It's time for Creative Assembly to make a sequel to Total War: Empire, its messiest and most ambitious game

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 review

Need to know What is it? An undead mystery that’s part Anne Rice, part Raymond Chandler. Release date October 21, 2025 Expect to pay $60/£50 Developer The Chinese Room Publisher Paradox Interactive Reviewed on RTX 4090, Intel i9-13900k, 32GB RAM Steam Deck Unknown Link Official site You are Phyre, an elder vampire of prodigious strength…

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Microsoft announces Shader Model 6.10 preview, bringing neural rendering into the mainstream and just maybe making the games industry a bit less reliant on Nvidia

Much of the die space of modern GPUs is given over to functionality that’s not part of the traditional rendering pipeline. Sometimes, that feels like a bit of a waste. Which is why Microsoft’s new Shader Model 6.10 preview, announced yesterday, could be mostly good news. It’s making matrix math part of the official DirectX…

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Midgard Mishaps: Insights From God of War’s QA Team

Making a video game is difficult. Making a stable game that both pushes the capabilities of the hardware and creates a super immersive, no-camera-cut, epically-sized AAA gaming experience like the one seen in the new God of War, is vastly more difficult. This massive task, involving hundreds of people developing and implementing content simultaneously, which…

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Lenovo Legion Go S SteamOS review

The SteamOS version of the Lenovo Legion Go S with an AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme processor is, I’m happy to say, exactly what I’ve been waiting for from a handheld gaming PC. Well, almost exactly. It’s about as ideal as I could hope for at this point in time without succumbing to wishful and perfectionist…

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Explore New Worlds and Solve Environmental Challenges With Gaming This Earth Day

Category: AnnouncementsApril 22, 2024 Explore New Worlds and Solve Environmental Challenges With Gaming This Earth Day Trista Patterson, Director of Sustainability, Xbox Summary Explore games that allow players to explore and engage with the natural worldHelp Duriel sacrifice his horde as they donate buckets of maggots to Tiggywinkles animal rescue hospitalLearn about a new building…

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‘Geralt cannot let Yennefer go’: The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep has an easter egg that was cut from the main series, and it’ll likely include more about Geralt and Yennefer

The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep is a new animated project from Netflix that’ll explore one of Andrzej Sapkowski’s short stories, A Little Sacrifice. In an interview with SFX magazine (via GamesRadar), writer Mike Ostrowski discussed what fans can expect from this movie including a neat little easter egg. Sirens of the Deep is set…

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