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Byepervisor Reborn Cracks the PS5 Hypervisor on Firmware 13.60, but Developers Warn It’s Not Useful to Regular Users Yet

The PlayStation 5 homebrew scene has just taken another significant step forward with the release of Byepervisor Reborn, a hypervisor exploit that could expand what modified PS5 consoles can do on firmware 13.60. However, this is a foundation for developers rather than a finished, consumer-ready jailbreak, and several features still require additional work. As detailed in the project's GitHub documentation, the exploit targets a vulnerability in the console's recovery from Rest Mode, which allows access to the hypervisor's address space and disables execute-only memory protections, leaving the kernel available for dumping and patching. Crucially, it ships without homebrew-enabling patches or […]

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Crimson Desert Modder ByJunter Abandons 2-Player Co-Op Mod, But Says A Far More Advanced Project Is Coming Soon

Although Crimson Desert is a single-player experience, the open-world action-adventure game developed by Pearl Abyss has plenty of mechanics that would work great in a multiplayer experience, small remnants of when the game was supposed to be an MMO. While the Korean studio suggested that multiplayer could come in the future, a dedicated developer released an impressive multiplayer mod whose current alpha state is only the beginning. "Alpha two-player co-op for Crimson Desert: each player keeps their own save and sees the other in their world — movement, combat, horse, gear, rope, minimap — with a shared enemy zone led […]

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GTA VI Is Just Over 1 Month Away, But KBase’s AuraV Mod Gives GTA V Path Tracing And Volumetric Clouds

Every fan of the Grand Theft Auto series has their eyes on GTA VI launching in a little over a month, but there's still plenty of reasons to play GTA V in the meantime, as the PC version of the GTA V Enhanced release is continuing to get some rather impressive mods that push its limits. Among these mods is the AuraV Enhanced mod, which adds, among many graphics improvements, path tracing features. "AuraV is a free graphics mod for GTA V Enhanced on PC," the mod's description reads on its official website. "It path traces the lighting, rebuilds the […]

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Epic Games Is Retooling for “Maximum AI Acceleration,” But Tim Sweeney Insists the Goal Is Better Games, Not Fewer People

A few hours ago, Epic Games founder and majority shareholder Tim Sweeney spoke on X about his company's ongoing changes driven by the AI revolution. First and foremost, Sweeney clarified that his goal is not to replace human employees with AI tools, but to empower them to create more and better game content and to enable Unreal Engine developers to do the same. We have a huge pivot underway here at Epic, moving developers around to retool for maximum AI acceleration. The aim isn't to do the same stuff with fewer people, but to enable everyone here to build MORE and BETTER […]

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Tales of Destiny II Returns After More Than 25 Years as Tales of Eternia Remastered, the Series’ First 2D Remaster

Originally released on PlayStation in Japan in 2000 and brought to North America the following year as Tales of Destiny II, Tales of Eternia is the third mainline entry in Namco's Tales JRPG series. Developed by Wolfteam, the game follows its protagonists on an adventure across the worlds of Inferia and Celestia, combining a fantasy story with real-time combat and a two-dimensional presentation. More than 25 years later, Tales of Eternia Remastered brings that adventure to modern platforms. Developed by TOSE and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment, the remaster aims to preserve the original's identity while updating its presentation and improving accessibility. […]

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RuneScape: Dragonwilds Is Closing In on 3 Million Players, and Jagex Is Already Planning “a String of Sagas”

Every now and then, there’s confidence and success in a game, where they don’t need to hide behind vague lines like “it was a success” or “it failed to hit targets”. During my conversation with the team behind RuneScape: Dragonwilds, I’m used to not getting numbers, so I said I wouldn’t ask for specifics. I got them anyway. “Close to three million people have played the game now—unique players.” It’s not a bad position for Jagex to find itself in with a game that departs from the MMO roots the company is known for, and it was smart to use […]

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Sony’s Questionable Calls Keep Fueling PS5 Jailbreaks, as Xbox Cloud Gaming Joins Native PS3 Emulation on Hacked Consoles

