Here we go folks, Best Buy’s Day 1 Black Friday Doorbuster deals are now live! Yesterday we featured the brand’s Black Friday sneak peak online ad as well as some of the early Doorbuster deals as part of Best Buy’s early access sale for Plus and Total ...
Apple finally included a telephoto lens in its iPhone 15 Pro Max last year, with the upgrade extended to the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max. This is just one of the many examples of how the Cupertino firm adopts various standards much later than the competition, likely because it wants to offer the best configuration to customers. One other technology that the company is said to bring for the iPhone 18 that rivals like Samsung introduced years ago is variable aperture for the main camera, and according to one analyst, another supplier will provide these parts. Sunny […]
The use of TSMC’s second-generation 3nm process for the M4 series has made Apple’s latest chipsets more thermally efficient, but that does not mean that a capable cooling solution should be ignored from the rest of the hardware configuration. In fact, depending on how robust that solution is, we can actually get more performance from the M4, as demonstrated in the latest Premiere Pro 4K Export test, where the redesigned Mac mini is faster than Apple’s updated 14-inch MacBook Pro. However, one other hardware ends up taking the crown, and we will discuss why this is happening. The 24-inch M4 […]
The PC version of God of War Ragnarok doesn't offer many opportunities to scale beyond the PlayStation 5's Quality display modes, but with some choice mods, the latest entry in the series can look outright gorgeous. A new 8K resolution video shared on YouTube by Beyond Dreams shows the game running with ReSTIR G.I. in Complete Ray Tracing and a custom ReShade preset which bring improved global illumination, ambient occlusion, enhanced FOV, Color grading, and more. In pretty much every scenario shown in the video, the mods make the game look incredible and much better than it does on PlayStation […]
A new God of War Ragnarok patch is now live for the PC version of the game, improving AMD FSR 3 frame generation and fixing a variety of issues. Patch 4 focuses on fixing several issues, including crashes, authentication flow, and texture issues, which will no longer unload while looking at the menu for a set amount of time and won't be shown loading in while using fast travel through the Realm Between Realms. The new God of War Ragnarok patch also fixes an NVIDIA memory leak issue caused by switching between different Frame Generation settings. The patch, as mentioned […]
This week, Sony opened up pre-orders for the items in its 30th Anniversary PlayStation 5 collection, and for many at least, the experience of trying to snag anything was one of confusion and frustration. Also, we’ll tell you about a great arcade platfo...
The God of War Ragnarok PC port is most definitely solid, but it offers few options to scale visual settings beyond the PlayStation 5 version and sometimes looks worse than it as well. Earlier today, Digital Foundry provided an in-depth look at the port, highlighting how the new version of the game is a great way to play it, thanks to shader compilation issues being pretty much non-existent, thanks to the move to DirectX 12 over its predecessor, great support for ultra-wide and super-wide aspect ratios, NVIDIA DLSS, AMD FSR, and Intel XeSS upscalers, complete with frame generation where applicable […]
I’ve been replaying God of War Ragnarök now that it’s on PC, and despite some clear, widespread technical issues with depreciating framerate, this is still fundamentally the same excellent sequel that launched on PlayStation in 2022. I put a few hours ...
