September 2020

Call of Duty: Warzone Season 6 is here, and with it marks nearly a year of content updates for Modern Warfare. That’s a lot of new maps, modes, guns, operators, and cosmetics. Despite patching headaches, it’s been a fun year to be a CoD fan. Following Season 6, Warzone’s cross-game partnership with Call of Duty: Black Ops – Cold War will begin, possibly kicking off a new era for the game.But while the spotlight is still on Modern Warfare, Infinity Ward is bringing big changes to the Verdansk map, two new weapons, and a pair of operators that come straight…

Inxile Entertainment is having a busy 2020: in addition to the recent release of Wasteland 3, team-based VR shooter Frostpoint: Proving Grounds is also due to ship this year. That’s a bit different from the studio’s usual RPG offerings, but have no fear when it comes to new Inxile RPGs—the team has two in development.That’s according to the studio’s CEO Brian Fargo, who tweeted the news today. In response to a fan hoping for more games in the Wasteland 3 mould, Fargo wrote: “We are working on wonderful new RPGs, it’s too bad they take so long to make.”He later…

Following today’s very welcome news that Yakuza: Like a Dragon will release three days earlier than expected—on November 10—we now have the crime RPG’s system requirements. It’s probably not going to force you to upgrade your PC, but the minimum requirements are a tad more demanding than Yakuza 0.Whereas you could make do with 4GB RAM in Yakuza 0, the forthcoming Yakuza 7 (they still haven’t brought Yakuza 6 to PC because that would make sense) will require 8GB RAM. That’s not likely to concern you though: these games tend to run decently on most modern systems.Minimum requirements: OS: Windows…

Since the inception of VR, one of the biggest technical challenges to overcome has been locomotion. For some VR users, the sensation of moving within VR while their bodies remains stationary in the real world can lead to motion sickness. That’s why nearly all games give you a teleportation option, so you can “blink” to spots within the game without having to move through the virtual space.But there’s another locomotion issue. When you move around in the physical space you’ve set up for VR, like your living room or office, you can sometimes accidentally step out of bounds and walk…

Three and a half years after Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, open world games with the same freedom of traversal are starting to show up. Ubisoft’s Immortals Fenyx Rising is very Zelda-esque, with a light dusting of RPG mechanics, but Genshin Impact, out today from Chinese developer Mihoyo, is something different. It’s a bigger, more ambitious blend of Zelda’s open world, an actiony JRPG, and a mobile “gacha” game, with co-op play tossed in on top. And it’s free-to-play.Genshin Impact seems like it might be the biggest gacha game ever made. Gacha RPGs, popularized on mobile,…

Rumours suggest that Nvidia is preparing an RTX 3060 Ti, said to be powered by a GA104-200 GPU with 4,864 CUDA cores and 8GB of GDDR6 memory (14Gbps). The card will supposedly have a 256-bit memory bus, offering 448GB/s of memory bandwidth. It’s also said that such a card would be timed to arrive around the same time as AMD’s Big Navi announcement. Game on.Nvidia’s Ampere launch has been a hot topic these past few weeks, as its GeForce RTX 3080 and 3090 graphics cards have both sold out immediately on its website and by way of its retail partners….