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Ubisoft has revealed the final PC hardware recommendations for its upcoming free-to-play shooter XDefiant. Also, preloads are available for both the console and PC versions ahead of its May 21 launch.
Google-owned Waze has added a new special experience to its navigation app. It features YouTube's popular gaming commenter Dashie, who gives voice directions in the app in a humorous tone.
Playground Games has announced a new free content update for Forza Horizon 5. Dubbed "Horizon Retrowave," it brings new cars, fresh synthwave music, neon lights, new character items, and more.
Star Citizen is hosting a massive free-fly event, offering everyone access to its sci-fi universe as well as almost all its ships and vehicles. The free-to-play promotion lasts for 12 days.
Developer Arkane Austin will release one final update for its vampire shooter Redfall. The update will add a much-wanted offline mode to the game along with single-player pausing and more.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Microsoft has decided to launch Activision's 2024 Call of Duty game as a Day One title for the Xbox Game Pass subscription service for an October launch.
The Creative Assembly development team is reportedly working on three more entries for its long-running Total War RTS game series. One of those games is allegedly based on the Star Wars universe
Leaks on social media have reportedly shown a new third-person shooter called Deadlock. This is rumored to be the next major new game from Valve, and it may be officially announced soon.
Intel 31.0.101.5522 WHQL driver is now available for download with optimizations and support for the upcoming Senua's Saga: Hellblade II, Starfield May Update, XDefiant, and Wuthering Waves.
OpenAI expands ChatGPT's data analysis capabilities with the ability to directly upload files from Google Drive and OneDrive. Users can now work with datasets in an interactive expanding table view.
The Summer Game Fest X account has announced that the live-streaming event will officially reveal a new title from 2K Games that's part of one of its "biggest and most beloved franchises" on June 7.
As part of its quarterly financial report, publisher Take-Two Interactive stated that Grand Theft Auto VI from Rockstar Games will launch in the fall of 2025 for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.
Google is rolling out some new accessibility features for Android and Google Maps. For instance, the Lookout app is getting a Find Mode to locate different objects, Sound Notifications is redesigned.
Sega and Amplitude Studios have kicked off a giveaway on Steam, offering strategy fans the fantasy 4X entry Endless Legend to keep for free if they claim it within the next seven days.
Google's Gemini AI is slowly making its way into every product that it has in its arsenal, and Workspace for Education is no exception, with two new paid add-ons and more data protections for free.
Activision, now owned by Microsoft, has opened a new game development studio called Elsewhere. The team is working on an all-new "narrative-based and genre-defining AAA franchise."
Xbox Free Play Days has two games for Xbox Game Pass Core and Ultimate members to try for no extra cost this weekend: The theme park building title Planet Coaster and the co-op entry Killing Floor 2.
The Epic Games Store's first mystery giveaway from its Mega Sale promotion has turned out to be Dragon Age Inquisition - Game of the Year Edition. The BioWare RPG is free to claim for an entire week.
Palworld, the surprise game hit of 2024, is now available on the Nvidia GeForce NOW cloud gaming service for Steam owners of the game. Four other games were also added to GeForce Now this week.
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Minecraft, one of the most popular modern games, is celebrating its 15th birthday. To mark the occasion, Microsoft put the game on sale, allowing you to save up to 70% on different platforms.
Google explained how it narrowed to the Gemini name for its generative AI model. It means 'twins' in Latin, and one of its inspirations is NASA's human spaceflight program that happened in the 1960s.
AMD's latest WHQL-certified driver, 24.5.1, lands with support for Ghost of Tsushima Director's Cut, Senua's Saga: Hellblade II, and F1 24, as well as AI acceleration and development support.
Today, Google announced a number of new additions for devices that use versions of Android. They include a new "private space" for smartphone apps in the upcoming Android 15 OS, and more.
Tomorrow is Global Accessibility Awareness Day, and Microsoft is using the occasion to officially reveal the Proteus Controller, a third-party modular Xbox game controller that's coming this fall.
Ubisoft has canceled the 2021-announced The Division spin-off entry Heartland. The development resources from the free-to-play survival game are being diverted to Rainbow Six Siege and XDefiant.
Starfield 1.11.36 update is now live across PC and Xbox, bringing updated local maps, ship interior customization much like on outposts, frame rate targeting and graphics options on Xbox, and more.
Assassin's Creed is returning this November with a brand-new entry focused on feudal Japan. Shadows will feature two protagonists, letting players take the roles of being shinobi or samurai.
Microsoft's latest Xbox software update for May concentrates on the PC platform, as it officially adds support for playing certain Xbox Cloud Gaming titles with a mouse and keyboard.
Tango Gameworks will release one more and final patch for its acclaimed action game Hi-Fi Rush later today. The game's physical editions from Limited Run Games are also still in the works.
Microsoft has released its latest Xbox Transparency Report, which claims that the company has seen the online safety of its gamers improve with the use of new tools and reporting features.
The recently unveiled Google Pixel 8a has picked up its first software update, which brings a new AI feature onboard and also bumps the security patch level to the latest, May 2024.
Google has quietly revealed it is rolling out a new "Web" filter for search results that will show links to other sites in the old-fashioned way, rather than the new AI Overviews results.
Google has just announced its new Gemini API Developer Competition with a video featuring actor Christopher Lloyd and an interesting Back to the Future-related grand prize for the winner.
At Google I/O 2024, Google announced a new experimental feature for the Google Photos app. It's an assistant called Ask Photos that takes natural language queries to pull out old photos and videos.
Google has announced a bunch of new AI-powered experiences for Android devices. They include the ability to explain homework using Circle to Search, better scam detection, TalkBack updates, and more.
Today, during the Google I\O conference, Google announced some new features for Gemini, its large language model AI family. The reveals include a new lightweight Gemini 1.5 Flash model and more.
Over 100 games on the Xbox 360 store just received discounts of up to 90% off. Microsoft says it is working with publishers to offer sales on the classic titles before the store's closure.
As part of Google I/O 2024, the company unveiled Veo, which uses typed in text prompts to create videos in a way that's similar to OpenAI's Sora AI video tool. It's currently in a private preview.