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Jade Raymond announces new Sony game studio just months after leaving Stadia

Longtime industry veteran Jade Raymond is heading up a new studio that will create original games for PlayStation. Raymond announced the news today via the PlayStation Blog. “We want to create worlds where players can escape, have fun, express themselves, and find community,” Raymond wrote about the new studio, Haven. “We want to pour our… Read more

Apex Legends is out on the Switch, but it’s missing a key feature: cross-progression

Apex Legends is the latest major cross-platform Switch port. After years of availability on Xbox, PlayStation, and PC, EA has finally brought the battle royale shooter to Nintendo’s handheld console, adding a fresh wave of players to the mix and a new, on-the-go option for existing Apex Legends fans. But there’s a glaring issue with… Read more

HGiG explained: what is HGiG? How do you get it? And should you use it?

Home Advice (Image credit: LG / Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Sony) While gaming formats such as 4K@120Hz, VRR and ALLM are now getting plenty of attention, one that you may not have heard of is HGiG. That might partly be because HGiG isn’t really a format (at least not yet), but rather a set of… Read more

Amazon Luna cloud gaming now available on Fire TVs without an invite

Amazon’s cloud-gaming service, Luna, is now available to try for free in the US on select Fire TV devices without an invitation, the company has announced. Luna launched in early access last year, as an invitation-only service. Originally, customers also needed an invite to buy the Luna Controller, but Amazon now says it’s available to… Read more

Go read this report about the struggles of Dying Light 2 developer Techland

In 2018, game development studio Techland announced it would be developing a sequel to its survival horror hit Dying Light. The game was previously slated to release in the spring of last year, but it would go on to be delayed indefinitely, with no clear release date or launch window yet announced as of January… Read more

Prince of Persia The Sands of Time remake delayed again

Matthew Wilson 4 days ago Featured Tech News, Software & Gaming Last September, Ubisoft announced that it would finally be returning to the Prince of Persia series, starting off with a remake of The Sands of Time, the first game in the series. The game initially targeted a January 2021 release date but was later… Read more

Buy two games or movies at Amazon or Target, get one free

Amazon and Target are hosting “buy two, get one free” promotions on video games, movies, and more. If you’re interested in getting more for your money, especially when it comes to buying games, these are good opportunities to do that. You won’t find all of the latest titles looped in at either store, but games… Read more

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake delayed indefinitely

We already knew a remake for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time was in the works, and it was supposed to come out next month. But if you are waiting to play this long-awaited remake, you will have to wait a little while longer as the game has been delayed indefinitely, Ubisoft announced on… Read more

“Iron Harvest” wins the German Developer Award

The strategy game “Iron Harvest” by the Bremen studio King Art is the big winner of the German Developer Award 2020. The critic’s favorite prevailed against the competition in three categories, as the jury announced on Wednesday in Cologne. These were “Best German Game”, “Best Game Design” and “Best Sound”. Developer King Art also won… Read more

Gigabyte announces PCIe 4.0 Aorus Gen4 7000s SSD

João Silva 42 mins ago Featured Tech News, SSD Drives Gigabyte has introduced a new PCIe 4.0 SSD to its storage portfolio. The Aorus Gen4 7000s SSD will be available with capacities of 1TB and 2TB, featuring an M.2 2280 form factor and two different heatsinks to choose from. Featuring a 2nd generation PCIe 4.0×4 Phison… Read more

Ubisoft’s Riders Republic has been delayed

Mustafa Mahmoud 58 mins ago Featured Tech News, Software & Gaming In the wake of the global pandemic (and perhaps also due to the example set by the controversial launch of Cyberpunk 2077), many video game developers and publishers have reviewed the current state of their in-development titles – with a number of games being… Read more

Star Wars Battlefront II is free on the Epic Games Store

Mustafa Mahmoud 25 mins ago Featured Tech News, Online, PC, Software & Gaming Each week, the Epic Games Store offers a free game or two to those with an Epic account. This week, the storefront is offering a major AAA title in the form of EA’s Star Wars Battlefront II: Celebration Edition. The game is… Read more

Star Wars: Ubisoft develops open world Star Wars game

Disney recently breathed new life into the Lucasfilm Games brand. At the same time it was announced that Bethesda was working on an Indina Jones game at Machine Games, and now the next surprise follows. As the news portal Wired reported, Ubisoft has apparently succeeded in securing the licenses for the production of an open-world… Read more

EA promises “We’re making more Star Wars games” following Ubisoft’s Star Wars collab

Mustafa Mahmoud 2 hours ago Featured Tech News, Software & Gaming Many fans were left surprised by the recent announcement that Ubisoft is currently working on an open-world star wars title – especially considering the fact that EA’s exclusivity agreement does not end until 2023. That being said, despite the opening of the Star Wars… Read more

Synology launches new RS1221+ rackmounted storage servers

Dominic Moass 3 hours ago Server, Tech News Synology has announced its newest 8-bay rackmounted storage servers, which it claims ‘deliver high performance in a space-efficient manner.’ Today we have not one, but two new servers from Synology – the RS1221+ and the RS1221RP+, the latter of which has power redundancy support thanks to its… Read more