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Electronic Arts is delaying the next, as-yet-untitled Need for Speed game by a year as it nudges its developer, Criterion Games, over to support EA DICE on Battlefield 6. A new report from Polygon has revealed that Electronic Arts is planning to delay the launch of the next game in the Need For Speed franchise.

By Dom Peppiatt, Sunday, 28 February 2021 16:42 GMT Respawn’s free-to-play battle royale title Apex Legends has hit a new concurrent user record on Steam, proving it’s still a very popular title. Apex Legends was released on Valve’s storefront back on November 5, 2020, and since then it’s been a pretty popular and enduring PvP game.

By Stephany Nunneley, Saturday, 27 February 2021 17:12 GMT Ghost Recon Breakpoint players can expect new content for the game to be released in the coming months. According to the developers, Ghost Recon Breakpoint players can expect updates based on feedback and a few surprises thrown in. Surprises could mean new cross-over events such as

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Google launched its Stadia cloud gaming service in late 2019, but already the bloom is off the rose. A series of increasingly concerning tales from Google’s game division has come to light in the weeks since Google killed its internal

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Sony will allow PlayStation 5’s to finally use their M.2 slots by the summer. The new updates will also unlock support for higher fan speeds, which probably isn’t great news to everyone who likes the current noise profile on the

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War‘s new Outbreak mode sees you once again facing off against a zombie threat. Before you travel to the Ural Mountains and begin your investigations into the Dark Aether, you’ll want to take some time to plan your loadout for the mission. Read on for our recommendation of the

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Earlier this week, news broke that saddened the hearts of at least a few dozen people: The moderately-awaited overhaul to BioWare’s Anthem, dubbed Anthem Next, will not be released. Now, we’ve got fresh BioWare news that manages to be both

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Getting a new GPU is almost impossible right now, with prices skyrocketing as supply continues to lag demand. Nvidia has already announced some steps to separate cryptocurrency applications into a new product category, and it’s even got a new gaming

By Stephany Nunneley, Thursday, 25 February 2021 17:11 GMT The action-packed arcade-style racer featuring Hot Wheels cars is now available for pre-order and will release later this year. Mattel and Milestone announced today the upcoming release of Hot Wheels Unleashed which is scheduled to release on September 30. It is coming to PC, PS4, PS5,

By Alex Calvin, Wednesday, 24 February 2021 16:44 GMT New calling cards reward players for killing the undead. It looks like Zombies have been confirmed for Call of Duty: Warzone. As spotted by Eurogamer, players have started to notice new calling card challenges following Season 2 of Black Ops Cold War rolling out earlier today.

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Google’s late 2019 Stadia launch was a bit of a slow start. There were only a handful of games, and most of the fancy cloud features Google promised were nowhere to be found. Google’s in-house game developers were supposed to

Valheim has only been in Early Access for a few weeks, but it’s already enjoyed a meteoric rise up the Steam charts — selling over three million copies in its first three weeks and boasting 500,000 concurrent players at its peak. Though the game doesn’t officially support modding, there’s no way a PC title this

By Dom Peppiatt, Monday, 22 February 2021 15:53 GMT The classic SNK fighting series is returning for a fifteenth installment with The King of Fighters 15, and Chizuru Kagura will be returning with it. Chizuru – a veteran character that’s been in-and-out of the series since she debuted as the sub-boss in The King of

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. It looks like the reports of PlayStation 5 controller drift are real and the problem isn’t going away. According to a new analysis of the DualSense, the problem is fundamental to the design of the joystick itself. Worse, it’s not

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Ever since World of Warcraft Classic proved there are a lot of people willing to facemash their way through the original, most difficult portion of the game, we began to hear chatter that a follow-up might be in the works

Have you suffered from PlayStation 5 DualSense controller drift? A new teardown may have revealed why it keeps happening. A new video from iFixit – a veteran channel that’s been taking tech apart and examining how it works for years – shows a PlayStation 5 DualSense teardown that unearths why the new pad may be doomed to

