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We've covered various peripherals so far in our top 10 lists of the best gaming hardware money can buy in 2020, including gaming keyboards, chairs and monitors, but one of the single most important components you'll buy for your setup is without doubt the mouse. Anyone looking to get into competitive shooting games, for example, will quickly learn that the m...

Valve has released a new analytics tracking tool for CS:GO, and players are pretty upset at the $0.99 per month cost, for a tool that is seemingly less useful than other, free alternatives from third parties.The new tool, known as CS:GO 360 Stats, lets players track stats across Competitive, Premiere and Wingman, allowing players to record K/D rations for ea...

It seems to be going from bad to worse for Google's Stadia game streaming service, as seven key staff members, including vice-president and product head John Justice, have quit the company, hot on the heels of Stadia's internal studios being shut down earlier in the year.It all started when Justice was reported to have departed by The Information, which was...

The entire concept behind Verdansk '84, the new map for Call of Duty: Warzone, was to give the developers an opportunity to build a new environment from scratch, to avoid the issues that the existing game had with cheaters and glitches. Sadly, that plan seems not to have paid off, as players are already glitching their way under the map to cheat.By glitching...

The Director's Cut of Borderlands 3 has a lot of neat new enhancements, such as new side missions, some behind-the-scenes content, and a new raid boss - but one of those bonus extras, a cutscene that didn't make it into the finished game - would have changed the game for the better in the eyes of many.The cutscene in question was a funeral scene, for one of...

There's a new update releasing for Fallout 76 this week, known as Locked & Loaded, and it brings with it a lot of quality of life improvements and features that should really continue to improve the experience of the game, which has slowly turned itself around since it's troubled launch a few years ago.The changes including new SPECIAL loadouts, that will al...

Warhammer: Vermintide 2's latest expansion, Chaos Wastes, released earlier in the week, and to give everyone an opportunity to see what the fuss is all about, the game is having a free-to-play weekend on Steam.Prepare for the unexpected and overcome new challenges in this new rogue-lite inspired game mode with this free update to Vermintide 2. The Chaos Wast...

There's a rumour flying around the internet right now, thanks to a YouTube video posted by PUBG Leaker PlayerIGN, that a "pure sequel" to the Battle Royale is currently in development.The video claims that inside sources have confirmed the existence of what PlayerIGN calls "PUBG 2," and that the game is going to be grounded once again in realism, as opposed...

The Epic Games Store has a couple of new free games available this week, and they're pretty decent, with both Alien: Isolation and Hand of Fate 2 up for grabs.Alien: Isolation, while showing a little age, still holds up well and is a fantastic entry in the Alien franchise of games. It's set about 15 years after the film, and you play as Amanda Ripley, the da...

Sony seems keen to bring more PlayStation exclusive IP's and titles to PC, and one surefire sign of this new trend is a new Steam curator page, which has been opened up by PlayStation Studios, which will serve as a landing page for all its games on Valve's digital store.Games such as Horizon Zero Dawn and Days Gone are already linking to the new page, but it...

The long-awaited transmog system for Destiny 2 is finally on the way, allowing players to make their good armour appear like some other, slightly less good armour, for example. It's useful for letting you have higher level / more powerful items while making your character appear pleasing aesthetically - but unfortunately, this particular implementation is po...

Despite its troubles, Cyberpunk 2077 has proven to be one of the best selling games in history so far, with 13.7 million copies sold last year, something that should be something of a consolation to CD Projekt Red.It's a huge sales figure, and while it still has a long way to go to reach GTA V's untouchable 115 million, it's a number that few games ever mana...