Two years ago, the "This is an Xbox" marketing campaign and the company's pivot to releasing former Xbox exclusives on PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch suggested that even Xbox Game Pass could have launched on these systems. The company has since changed course under the leadership of Asha Sharma, but, funnily enough, one component of the subscription service, namely cloud gaming, did indeed debut on PlayStation 5, albeit in an unofficial capacity. PSBOX Cloud Gaming is a "native Xbox Cloud Gaming client for jailbroken PS5 consoles: browse the cloud catalog and stream games at 1080p60, with the DualSense as an Xbox […]

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No Man’s Sky Squeezes a Decade of Updates Onto iPhone in Under 5GB, Ten Years After Its Rocky 2016 Launch

Hello Games is bringing No Man's Sky to Apple's iOS mobile devices (iPhone and iPad) very soon. The space exploration game will release on iPhone and iPad on October 28, with pre-orders opening today, Monday, October 12, as part of the App Store's Indie Games Week event. It will also be free to try at launch. According to studio founder Sean Murray, the project started as something of a dare within the team, as it seemed like an almost impossible challenge, not unlike the game's Nintendo Switch and VR ports. Crucially, this is not a cut-down port. Murray was keen […]

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Valor Mortis Review – An Ambitious First-Person Soulslike That Is Often More Frustrating Than Fun

Polish game development studio One More Level is a relatively young studio, but it made a name for itself with the excellent Ghostrunner series, a high-speed action series mixing parkour-heavy action with precise movement and unforgiving one-hit kill mechanics for an experience like few others. Following the release of the second entry in the series, however, the studio began working on a very different project called Valor Mortis, its first attempt at the soulslike genre Besides standing tood out for its early 19th Century setting, the game really seemed to nail first-person gameplay for a soulslike. When I played the […]

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Switch 2 Keeps Punching Above Its Weight, as Hamaguchi Vows Final Fantasy VII Revelation Will Narrow the Platform Gap

Despite its hardware, the Nintendo Switch 2 is consistently hitting above its weight in multiplatform games, and among the most impressive ports released so far is Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. Although Square Enix definitely achieved incredible quality, it seems like Final Fantasy VII Revelation will try to push things further in terms of visual quality, as Naoki Hamaguchi feels confident they will further bridge the gap with the other systems in the third and final entry in the series. The attention to graphics, however, won't mean gameplay will be neglected. Combat depth, in particular, also seems to have been taken […]

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Modder Deezyyyy Transforms The Witcher 3 With Four Real Seasons, As Snow Builds Up And 21 Wildflower Species Bloom

Modder Deezyyyy has recently released The Living Continent, a massive visuals-and-immersion mod for CD Projekt RED's The Witcher 3 Remastered. The mod introduces four real seasons to the award-winning open world action RPG. As the in-game days pass, trees leaf out, turn, and fall bare, each species on its own timing, while 21 species of European meadow wildflowers bloom and fade in their own weeks. Autumn brings birch gold, beech amber, and oak copper, with fallen leaves gathering under the trees they came from. Each region also has its own climate, so Toussaint only sees a light dusting in winter, […]

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God of War 3 Remastered Lands on PC Unofficially a Week After Bloodborne, As PlayStation Keeps Laufey Off Steam

The God of War series is about to return on PlayStation 5 this coming February with God of War Laufey, yet PC players won't be able to experience the new entry in the series anytime soon, if ever, in an official capacity due to PlayStation pivoting away from releasing its first-party single-player games to Steam and the Epic Games Store. However, Kratos has unexpectedly returned to PC today with an unofficial port of the final entry in the Greek saga. The unofficial port of God of War 3 Remastered was developed by Felipe Prado using Claude Opus 5.5 as a […]

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Ex-Naughty Dog Animator Bets Intergalactic’s Combat Could Swing Closer to God of War, After Years of Hyper-Real Mocap

