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Apart from fake renders of the Xbox Series X and a seemingly endless parade of new gaming monitors, the first big tech event of 2020 was home to a very cool announcement from Intel. The company unveiled the NUC Compute Element, a new initiative to produce incredibly tiny PCs with the power of full-fat gaming desktops by moving the motherboard, processor, storage and RAM onto a single replaceable card. Combine that Element card with a full-size desktop graphics card and a svelte enclosure, and you've got the recipe for an incredibly powerful gaming PC that can be carried with one hand and upgraded in a matter of seconds.

Apex Legends' third season is almost at an end, and developer Respawn Entertainment is planning to see it off in style via the free-to-play battle royale game's Grand Soirée Arcade event, which starts next Tuesday, 14th January.

Bethesda's sizeable Doom 1 and 2 re-release updates - which were announced at the tail-end of last year, and add the likes of 60fps support, as well as free community created add-ons - are available now on Xbox One, PS4, Switch, mobile, and PC.

Former football pro Rio Ferdinand is fronting a new campaign designed to encourage parents to turn on console family controls.

Developer No Code, the studio behind last year's sci-fi thriller Observation, has revealed that its acclaimed debut title, Stories Untold, will be heading to Switch next week, on 16th January.

Pokémon Sword and Shield are getting a £27 Expansion Pass which will unlock two big DLCs over the course of the year that include new areas and new Pokémon.

GAME intends to close 40 stores in the UK, it's confirmed. As of October, GAME had 259 stores and 21 Belong esports arenas in the UK.

Those with a hankering for more Advance-Wars-inspired turn-based strategy action to ring in the New Year are in luck. Developer Chucklefish has revealed that Wargroove's sizeable free Double Trouble DLC will arrive on 6th February.

The graphics cards space has been immutable for decades, with Nvidia and AMD each taking turns at the top of the discrete market and Intel chipping away with their integrated offerings. Now, years after the first rumblings that things were about to change, Intel is sending out its first discrete GPU to developers. It's called the DG1, and it could have an impact far in excess of its modest frame. Two days after first revealing the card on stream, we have more details about how this card works - and what Intel is planning to do with it.

Warner Bros. is teasing the new Batman video game again, this time with another cryptic image published to social media.

Nintendo's Pokémon Direct has now finished, and its highlight was a big new Expansion Pass for Pokémon Sword and Shield set to add two new areas and more than 200 new and returning species.

I think Super Monkey Ball might be one of the best games ever for speedruns - from the perspective of a casual viewer, at least. As a physics-based game divided into short stages, it's easy for an audience to understand what's going on (most of the time), which allows for quick restarts should things go wrong. As a bonus, it also provides plenty of breaks for well-deserved applause.

A fighting game fan has taken it upon themselves to improve Street Fighter 5's controversial netcode.

Now that 2020 is here we're having a little look ahead at some of the year's new games that have us intrigued.

Game Informer has released the first gameplay footage of Magic: Legends.

Picked up Hitman 2 for Christmas? You'll get your chance to assassinate the legend that is Sean Bean for a limited time, starting next week.

Now that 2020 is here we're having a little look ahead at some of the year's new games that have us intrigued.

Infinity Ward redefined the console shooter with Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, but just how much has the core game technology evolved since it launched way back in 2007? While it's safe to say that the scale and scope of both the campaign and multiplayer experience have increased enormously across the current console generation, Infinity Ward recently updated Modern Warfare 2019 with remakes of legacy COD4 maps - Crash, Vacant and Shipment. Comparing the new versions against the 2007 originals - and indeed the Modern Warfare Remastered equivalents - shows up some fascinating results.

For more than a year, Pokémon Go's invite-only EX Raids have suffered from an annoying bug dubbed "clockblocking" by the game's community.

Microsoft's gradual ramp-up to the full reveal of the Xbox Series X continues with Xbox chief Phil Spencer sharing the latest clue towards the technical makeup of the new console. On the face of it, updating a Twitter profile picture with a low quality shot of Project Scarlett silicon might not sound like a big deal - but when Microsoft's stated aim is to deliver the most powerful console of the next generation, commentators (including us!) will grab every opportunity we can to learn more about the new machine. And the evidence does suggest that we're looking at the largest console processor released by Sony or Microsoft to date, further solidifying expectations of extreme performance.

Now that 2020 is here we're having a little look ahead at some of the year's new games that have us intrigued.

Let's be honest, most of the houses I've built in The Sims have been big American-style homes: grand spaces with vast gardens, open living areas, maybe even a working shower. It's a far cry from what I've been used to as a student - but something more relatable is on its way, as a Tiny Living Stuff Pack has been announced for The Sims 4.

Ok, so I think we've established Fallout 76 hasn't been the most successful from a critical perspective - but one thing that's kept me absolutely fascinated by the game is its community, who keep coming up with inventive (or illicit) new ways to play the game.

Episodic adventure game Kentucky Route Zero will at long last launch for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on 28th January, under the guise of its complete TV Edition.

An advert for a bespoke PC retailer was banned for perpetuating harmful gender stereotypes of women.

Now that 2020 is here we're having a little look ahead at some of the year's new games that have us intrigued.

Turbulent winds howl as rain batters the weathered precipices. Wolves can be heard in the distance, likely feasting on a carcass less fortunate than they, while miles away regular farmhands sit around a table, guzzling Viziman Champion as they wager their own boots to break even in Gwent.

AMD took to the stage at CES 2020 last night to unveil its next big graphics card release: the RX 5600 XT. Slotting between the previously released RX 5500 XT and RX 5700 XT, this new GPU is designed for high-end 1080p and entry-level 1440p gaming, facing off against Nvidia's GTX 1660 Super and 1660 Ti in the sub-$300 price bracket.

Glitch speedruns can provide incredible insights into the way games are made - and more importantly, how they can be broken. Awesome Games Done Quick, the speedrunning charity event, is in full swing this week - and one of the most amusing runs I've seen so far is by the ever-entertaining speedrunner tomatoangus, best known for his Fallout anthology runs - including sex% speedruns. Yes, you read that correctly.

Now that 2020 is here we're having a little look ahead at some of the year's new games that have us intrigued.