As reported in a previous article, Steam users are blasting God of War Ragnarok for Sony's decision to mandate linking of a PlayStation Network account to play the game, as well as for some performance issues. Thankfully, iArtorias already created a mod that removes the PSN account requirement by stripping away the PlayStation PC SDK runtime requirement. To install the mod, just download the latest release and copy the version.dll and PsPcSdk.dll files to the game folder. The modder also noted that users still encountering the login screen error should remove this file: C:\Users\[Username]\\Saved Games\God of War Ragnarök\[AccountID]\userpreferences. Also, upon the […]
God of War Ragnarök is now facing "review bombing" on Steam, following Sony's requirement that PC users connect to a PSN account, in a repeat of the Helldivers 2 review bombing for the same reason. Sony eventually reverted the mandatory PSN account, but that was only because, at launch, it hadn't been the case, and people were pissed they could no longer play the game they had purchased. The PC port of God of War Ragnarök was a highly awaited title among fans, mainly due to the original hype built by the console release, which received a perfect score on […]
God of War Ragnarok officially releases on PC today, two years after its release on console. While the game was well received by both critics and the general population, one of the biggest gripes was how invasive the puzzle hints were. This is something that was also similar in the first game but wasn't as bad as it is in God of War Ragnarok. With the release of the title on PC, players will be able to reduce the frequency of puzzle hints from companions in the gameplay settings. While it's nice that there is an option to receive hints […]
If you played God of War: Ragnarok on PlayStation, then punctuating your declarations about how bloody marvelous it is, you will almost inevitably have cried, “STOP TELLING ME WHAT TO DO!” For some reason, Ragnarok is absolutely convinced that you’re s...
The latest NVIDIA GeForce Game Ready Driver is primed and ready to be installed. It provides support for Final Fantasy XVI, Frostpunk 2, and God of War Ragnarok, all of which will launch with day-one support for both DLSS3 and NVIDIA Reflex. Additionally, there will be Game Ready support EA Sports FC 25, as well as three new Optimal Playable Settings profiles to give players the smoothest experience in their games. Final Fantasy XVI will be launching on September 17, a previously PlayStation 5 exclusive game that is now making its way onto PC. The game allows players to explore […]
The God of War Ragnarok PC system requirements have been revealed today, and they are not particularly demanding compared to other games released this year. As confirmed on the Official PlayStation Blog, the game will require at least an Intel i5-4670k or AMD Ryzen 3 1200 CPU and an NVIDIA GTX 1060 or AMD RX 5500 XT GPU and 8 GB RAM to run at native 1080p resolution, 30 FPS average, and low settings. Running the game at higher resolutions and better framerates will be more demanding, although the requirements for native 4K resolution at 60 frames per second look […]
The long-tail on the PlayStation 4 has been incredible. The console still has 49 million active users according to Sony’s most recent estimate. But all good things must come to an end, and it feels more clear than ever that Sony is ready to leave the P...
As part of its Q2 FY 2025 financial presentation, SEGA has announced the sale of Amplitude Studios, the Paris-based studio known as the developer of Endless Space, Endless Legend, Dungeon of the Endless, Endless Space 2, Humankind, and more recently, Endless Dungeon. SEGA explained this concludes its wave of restructuring the European business, which previously included the sale of Relic Entertainment and substantial layoffs. The Group recorded an extraordinary loss of approximately ¥5.9 billion ($38.7 million) in the second quarter for the fiscal year due to the sale of overseas development studio Amplitude Studios SAS through a management buyout. [...] […]
The Target 3-day early Black Friday sale is now live but we are also now onto Day 8 of its Black Friday Deals of the Day. There are now “thousands of deals” live over at Target alongside the now live Best Buy early Doorbuster sale, and the daily deals ...
The PC version of God of War Ragnarok doesn't offer many opportunities to scale beyond the PlayStation 5's Quality display modes, but with some choice mods, the latest entry in the series can look outright gorgeous. A new 8K resolution video shared on YouTube by Beyond Dreams shows the game running with ReSTIR G.I. in Complete Ray Tracing and a custom ReShade preset which bring improved global illumination, ambient occlusion, enhanced FOV, Color grading, and more. In pretty much every scenario shown in the video, the mods make the game look incredible and much better than it does on PlayStation […]
A new God of War Ragnarok patch is now live for the PC version of the game, improving AMD FSR 3 frame generation and fixing a variety of issues. Patch 4 focuses on fixing several issues, including crashes, authentication flow, and texture issues, which will no longer unload while looking at the menu for a set amount of time and won't be shown loading in while using fast travel through the Realm Between Realms. The new God of War Ragnarok patch also fixes an NVIDIA memory leak issue caused by switching between different Frame Generation settings. The patch, as mentioned […]
This week, Sony opened up pre-orders for the items in its 30th Anniversary PlayStation 5 collection, and for many at least, the experience of trying to snag anything was one of confusion and frustration. Also, we’ll tell you about a great arcade platfo...