It's been nearly two years since Naughty Dog announced Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet at The Game Awards 2024, and its reveal isn't happening before 2027, as President Neil Druckmann confirmed recently. Fans of the award-winning Californian studio are simply itching to learn more about it, and that actually includes former developers like Rico Flores, a veteran animator who spent over five years at Naughty Dog working on Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception and Uncharted 4: A Thief's End. Flores, who later left for BioWare and then did a stint at Archetype Entertainment before settling with emptyvessel (the team behind the multiplayer […]

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Nintendo Refuses to Follow Sony’s Disc Exit, as Switch 2 Exec Says “There’s No Plans to Ditch Physical”

The backlash against Sony's decision to stop manufacturing PlayStation discs from January 2028 is still echoing throughout the games industry. So far, though, the other two console makers have been silent. That changed recently for Nintendo, with Bill van Zyll (VP and general manager for Nintendo in Latin America) talking about this very subject in an interview with Brazilian YouTuber Coelho no Japão: Look, historically, we’ve been very agnostic, right? We go off of what the consumer prefers and take that into account very heavily. We also have a platform that just launched. We’re barely just over a year into […]

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Path of Exile 2 1.0 – Everything We Know About the Full Launch of Grinding Gear’s F2P Hack and Slash

After nearly two years of early access, Path of Exile 2 is finally approaching the finish line toward the full release. New Zealand-based developer Grinding Gear Games used Geoff Keighley’s Gamescom Opening Night Live to inform its many fans that the sequel leaves early access in exactly two months from this article's original publication, going free-to-play and adding the sword-wielding Duelist class alongside the campaign’s final two acts. Whether you have been playing since December 2024, drifted away after the first few leagues, or have been eagerly waiting for the full release to jump in, here's everything we know about […]

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Squadron 42 Storms Onto Steam With Surprisingly Low Minimum PC Requirements, but Fans Still Face a Wait Until Q2 2027

Cloud Imperium Games has just opened Squadron 42's Steam page, and to celebrate the occasion, they also released a brand new trailer. Squadron 42 is the long-awaited single player campaign of Star Citizen, the highly ambitious sci-fi space simulation game that broke all crowdfunding records (it currently stands at 1.050 billion dollars and counting). The single player standalone title envisioned by Chris Roberts (Wing Commander, Starlancer, Freelancer) includes a cast that is a veritable Hollywood's Who's Who, including Mark Hamill, Gary Oldman, Gillian Anderson, Ben Mendelsohn, Henry Cavill, Andy Serkis, John Rhys-Davies, Jonathan Bailey, Mark Strong, Alix Wilton Reagan, Damson […]

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Microsoft’s Overhauled XBOX PC App Is Reportedly Much Faster, With a Redesigned Interface and Improved Navigation

Microsoft is reportedly preparing a major overhaul of its XBOX PC app, with a redesigned interface and substantial performance improvements aimed at addressing some of the longstanding complaints surrounding the company's gaming ecosystem on Windows. According to a new report from Windows Central, Microsoft is internally testing a rebuilt version of the XBOX PC app, codenamed Garrison. The publication's Jez Corden managed to get his hands on an early build, sharing a video demonstration highlighting the improvements. The most immediately noticeable change is reportedly a substantial boost in responsiveness, particularly when navigating large game libraries. Corden, whose XBOX library contains […]

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Starfield Players Wanted No Man’s Sky-Style Seamless Landings Since Launch, but Now a Singer-Songwriter, Not a Coder, Is Building Them

An upcoming Starfield mod aims to introduce what many players have wanted since launch: seamless landings on planets, ala No Man's Sky or Star Citizen. Interestingly, it's being developed by someone who's not a coder by profession at all. According to his own webpage, Frederik Wessberg is a Danish singer-songwriter and audio engineer, yet he made this his passion project over the last six months or so. Here's his technical explanation, which leverages Starfield's hidden "true space simulator" capabilities: I thought it would be a fun small project, but I quickly realized how wrong I was. Because planet rendering in […]

