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Days Gone Benchmark Test & Performance Review

Introduction Days Gone is an open-world action adventure zombie shooter set in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. You’re Deacon, a military veteran who’s been caught in the middle of a global zombie apocalypse. The game takes place two years after the first outbreak, and the world as we know has ended. Hordes of… Read more

Alienware m15 Ryzen Edition R5 Review: Team Red’s Blasting Off Again

Our Verdict The Alienware m15 Ryzen Edition R5 is so good that it makes us wonder why Dell didn’t team up with AMD on a laptop sooner. For + Strong gaming performance + Excellent productivity performance + Unique chassis + Not too costly for it power Against – Internals run hot – Middling audio –… Read more

Grand Theft Auto V is coming to the PS5 and Xbox Series X in November

One of the bestselling games of all time is coming to next-gen consoles at the end of the year. Today, Rockstar announced that Grand Theft Auto V and its online spinoff will both be launching on the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X on November 11th; the new version was previously announced at the PS5’s… Read more

Apple’s Phil Schiller gives Epic iPhone testimony

What does ‘locked in’ mean, though? We’ve gotten through the expert witnesses of Epic v. Apple, and as a reward, Phil Schiller — currently an “Apple Fellow,” whatever that is, and previously the senior vice president of worldwide marketing — took the stand like a twinkly App Store St. Nick. To hear him tell it,… Read more

Tiger Lake-H Tested: We Benchmark Intel’s Top-End 8-Core i9-11980HK

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Intel is starting to get its legs again. The company, which initially had issues with its 10nm chips, has released its first eight-core, 10nm Tiger Lake-H processors that are ready for gaming and high-end productivity notebooks. For its 10th gen chips, Intel used a 10nm process (“Ice Lake”) for… Read more

Final Fantasy director’s Paralympics RPG is launching next month

The first project from Final Fantasy XV director Hajime Tabata’s new studio JP Games will finally be released next month, the company has announced. The Pegasus Dream Tour is a mobile RPG themed around the Paralympic Games, the first game ever to carry the official Paralympics license. It was initially announced more than two years… Read more

What Is Nvidia DLSS? A Basic Definition

Home News DLSS 2.0 off vs DLSS 2.0 on (Image credit: Nvidia) DLSS stands for deep learning super sampling. It’s a type of video rendering technique that looks to boost framerates by rendering frames at a lower resolution than displayed and using deep learning, a type of AI, to upscale the frames so that they… Read more

Intel Uses AI to Make ‘GTA V’ More Lifelike Than Ever

Home News (Image credit: Intel) Rockstar Games released Grand Theft Auto V nearly eight years ago. The game was impressive at the time, but it’s starting to show its age now, especially in the graphics department. Intel’s Intelligent Systems Lab (ISL) took it upon itself to improve those graphics with a new method of making… Read more

Mass Effect Legendary Edition review: Revisiting the best RPG series ever made

(Pocket-lint) – We couldn’t have been more excited when we heard that the original Mass Effect trilogy was to be remastered for a new collection. But must admit to feeling slightly deflated when we realised the games weren’t to be remade completely. That means, while the graphics and gameplay have undergone extensive tweaking, they haven’t… Read more

Intel is using machine learning to make GTA V look incredibly, unsettlingly realistic

One of the more impressive aspects of Grand Theft Auto V is how closely the game’s San Andreas approximates real-life Los Angeles and Southern California, but a new machine learning project from Intel Labs called “Enhancing Photorealism Enhancement” might take that realism in a unsettlingly photorealistic direction (via Gizmodo). Putting the game through the processes… Read more

SteelSeries Arctis 9 Wireless Review

Introduction The SteelSeries Arctis 9 Wireless is what I’d call a logical addition to the famous and mostly fantastic Arctis gaming headset lineup. Looking at their nomenclature, the Arctis 9 Wireless is a natural upgrade of the also wireless Arctis 7, whose first edition I reviewed back in 2017 and still happily use to this… Read more

Intel Alder Lake-S Spotted Lurking in DOTA2 Benchmark

Home News (Image credit: Photoshop) A mysterious chip running DOTA 2 at 120 frames per second seems to be the first glimpse of Alder Lake-S, AKA Intel’s 12th-generation desktop CPUs. As spotted in the CapFrameX database by German tech site ComputerBase, the CPU identifies itself as Alder Lake, but is running at just 2.2GHz. As… Read more

Snake Slithers Onto Raspberry Pi Pico

Home News (Image credit: Hari Wiguna) The worst thing about modern smartphones and handheld videogame consoles is the lack of Snake. If you can’t play a quick game of Snake during meetings, then what’s the point? Enter Hari Wiguna, who has, via Hackaday, got the game running on a Raspberry Pi Pico and a tiny… Read more

Asus ROG Phone 5 review: A gaming phone with little compromise

(Pocket-lint) – Gaming phones have become something of a fixture in the Android space; while many flagship devices push their gaming prowess, for a select few, gaming is their raison d’être, their everything. The ROG Phone is one such device, pushing Asus’ Republic of Gamers brand and weaving into that the experience Asus has gained… Read more

LG releases England-branded true wireless headphones ahead of the Euros

Home News (Image credit: LG) Think you’re ready for the the Euros on June 11th? Best make sure you’ve got the right audio kit then, because LG has just unveiled the FA4, the official England football earbuds. Not to be confused with the Tone+, LG’s first shot (sorry) at the true wireless in-ear market a… Read more