New Xbox CEO says subscription “has become too expensive for too many players.” Microsoft announced Tuesday that subscribers to its Game Pass service will see significant price reductions starting today. But those subscribers will also be losing included day-one access to Activision’s popular Call of Duty series from now…
Upcoming sequel wants to capture a “uniquely Ukrainian perspective” on the post-apocalypse. It’s been seven long years now since Metro Exodus wowed us with its early RTX-powered ray tracing in a chilling post-apocalyptic setting. A lot has changed in the intervening years, both in the game industry and for…
What the nostalgic throwback lacks in complexity it makes up for in repetitive charm. If you were working a retail job at a movie rental store in the early ’90s, there’s a decent chance you couldn’t wait to clock out for the day and escape from the daily grind…
AI tools could help moderators sift through mountains of suspicious incidents These days, it seems like every tech company and their corporate parent is looking to squeeze AI tools and features into their products, whether they’re wanted or not. So when files with names and functions referencing a “SteamGPT”…
JSON text strings suggest performance charts based on “framerates of other Steam users.” Back in February, Valve gave Steam client beta users the option to share anonymized framerate data and hardware information with the company to “help us learn about game compatibility and improve Steam.” Now, new text buried…
Microsoft, Intel are also working on their own solutions for the issue. PC gamers who are tired of waiting for their games to “compile shaders” during some load times may want to dig into the latest beta version of the Nvidia App. Alongside new DLSS 4.5 Multi Frame Generation…
Over three decades later, this historical curiosity has more than a few rough edges Like practically everyone who owned a PC in the early ’90s, I tore through the shareware episode of Wolfenstein 3D shortly after it came out. At the time, the game’s mere existence seemed like a…
The first physical game affected will cost $10 more than a digital copy. The downloadable versions of Nintendo’s first-party Switch games have always cost the same amount to buy, despite the costs of manufacturing and shipping physical releases. This was still true when the Switch 2 launched last year,…
If game makers don’t like it, “they could decide not to use it, you know?” Last week, Nvidia’s public reveal of DLSS 5—and its “generative AI” enhanced glow-ups of gaming scenes—drew widespread condemnation from the gaming community. In a podcast published Monday, though, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tried to…
Full-magazine reloads throw out muscle memory in favor of “higher stakes” decisions. For decades now, Counter-Strike players have gotten used to tapping the reload button whenever they have a spare, safe moment. Yesterday evening, though, Valve announced that it had decided this system needed “higher stakes,” overhauling Counter-Strike 2‘s reload…
