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The GTX 1660 Super has arrived - and it's an odd one. Rather than making a number of small improvements across the board to distinguish the Super card from the original model, Nvidia has made a single big upgrade, swapping the original's last-gen GDDR5 memory for faster, current-generation GDDR6. Elsewhere, the card is basically identical to its predecessor in every way, save for a scant 5W increase in nominal TDP. So how impactful is that memory upgrade - and is it enough to justify a whole new graphics card?

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is finally here, and to the surprise of literally no-one, we already have another debate on our hands. This time, the game has been accused of rewriting history to place blame for controversial real-life US attacks on the Russians. Suddenly Sony's decision to avoid selling Call of Duty: Modern Warfare in the Russian PlayStation Store doesn't seem so surprising.

There's a moment around the mid-way point of Luigi's Mansion 3 where you open a door into a room that's not really a room and you think - wow. This absolutely sells the themed hotel setting of the game, but also sort of negates it completely. The room is, knowingly, I suspect, an actual sandbox: a vast puzzle-filled desert which stretches across the game's Ancient Egypt-themed floor - and it is brilliant. But why do mansions or hotels at all when you can do this?

Blizzard has managed to leak yet another tidbit of info suggesting a reveal of Overwatch 2 at BlizzCon this weekend. This time, it's in the form of some artwork featuring old (and one new) hero found on the Blizzard Gear Store.

You've got to think ahead if you want to stay ahead in the video game business - and that's exactly what Sony's doing. Far far ahead.

Ubisoft has outlined its plans to fix its critically panned tactical shooter Ghost Recon Breakpoint, pledging bug fixes, systems overhauls, improved in-game economy, and more.

I saw a bit of the new COD the other day. It was fine. Fighting through the streets, going silent with one of those contraptions on the end of a gun barrel. But then: a marketplace, or the remains of it. And what's this? Watermelons!

Controversial space sim Star Citizen's latest Free Fly event is now underway, meaning that curious sorts can get a first-hand progress update on developer Cloud Imperium Games' currently eight-years-in-the-making sci-fi extravaganza without paying a penny.

Bossa Studios, the developer behind the likes of Surgeon Simulator and I Am Bread, will be launching three free animal-themed game prototypes later this week, in a bid to canvas the masses and decide which one to make next.

Microsoft has announced an upgrade option for the next Xbox console.

According to a new video on the Minecraft YouTube channel, the concept for Minecraft Dungeons originally came about when the team were trying to design a game for the Nintendo 3DS.

What if Hell were really just a place like any other? The idea behind Afterparty seems ludicrous at first, but the more you think about it, the more plausible it seems. Here, humans and demons meet up in bars during their off-hours, unwinding with a nice glass of colourful acid before returning to a long day of torture. It's another world with a touch of the familiar - like putting Starbucks on the moon.

Kojima Production's highly-anticipated debut independent game Death Stranding has finally been confirmed for PC, with a summer 2020 release window currently pencilled in.

The solar system of Obsidian's The Outer Worlds is swimming with comically evil corporate products: toothpaste that causes blindness, hangover cures that induce comas, each with its jaunty advertising catchphrase and baleful barbershop jingle. Compared to that trove of terrors, the corporate product that is The Outer Worlds itself is kind of like a posh cup-a-soup. It's far from haute cuisine, or especially nutritious - the packaging probably accounts for a solid 30 per cent of the calories - but it goes down easily enough and it won't do you any damage. It's fine, is Outer Worlds. There's nothing I really loathe about it, the tedium of looting aside, and nothing I really love about it either. If you read the sales pitch "Maker of Fallout: New Vegas makes Fallout-tinted cover version of Mass Effect" and broke your thumb on the pre-order button, rest assured that this is broadly that. But what else could it have been?

Hello, and welcome to our new series which picks out interesting things that we'd love someone to make a game about.

Spooooooky Mode is back at Two Point Hospital and to celebrate, Two Point Studios is offering its "biggest discount yet" with 66 per cent off the hospital sim game for the next 24-hours or so.

A BlizzCon 2019 demo guide obtained by ESPN intimates Blizzard may be planning to unveil Overwatch 2 at its upcoming event next week and reports "PvE" features will be playable for attendees at the show.

A weird glitch has popped up in Apex Legends' limited-time mode (TLM) Fight or Fright that is preventing some players from securing a win... even when they're successfully on the evac ship and been told they "will live to fight another day".

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare developer Infinity Ward has responded to a strange Tactical Insertion glitch that teleports players to their deaths beyond the confines of the map.

Sony is offering refunds to fans dissatisfied with 2K latest iteration of its highly successful wrestling franchise, WWE 2K20.

You can stop telling me off in the comments now, VR-friends because I've finally done it. At long last I've played Lone Echo and you were all completely right, it really is fantastic!

Ubisoft has seen its stock plummet after the developer-publisher announced plans to delay the launch of three upcoming games until the next financial year.

In terms of build quality, materials, workmanship, ergonomics and display quality, Dell's latest XPS 13 2-in-1 convertible is one of the best laptops I've ever used. It's not just a laptop though - the design allows for the unit to transform seamlessly into a jumbo touchscreen tablet, or it can rest in an inverted-V shape for presentations or media viewing. Performance-wise, it's powered by the Core i7 1065G7, the latest 10nm Ice Lake processor from Intel, delivering quad-core/octo-thread CPU power backed by Iris Plus graphics. This is the strongest integrated graphics Intel has ever delivered, and I set out to put it to the test with a time-honoured stress test. Can it run Crysis? Or more specifically, can it run the entire Crysis Trilogy - at 60fps, no less?

This week Bethesda launched Fallout 1st - and it's fair to say the reaction has been pretty negative.

Eight years after launching Origin, EA is about to return to Steam.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is now out and people are soldiering through its campaign.

Epic is suing a Fortnite tester it alleges leaked Chapter Two information.

2K has finally piped up about the disastrous launch of WWE 2K20, promising patches are on the way.

Phobia Game Studio's Carrion - the "reverse horror" game that casts you as the oozing flesh monster, for once - now has a limited-time demo on Steam, ahead of its release next year.

Beleaguered Swedish studio Starbreeze has announced that it will be restarting development on its popular multiplayer heist game Payday 2, despite shutting down work on the game last December to focus on other projects. It will also be creating new paid DLC, contrary to its previous announcement that all future updates would be free.