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How to watch the Summer Game Fest’s ‘Kickoff Live’ event

Summer Game Fest 2021, hosted by Geoff Keighley, is getting started with new game announcements two days ahead of E3 2021 with its “Kickoff Live” event. In addition to news, it’s perhaps the only event to feature both an appearance from Jeff Goldblum and a musical performance by Weezer. The list of partners for the… Read more

Tencent acquires minority stake in Alan Wake studio Remedy Entertainment

We’ve known for some time now that Remedy Entertainment is partnering up with Epic Games on future projects. This appears to have piqued Tencent’s interest, leading to the company acquiring a minority stake in Remedy. Tencent is adding Remedy Entertainment to its long, growing list of video game studio investments. After purchasing roughly 500,000 shares… Read more

Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest returns June 10th with a ‘world premiere showcase’

Summer Game Fest is back this year, and it will start on June 10th with an event called “Kick Off Live!” that’s billed as a “spectacular world premiere showcase” with “more than a dozen” world premieres and announcements. The show, which will begin at 2PM ET, will be hosted by Geoff Keighley, who you might… Read more

Nvidia’s RTX 3050 Ti can deliver 60fps gameplay in more budget-friendly laptops

Nvidia’s RTX 30-series lineup of mobile graphics chips has two new members joining today: the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti and 3050. They sit beneath the GeForce RTX 3060 in terms of specs and performance, with less video memory (4GB) and fewer dedicated Tensor AI and RT cores available to perform ray tracing and handle AI-enhanced… Read more

The Call of Duty League’s champions are being honored at Verdansk Stadium in Warzone

The champions of the first season of the Call of Duty League are being honored in a unique way: with their faces plastered at the stadium in Call of Duty: Warzone. Today, Activision revealed that the front entrance to Verdansk Stadium in Warzone will soon display a giant rendition of the CDL trophy, along with… Read more

Activision is tripling the size of its Call of Duty studios

Mustafa Mahmoud 14 hours ago Featured Tech News, Software & Gaming Call of Duty is one of the biggest franchises in all of video games, with over 400 million copies sold. This doesn’t even include Warzone and COD mobile, each of which have over 100 million players. In order to keep up with its size… Read more

Activision confirms Sledgehammer as lead studio for Call of Duty 2021

Matthew Wilson 18 hours ago Featured Tech News, Software & Gaming Activision is finally opening up about its plans for Call of Duty in 2021. During a financial call that took place last night, the publisher confirmed that Sledgehammer Games is leading development for this year’s game. Speaking on this year’s plans, Activision Blizzard COO,… Read more

Call of Duty 2021 is apparently in trouble, ‘recovery roadmap’ already planned

Matthew Wilson 2 days ago Featured Tech News, Software & Gaming This year’s Call of Duty game could be in some trouble. According to a notable leaker, the game has been encountering development issues for sometime now and as a result, Activision has reportedly lowered its expectations for the release and already has a ‘recovery… Read more

Native PS5 and Series X versions of Warzone are on their way

Mustafa Mahmoud 6 hours ago Console, Featured Tech News, Software & Gaming, Tech News When Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War launched late last year, it offered a native next-gen version, which took advantage of many of the new consoles’ enhancements including 120fps support, FOV sliders and much more. Activision’s arguably more popular Call… Read more

Apex Legends now has more than 100 million players

Battle royale shooter Apex Legends now has more than 100 million unique players globally, EA and Respawn announced on Wednesday. The free-to-play game surpassed the big milestone just over two years after its February 2019 launch. Apex Legends’ success is just the latest indication that free-to-play battle royale shooters remain very popular, despite the genre… Read more

Tencent-owned studio behind Call of Duty: Mobile reportedly earned $10 billion in 2020

TiMi Studios, the Tencent-owned developer of huge mobile hits Call of Duty: Mobile and the MOBA Honor of Kings, earned a staggering $10 billion in revenue in 2020, according to an April 1st Reuters report. Reuters’ article says those earnings make TiMi the “world’s largest developer,” according to its sources. While it’s unclear exactly what… Read more

Malware hidden in Call of Duty cheat software proves that cheaters never prosper

Hackers have been hiding malware in cheating software for Call of Duty: Warzone and have been trying to spread it to “cheating cheaters,” as a report from Activision calls them (via Vice). You can read the full report here, but it explains that there’s been a campaign by hackers to try to get Warzone players… Read more

Activision shrinks Call of Duty file sizes so you can download other games

Activision is finally doing something about the tremendous file sizes of recent Call of Duty games. The company is announcing that both Modern Warfare and the free-to-play Warzone will be much easier on hard drives after the next update. The space savings vary depending on what platform the game is installed (and which content packs… Read more

Nvidia is doubling the price of its GeForce Now cloud gaming service for new users

Nvidia on Thursday announced a new subscription tier for its GeForce Now cloud gaming service called Priority that will replace its existing paid Founders tier and contain the same perks like extended session length and RTX support. The catch: the change will come with a price increase, from what used to be a $4.99-per-month subscription… Read more