Ahead of a stream on March 20, Ubisoft has confirmed Assassin’s Creed Shadows is moving “into its final phase of support”. The publisher’s focus will move to three previously announced Assassin’s Creed projects, including the “darker, narrative driven” Codename Hexe. “We’re winding things down with smaller, less frequent updates… but still a few surprises!” Ubisoft…

Even if you’ve sufficiently managed your expectations and aren’t going for the flashiest bit of kit, hardware is still expensive. Full desktop rigs are bad enough, but even mid-range gaming laptops can come at an eye-watering premium—and don’t even get me started on just how much an Apple alternative would set you back by. MacBooks…

Meta is rolling out a new frame timing technique for Horizon OS called FrameSync. It’s billed as helping to reduce stale frames and increasing responsiveness in VR, all in the name of a smoother visual experience. There are three main benefits to FrameSync versus the existing method, PhaseSync, according to Meta: More consistent smoothness (and…

Quick question: when you make a character in a game, do you play as your own gender or get wild with it? Me, I always used to play as a man (which I am, notionally, in real life) as a kid, but these days I play a woman 99% of the time. Women? Cool. Women…

If you’ve been having a bad week at work, I’m here to inform you that it could always be worse. South Korea’s National Tax Service carried out law enforcement raids resulting in the seizure of cryptocurrency assets worth $5.6 million late last month, gained from 124 tax-evading citizens. Quite the win, you would have thought…

They say that 2026 is the new 2016, and when it comes to my relationship with Overwatch, that is most certainly the case. I’ve fallen in love with the hero shooter all over again after its recent revamp—where Blizzard dropped the “2”, gave us five new heroes to mess around with, and the promise of…

AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su says the company’s CPU sales have “far exceeded my expectations in terms of demand.” That’s the good news. The more ambivalent addendum, at least for we mere PC gamers, is that you can probably guess why AMD CPU sales are going gangbusters. Rejoice, because it is of course AI. “We’re…