At the Nintendo Indies Summer Showcase, Nintendo announced a slew of new indie games that will make their way to the Switch over the coming months. The highlight is the sequel to Super Meat Boy called Super Meat Boy Forever, which will launch initially on the Switch before making its way to other
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NVIDIA rolled out a Destiny 2 bundle back in June, offering customers picking up the GTX 1080 and 1080 Ti a free copy of Bungie's upcoming title. With the PC beta of Destiny 2 set to kick off from August 28, NVIDIA is reintroducing the bundle. From now until September 5, customers
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At Gamescom, Microsoft announced that Age of Empires: Definitive Edition will be releasing on October 19. The first game in the storied RTS franchise is getting a makeover with better visuals, 4K support, and a slew of new gameplay mechanics. Alongside the announcement, Microsoft has detailed a series of new features
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Age of Empires III came out all the way back in 2005, and Microsoft has now announced at Gamescom that it is working on a new instalment in the real-time strategy franchise. Called Age of Empires IV, the game will be developed by Relic Entertainment, the studio behind hit RTS titles in
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For a game that's still in early access, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is doing remarkably well. The developer behind the title — Korea's Bluehole — has already racked up five million sales and over $100 million in revenue in just four months, making Battlegrounds one of the best-selling games this year. The game already
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Qualcomm's fight with Apple over licensing agreements has led to the telecommunications giant posting lower than forecast profits in Q3 Fiscal 2017 results, and just last week a group representing tech companies including Samsung, Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft — aligned itself with Apple, filing a statement to the International Trade Commission saying that banning iPhones
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Steam's monthly hardware survey gives us a good look at the products that are used globally. The latest Hardware & Software Survey, conducted at the end of June, shows NVIDIA taking up 63.61% of the graphics card category, with ASMD coming in second with 20.5% and Intel's integrated graphics coming in at third
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Valve is testing out a Steam Link app for Samsung's Smart Hub TV platform that lets you stream games from your Steam library without the $50 Steam Link streaming box. The Steam Link app is now available in beta in the U.S., and is available for 2016 and 2017 models of Samsung's
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Interest in Pokémon Go may have waned following the game's launch over a year ago, but the title continues to bring in significant revenues for Niantic. According to app intelligence startup Apptopia, the game has netted a staggering $1.2 billion in revenue over the last 12 months, with $950 million in just 2016.
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NVIDIA is one of 50 companies — including Intel, Microsoft, and Ford — that has partnered with Baidu over the company's self-driving car efforts. Baidu has invested significant resources in its Apollo self-driving car initiative, and the Chinese search giant is positioning the program as an open source platform that other car
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Microsoft's Xbox One X is its most powerful console to date, offering 4K gaming with HDR. Set to retail for $499, the console will also be the costliest in the market once it goes on sale later this year. In an interview with MCVUK, Microsoft’s Head of Xbox Operations Dave McCarthy
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NVIDIA rolled out the 384.76 Game Ready drivers at the end of last week, offering optimizations for Rise Up, Lawbreakers, and Spiderman: Homecoming VR. Shortly after it was released, users started to notice that it caused Watch Dogs 2 to endlessly crash. NVIDIA is now issuing a 384.80 update that fixes the
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AMD's highly-anticipated Vega GPU is finally official. The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is a high-end GPU aimed at content creators, along with data scientists, game designers, and visualization professionals. The card features the HBM2 DRAM interface, promising significantly better performance than GDDR5X. The design of a video card isn't usually something that garners a lot of
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Nintendo is once again targeting customers that are interested in its retro titles with the SNES Classic Edition. The mini console will be available from September 29 for $79, and will offer 21 games out of the box, including an unreleased Star Fox 2. Like last year's NES Classic Edition, the SNES
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Nintendo's NES Classic Edition proved to be incredibly difficult to find, and the manufacturer didn't make things any easier by abruptly discontinuing the product just a few months after its debut. Well, get ready for more of the same this year, as Nintendo has announced that it will offer a Super NES
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The Xbox One X is Microsoft's most ambitious console, offering 4K gaming along with support for Dolby Atmos. Microsoft is also touting improved textures and HDR as differentiators. While the Xbox One X has great hardware that allows 4K games to run at full 60FPS, current titles have to be "enhanced" to take
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Microsoft has announced at E3 2017 that it is remastering the first title in the Age of Empires series twenty years after its initial release. Dubbed Age of Empires: Definitive Edition, the version will include upgraded 4K graphics, improved gameplay, new soundtrack, and much more. While Microsoft rolled out an HD
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If you're an Xbox Live Gold member, you can now get Watch Dogs for free on the Xbox One until July 15. The game is being given away for free under the Games with Gold promotion, through which Microsoft offers two Xbox One games for free every month alongside two
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Samsung's foundry scored a major win this year for its 10nm node, teaming up with Qualcomm to fabricate the Snapdragon 835. However, it looks like Qualcomm may go with TSMC for its eventual node switch to 7nm, following Samsung's delays in kicking off trial runs of the 7nm process. The situation is
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Xiaomi made its name by selling affordable mobiles that offer great value for money. But with growth slowing down in China and other markets, the manufacturer has decided to expand into a host of new categories, including home automation, smart lighting, air purifiers, home appliances, and even scooters. Another area
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