There’s been a lot of loose talk about how ray tracing represents the future of gaming, and future hardware will surely need to incorporate dedicated resources to handle it (if said hardware’s manufacturers wants to remain relevant). But what is ray tracing, and is the massive hype bubble slowly expanding around it justified? That’s ray tracing at work. Then, Nvidia itself announced it was bulking out the GTX line with Turing technology but without dedicated ray tracing hardware, and finally tha

But while his quest for vengeance has typically been a lonely one, in Shenmue III he’s joined by a mysterious woman named Shenhua. And the same level of research has gone into creating the setting for Shenmue III. But, illustrating one of the most intriguing new features in Shenmue III, he’s unwilling to talk. Playing minigames and working menial jobs to earn money has always been part of Shenmue’s peculiar magic, and Shenmue III is no different. The combat in the original Shenmue games was root

He managed to beat the entirety of Super Mario 64 using just one button . Look below to see him in action, as you really have to see this to believe it. The same streamer also beat Dark Souls using a frying pan according to the Reddit comments below his post, before other Redditors began to theorise how the button controls Mario’s movements. Most inputs are single-button, e.g. A, or B, or Z, but out of necessity I had to make a few small macros, like making Mario spin – it’d be impossible to mak

And while its creators are adamant that cloud gaming won’t spell the end of physical games consoles, it should at the very least hasten the demise of physical disc-based media. While today’s game discs are delivered to our homes by somebody on a zero-hours contract, the underlying technology is still the same, and the problems are just as pronounced. Physical discs take up space on our shelves, they dazzle passing birds or elderly relatives, and they contribute to climate change. The Lake Distri

Jim Carrey as Robotnik = cinema goldWho’d have thunk it? Jim Carrey has made a surprise appearance and doused the front row in popcorn after the SONIC THE HEDGEHOG trailer. @JimCarrey showcases a Robotnik cut of the Sonic trailer and it looks like he’s back to his classic hijinks. Jim Carrey is very very Jim Carrey and it works here. pic.twitter.com/9tbPH0FiixApril 5, 2019Does the thought of a Sonic movie not have you speeding down to the cinema in anticipation?

Forget to do it, can’t be bothered to do it, whatever, but instead of coming up with an excuse one pupil tried to pass off Destiny lore as his English homework, writing journal entries by lifting entire pieces from the Ishtar Collective . I think this might be the best email we’ve ever received at the Ishtar Collective.If anyone asks we are now called Lucas. I’m guessing that the teacher googled a few choice phrases from the homework and used 21st-Century detective skills to deduce that they mus

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On top of that, Massive finally locked in a Division 2 raid release date: Operation Dark Hours will open on Thursday, April 25. Dark Hours will be The Division 2’s first eight-player raid, and it’ll headline the next major Title Update after Tidal Basin. The video also reveals that Title Update 3 will introduce Classified Assignments, but the nature and rewards for these assignments have yet to be revealed. Among those guns, you may find one of the two newly revealed Division 2 Exotics : the Pes

Pika!” as the film pits him in an odd couple dynamic with Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’s Justice Smith, who plays former Pokémon trainer, Tim Goodman. The film is set in Ryme City, and follows the mismatched duo as Tim goes looking for his mysteriously vanished father. Pikachu isn’t the only Pokémon who appears in the film, as the world is populated with familiar CGI-animated creations. While it may not look hugely familiar to the craze that people grew up with, Letterman assures Total Film th

A newly discovered Easter egg in The Division 2 may be teasing a Viking setting for an upcoming Assassin’s Creed game. As spotted by wiki user AlifMorrisonudin , a poster in The Division 2 features a soldier holding what looks like an Apple of Eden, one of the artifacts in the Assassin’s Creed games. Image 1 of 2 Image via Assassin’s Creed Fandom Wiki Image 2 of 2 Image via Assassin’s Creed Fandom WikiIf you tighten your aluminum foil thinking cap, this Easter egg seems to go even deeper. Does t

For months, Apex Legends players have suspected that Titanfall 2’s L-Star LMG is coming to Respawn’s free-to-play battle royale. Reddit user Coltonj1225 recently found a smoking gun in the form of a Legendary weapon skin for the still-unannounced weapon. Incidentally, ‘smoking gun’ really is the word here. This could be another new gun Last week, Respawn revealed what looks like a new SMG or assault rifle in a Reddit post. Many of the best Apex Legends weapons came straight from Titanfall 2, and