The God of War Ragnarok PC port is most definitely solid, but it offers few options to scale visual settings beyond the PlayStation 5 version and sometimes looks worse than it as well. Earlier today, Digital Foundry provided an in-depth look at the port, highlighting how the new version of the game is a great way to play it, thanks to shader compilation issues being pretty much non-existent, thanks to the move to DirectX 12 over its predecessor, great support for ultra-wide and super-wide aspect ratios, NVIDIA DLSS, AMD FSR, and Intel XeSS upscalers, complete with frame generation where applicable […]
I’ve been replaying God of War Ragnarök now that it’s on PC, and despite some clear, widespread technical issues with depreciating framerate, this is still fundamentally the same excellent sequel that launched on PlayStation in 2022. I put a few hours ...
As reported in a previous article, Steam users are blasting God of War Ragnarok for Sony's decision to mandate linking of a PlayStation Network account to play the game, as well as for some performance issues. Thankfully, iArtorias already created a mod that removes the PSN account requirement by stripping away the PlayStation PC SDK runtime requirement. To install the mod, just download the latest release and copy the version.dll and PsPcSdk.dll files to the game folder. The modder also noted that users still encountering the login screen error should remove this file: C:\Users\[Username]\\Saved Games\God of War Ragnarök\[AccountID]\userpreferences. Also, upon the […]
God of War Ragnarök is now facing "review bombing" on Steam, following Sony's requirement that PC users connect to a PSN account, in a repeat of the Helldivers 2 review bombing for the same reason. Sony eventually reverted the mandatory PSN account, but that was only because, at launch, it hadn't been the case, and people were pissed they could no longer play the game they had purchased. The PC port of God of War Ragnarök was a highly awaited title among fans, mainly due to the original hype built by the console release, which received a perfect score on […]
God of War Ragnarok officially releases on PC today, two years after its release on console. While the game was well received by both critics and the general population, one of the biggest gripes was how invasive the puzzle hints were. This is something that was also similar in the first game but wasn't as bad as it is in God of War Ragnarok. With the release of the title on PC, players will be able to reduce the frequency of puzzle hints from companions in the gameplay settings. While it's nice that there is an option to receive hints […]
If you played God of War: Ragnarok on PlayStation, then punctuating your declarations about how bloody marvelous it is, you will almost inevitably have cried, “STOP TELLING ME WHAT TO DO!” For some reason, Ragnarok is absolutely convinced that you’re s...
The latest NVIDIA GeForce Game Ready Driver is primed and ready to be installed. It provides support for Final Fantasy XVI, Frostpunk 2, and God of War Ragnarok, all of which will launch with day-one support for both DLSS3 and NVIDIA Reflex. Additionally, there will be Game Ready support EA Sports FC 25, as well as three new Optimal Playable Settings profiles to give players the smoothest experience in their games. Final Fantasy XVI will be launching on September 17, a previously PlayStation 5 exclusive game that is now making its way onto PC. The game allows players to explore […]
The God of War Ragnarok PC system requirements have been revealed today, and they are not particularly demanding compared to other games released this year. As confirmed on the Official PlayStation Blog, the game will require at least an Intel i5-4670k or AMD Ryzen 3 1200 CPU and an NVIDIA GTX 1060 or AMD RX 5500 XT GPU and 8 GB RAM to run at native 1080p resolution, 30 FPS average, and low settings. Running the game at higher resolutions and better framerates will be more demanding, although the requirements for native 4K resolution at 60 frames per second look […]
The long-tail on the PlayStation 4 has been incredible. The console still has 49 million active users according to Sony’s most recent estimate. But all good things must come to an end, and it feels more clear than ever that Sony is ready to leave the P...