After a host of private press showings at E3 and Gamescom, you can finally watch the full Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay demo. Powered by an Intel i7-8700K and GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, CD Projekt Red says it “started the process of optimization” from the beginning of development. And we started the process of optimization right at the start. An incomplete build of Cyberpunk 2077 is now playable from start to finish, says game producer Richard Borzymowski—but it seems a final launch date is some ways away.

Following the shooting in Jacksonville on Sunday, EA has cancelled the remaining qualifiers for its Madden Classic tournament. Speaking on the EA website, CEO Andrew Wilson described the event as an “unthinkable tragedy” and paid respect to the deceased, Taylor Robertson and Elijah Clayton. “They were respected, positive and skilled competitors, the epitome of the players and personalities at the heart of our community,” says Wilson. Wilson says EA has decided to cancel the three remaining Madde

Image via AnandTechPC World reports that AMD’s Jim Anderson, senior VP of the Computing and Graphics Group, has left the company. Saeid Moshkelani will take over as senior VP and general manager of AMD’s Client Compute Group, which consists of the CPU and APU portfolio. That skips the 10nm node completely, but perhaps more important is that GlobalFoundries, which originally split off from AMD’s manufacturing division, will not be the choice for 7nm production. AMD will primarily use TSMC for 7nm

PAX did not elaborate on any specific changes that will be deployed this weekend, noting that it does not publicize security details. Searching “PAX security” on Twitter reveals questions and concerns being directed at the official account and organizers. We have in place extensive proactive measures; some that are visible during PAX events and many that are not. Across the fifteen years of PAX events we have provided a safe and welcoming environment for more than a million attendees to come tog

From his timing to the angles he used, Semmler just demoralized the Atlantic Division casters time and again. He put the Pacific Division team on his back and eventually carried them to victory. Today, let us mourn for the Atlantic Division team. Everyone should have known that he wouldn’t disappoint:Jjonak kept the pressure on a retreating Pacific Division team, netting a few Dragonblade kills in the process. The inaugural season winner of the Dennis Hawelka Award is one of INTERNETHULK’s forme

Photo credit: Koelnmesse AllgemeinJust about all the news from Gamescom 2018 was overshadowed earlier today when CD Projekt finally released Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay footage. You can read all our coverage of Gamescom 2018 here, and there’s more to come throughout this week. What was your favorite Gamescom announcement or news story? If light wouldn’t bounce into a dark corner, it won’t with ray tracing either. I am also thankful that no one at Gamescom actually had to suffer through this made-up

So, tinfoil hats firmly planted on our heads, here’s everything we know about Fortnite Season 6 so far, along with a bit of wild speculation. What will the theme of Fortnite Season 6 be? What kind of map changes will Fortnite Season 6 see? What new items will we see in Fortnite Season 6? If previous seasons are anything to go by, the Fortnite Season 6 battle pass will cost 950 V-Bucks, or approximately $10.

15 years ago, there was still hope that the dream team behind Chrono Trigger would reunite to make another Chrono game. That hope was mostly fueled by a trademark for a game called Chrono Break, which was never officially announced. “After finishing a massive game project spanning a decade of development, I was ready to tackle a new series. Andersen makes it as clear as possible that this is not an actual game project in development, and that’s for the best—Square famously shut down a Chrono Tri

PhD student Bunnyhoppor on his way to the 2018 Hearthstone Summer Championship last month. For all the practice, and the stress, and the bad matchups, Hearthstone is still something that this champ does in his spare time. “It was my second year of my PhD where I started to take Hearthstone more seriously… That’s where I got super high ranks. “In Hearthstone, if you want to solve interesting logical problems, all you have to do is log on. There are pros and cons to that ease of access, but I’m no

The Cyberpunk 2077 demo footage shown behind closed doors at E3 was at last revealed to everyone, letting us take a good long look at CD Prokect Red’s upcoming open world FPS. There’s a lot to unpack in the footage, from futuristic weapons to crowded city streets, plus driving, hacking, and a whole lot of shooting. Here are the highlights from Cyberpunk 2077’s gameplay footage. (If the Twitch clips below have autoplayed, just click the replay icon in the lower-left corner of each). Despite Cyber

