The Gig Economy Gets Fun: Deliver at All Costs

All due credit to the courier community that—by hook or by crook,or scooter, moped, or e-bike—keeps us stocked with essentials and delicious foodstuffs. But another generation had it even tougher… Well, they did in Deliver at All Costs, a new game from Gothenburg, Sweden-based studio Far Out Games . It’s 1959 and hapless delivery guy […]

Better the Devil You Know: Boss Belial and a Diablo IV Update

The Lord of Lies is back, getting into unholy mischief and challenging gamers with devilish deceptions in Diablo IV Season 8: Belial’s Return. In this latest update, redilection for chaos is in full effect. Dan Tanguay of Blizzard Entertainment—creators, as he correctly identifies, of “fantastically fun” games, including World of Warcraft, and Overwatch 2, as […]

XeSS 2 now available in more games, get up to a 4x boost in FPS!

More performance, smoother gameplay, and faster responsiveness. This can all be made possible through software enhancements and AI capabilities unlocked with XeSS 2! Since the introduction of XeSS in 2022 alongside the launch of Intel Arc A-Series, over 200 games have been supercharged with greater performance thanks to AI-based super resolution upscaling technology (XeSS-SR). Shortly […]

Performance Update for Intel® Arc™ 140V and 130V Built-in GPUs

What’s better than getting an upgrade in performance? Getting it for free! We have good news to share: As part of our continuous platform optimizations, we are rolling out a power management update that improves gaming performance for Intel® Core™ Ultra 200V systems (codenamed: Lunar Lake) with built-in Intel Arc 140V and 130V GPUs. This […]

Action RPG Empyreal Runs Deep

Fans of action RPGs are demanding. In this post-Souls universe, we want the world-building, systems, mechanics, challenge, visuals and everything else to be just right. With as many opinions as there are variables for what constitutes ‘just right’, making a one-size-fits-all ARPG is an impossible task. However, one small team with an uncompromising vision is […]

Counting Down to Your New Obsession—Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

The phrase “your number’s up” takes on new significance in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, the enthralling debut game from Sandfall Interactive. In this innovative RPG, a mysterious entity known as The Paintress awakes each year, and brushes a number onto an ancient monolith—instantly everyone of that age disappears, forever. The number decreases each time; if […]

Assassin’s Creed Shadows Steps into the Light

For the last 18 years, Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed games have been sneaking onto the PCs and consoles of an entire generation of gamers and quietly eviscerating the competition. With many games in the series to date, the faithful fan base remains hungry for more. Step up Assassin’s Creed Shadows, heading into our hands on March […]

FragPunk Takes Off

FragPunk, the 5v5 hero shooter with Shard Cards (powerful gameplay modifiers that break the rules) launches on Steam and Epic Games Store for free on March 6th (Pacific Time), with 150+ Shard Cards, 10+ rotating game modes, and loads of free cosmetics! Back in October 2024, we invited Bad Guitar Studio, makers of FragPunk, to […]

Rise of the Ronin slices a path to PC

Blades out, warriors. Rise of the Ronin is an open-world action RPG with solo and online co-op play, in which you take on the role of a nameless warrior slicing through Edo-period Japan. Initially released for PlayStation 5 in March 2024, the acclaimed game is heading to PC on March 10, 2025, with a bunch […]

Monster Hunter Wilds Unleashes the Force of Nature

Sharpen your weapons — Monster Hunter Wilds is out. Since the first Monster Hunter exploded onto the Japanese market in March 2004, the series has moved inexorably towards world domination. Monster Hunter Wilds is the latest action RPG in the series, where humans and monsters struggle to live in harmony in a world of duality. […]