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Good news Game Pass gamers. Diablo, StarCraft and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater should be coming to the service soon. This is thanks to Microsoft's announced upcoming aquisition of Activision Blizzard. The studios will fall under the…

Holy hell! What a month for Game Pass! Do you need a big budget adventure to sink hundreds of hours into? Well Mass Effect has you sorted. How about a bunch of awesome looking smaller games? Gorogoa, Olija, and The Pedestrian have…

Ubisoft announced that Assassin’s Creed® Valhalla’s next major expansion, Dawn of Ragnarök, will be releasing March 10. Dawn of Ragnarök will be available as a separate purchase for $59.95 by all owners of the main game. …

Oppo is the latest phone maker to get in on the folding market. They revealed the Find N during their 'Inno Day' event. This beauty of a phone goes on sale in China this week, but there isn't a global release date just yet. We…

Ubisoft announced that Assassin’s Creed Crossover Stories featuring Eivor and Kassandra are available now. Both stories are available for free for owners of the respective base games. One story features Eivor and Kassandra available…

Christmas is 7 days away. Yes you read that right, it is scary soon. And I know it has been another year of chaos and so you can't be blamed for letting your Christmas shopping slide. Well that window for not being blamed is about…

There's a party on my desk and no one else is invited. The G915 is all the fun and tactile bliss of a mechanical keyboard, without deafening everyone in a quarter-kilometre radius. Thank Logitech G for those sweet MX Brown switches;…

The excellent FINAL FANTASY VII Remake Integrade is coming to PC this week via Epic Games Store. If you haven't been following along, Final Fantasy VII Remake it the first part of the new version of the old game. Then the new chapter…