this ranking level in Mythic Plus dungeons was a flat percentage of players, rather...