As was foretold in the days of yore (or, you know, the fact that all Marvel blockbusters get accompanying Lego), five new Lego sets for Avengers: Endgame have been revealed. As an aside, Thanos is also seen wielding a hammer in the ‘Marvel Avengers Compound Battle’ kit. Buy it: LEGO US storeBuy it: LEGO UK store©LegoWar Machine Buster (Kit 76124): $34.99/£29.99Emergency! Buy it: LEGO US storeBuy it: LEGO UK store©LegoAvengers Compound Battle (Kit 76131): $99.99/£89.99Team up with Iron Man, Capta

A few days later, that same Fallout 76 wanderer used their newfound discovery of dead cow physics to create the game of “Brahmin Toss: The Fastest Growing Sport in Appalachia.” Will I finally be picking up Fallout 76 specifically to go and blow off some steam with a bunch of dead cows? Goodness knows what’s next for the poor Brahmin of Fallout 76. Someone stop Vault101manguy before he finds a way to turn Brahmin into nuclear warheads. Watch our Fallout 76 below to see what with thought of the ga

Avengers: Endgame is now only mere weeks away. Whether you don’t have the patience, or just want a quick cheat sheet before the final showdown with Thanos, co-director Anthony Russo has picked the two movies you have to watch to get caught up with the MCU before Avengers: Endgame. “I would say, certainly, Civil War and Infinity War are probably the two biggest lead-ins to this movie,” says Anthony Russo. Avengers: Infinity War is, well, duh. That’s a direct prequel to Endgame, so you need to wat

AaroneousGaming set himself the task of getting to level 99 in Kingdom Hearts 3 without leaving the first world, Olympus. He accomplished the same feat for Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts 2, and unsurprisingly when he hit that sweet, sweet level threshold of 99, suffice to say things got a bit emotional. If you add up how long it took him to reach the level cap in the starting world in all three Kingdom Hearts games, you’ll get a number that’s as terrifying as it is impressive: almost 1000 hou

In now-deleted posts and comments, AnonTheNine previously said Destiny 3 will be “even more hardcore” and “push the RPG side of the game.” Destiny 3The new enemy faction in Destiny 3, according to the post, is a race of “Astrodemons known only as the Veil. Destiny 2: Year 3 will see another annual pass with a more ambitious starting DLC, according to the leaks, rather than a Forsaken-style expansion. Given the amount of time and resources that Forsaken required, and the timeline of both the curr

The screenshot behind Naughty Dog UI designer María Capel’s face is almost definitely one a workbench, The Last of Us’ stationary recuperation hubs where you could upgrade and modify your arsenal of weapons. You can even see the word “Upgrade” on the top left of the screen, and the highlight is over a revolver pistol. This is, of course, all a work in progress, and The Last of Us 2’s finished Workbench UI could look completely different to what we’re seeing here, or may be eventually scrapped al

With just how much emphasis The Walking Dead season 9 finale placed on its wintry conditions, it was a serious disconnect to see Alpha seemingly sunning it up in her only scene. “The Whisperers don’t exactly have a home address,” Kang tells EW, while also beginning to explain why Alpha’s solitary moments didn’t feature any snow. But, as Kang is keen to point out, it’s a concept that will play in to any potential The Walking Dead season 10 conflict. What does that mean for us going forward?”Whisp

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 receives another huge content update today, as its battle royale mode Blackout goes free to play for a month to celebrate the release of another map for the high concept PvP mode. Alcatraz, the famous island prison situated in the San Francisco bay, has previously been the inspiration for several Call of Duty Zombies maps for developer Treyarch, but the studio has deigned it as the next setting for Blackout, describing it in the trailer below as the backdrop for “Close

I’m afraid you’re about to hear a case of Humanity Being Garbage™. That artist Ruby Ramirez who claimed that Epic Games stole her idea for a skin and used it in Fortnite season 8 was lying about the whole thing all along. Ramirez’s original Facebook post has disappeared, perhaps as she’s been contacted by Epic representatives about the legitimacy of her claim. Perhaps she wanted some kind of monetary compensation, or just some internet fame, but one thing is for sure: it was a very sucky thing t