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You can expect to get around three hours of real world battery life from the Nintendo Switch when solidly playing launch title The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, reports GameSpot. Armed with several Switch units, GameSpot tested two scenarios from the starting point of a full charge. Default screen brightness provided three hours and three minutes of Zelda gaming. Full screen brightness, but with airplane mode enabled, offered two hours and 50 minutes....

BioWare has swiftly shut down internet speculation it had inadvertantly teased a return for franchise hero Commander Shepard in the next Mass Effect. Yesterday, fan gossip was sparked by the description of a poster on the BioWare store. The poster is a print of the teaser image BioWare released last November for its in-development Mass Effect game, and was described thus: “While Shepard and the survivors are left to pick up the pieces, fans are left wondering what’s next....

The Outlaws update for No Man’s Sky has been released today. Update 3.85 of the survival space game brings a lot of small, yet notable improvements. But the main selling point? It lets players become space pirates. Star systems all across the galaxy have fallen into the hands of outlaws. Intergalactic authorities have been forced to surrender, and space is now ripe for piracy. Naturally, you’re going to want to get a piece of that pie....

Grasshopper Manufacture’s Goichi Suda has revealed he’s keen on making No More Heroes 3 at some point. Suda51 is currently beavering away on his latest title, Travis Strikes Again, which is pencilled in for release in January 2019. However, while it’s set in the same universe as No More Heroes, he was keen to point out that it’s not a true sequel to the second game. That’s not to say that he doesn’t want to make No More Heroes 3, though....

Today, Drink Box Studio is celebrating the release of its newest game, Nobody Saves the World, as it releases on Nintendo Switch, PS4, and PS5 for the first time. To go alongside these new console releases, the developers have also released an accolades trailer to get fans hyped. You can check out the newest trailer for Nobody Saves the World, as well as info on the game’s description and features, right down below:...

Key Points: Prices and scarcity for graphics cards have come back down to earth (somewhat). The 1660-Ti is best for a tighter budget, but it lacks the strength of the GTX 1070. Having the correct power requirements for these pieces of hardware are important, so make sure you check to see what your machine is capable of before purchasing. In today’s article, we are going to check out two entry-level gaming graphics cards from Nvidia: The GTX 1070 vs 1660-Ti....

It seems like Nvidia DLSS is working on adding a new feature to beat the competition. Reddit user Reinhardovich spotted plans for a new DLSS upscaling quality mode in the documentation for Unreal Engine 5. It’s assumed that the Ultra Quality mode will be Nvidia’s most ambitious offering for DLSS, intended to produce the highest image quality. This mode is marked as a placeholder for future updates. It’s only available to developers and not end users for the time being....

We’ve known that Nvidia’s planning to release the RTX 4090 sometime this year, with a release date in October seeming likely. Alongside this, the expectation was that we’d also see multiple tiers in the RTX 4000 Series family launch in Q3/Q4 as well. However, a new report suggests we may not see Nvidia’s RTX 4080 or 4070 GPUs until 2023. But that’s only if Nvidia decides to push the launches back that far....

Obsidian Entertainment, the wizards behind classic RPGs like Fallout: New Vegas and Pillars of Eternity, is hiring for its next project that will comprise of an ‘exceptional first-person melee experience’ with online multiplayer features (via PC Gamer). The studio is currently looking for combat designers, character animators, narrative designers, and network programmers to name a few of the job listings. The ‘next world class RPG’ that Obsidian has in mind would require ‘experienced programmers to develop network and multiplayer gameplay systems using Unreal Engine....

Amidst the pressure of the heavy criticism surrounding the buggy release of Fallout: New Vegas, Obsidian defends the engine that runs the third instance of the IP. The game is built on the GECK engine, which is under fire for being outdated and the reason for New Vegas’ rough launch on all platforms. Although the engine may appear to need work, Chris Avellone, senior designer of Fallout: New Vegas, insists that the engine still holds great potential....

