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I’ve been watching the ascent of OLED with a very keen eye, primarily because as a Counter-Strike 2 gamer, I know just how promising OLEDs will be for competitive gaming. And now it seems we’re at the point where they’ve gotten good enough in specific ways to be the official panel tech of choice in […]

The new Songs of the Past expansion, launching 11 years after the initial release of The Witcher 3, takes us to Letten, a bucolic country in the north of the continent Geralt calls home. Why are we there? Because Dandelion is; some family business has brought him back to his ancestral home, where the mouthy

"They had to put it aside for various reasons." In Songs of the Past, we’re introduced to Dandelion’s family – and their vast estate – and get to see a little more of the context that Geralt’s erstwhile friend grew up in. In a hands-off demo, this morning I saw Geralt acclimatise to the new

Heroes of Might & Magic 3 Remake was announced during Gamescom Opening Night Live yesterday. The game has been rebuilt in Ubisoft’s Snowdrop engine and the results are plain to see: a 3D world instead of a 2D one, filled with detail, shifting seasons and weather effects, and all-new animations. There are also “a range”

The uncanny appearance of characters caused many people – myself included – to suspect gen-AI use, and to ask about it in comments under the official announcement on X. This prompted a response from developer Amplitude, which responded by stating that no gen-AI had been used. “The Humankind 2’s live-action announcement trailer was filmed at

Ukrainian developer 4A on how "the consequences of war" have changed the game amidst Russia's invasion. “I think the landscape has changed significantly [since we developed the previous games in the series],” says Jon Bloch, executive producer at 4A Games, when I ask him if the context of Metro 2039’s production has altered the vision

CD Projekt Red announced yesterday it’s “targeting” a 2028 release date for The Witcher 4, though it didn’t specify when in the year it’s aiming for. “I know it’s a bit of a wait and you’d love to play it sooner, but let the team cook,” joint-CEO Michal Nowakowski announced in a video. The concerning

Though us PC gamers are unlikely to get the benefit of it, sometimes some new bit of PC hardware comes out of the enterprise market that just makes you go ‘huh, that’s neat’. Today, it’s a new chip from IBM made in collaboration with Arm that runs architectures from both companies on a single chip.