Deal Alert: New Dell XPS Gaming PC with Intel Alder Lake Processor, DDR5 RAM, and RTX 30 Series Video Card Ships in January
Previously Dell’s only PC option that offered an Intel Alder Lake CPU, DDR5 RAM, and RTX 30 series video cards was in the form of the Alienware Aurora R13 gaming PC. At a cost of about $2900 for an Intel Core i7 RTX 3080 combo, it’s out of…
Overwatch Goes Free To Play For The Holidays
From now until early January 2022, all players can experience Overwatch as a free-to-play game on PC, PlayStation, and Xbox platforms. Editor’s Note: A lawsuit has been filed against Activision Blizzard by the California Department of Fair Employment and…
SoundBlaster Katana V2 review — The best PC upgrade you can make
Join gaming leaders, alongside GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming, for their 2nd Annual GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit | GamesBeat: Into the Metaverse 2 this upcoming January 25-27, 2022. Learn more about the event. I used the Creative SoundBlaster…
10 Times Xbox Won Gaming In 2021
2021’s Microsoft’s game division excelled. While all of gaming has been experiencing a boom, Xbox, in particular, has stood above the rest. With the continued growth of the Xbox Game Pass and other major announcements, they’ve found a…
Square Enix sharpens up Final Fantasy 14’s charmingly blocky grapes
Square Enix has rolled out the first Final Fantasy XIV patch after the arrived in November. Along with adding more quests, items and a raid dungeon, the update addressed various issues. One of those was a so-called bug fix that targeted some delightfully…
John Walker’s Top 10 Games Of 2021
The good news about 2021 is the world’s governments have all agreed that it’s been so bad it doesn’t count, and no one has to add the past year to their age. Sucks for American 20-year-olds, for sure, but it’s a small price to pay. The other good news is…
Charles McLellan | UK | Meet the Team
I’m the Reviews Editor at ZDNet UK. My experience with computers started at London’s Imperial College, where I studied Zoology and then Environmental Technology. This was sufficiently long ago (mid-1970s) that Fortran, IBM punched-card…
Skyrim & Oblivion Were Oversimplified, But TES 6 Can Embrace Complexity
The Elder Scrolls series has long been known for being fascinatingly complex, both in gameplay and lore, but more recent entries in the series, such as Skyrim and Oblivion, have embraced a streamlined simplicity that The Elder Scrolls 6 should forego.…
Embracer Group buys Perfect World Entertainment for $125M
Join gaming leaders, alongside GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming, for their 2nd Annual GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit | GamesBeat: Into the Metaverse 2 this upcoming January 25-27, 2022. Learn more about the event. Embracer Group has agreed to buy…
Bloodborne Cosplay Puts Live-Action Spin On Lady Maria Boss Fight
Amazing Cosplayer’s faithfully adapt one of Bloodborne’s best fights by recreating Lady Maria and The Hunter with stunning costumes and photography. Two incredible cosplayers recently took on the task of recreating one of Bloodborne‘s…