Apple is increasingly focusing on building its own devices and expanding its ecosystem by taking steps towards a more native experience for users and relying less on third-party accessories. While the Cupertino-based tech giant's HomePod and AppleTV have left quite the mark in the smart home category, it generally relies more on outsourcing cameras and other hardware for smart homes. Now, a new report suggests that the company intends to create a fully integrated experience by developing its own smart home accessories. Gurman hints about Apple working on making smart home products like security cameras for a more integrated experience […]
We’re continuing our Best of Black Friday posts today with a look at the best current deals on power stations and their respective bundle options. Folks across the country and beyond have been steadily investing more and more in the industry for a vari...
Blizzard has announced that two decades after its release, World of Warcraft is finally going to let players build a home and live in it. The feature has long been requested by WoW players and now it’s finally coming in the game’s next expansion.Read m...
Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds will receive the Godspawn update, adding a new 50-player boss battle, a new 10-player raid, and a legendary spear. Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds is getting the first major update "Godspawn" on November 19th, expanding the story with new story chapters The MMORPG Guild Wars 2 by ArenaNet is receiving its first major update for the Janthir Wilds expansion soon. It's the first of three major updates, and it'll land on November 19. The update will add new content to the game for the players. The Janthir Wilds expansion DLC was released in August this year, […]
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is the latest Xbox exclusive game rumored to be in development for PlayStation 5, too. It all started earlier this month with Jeff Grubb and other insiders revealing that Hi-Fi Rush and Sea of Thieves would be going multiplatform to PlayStation and possibly Nintendo consoles. The rumor gained strength when texture files showing exclusive t-shirts for Nintendo and PlayStation users were datamined in Hi-Fi Rush. At first, it sounded like Microsoft just wanted to port older and/or less important titles to squeeze some additional revenue from other platforms. However, the floodgates opened a few […]
Starfield, the latest big RPG developed by Bethesda, will be released on PlayStation 5 sometime in the future, according to rumors circulating online. As reported by XboxEra, sources who asked to remain anonymous as they were not authorized to talk about Microsoft's plans revealed that the Bethesda RPG will hit Sony's current generation console some time after the game's first DLC expansion, Shattered Space, launches on PC and Xbox Series X|S, which is set for release this year. Apparently, Microsoft made some additional investment into PS5 dev kits to support ongoing development efforts, which supposedly also include Hi-Fi Rush and […]
We’re starting to get a much clearer look at the 2024 gaming calendar, after the Xbox Developer Direct on January 18 and now Sony’s State of Play event on January 31. The Sony event gave us an in-depth look at Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding sequel, On ...
The next generation Xbox could be lagging behind the PlayStation 6 and may be released later than Sony's console, according to rumors circulating online. In a recent podcast, Moore's Law is Dead commented on some interesting behind-the-scenes happenings that suggest the next-gen console by Microsoft could have entered a design phase only recently. Up until last month, Microsoft had not signed a next-gen contract with AMD, as opposed to Sony, who signed multiple post-PS5 contracts. This is apparently normal for Microsoft every generation, as the company shops around in an attempt to get AMD to lower their prices. This time […]
As a AMD partner game, Starfield has offered strong support for FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) from the get-go, so many were wondering when support for FSR 3 might arrive considering the game got DLSS 3 support via an update last year. FSR 3 is, of course, AMD’s answer to DLSS 3, with both techs adding frame generation to the mix for higher framerates and smoother performance. According to Bethesda, FSR 3 will be coming to the Starfield Steam Beta next week, and then will roll out to all players sometime within the month, before the game’s next major update. “We're […]
Preservation is a nightmare in the games industry, especially as some 87 percent of retro games are swiftly vanishing with the passing of time and many recent games get unceremoniously killed off for…reasons. It seems things may only get worse before t...
Is Xbox getting out of the business of selling physical boxed games? While nothing has been officially announced, various reports seem to point in that direction. Recently, we heard that most of Microsoft’s teams devoted to preparing Xbox games for physical release have been laid off, and now according to another report, many retailers in Europe simply aren’t restocking Xbox titles anymore. This comes courtesy of GamesIndustry.biz boss Christopher Dring, typically a reliable reporter when it comes to industry news. Per Dring, publishers have told them that European retailers simply aren’t restocking Xbox games, which he attributes to the leaked […]
What started off as a relatively obscure survival game known colloquially as “Pokémon With Guns” has officially become the biggest third-party Game Pass launch of all time, as Palworld has reached 19 million players in just under two weeks. That’s a lo...