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Gears of War: E-Day Was Undercut by Game Pass, Says Alinea’s Rhys Elliott, as 722K Early Buyers Paid Just $30

The first data on Gears of War: E-Day sales is out, and it's not looking good at all for Vancouver-based developer The Coalition. The studio was already reported to be very worried they'd be next in line for the chopping block after the second chapter of Xbox's Big Reset, which moved Halo, World's Edge, and Rare under Activision and laid off many employees across the division. Now, Alinea Analytics reports that the game has sold only 230K units across Xbox (console and PC app) and Steam, a meager result for a triple-A game that has been in development for many […]

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Circana’s Mat Piscatella Warns US Console Market Is Most Precarious Since Early 1980s, As Xbox Hardware Units Crash 33%

The US console market is in real trouble, at least according to Circana's Mat Piscatella, who reckons it hasn't been this precarious since the early 1980s. In his breakdown of August's US sales data, the analyst revealed that year-to-date hardware unit sales through August have fallen 33% for Xbox and 25% for PlayStation compared to the same period last year. That puts Xbox at an all-time low in the US, while PlayStation has reached its lowest point since 2013. There's no big mystery here. In 2026 so far, the average price paid for a new Xbox console in the US […]

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Pearl Abyss Blames Review Process For Crimson Desert’s 77 Metacritic, Yet 6 Million Sales Disagree

By every metric, Pearl Abyss' Crimson Desert is a smashing success. Having sold over 6 million copies and generating $427 million in revenue, the Korean developer proved not only that it was more than ready to handle a sprawling single-player open-world game, but also that a development approach that takes player feedback into heavy consideration is the key to success. This is made even more impressive by the fact that the game didn't score well in launch reviews, an issue that European CEO Lybee Park pins on both the nature of the review process and the game itself. "Critics had […]

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HelixSR Mod Brings DLSS 3.7 to the Steam Deck and AMD Handhelds, Running Faster Than FSR 4 in Early Tests

A new mod is giving the Steam Deck and other AMD-powered handhelds something they were never supposed to have: NVIDIA's DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) upscaling. HelixSR, released two days ago on GitHub by developer lonewolf0622, is a drop-in replacement for AMD's FSR 3.1 upscaler on Direct3D 12 that runs NVIDIA's DLSS neural network on AMD GPUs instead. Specifically, it uses Preset E (which the developer calls Model E), introduced with DLSS 3.7, the final iteration of DLSS's CNN-based model before NVIDIA switched to Transformer models with DLSS 4. That's actually a great fit for handhelds, since the CNN model […]

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Sony’s PlayStation 5 QSSR May Lack the Shortcut That Made PSSR Easy, As Older Games Could Need a Later SDK

Last week, Sony revealed the Quick Spectral Super Resolution (QSSR) upscaler for PlayStation 5, an AI-driven image upscaling technology not dissimilar to the PlayStation 5 Pro's PSSR upscaler that can be used on the base system to bridge the image quality gap with the mid-generation refresh. According to Daniel Craig, Principal Engineer for Graphics R&D at SIE, retrofits will be easy and require only a bit of tuning, but there could be development challenges that significantly limit how many older games will support the new upscaler. "One thing we need to keep in mind is the status of QSSR within […]

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Cyberpunk 2077 Movie Reportedly Lands Transformers Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura, as Paramount Bets on CDPR’s 40 Million Seller

Deadline reported a few hours ago that Paramount Pictures is preparing a live action film adaptation of CD Projekt RED's Cyberpunk 2077. According to the report, which remains unconfirmed by CDPR at the time being, Lorenzo di Bonaventura will produce alongside the studio itself. Di Bonaventura produced the following movies in his twenty-plus-year career in the film industry: He's also working on the long-discussed Constantine 2 movie. Unfortunately, no more details were shared about the Cyberpunk 2077 movie at this time. That said, the producer has worked with Keanu Reeves multiple times, and of course, the acclaimed actor was prominently […]

