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, […]
Starfield, Bethesda’s latest open-world busywork simulator in space, has been out for about nine months. Bethesda has been putting out updates to make the game better, but fans have been waiting for the first big expansion called Shattered Space. Well,...
It looks like Starfield will be receiving its own version of the Creation Club this Sunday after an announcement during the yearly Xbox Games Showcase (slated to be broadcast starting at 10 AM Pacific Time). Leaker Odahfield, who has been leaking Starfield info even before the game's launch, said as much on Twitter/X. He also confirmed that the first trailer for the story-driven Shattered Space DLC will be dropped during the Xbox Games Showcase alongside other Starfield news on the next updates, including a teaser for the addition of the space station building feature. While Odahfield didn't get into specifics […]
Microsoft will be presenting their big Xbox Games Showcase this weekend, and there’s plenty of speculation about what might be next for Team Green. Will more games make their way to rival hardware after games like Sea of Thieves and Hi-Fi Rush went multiplatform earlier this year? And what’s going on troubled tentpole franchise like Halo? Well, reliable Microsoft insider Tom Warren (sign up for his newsletter here) has stepped up before the Microsoft’s big show to provide some details about what he’s heard is going on with Team Green. In addition to the new Call of Duty: Black Ops […]
There are big questions ahead of Microsoft’s summer Xbox showcase, including which games might also come to PlayStation 5 now as part of a new multiplatform strategy, and what the Xbox Series X/S and their successors look like without as many exclusive...
With Starfield, Bethesda Game Studios produced its first science fiction IP and decided to make a game with over a thousand explorable planets (100 of which with life on them) to sell the idea of a proper space adventure. To do so, the developers of Starfield had to extensively employ procedural generation, which Bethesda had used in some capacity ever since Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall. That game featured over fifteen thousand cities, villages, towns, and dungeons, with a playable area estimated at around 161 thousand square kilometers (real-life Great Britain is 209K square kilometers). Some of the developers behind Daggerfall […]
Star Wars fans have long awaited the arrival of a truly great Mandalorian video game, just to have their hopes repeatedly dashed. First, it was the long-in-development hell (but still not technically canceled) 1313, and most recently it was Respawn’s M...
Last month, Bethesda released a “next-gen” update for Fallout 4 across all platforms intended to improve the aging RPG. Instead, it broke tons of popular mods and made the game buggier for some players, too. To fix that, Bethesda has released another u...
Earlier this week, Xbox announced that it would be shuttering several studios it had attained as part of its $7.5 billion purchase of Bethesda, including Arkane Austin, Tango Gameworks, Alpha Dog Games, and Roundhouse Studios, the last of which is bein...
On May 7, Xbox announced that it was closing three studios: Arkane Austin (Redfall), Tango Gameworks (Hi-Fi Rush), and Alpha Dog Games (Mighty Doom). Support studio Roundhouse Games was also being absorbed by Zenimax Online Studios (Elder Scrolls Onli...
Starfield, Bethesda’s large open-world space RPG released last year, is set to receive a big new update later this month. One of the big features being added is 3D surface and city maps, something the game has needed since its launch. But these new map...
The latest Starfield beta patch brings noticeable performance improvements in select scenarios, judging from a new comparison video. The video, which was put together by MxBenchmarkPC, highlights how patch 1.11.33 brings CPU optimization improvements, as the game runs considerably better in CPU-limited scenarios, as opposed to GPU-limited scenarios, which don't see any improvement over the current public version of the game. The Starfield 1.11.33 patch promises to shake up the latest open-world role-playing game by Bethesda considerably on both PC and consoles. The patch launching on May 15th will introduce a frame rate target option on consoles, finally giving Xbox […]
Good news for Starfieldplayers who have wanted a faster and better way to travel across the game’s hundreds of planets: Bethesda is planning to add a drivable dune buggy to its massive open-world sci-fi RPG. Read more...
Starfield, Bethesda’s latest open-world busywork simulator in space, has been out for about nine months. Bethesda has been putting out updates to make the game better, but fans have been waiting for the first big expansion called Shattered Space. Well,...
It looks like Starfield will be receiving its own version of the Creation Club this Sunday after an announcement during the yearly Xbox Games Showcase (slated to be broadcast starting at 10 AM Pacific Time). Leaker Odahfield, who has been leaking Starfield info even before the game's launch, said as much on Twitter/X. He also confirmed that the first trailer for the story-driven Shattered Space DLC will be dropped during the Xbox Games Showcase alongside other Starfield news on the next updates, including a teaser for the addition of the space station building feature. While Odahfield didn't get into specifics […]
Microsoft will be presenting their big Xbox Games Showcase this weekend, and there’s plenty of speculation about what might be next for Team Green. Will more games make their way to rival hardware after games like Sea of Thieves and Hi-Fi Rush went multiplatform earlier this year? And what’s going on troubled tentpole franchise like Halo? Well, reliable Microsoft insider Tom Warren (sign up for his newsletter here) has stepped up before the Microsoft’s big show to provide some details about what he’s heard is going on with Team Green. In addition to the new Call of Duty: Black Ops […]
There are big questions ahead of Microsoft’s summer Xbox showcase, including which games might also come to PlayStation 5 now as part of a new multiplatform strategy, and what the Xbox Series X/S and their successors look like without as many exclusive...
With Starfield, Bethesda Game Studios produced its first science fiction IP and decided to make a game with over a thousand explorable planets (100 of which with life on them) to sell the idea of a proper space adventure. To do so, the developers of Starfield had to extensively employ procedural generation, which Bethesda had used in some capacity ever since Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall. That game featured over fifteen thousand cities, villages, towns, and dungeons, with a playable area estimated at around 161 thousand square kilometers (real-life Great Britain is 209K square kilometers). Some of the developers behind Daggerfall […]
Star Wars fans have long awaited the arrival of a truly great Mandalorian video game, just to have their hopes repeatedly dashed. First, it was the long-in-development hell (but still not technically canceled) 1313, and most recently it was Respawn’s M...
Last month, Bethesda released a “next-gen” update for Fallout 4 across all platforms intended to improve the aging RPG. Instead, it broke tons of popular mods and made the game buggier for some players, too. To fix that, Bethesda has released another u...
Earlier this week, Xbox announced that it would be shuttering several studios it had attained as part of its $7.5 billion purchase of Bethesda, including Arkane Austin, Tango Gameworks, Alpha Dog Games, and Roundhouse Studios, the last of which is bein...
On May 7, Xbox announced that it was closing three studios: Arkane Austin (Redfall), Tango Gameworks (Hi-Fi Rush), and Alpha Dog Games (Mighty Doom). Support studio Roundhouse Games was also being absorbed by Zenimax Online Studios (Elder Scrolls Onli...
Starfield, Bethesda’s large open-world space RPG released last year, is set to receive a big new update later this month. One of the big features being added is 3D surface and city maps, something the game has needed since its launch. But these new map...
The latest Starfield beta patch brings noticeable performance improvements in select scenarios, judging from a new comparison video. The video, which was put together by MxBenchmarkPC, highlights how patch 1.11.33 brings CPU optimization improvements, as the game runs considerably better in CPU-limited scenarios, as opposed to GPU-limited scenarios, which don't see any improvement over the current public version of the game. The Starfield 1.11.33 patch promises to shake up the latest open-world role-playing game by Bethesda considerably on both PC and consoles. The patch launching on May 15th will introduce a frame rate target option on consoles, finally giving Xbox […]
Good news for Starfieldplayers who have wanted a faster and better way to travel across the game’s hundreds of planets: Bethesda is planning to add a drivable dune buggy to its massive open-world sci-fi RPG. Read more...