Last week, the Pan European Game Information (PEGI) , the board responsible for giving all video games age ratings in most of Europe (save for Germany, which has its own ratings board) announced a major change to how it rates games. Games with " paid random items ," i.e. loot boxes, will now start to receive automatic PEGI 16 ratings . It's a major change meant to make parents more aware of those kinds of in-game purchases, but the North American ratings

Mark Cerny , Lead System Architect at PlayStation on the last two console generations, that Sony co-engineered the tech behind FSR Redstone Frame Generation as part of the Project Amethyst collaboration with AMD , and an "equivalent library" should appear on PlayStation platforms at some point. While the date remains vague, Cerny did say there are no more releases planned this year, hinting that frame generation won't be available on PlayStation consoles before 2027 at the earliest.

He also clarified that PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution 2

Future Intel Desktop sockets might support several generations of CPUs, as hinted by Robert Hallock in an interview with .

If there's one area where Intel has lagged versus AMD, that's socket support. Since the release of the first "Ryzen" CPU back in 2017, AMD has released two sockets, AM4 and AM5. Meanwhile, Intel has a total of four socket releases since then, starting with LGA 1151, LGA 1200, LGA 170

Crimson Desert finally arrived yesterday after multiple delays and years of waiting, and its launch has been mixed, to say the least. On the one hand, the game has already sold 2 million copies . On the other, critic and user consensus is decidedly mixed, while some critics ( like Wccftech's Francesco De Meo ) have loved their time with it, many are on the very opposite end, resulting in a , while its user reviews on Steam launched at 'Mixed' but

While the game caught a fair

While 2025 will forever be known as a massive year for indie games between Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Hollow Knight Silksong , 2026 is already starting to be a strong year for smaller-scale titles with games like Slay the Spire 2 enjoying incredible success right at launch.

That's according to video game industry data firm points to Slay the Spire 2 reaching an estimated 4.6 million copies sold as of March 19, 2026, which, at $2

Marathon arrived on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S consoles on March 5, 2026, but it didn't arrive as a complete package. It came with three maps (called zones in-game) for players to dig into, loot, and try to extract from, but there was always a fourth map waiting in the wings called Cryo Archive .

We see developers pace out new content for multiplayer games in their own way all the time, but Cryo Archive wasn't

The memory industry is now witnessing a major shift, as DRAM suppliers are now looking to lock in customers into 'multi-year' contracts, essentially guaranteeing demand.

It appears that the demand for memory products among Big Tech is so massive that they are willing to take the risk of entering long-term agreements with suppliers like Samsung and Micron, which is seen as a rather 'untraditional' move within the industry. A that hyperscalers are entering into long-term memory contracts with firms like Google and Microsoft, which

Four days after the reveal of NVIDIA DLSS 5 at GTC 2026 , we're still gathering reactions from the game development and modding community to the highly polarizing technology .

Yesterday, we published some thoughts from RTGI author Pascal Gilcher . Today, we can share an exclusive comment from industry veteran Denis Dyack , as part of a much larger interview that will soon be published in its entirety on Wccftech. Dyack, known to gamers primarily as the creator of classics like Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain and Eternal Darkness

The award-winning Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has been such a smashing success that it's only natural that it will influence future role-playing games considerably. However, Verso's voice actor Ben Starr believes that the worst of the video games industry will learn nothing good from the "wrong questions" it will ask as it takes the game apart.

"I think when the opportunistic fingers of capitalism try to take apart this game and its success, I fear they will ask the wrong questions,"