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Sony's PlayStation Stars customer reward program is now live in the UK, following its earlier launches in both Asia and America.

Another sexual harassment lawsuit has been filed against Activision Blizzard.

Esports will not feature in the 2026 Commonwealth Games, which are due to be held in Victoria, Australia.

Researchers have taught lab-grown brain cells how to play Pong.

A fresh patch is now available for Elden Ring that adds separate damage scaling for PvP.

Sony has now sold 2m units of its PlayStation 5 console in the UK, despite a recent price hike.

Electronic Arts has accidentally allowed players a peek at FIFA 23's World Cup mode early on PS5.

Sony may have accidentally revealed that PlayStation classic Ridge Racer 2 is on its way to PS Plus.

This Monday was World Mental Health Day. Because of this, I wanted to take a moment to highlight some articles on the site that explore mental health and its relationship to games.

One of my clearest lockdown memories is of going for a lunchtime walk with Olaf Stapledon. It was somewhere near the start of things, I think, no cars on the roads and those government mandated exercise breaks still feeling weirdly illicit. There is a stretch of the South Downs behind my house which I am ashamed to say I had never visited until Covid. One morning I set out over the gentle grassy hump of its hill, over the buried spine of the thing, with the almost indescribable vastness of Stapledon's novel Star Maker playing in my headphones.

EA has triumphantly termed the recently-released FIFA 23 as "record-breaking" - for hitting 10.3 million players in its first week, and having the "biggest launch period in EA Sports FIFA franchise history".

With Starfield's hugely anticipated 2023 release growing ever-closer, Bethesda has launched a new Q&A video series, and episode one sees director Todd Howard responding to a number of community queries - including sharing some thoughts on traits, dialogue, and whether Starfield can be described as a "hard sci-fi" game.

Valve has finally revamped its decidedly decrepit Steam mobile app for iOS and Android, introducing a fresh look, a new interface, and a range of new features.

Torchlight: Infinite - a new free-to-play reimagining of the dungeon-crawling action-RPG series - has just launched its open beta on Android, iOS, and PC.

FIFA has launched its first video game venture since its split with EA - a vaguely football-themed Roblox "immersive experience" intended to tie-in with this year's Qatar world cup.

Sony has revealed the next round of games to hit its PlayStation Plus subscription service this October for Premium and Extra subscribers.

The next generation of graphics performance is finally in our hands - and it's one of the biggest generational leaps we've ever seen. Back in the day, comparing RTX 3080 to RTX 2080 showed up some impressive gains - but the performance multipliers are at a new level when considering how the new RTX 4090 stacks up against prior GPU champions RTX 3090 and RTX 3090 Ti. In fact, on a broader level, the delivery of so much performance actually poses problems in creating a balanced gaming PC: as you'll see in our analysis, many of the games we're benching are now hitting CPU limitations. Even at 4K resolution. Even at maximum settings. The heaviest of ray tracing workloads though? RTX 4090 is simply phenomenal.

Blizzard has announced a series of double XP weekends to "make up for any lost time" following Overwatch 2's various launch issues.

Specifically designed mechanical boards for Macs have long been neglected, apart from little-known Matias keyboards or Apple's own Mac keyboards in the 80s. Enter Das Keyboard to redress the balance with the amusingly named MacTigr. This keyboard offers a full Mac layout, mechanical switches, a volume knob and plenty of creature comforts - but is it worth its exorbitant $219 asking price?

Valve is preparing to start selling Steam Deck startup videos in the Steam Points Shop, according to code found by SteamDB creator Pavel Djundik.

There are new eBay listings advertising two "one-of-a-kind, never-digitised" unreleased NES games.

When I think of Lego today - the toy itself, as well as its many video game versions - it’s easy to get distracted by the decades of licensed properties now immortalised in plastic bricks. I think of building my Lego NES console, or the looming Lord of the Rings Tower of Orthanc which sits next to my telly. In Lego video games, I think of the time I spent roaming round Hogwarts or the Batcave, or the enormous Star Wars galaxy in the recent Skywalker Saga. It’s only after more thought I remember the older models I began with, as a child in the rather distant past.

Apple Music is now available across Xbox consoles.

The pilot episode of a scrapped Kingdom Hearts animated series has been uploaded to YouTube by its proposed director.

Microsoft has responded to a list of concerns regarding its ongoing $68bn attempt to buy Activision Blizzard, as raised by the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), and come up with an interesting statistic.

UPDATE 12/10/22: CD Projekt has released an official save file transfer method for Cyberpunk 2077 players on Stadia.

Cyberpunk 2077 doesn't really take cyberpsychosis seriously, but a new mod changes that.

There is a new Cyberpunk 2077 novel heading our way.

The long-anticipated farming sim Coral Island is now out in Early Access.

The next update for Warner Bros.' brawler MultiVersus is here, and with it has brought the, quite frankly terrifying, gremlin Stripe along with a host of Halloween themed cosmetics.