During the latest Xbox Developer Direct the upcoming Visions of Mana made a surprise appearance, ultimately taking up several minutes of the showcase and hinting maybe Microsoft and Square Enix were working closely to promote the game. Then, eagle-eyed fans noticed a number of references to Visions of Mana being a Day 1 Game Pass release on the Xbox store and website, which made a certain amount of sense given the Xbox Direct appearance. Ah, but don't get too excited just yet Game Pass subscribers. Eurogamer reached out to Microsoft about the status of Visions of Mana, and, apparently, the […]
Apple recently introduced App Store changes for EU developers to comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which will officially go into effect in March. The company has unveiled its plans on how it will proceed with the EU law, but those changes have been met with harsh remarks from different company executives. The latest one was from Microsoft’s Xbox President, who stated that the new EU App Store rules are a step in the wrong direction. Microsoft executive hopes that Apple listens to valuable feedback and makes the required changes to its EU App Store Sarah Bond was Microsoft’s […]
Last week, Microsoft laid off 1900 video game workers across its various studios. This included cuts at recently acquired Activision Blizzard. And one employee, before being laid off, used a Blizzard company perk to walk away with nearly 10 years of Wo...
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is the latest Xbox exclusive game rumored to be in development for PlayStation 5, too. It all started earlier this month with Jeff Grubb and other insiders revealing that Hi-Fi Rush and Sea of Thieves would be going multiplatform to PlayStation and possibly Nintendo consoles. The rumor gained strength when texture files showing exclusive t-shirts for Nintendo and PlayStation users were datamined in Hi-Fi Rush. At first, it sounded like Microsoft just wanted to port older and/or less important titles to squeeze some additional revenue from other platforms. However, the floodgates opened a few […]
Starfield, the latest big RPG developed by Bethesda, will be released on PlayStation 5 sometime in the future, according to rumors circulating online. As reported by XboxEra, sources who asked to remain anonymous as they were not authorized to talk about Microsoft's plans revealed that the Bethesda RPG will hit Sony's current generation console some time after the game's first DLC expansion, Shattered Space, launches on PC and Xbox Series X|S, which is set for release this year. Apparently, Microsoft made some additional investment into PS5 dev kits to support ongoing development efforts, which supposedly also include Hi-Fi Rush and […]
We’re starting to get a much clearer look at the 2024 gaming calendar, after the Xbox Developer Direct on January 18 and now Sony’s State of Play event on January 31. The Sony event gave us an in-depth look at Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding sequel, On ...
The next generation Xbox could be lagging behind the PlayStation 6 and may be released later than Sony's console, according to rumors circulating online. In a recent podcast, Moore's Law is Dead commented on some interesting behind-the-scenes happenings that suggest the next-gen console by Microsoft could have entered a design phase only recently. Up until last month, Microsoft had not signed a next-gen contract with AMD, as opposed to Sony, who signed multiple post-PS5 contracts. This is apparently normal for Microsoft every generation, as the company shops around in an attempt to get AMD to lower their prices. This time […]
As a AMD partner game, Starfield has offered strong support for FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) from the get-go, so many were wondering when support for FSR 3 might arrive considering the game got DLSS 3 support via an update last year. FSR 3 is, of course, AMD’s answer to DLSS 3, with both techs adding frame generation to the mix for higher framerates and smoother performance. According to Bethesda, FSR 3 will be coming to the Starfield Steam Beta next week, and then will roll out to all players sometime within the month, before the game’s next major update. “We're […]
Preservation is a nightmare in the games industry, especially as some 87 percent of retro games are swiftly vanishing with the passing of time and many recent games get unceremoniously killed off for…reasons. It seems things may only get worse before t...
Is Xbox getting out of the business of selling physical boxed games? While nothing has been officially announced, various reports seem to point in that direction. Recently, we heard that most of Microsoft’s teams devoted to preparing Xbox games for physical release have been laid off, and now according to another report, many retailers in Europe simply aren’t restocking Xbox titles anymore. This comes courtesy of GamesIndustry.biz boss Christopher Dring, typically a reliable reporter when it comes to industry news. Per Dring, publishers have told them that European retailers simply aren’t restocking Xbox games, which he attributes to the leaked […]
What started off as a relatively obscure survival game known colloquially as “Pokémon With Guns” has officially become the biggest third-party Game Pass launch of all time, as Palworld has reached 19 million players in just under two weeks. That’s a lo...
During the latest Xbox Developer Direct the upcoming Visions of Mana made a surprise appearance, ultimately taking up several minutes of the showcase and hinting maybe Microsoft and Square Enix were working closely to promote the game. Then, eagle-eyed fans noticed a number of references to Visions of Mana being a Day 1 Game Pass release on the Xbox store and website, which made a certain amount of sense given the Xbox Direct appearance. Ah, but don't get too excited just yet Game Pass subscribers. Eurogamer reached out to Microsoft about the status of Visions of Mana, and, apparently, the […]
Apple recently introduced App Store changes for EU developers to comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which will officially go into effect in March. The company has unveiled its plans on how it will proceed with the EU law, but those changes have been met with harsh remarks from different company executives. The latest one was from Microsoft’s Xbox President, who stated that the new EU App Store rules are a step in the wrong direction. Microsoft executive hopes that Apple listens to valuable feedback and makes the required changes to its EU App Store Sarah Bond was Microsoft’s […]
Last week, Microsoft laid off 1900 video game workers across its various studios. This included cuts at recently acquired Activision Blizzard. And one employee, before being laid off, used a Blizzard company perk to walk away with nearly 10 years of Wo...