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Xbox’s Greenberg discusses $70 game pricing
Xbox’s marketing boss has discussed the recent trend of some game publishers increasing their pricing on next-gen consoles. Rival platform holder PlayStation recently confirmed that the majority of its first-party games will carry an increased $70/£70 price point on PS5. Publishers Activision and 2K have also increased the price of some of their next-gen games, while others have said they ...read more
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PS5 Will Make Dust Removal Much Easier Than Previous Consoles
For all its qualities, it's not uncommon for people's launch-era PS4s to sound like a jet engine every time they turn it on now, partly because it's difficult to clean out any accumulated dust that has built up inside the console. This is true of any vented system, but the PS5 is introducing a very helpful new feature into its design--a "dust catcher" that makes it easy to regularly clean your ...read more
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Gears Tactics Has Gone Gold for Xbox Series X and Xbox One
Gears Tactics has officially gone gold, meaning that it will hit its launch date that coincides with the release of the Xbox Series X. In lieu of Halo Infinite being a launch title for the Xbox Series X, Gears Tactics has now strangely become one of the bigger first-party titles from Microsoft that is planned to hit the next-gen platform on its day of release. Fortunately, for those who may ...read more
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Steam's new chat filter lets you customise what words you see
A new feature has been added to Steam that allows users to tweak their Steam Chat settings to obscure profanity or specific words. The option, which was initially developed for use within certain online multiplayer games on Steam, has now become a feature of the platform itself too. The functions of the new feature go pretty deep: while there's a pre-loaded list of words that Steam considers ...read more
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Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is free-to-keep on Steam
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 – the sequel to Sonic the Hedgehog, the game about a hedgehog whose name is Sonic – looks like it’s going to be free for keepsies starting today That’s according to a listing on SteamDB, shared by Twitter user Wario64. The SteamDB page lists Sonic the Hedgehog 2’s ‘billing type’ as ‘no cost’, starting from October 9, 2020 at 17:00 UTC / 10:00 PST / 13:00 EST ...read more
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Warframe is getting an “Enhanced Graphics Engine”
Earlier this year, Warframe developer Digital Extremes announced the action-RPG game’s engine was in for some graphical upgrades, with a new option for ‘deferred rendering’. Now, the studio’s taken that one giant leap further with the announcement of an “Enhanced Graphics Engine” for Warframe, which will usher in a “complete redesign” and snazzy new visuals to drool over.
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Xbox Responds To PS5 Teardown Video With Cheeky Tweet
A PS5 official teardown video walked us through some ins and outs of the upcoming console, including how to install its expandable storage. One part addressed how to convert the stand from its horizontal to a vertical configuration, prompting a cheeky response from Microsoft. In the video, converting the stand seems to take some mild tinkering: unscrewing the stand from the vertical position, ...read more
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Baldur’s Gate 3’s multiplayer issues are getting hotfixed soon
Larian Studios has set Baldur’s Gate 3 upon the world in Early Access. So it goes with games that haven’t hit the 1.0 build yet, there are issues to fix and bugs to squash. One of the more prominent complaints among players so far is that multiplayer isn’t working. Larian is aware, and a hotfix is “on the way”. The developer posted on Steam that the team is “currently investigating ...read more
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Valorant’s Act 3 agent lands on October 27
Riot has shifted its plans for Valorant‘s act and episode structure, but that mostly means extra content for the impending launch of Act 3. The new Icebox map will land on October 13 alongside the new act, but it’s coming in place of the new character that we expected. Don’t worry, though – that new agent is coming just two weeks after the start of Act 3. The new agent is due to launch ...read more
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Microsoft is working to bring Xbox Game Pass streaming to console & PC
Microsoft has confirmed it’s working to bring Xbox Game Pass streaming to console and PC. The company’s public technology preview for cloud gaming, which was previously referred to as Project xCloud, launched in beta in September as part of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. With a compatible controller, it enables users to play over 100 Xbox games on Android devices directly from the ...read more
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