The fallout from European loot box rulings continued over the weekend as Blizzard announced that it is removing paid loot boxes and chests from Overwatch and Heroes of the Storm players in Belgium. The country’s Gambling Commission ruled in April that the loot boxes available for purchase in Overwatch and other games contravene Belgium’s gambling regulations. “As a result, we have no choice but to implement measures that will prevent Overwatch and Heroes of the Storm players located in Belgium f

If you’re looking to upgrade your primary storage, head over to Amazon and check out today’s lighting deal for a Samsung 960 Evo 1TB NVMe solid state drive. You’re saving nearly half off its regular price, and around $75-$100 less than most other vendors. That’s more expensive than what 1TB SATA SSDs go for, but if you need (or simply want) the added speed of an NVMe SSD, this is great deal. The 960 Evo is rated to deliver up to 3,200MB/s of sequential read performance and up to 1,900MB/s of seq

UL Benchmarks (Futuremark’s parent company) is working on an update to its popular 3DMark benchmark that will evaluate ray tracing performance of graphics cards. “We are designing a new test from the ground up to use DirectX Ray Tracing, which will be added to 3DMark as an update. The confusion may have stemmed from UL Benchmarks’ ray tracing tech demo release earlier this year, with scenes that look similar to Time Spy. Ray tracing allows for photorealistic graphics and is a true game changer (

Instead, the company’s new Radeon Pro V340 will power virtualized workloads in the datacenter, potentially including cloud gaming solutions. “It’s a dual-GPU solution based on the advanced AMD ‘Vega’ architecture, optimized to deliver extreme performance and high user density for virtualized environments.” Armed with two GPUs built on the same 14nm FinFET manufacturing process as other Vega GPUs, the Radeon Pro v340 boasts 112 compute units and 7,168 stream processors to throw at workloads. In s

If you’re somehow yet to steer the White Wolf around Novigrad and beyond, GOG’s limited-time Witcher sale might be for you. From now through next week, 2007’s The Witcher: Enhanced Edition is going for $1.49. Its follow up, 2012’s The Witcher 2: Assassins Of Kings—Enhanced Edition, is going for $2.99. And 2015’s The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt—the game that we quite enjoyed, and that spawned perma-meme Bathtub Geralt—is going for $17.65. GOG’s The Witcher sale is live now through Monday, September 3 at

Capcom plans to “explore” more remakes following Resident Evil 2, we learned earlier this month. Where exactly it’ll cast its net remains to be seen—but it seems reimagining the Resident Evil remake isn’t out of the question. “Certainly enough time has passed that it wouldn’t be laughable to remake the remake. Here’s everything we know about the Resident Evil 2 remake, which is due on January 25, 2019. Here’s Andy’s 80-scored review of the Resident Evil Remake HD remaster.

Earlier this month, the PCG Q&A asked: What piece of game music is always stuck in your head? The answers there alone illustrate just how diverse videogame music can be. When it comes to introducing children to classical music, the head of the UK’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra reckons game tunes are just as important as real-life concerts. In conversation with The Telegraph, James Williams, managing director at the RPO, says game music is a great “access point” for children when first discoverin

The best Half-Life 2 singleplayer mods pull from other games. Silent Hill, Mission: Impossible, The Stanley Parable, Half-Life 1 and… Super Mario? MobilityMod’s Mobility Mod for Half-Life 2 lets you dispose of enemies by bouncing on their heads—just like Nintendo’s iconic Italian plumber. In the same way Pulse Rifle fodder vaporises enemy Combine soldiers, the Mobility Mod makes quick work of baddies by way of head bashing. It’s no surprise then, as teased in the above footage, that the Mobility

We’ve updated our Cyberpunk 2077: everything we know about CD Projekt’s next RPG rundown loads since that trailer aired at E3 in June. After a similar behind-closed-doors, hands-off showing at Gamescom last week, we’ve since learned the dev has “just not been ready” to share footage publicly. And now a mysterious livestream has popped up on Twitch. After a quick gander at the official Cyberpunk 2077 Discord, it seems prospective players reckon a new trailer might be in the works. It’s pure conje

Tom and Samuel both checked out the Cyberpunk 2077 demo at Gamescom 2018 last week, and now you can finally watch it too as CD Projekt has released a 48-minute Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay video. Until now, Cyberpunk 2077 was discussed like something you’d read about from a ’90s E3. The demo waits a little while to show you Night City, mostly showing off interiors with little balcony and window snapshots of what’s out there. The cyberpunk lifestyleTom: As an edge runner in Night City, you exist in th