If you’re a fan of the critically acclaimed Assassin’s Creed franchise, and you happen to have a Facebook account, then we have good news for you! The newest game in the franchise, Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, is set to have a new multiplayer DLC map, and it only requires you to friend the official Assassin’s Creed Facebook page (located right here). In addition to the new map, titled Venezia by Night, Ubisoft promises to release a T-shirt in commemoration of the event, a “thank you” video from the development team, a special giveaway on the Facebook page, and a 15% discount on Ubiworkshop for one day....

It’s been seven years since Counter-Strike: Global Offensive launched. Seven years where players had to embody faceless terrorist and counter-terrorist characters. Today, that all changes. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive’s Operation Shattered Web brings equippable agents to the game, as well as a bunch of other features and cosmetics for players to unlock. Operation Shattered Web is a multi-week event that will last no less than 16 weeks. Each week a new set of six non-overlapping missions will be unlocked....

Everyone’s favorite open-world mystery game, Outer Wilds, might be receiving some DLC in the future. The game currently has an overwhelmingly positive rating on Steam, so it’s a good bet that players will be more than happy to dive back into the game. The first big clue is that a new SteamDB entry, which showed up on April 28. The DLC is apparently going to be titled Echoes of the Eye and will presumably cast players into the role of some kind of bat ophthalmologist....

Outriders demo came as a surprise to many who were not expecting it to be this good. And we played with our friends even on different platforms via the crossplay. Nothing beats the enjoyment of a cross-play gaming session with your friends. So today let’s look at how to enable and play crossplay in Outriders. How to Enable and Play Crossplay in Outriders? To enable crossplay multiplayer co-op with friends in Outriders, you need to first enable it from settings....

Team 17 and Ghost Town Games have said that it’s working on an update to fix the performance issues in Overcooked: Special Edition on the Nintendo Switch. The Switch version was released last week, but it wasn’t the smoothest of launches, with many players complaining about a poor frame rate and troublesome HD rumble issues. The Unity developed title has been criticised for its poor Switch performance by a couple of media outlets, with Digital Foundry citing ‘serious performance problems’ and an ‘inconsistent frame-rate’....

One topic that I’m sure we all saw pop up constantly throughout 2017 in the gaming community was that of microtransactions. Although they’ve existed for years, special attention was put on them last year due to their rise in popularity. The consensus from gamers is that it’s a pretty bad business practice, which is a sentiment I agree with. Even so, microtransactions are a minor offense compared to what’s been happening for several years in the world of simulators....

Microsoft plans to approach this year’s E3 a little differently to previous years, marketing director Aaron Greenberg has teased, telling fans to “expect a lot of surprises” from this year’s show. “We love E3,” Greenberg told The Inner Circle Podcast. “It’s a fantastic time for us to get to engage with our fans and we save a lot of big news for E3. We think our fans want that. We always debate how much do you want to reveal before E3, and how much do you really want to create this special moment in time?...

Torn Banner Studios is offering a free copy of Mirage: Arcane Warfare to all interested folks from 6PM BST. The game will be available for 24 hours from the moment the deal goes live. This promotion will also see a permanent price drop for the game from £22.99 to a much more reasonable £7.99. Mirage: Arcane Warfare is the spiritual (and magical) successor to the Chivalry: Medieval Warfare series of games....

Fallout fans who missed out on pre-ordering the Fallout 4 Pip-Boy Edition can dry those tears by printing their own using one of those newfangled 3D printers. 3D printing enthusiast and Fallout fan Yvo de Haas has published a schematic that will allow you to print a Pip-Boy 3000 Mark IV, complete with a slot for your smartphone running the Fallout 4 mobile ap. “Fallout 4 was announced June 4th, and I was immediately hooked,” wrote Haas....

Monster Hunter: World is now available to snap up worldwide for PS4 and Xbox One, and to mark the occasion Capcom has let off an almighty roar in the shape of an official launch trailer for you to sink your teeth into. Fun fact: This latest Monster Hunter is the first mainline entry in the multi-million selling series to launch on both a PlayStation and Xbox console. Again, we’re talking core games here; spin-offs such as Monster Hunter: Frontier Z have hit multiple platforms, although in recent years the main games have stuck primarily with Nintendo formats such as the 3DS....