Games, games, games!
I’m so glad I stayed up to watch The Game Awards last night, which for me kicked off at 9.30 pm my local time, because two hours later, as I was about to hit the sack, a familiar silhouette appeared on the huge screen. Lara […]
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Back in May 2024, in You Don’t Own Your Video Games! I wrote that The Crew would no longer be playable because Ubisoft was shutting down its servers for the game on 31 March 2024. This was quite a scandalous move by Ubisoft because the
Gaming is an expensive hobby, not only for the price of games but also rising costs of hardware. We are all aware of Microsoft’s questionable stance on Windows 11 requirements, and the same is happening in AAA games. For example, DOOM: The Dark Ages and
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Over the weekend, a Reddit user started a rumour that Microsoft had cancelled the next Xbox console, and the gaming community went into a tailspin. Microsoft then replied that things were not ‘up in the air’ and that the company is actively investing in its
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While all the other gaming platforms lag way behind in features, Steam continues to shine, constantly updating and improving itself. I’ve been using the FPS counter for years, along with hitting a function key to take a screenshot. I often wondered if more overlay features
When I bought the Gigabyte Aorus Elite RX 9070 XT 16GB to replace my RX 5700 XT, I knew it would be powerful, but I didn’t expect it to be this good! As I mentioned in GPU Upgrade – Size Matters! I thoroughly researched the
Four and a half years ago, I upgraded my graphics card from an AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB to a Radeon RX 5700 XT 8GB, which you can read about in this article: I Just Upgraded To The ROG Strix RX-5700 XT GPU. Four years
In September 2018, Shadow of the Tomb Raider was released – that’s nearly seven years ago – and in 2022, it was announced that a new Tomb Raider game would be developed by Crystal Dynamics and published by Amazon Games using the Unreal 5 engine.
In May 2025, Rockstar Games confirmed that the much-anticipated GTA VI will be released on May 26, 2026. But there was no mention of which platforms it would be released on. One has to assume that consoles will be first, followed by PCs a year
As outlined in You Don’t Own Your Video Games! and Ubisoft EULA Tells Gamers To Destroy Copies Of Games, a campaign to prevent games from disappearing was started by Ross Scott, aka Accursed Farms, spurred on by Ubisoft’s decision to shut down the servers for
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Not content with being lambasted by the gaming community for completely shutting down The Crew, which sparked the movement Stop Killing Games, Ubisoft has sneakily amended its EULA (End User License Agreement) with the following lines: 8. TERMINATION. …this EULA will terminate automatically if You
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Following Microsoft laying off more than 9000 employees recently, it’s emerged that Turn 10, the Microsoft-owned studio that produces Forza Motorsport (FM), has suffered badly from the hatchet with over 50% layoffs. The Forza Motorsport franchise was first launched in May 2005, with the latest
I’ve never used a game console, a handheld, or a controller, but the recent Microsoft reveal of the ROG Xbox Ally really piqued my interest. Neither am I an expert on handheld gaming devices, being a PC gamer, but we can’t ignore this new handheld
Reminded by Jim Hillier’s recent article Microsoft Says TPM Is Worth The Upgrade – But Is It?, it’s only just come to my attention that some games require Secure Boot and TPM 2.0 – Fortnite (for tournaments), Valorant, The Finals and Vanguard (Call of Duty)
