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If you've yet to dive into Call of Duty: Black Ops- Cold War, then there'll be a good opportunity to give it a try later on this week, as the multiplayer modes will be free to play between the 25th of February and the 4th of March.The free week due to the launch of Season 2, and will include the new Zombies Outbreak, along with the regular multiplayer modes....

The development woes continue for Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, with developer Hardsuit Labs being removed from the project by Paradox, who also confirmed the game would now be pushed back into 2022.The news was confirmed during an end-of-year earnings call, where Paradox CEO Ebba Ljungerud stated that due to COVID-19, the publisher had to delay "p...

Rockfish Games, developers of Everspace 2, have released the official roadmap for future development throughout 2021, and it shows new ship sub-classes, activities and fast travel will be coming to the early access game over the next 12 months.There's also going to be new additions to the game's story, which is something that the team had previously ruled ou...

If there's one thing that's just as important as a sweet graphics card of beasty processor, it's having a mightly fine gaming display. Apart from looking amazing, a decent display lets you up your game with better response times and higher frame rates. So we figured it was about time we took a look at the best possible gaming monitors on the market in 2021,...

The first alpha test for Diablo 2 Resurrected, the remaster of the original that will add 3D graphics and enhanced visuals and cutscenes, will get under way soon according to Blizzard, and you can sign up for a chance to be a part of it right now.Simply head over to the Diablo 2 Resurrected website, and log in with your BattleNet account, and you'll be given...

CD Projekt Red faced yet more crisis earlier this month when it was hacked by a group demand a ransom, or else it would leak confidential data and the source code for games, including Cyberpunk 2077. The company refused to pay the ransom, and the hackers have subsequently been leaking data at a steady rate. The hackers have also tried to auction off the stol...

Portal 2 seems to be getting some love in recent months. Following on from the surprise co-op update late last year, the game has just been updated again with yet more co-op enhancements, and even support for the Vulkan graphics API.Not that it necessarily needed it - I find Portal 2 will happily render away at 120fps at 4K Ultra even on a modest rig, but th...

BlizzCon is officially underway, and on day one there were several major announcements from Blizzard on Diablo, World of Warcraft, Hearthstone, Overwatch 2 and more.Of course, the event is a little different than we're used to thanks to COVID 19, so instead, everything is taking place online. The neat part about it though is there's no need to buy a ticket t...

EA has formally completed its purchase of Codemasters, the UK based studio that specializes in racing simulators such as DiRT, GRiD and the F1 series, for a cool $1.2 billion. Codemasters will join EA's existing racing lineup, with games such as the Need For Speed series, but will bring with it much more simulation-focused and realistic driving titles, somet...

Destiny 2 developer Bungie is looking to expand the popular franchise into other forms of media, according to a new update from CEO Pete Parsons. The company is looking to expand into "additional media" in the coming years, which presumably means bringing the franchise to TV, movies, comic books or similar. This will apparently lead to some changes at the to...

There's a couple of great games up for grabs on the Epic Games Store right now - both Rage 2 and Absolute Drift: Zen Edition are both free to keep, and are well worth grabbing if you have a few moments.Rage 2, of course, is only a few years old at this point and is a pretty decent first-person shooter that was co-developed by Avalanche Studios and iD Softwar...

Apple has issued a subpoena to Valve, the creators of the Steam platform, demanding that the company reveals huge amounts of commercial data on Steam sales and it's operations, according to a new court filing.It's all part of the ongoing Apple vs. Epic lawsuit over Fortnite - late last year, Epic silently pushed an update to the game that allowed users to pa...