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The team is probably prioritizing addressing issues for other platforms.

The Nintendo Switch 2 version of Borderlands 4 is effectively canceled. Gearbox has issued refunds for all pre-orders of the Switch 2 release just a week before the game was set to launch on Nintendo's platform.

The official word from Gearbox is that the Switch 2 version of Borderlands 4 has been "delayed" with no new date announced.

Borderlands 4 has been dealing with quite...

Big gains for GTX 10-series cards.

With the release of update 1.0.16.1 today for Alan Wake 2 on the PC, the minimum system requirements have come down. Players will now need only an Nvidia GTX 1070 or an AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT GPU to play Alan Wake 2 on PC.

When Alan Wake 2 came out in October 2023, the minimum hardware needed to play the game at 1080p and 30FPS was an Nvidia RTX 2060 or AMD Radeon RX 6600 GPU. The reason for those initially high GPU requirements is because...

The controversial DRM system has long been blamed for poorly performing PC games.

Despite the years of complaints from PC players, Denuvo is still the go-to option when it comes to adding anti-tamper and anti-piracy measures into new game releases. It's also still just as common to hear complaints from players saying that Deunvo is responsible for any and all performance woes that a player faces when playing a video game with it included.

These claims of degraded performance...

Don't expect any major miracles though.

The latest big firmware update for the PlayStation 5 was officially released on September 15. With it came the long-awaited ability to install third-party M.2 drives for adding increased storage capacity to your console. This was the update that entered into beta trials back in July.

It seems as though there was another benefit not documented in the changelog. The tech wizards at Digital Foundry discovered that select titles saw...

Capcom is pushed into action after hackers release a better performing version.

This week, a cracked version of Resident Evil Village was released by Empress. With it came word that this cracked release pretty much eliminated the very severe and very apparent framerate dips and hitching found in the official release of the game. The culprit seemed to be a double whammy of DRM that Capcom implemented into the game: Denuvo and Capcom's own DRM system.

The hitching and framerate...

Crysis makes first ever appearance on a Nintendo platform.

It may have taken just 13 years, but Crysis has finally appeared on a Nintendo platform. Crytek today launched Crysis Remastered on the Nintendo Switch. It offers most of the thrills and action from the original game but with some changes (good and bad) to the overall look and feel of the game. This release was developed alongside Saber Interactive and can be yours for just $29.99 (USD) from the Nintendo eShop.

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Sorry Warcraft III Reforged.

According to the technical gurus over at Digital Foundry, Command & Conquer Remastered Collection is "one of the greatest remasters ever made" and an "exceptional piece of work."

The classic real-time strategy title underwent a massive remastering undertaking for its 25th anniversary release. As we noted before, the Petroglyph developed title includes Tiberian Dawn, Red Alert, and three expansion packs: Covert Ops, Counterstrike,...

Digital Foundry provides a detailed analysis of the recent PC release.

This past week on March 3, Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary was released for the PC by way of Halo: The Master Chief Collection. It marked the first time the Anniversary edition was released on the PC and the second time the original Halo was released on the PC. The first time being back in September 2003 via a port by none other than Gearbox Software.

With this week's addition to The Master Chief Collection,...

A little game called Red Dead Redemption 2 was released today for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One platforms. The game was developed by a little studio called Rockstar Games and published by Take-Two. I'm sure we can all appreciate that a company like Take-Two extended a hand to these up and coming developers.
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Dying Light 2 was officially announced about a month back during E3 2018. This week, we get a bit of an extended look at the game thanks to Digital Foundry and the game's developers at Techland. The video is over 11 minutes long, but focuses mainly the technology being used and the development of the game. Most of the footage is a rehash of what we saw out of E3 along with some footage of the first game. The video is available at 4K streaming, or those that subscribe to Digital Foundry can...

Microsoft informed everyone today that Forza Horizon 3 now has Xbox One X enhancements ready to download and install. This free update, available to everyone playing the game on the Xbox One X, increases the resolution to 4K and adds in some additional visual improvements. Alongside the 4K resolution bump, the game incorporates 4xMSAA! The image quality is absolutely insane already but that's not all. Some of these smaller improvements include better car reflections, higher quality shadows,...

Microsoft informed everyone today that Forza Horizon 3 now has Xbox One X enhancements ready to download and install. This free update, available...