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Phantom Blade Zero Can Theoretically Be Beaten With a Childhood Wooden Sword, as Director Soulframe Liang Channels Kung Fu Philosophy

From traditional Chinese wuxia to the clockwork machinations of steampunk technology, Phantom Blade Zero fuses the two to create something new: Kung Fu Punk. In addition to our new hands-on with the opening hours of Phantom Blade Zero on PC, we also had the pleasure of fielding some questions to S-Game's CEO and Founder, Soulframe Liang, as part of a larger group interview. You can find it transcribed in its entirety below; as a reminder, Phantom Blade Zero is out on October 29 for PC and PlayStation 5, so look forward to our full review in the next few weeks. […]

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Phantom Blade Zero Final Hands-On Preview – 66 Problems and the Days Ain’t One

Kung-Fu Punk. That’s the term for the genre being created for Phantom Blade Zero that developer S-Game was keen on repeating during our preview session. This was not my first time going hands-on with Phantom Blade Zero, with prior sessions being held during Summer Game Fest in recent years, but it was during this final preview event that I finally began to understand just what they’re going for here. Not quite a Soulslike, not quite a Wuxia action title, but something in-between. This is our final preview for the upcoming hardcore action RPG, Phantom Blade Zero. While all of my […]

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Richard Garriott Is Taking Ultima Back From EA in 2027, Using a ‘Really Weird’ 35-Year Copyright Law That Costs Nothing

Speaking with Jesse Petrilla, Ultima creator Richard Garriott has confirmed that he's in the process of reclaiming the series' copyright from Electronic Arts, more than three decades after selling his studio, Origin Systems, to the publisher in 1992. Garriott would be leveraging Section 203 of the US Copyright Act. Here's the full quote from the clip that Petrilla already shared (the full interview is yet to be released): I'm in a very interesting moment right now, which is I sold Origin to Electronic Arts in 1992. And there's a really weird United States copyright law that says if you were […]

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NVIDIA Debuts Gears of War: E-Day, STAR WARS: Galactic Racer, Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival and Solasta II on GeForce NOW

NVIDIA has added 10 PC games to the ever-growing GeForce NOW-compatible list. Here's the full list of new additions: We've recently reviewed The Coalition's Gears of War: E-Day and Fuse Games' STAR WARS: Galactic Racer on Wccftech, so you can read what our reviewers thought in the excerpts below: Gears of War: E-Day has been promoted as the most ambitious game ever made by The Coalition, but to be honest, it feels like a step back from Gears 5 in several ways. The narrative is a lot less memorable, and the side content is forgettable. Its saving grace is that […]

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ARC Raiders’ Biggest Update Yet Storms In, As Frozen Trail Arrives With a Free Weekend and 50% Off

Embark Studios has just released Frozen Trail, ARC Raiders' biggest update to date. The patch is headlined by a new northern map, expanded player housing, weapon progression beyond the previous cap and a full new season of challenges. Alongside the patch, the game is running a Free Play Weekend starting today through Monday, October 12, with 50% discounts on the base game and Deluxe editions across Steam, Xbox and PlayStation. Frozen Trail's main attraction is Pendola Pass, a harsh, remote mountain region on the northern edge of the Rust Belt. Embark described it as the game's most ambitious map so […]

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CD Projekt Red Keeps Its Promise Fast, As The Witcher 3 Remastered Patch 5.01 Lets Console Players Kill Washed-Out Bloom

CD Projekt Red promised earlier this week that the first major The Witcher 3 Remastered patch was in the works to address some of the game's issues and introduce performance improvements on PlayStation 5. This patch did not take too long to launch, as it has now gone live on PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and Xbox Series S. The 5.01 patch introduces several gameplay fixes and improvements. The most notable of them is a fix for the Automatically Apply Blade Oils feature introduced in the Next-Gen version, which didn't work properly in Remastered. Besides fixing several issues, the […]

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Byepervisor Reborn Cracks the PS5 Hypervisor on Firmware 13.60, but Developers Warn It’s Not Useful to Regular Users Yet

