PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now
Ben Porter, director at the consultancy firm NewZoo, is giving a GDC talk this week that picks out some highlights from the firm’s annual look at the state of the games industry. PC Gamer was fortunate enough to get a sneak peek at his slides, and one of the takeaways is that PC gaming is…
AMD claims it has 45% gaming GPU market share in Japan but jokingly admits it ‘isn’t used to selling graphics cards’
An AMD spokesperson has claimed that Radeon gaming graphics cards now have 45% market share in Japan. This appears to be something of a surprise to the AMD rep, referred to as Mr. Sato, who said that the company, “isn’t used to selling graphics cards”. Er, righto…! According to Japanese website ASCII (via Google translate),…
This HyperX headset is quite literally for the clouds as it has the option for winged ear plates
HyperX has just announced a follow-up to its Cloud III headset, the HyperX Cloud III S Wireless. As well as coming with a few technical upgrades, it is giving users the opportunity to wear wings on the side of their heads. Those wings come in the form of removal magnetic earcup plates. Like those you…
Round Up: The Reviews Are In For Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition
Give ’em Skell. Well folks, at the time of writing, we’re merely a couple of days away from the launch of Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition on Switch. As such, reviews of Monolith Soft’s revamped port have started to crop up and, spoiler alert, it sounds like a fresh trip to Mira may well be…
Towerborne Releases onto Xbox Game Preview and Game Pass on April 29
Category: Games March 18, 2025 Towerborne Releases onto Xbox Game Preview and Game Pass on April 29 Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief Summary On April 29, Towerborne will release onto Xbox Game Preview for Xbox Series X|S, Windows PC via the Xbox app, and with Game Pass. Enjoy a reimagined looter-brawler ARPG experience with full…
Review: P-47 II MD (Mega Drive) – 35 Years Later, Jaleco’s Shmup Finally Takes To The Skies
…but was it worth the wait? When City Connection announced last year that it was dusting off the cancelled Jaleco title P-47 II: The Freedom Star for a physical release on Sega Genesis / Mega Drive, it generated an understandable amount of interest. After all, this was a famous canned title in a series of…
Cities: Skylines 2 celebrates 10 years of Cities with more nuanced homelessness and six new DLCs
It’s hard to believe, but the premiere metropolis maker this side of SimCity 4 has just hit a 10-year milestone—and in classic city builder fashion, Cities: Skylines 2 is honoring the occasion with traffic bug fixes, new buildings and radio stations, and major changes to homelessness. Notably, citizens will no longer become adults and then…
Rockstar hornswoggles lapsed GTAO players with $3 million welcome-back offer that actually requires you to spend money to get most of it
I regard GTA Online the same way I regard the Seven Years’ War: I only know it at a distance, it sounds like a living nightmare, and whenever I learn something new about it I’m sure glad I’m not there. Maybe I’m not the only one, because Rockstar is giving away $3,000,000 to any lapsed…
‘I’m not a gamer,’ says God of War Amazon series’ new showrunner, unwittingly kicking a hornet’s nest despite years of acclaimed writing experience
Amazon’s upcoming God of War series is still in the pipeline after everyone previously making it quit last year—which, if you’ve been big into the weirdly decent era of prestige TV and animation coming out of videogames recently, should come as a relief. Kratos’ grim mien is still coming to the silver screen. The series,…