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, […]
The horror game landscape has never been more impressive or varied, and in 2024 you can find some of the beset scary games on PlayStation 5 and PS4 via the growing PS Plus catalog. Ever since Sony expanded the program to emulate Game Pass’ Netflix-styl...
Firewalk Studios is shutting down, PlayStation co-CEO, Hermen Hulst, announced in a press release on Tuesday. The team was responsible for Concord, the company’s sci-fi hero shooter that bombed so badly it was taken offline just weeks after its launch ...
Marathon was originally supposed to arrive this year. Instead, Bungie’s new sci-fi extraction shooter was delayed until 2025 and still hasn’t reemerged with new gameplay since its initial PlayStation Showcase reveal. At least now, however, we do have ...
Gaming seems destined for an all-digital future, but even as players overwhelmingly buy games digitally, they still appear to be opting for consoles with disc drives over ones without them. According to recent data on the current state of the console r...
The official release of Monster Hunter Wilds is months away, but the hit franchise’s first mainline sequel built from the ground up for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S will be available to try for free near the end of October in its first open beta t...
Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered is a worthwhile upgrade, being a robust remaster that greatly enhances the original game's visuals while introducing options seen in its sequel, according to a new tech review. The tech experts at Digital Foundry took a good look at the remaster of the first entry in the series by Guerrilla, developed primarily by Nixxes, highlighting how the many improvements included in the game made it a worthwhile upgrade over the original. Like Forbidden West, Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered features three performance options - 30, 40, and 60 FPS - which balance visual quality and resolution to […]
A new PlayStation 5 system software update is now live, introducing Activities improvements, among other things. The 24.07-10.20.00 system software improves the console's Activities feature. From now on, each activity will display In Progress, Not Started, or Completed, depending on its current status, with spoilers continuing to be hidden even after these changes. The new system software also brings the usual unspecified performance and stability improvements and enhanced messages and usability on some screens. The previous major PlayStation 5 system software update, update 24.06, was released last month. It introduced some new features to the system, such as the Welcome […]
The Xbox Series X/S wireless headset is getting a bunch of improvements. The newest edition supports Dolby Atmos now and promises over 20 hours of battery life. It will also be $10 more than the existing version, however, which it will be replacing on ...
From the moment it was announced that Netflix had hired a team of former Blizzard, Bungie and Sony developers to create a AAA game, it felt too likely that little or nothing would come of it. Non-gaming companies deciding to try to grab a slice of the ...
The Last of Us Part II Remastered is among the first games to receive a PS5 Pro patch ahead of the console's release in around two weeks. The 1.2.0 patch, which went live a few hours ago, introduces a new rendering mode that takes advantage of the PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution upscaler, with a new Pro mode that renders at 1440p with a 4K resolution, 60 FPS gameplay delivered with the upscaler. The regular Performance and Fidelity modes will also be available on the upcoming console and will provide a smoother experience and high framerates compared to the base model. […]
The PlayStation 5 Pro AI-powered PSSR upscaler is definitely superior to AMD FSR 3.1 but lags behind NVIDIA DLSS in certain scenarios, according to a very early comparison. A couple of days back, Digital Foundry shared a face-off video between the three upscalers based on Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart using approximate quality settings, as getting a perfect match proved to not be possible. In addition, the PC version of the game by Insomniac uses a different implementation of Dynamic Resolution Scaling than the console version. Using this approximate recreation of the same visual quality settings, the early comparison highlighted […]
Game developer Insomniac confirmed that the studio has no plans to develop story DLC for 2023's action-adventure Spider-Man 2, likely disappointing many fans who had been hoping for more content.Read more...
The horror game landscape has never been more impressive or varied, and in 2024 you can find some of the beset scary games on PlayStation 5 and PS4 via the growing PS Plus catalog. Ever since Sony expanded the program to emulate Game Pass’ Netflix-styl...
Firewalk Studios is shutting down, PlayStation co-CEO, Hermen Hulst, announced in a press release on Tuesday. The team was responsible for Concord, the company’s sci-fi hero shooter that bombed so badly it was taken offline just weeks after its launch ...
Marathon was originally supposed to arrive this year. Instead, Bungie’s new sci-fi extraction shooter was delayed until 2025 and still hasn’t reemerged with new gameplay since its initial PlayStation Showcase reveal. At least now, however, we do have ...
Gaming seems destined for an all-digital future, but even as players overwhelmingly buy games digitally, they still appear to be opting for consoles with disc drives over ones without them. According to recent data on the current state of the console r...
The official release of Monster Hunter Wilds is months away, but the hit franchise’s first mainline sequel built from the ground up for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S will be available to try for free near the end of October in its first open beta t...
Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered is a worthwhile upgrade, being a robust remaster that greatly enhances the original game's visuals while introducing options seen in its sequel, according to a new tech review. The tech experts at Digital Foundry took a good look at the remaster of the first entry in the series by Guerrilla, developed primarily by Nixxes, highlighting how the many improvements included in the game made it a worthwhile upgrade over the original. Like Forbidden West, Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered features three performance options - 30, 40, and 60 FPS - which balance visual quality and resolution to […]
A new PlayStation 5 system software update is now live, introducing Activities improvements, among other things. The 24.07-10.20.00 system software improves the console's Activities feature. From now on, each activity will display In Progress, Not Started, or Completed, depending on its current status, with spoilers continuing to be hidden even after these changes. The new system software also brings the usual unspecified performance and stability improvements and enhanced messages and usability on some screens. The previous major PlayStation 5 system software update, update 24.06, was released last month. It introduced some new features to the system, such as the Welcome […]
The Xbox Series X/S wireless headset is getting a bunch of improvements. The newest edition supports Dolby Atmos now and promises over 20 hours of battery life. It will also be $10 more than the existing version, however, which it will be replacing on ...
From the moment it was announced that Netflix had hired a team of former Blizzard, Bungie and Sony developers to create a AAA game, it felt too likely that little or nothing would come of it. Non-gaming companies deciding to try to grab a slice of the ...
The Last of Us Part II Remastered is among the first games to receive a PS5 Pro patch ahead of the console's release in around two weeks. The 1.2.0 patch, which went live a few hours ago, introduces a new rendering mode that takes advantage of the PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution upscaler, with a new Pro mode that renders at 1440p with a 4K resolution, 60 FPS gameplay delivered with the upscaler. The regular Performance and Fidelity modes will also be available on the upcoming console and will provide a smoother experience and high framerates compared to the base model. […]
The PlayStation 5 Pro AI-powered PSSR upscaler is definitely superior to AMD FSR 3.1 but lags behind NVIDIA DLSS in certain scenarios, according to a very early comparison. A couple of days back, Digital Foundry shared a face-off video between the three upscalers based on Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart using approximate quality settings, as getting a perfect match proved to not be possible. In addition, the PC version of the game by Insomniac uses a different implementation of Dynamic Resolution Scaling than the console version. Using this approximate recreation of the same visual quality settings, the early comparison highlighted […]
Game developer Insomniac confirmed that the studio has no plans to develop story DLC for 2023's action-adventure Spider-Man 2, likely disappointing many fans who had been hoping for more content.Read more...