Crimson Desert Modder ByJunter Abandons 2-Player Co-Op Mod, But Says A Far More Advanced Project Is Coming Soon

GTA VI Is Just Over 1 Month Away, But KBase’s AuraV Mod Gives GTA V Path Tracing And Volumetric Clouds

Epic Games Is Retooling for “Maximum AI Acceleration,” But Tim Sweeney Insists the Goal Is Better Games, Not Fewer People

Tales of Destiny II Returns After More Than 25 Years as Tales of Eternia Remastered, the Series’ First 2D Remaster

RuneScape: Dragonwilds Is Closing In on 3 Million Players, and Jagex Is Already Planning “a String of Sagas”

Sony’s Questionable Calls Keep Fueling PS5 Jailbreaks, as Xbox Cloud Gaming Joins Native PS3 Emulation on Hacked Consoles

No Man’s Sky Squeezes a Decade of Updates Onto iPhone in Under 5GB, Ten Years After Its Rocky 2016 Launch

Valor Mortis Review – An Ambitious First-Person Soulslike That Is Often More Frustrating Than Fun

Switch 2 Keeps Punching Above Its Weight, as Hamaguchi Vows Final Fantasy VII Revelation Will Narrow the Platform Gap

Modder Deezyyyy Transforms The Witcher 3 With Four Real Seasons, As Snow Builds Up And 21 Wildflower Species Bloom

God of War 3 Remastered Lands on PC Unofficially a Week After Bloodborne, As PlayStation Keeps Laufey Off Steam

Ex-Naughty Dog Animator Bets Intergalactic’s Combat Could Swing Closer to God of War, After Years of Hyper-Real Mocap

Nintendo Refuses to Follow Sony’s Disc Exit, as Switch 2 Exec Says “There’s No Plans to Ditch Physical”

Path of Exile 2 1.0 – Everything We Know About the Full Launch of Grinding Gear’s F2P Hack and Slash

Squadron 42 Storms Onto Steam With Surprisingly Low Minimum PC Requirements, but Fans Still Face a Wait Until Q2 2027

Microsoft’s Overhauled XBOX PC App Is Reportedly Much Faster, With a Redesigned Interface and Improved Navigation

Starfield Players Wanted No Man’s Sky-Style Seamless Landings Since Launch, but Now a Singer-Songwriter, Not a Coder, Is Building Them

Gears of War: E-Day Was Undercut by Game Pass, Says Alinea’s Rhys Elliott, as 722K Early Buyers Paid Just $30

Circana’s Mat Piscatella Warns US Console Market Is Most Precarious Since Early 1980s, As Xbox Hardware Units Crash 33%

Pearl Abyss Blames Review Process For Crimson Desert’s 77 Metacritic, Yet 6 Million Sales Disagree

HelixSR Mod Brings DLSS 3.7 to the Steam Deck and AMD Handhelds, Running Faster Than FSR 4 in Early Tests

Sony’s PlayStation 5 QSSR May Lack the Shortcut That Made PSSR Easy, As Older Games Could Need a Later SDK

Cyberpunk 2077 Movie Reportedly Lands Transformers Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura, as Paramount Bets on CDPR’s 40 Million Seller

Phantom Blade Zero Can Theoretically Be Beaten With a Childhood Wooden Sword, as Director Soulframe Liang Channels Kung Fu Philosophy

Phantom Blade Zero Final Hands-On Preview – 66 Problems and the Days Ain’t One

Richard Garriott Is Taking Ultima Back From EA in 2027, Using a ‘Really Weird’ 35-Year Copyright Law That Costs Nothing

NVIDIA Debuts Gears of War: E-Day, STAR WARS: Galactic Racer, Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival and Solasta II on GeForce NOW

ARC Raiders’ Biggest Update Yet Storms In, As Frozen Trail Arrives With a Free Weekend and 50% Off

CD Projekt Red Keeps Its Promise Fast, As The Witcher 3 Remastered Patch 5.01 Lets Console Players Kill Washed-Out Bloom

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