Blizzard has provided more information on Overwatch 2 as promised. Plenty of Overwatch 2 information was dropped yesterday after the BlizzConline 2021 opening ceremony in a separate segment. In it, the Overwatch 2 team provides a first look at some new locations players will travel to in the upcoming sequel, including Rome, which is the

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. We’re living in a perfect storm for GPU price inflation —  cryptocurrency mining is on the rise, as is interest in gaming during the pandemic. There’s also a global semiconductor shortage at the moment. The result: even if you can

Viking Survival game Valheim, which is available on Steam Early Access, has surpassed the three million sale mark in just 16 days. Coffee Stain Publishing and Iron Gate Studio announced the figure today. Earlier this week, it was reported the game had sold over two million copies within two weeks. Concurrent player numbers also continue

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Nvidia has announced that it will take steps to ensure RTX 3060 GPUs wind up in the hands of gamers, not crypto miners. On Thursday, the company said it would launch a new lineup of CMP (Crypto-Mining Processor) cards, while

By Dom Peppiatt, Thursday, 18 February 2021 14:30 GMT Devolver Digital and Mediatonic’s popular gameshow-inspired battle royale Fall Guys is heading to Xbox One and Xbox Series S|X this summer. After last night’s announcement that Fall Guys will be coming to Nintendo Switch later this year, the game’s official Twitter account has also made it

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Backward compatibility has been a major feature of the Xbox Series X and Series S. Microsoft has emphasized it more than Sony, with an extended effort to make Xbox 360 and Xbox One games playable on the Xbox Series X.

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Google’s decision to kill Stadia’s game development and shut down its studio came as a surprise to everyone, especially its employees. A leaked email shows that that the VP of Stadia and general manager Phil Harrison sent an email on

By Alex Calvin, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 13:55 GMT The games firm is already suing the iPhone maker in the US, UK and Australia. Fortnite maker Epic has continued its war with Apple by filing an antitrust complaint against the tech giant. In a post on its website, the games firm said that it had

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The people making bank selling PlayStation 5’s, Xbox Series X, various types of footwear, and both Nvidia and AMD GPUs believe they’ve been misunderstood. If you think about it, scalpers are really just providing a service. They’re not parasites, they’re

By Stephany Nunneley, Tuesday, 16 February 2021 14:53 GMT Seven additional titles have been announced for the Xbox Game Pass February line-up. Microsoft has announced the latest round of games coming to the Xbox Game Pass subscription service. Kicking things off this week on February 18 is Code Vein (PC), Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire

Bokeh Game Studio has released a new video featuring Keiichiro Toyama who talks about the studio’s upcoming game, which will draw on its developers’ history with horror games. Toyama, the Japanese creator who is known for working on Silent Hill, Siren, and the Gravity Rush series of games, has revealed a few more bytes of info about about

By Dom Peppiatt, Sunday, 14 February 2021 13:40 GMT 343 Industries has announced that a new map is coming to Halo 3 via Halo: The Master Chief Collection, and it’ll be the first new map since 2009’s Mythic II Map Pack. In a blog post released on Halo Waypoint on Friday, developer 343 Industries announced that

By Stephany Nunneley, Friday, 12 February 2021 20:01 GMT Square  Enix has released a new gameplay trailer for Nier Replicant, and it shows over nine minutes of gameplay. The Nier Replicant trailer showcases gameplay in the Barren Temple, which was previously hidden in a sandstorm. In the video, you can see the Protagonist navigate ancient puzzles, defeat Shades, and

Valheim is a survival game all about finding resources and crafting your own tools — but nevertheless, sometimes you just have to buy the things you need. Enter Haldor the trader, Valheim’s premier (not to mention only) merchant character. Haldor is the exclusive source of a number of items in Valheim. This includes the ultra-rare