2023

Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard has been a major source of corporate drama these past few months. Back in April, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) moved to block the acquisition, stating “Microsoft’s proposed solution failed to effectively address the concerns in the cloud gaming sector”. This block included a massive, 200-plus page findings…

We’ve been here before. But Valve’s latest attempts to squish any imminent expectations of a faster Steam Deck are that little bit more specific. There won’t be one until at least the end of 2025. And quite possibly longer. Speaking to The Verge, Valve rep and Steam Deck designer Pierre-Loup Griffais explained that Valve wanted…

Valve is keeping busy. The company has dramatically increased the number of changes made to SteamVR over the past two months including updates that could be aimed at a new headset. Whether this is Valve placing the groundwork for its next-gen VR headset—it’s Valve, we really don’t know what that company is up to—it does…

We all know traffic management is half the game in Cities: Skylines. As for Cities: Skylines 2, it seems the devs at Colossal Order have been paying close attention to the road tools we use most to ease the burdens that busy junctions place on our cities. As such, they look to have added a…

Have you ever looked at a product that claims to be carbon neutral or environmentally friendly and wondered what the heck that means, specifically? It can be a dodgy marketing practice that induces consumers into buying something that may not be anything of the sort. It’s called greenwashing. The EU parliament has reached a provisional…

A couple of days back, the system requirements for Assassin’s Creed Mirage were revealed. The recommended requirements are quite reasonable, with pretty much any six-core CPU and GTX 1660 Ti / RX 5600 XT tier graphics card able to run the game at 60 FPS and 1080p with high settings. One thing that caught our…