A Gear of War movie was first trumpeted back in 2007, when New Line Cinema purchased the rights for a live-action adaptation. However, its originally planned 2009 release date came and went, and the project has bounced around in development hell ever since - last resurfacing in 2019 when it was reported it would no longer even be set in the same universe as the games. Whatever happened to that version of the adaptation, we may never know, as Netflix - on this, the 16th anniversary of the original Gears of War’s release - has now announced a new partnership with current franchise stewards The Coalition....

Currently, it looks like a new Genshin Impact Prime Gaming code will drop with every Banner change, so this will be roughly every three weeks. On this page: For more free rewards, be sure to check out our dedicated Genshin Impact codes page for regular updates, and our version 3.3 page for details on rewards you can get from events. Genshin Impact Prime Gaming rewards for January 2023 If you redeem four or more of the eight Prime Gaming drops coming for Genshin Impact, you will receive a custom in-game reward at the end of the campaign....

Gaming laptops can be a great way to get a new gaming PC for less than building your own from scratch, and there are some great discounts on high-end laptops now that GPU prices are going down, which make it even easier to upgrade. Right now you can get a Lenovo Legion 5i Gaming Laptop with an Intel Core i7 CPU and an Nvidia RTX 3070 GPU for under £1100 from LaptopOutlet....

Let’s start with the basics: sequential read and write speeds of 7000MB/s and 5300MB/s, respectively, make this an especially speedy choice, but it’s the up to 1000K IOPS of random performance that makes this drive one of the very fastest when it comes to game load times. That’s two to three times faster than a typical PCIe 3.0 drive like the Crucial P2, to say nothing of SATA drives that can be an order of magnitude slower....

At the fundamental level, this release is a fascinating take on cross-gen development that looks beautiful and plays smoothly on PlayStation 5, while operating with a similar level of polish on PS4, albeit with lower target resolutions and frame-rates. Yes, there are cuts on the lower-spec machines but the drawbacks are not really noticeable outside of head-to-head comparisons - and the enhancements exclusive to PlayStation 5 often have a habit of becoming far less noticeable within the lower resolution window of the base PS4 especially....

As spotted by GT Planet, the free booklet distributed at Yodobashi Camera reminds us that the “long-awaited GT Mode” is back, in which “you can enjoy the car life” and “buying, selling, and tuning the cars and racing”. Your garage reportedly permits you to store up to 1000 vehicles, snf players have spotted both the Ferrari F8 and F12 amongst the pamphlet’s images. Forum user PettyWingman (thanks, PSU) translated the images they could see and added this additional information, too:...

Microsoft hasn’t revealed how the Pelican will fit into the overall Flight Simulator experience just yet, but you can get a glimpse of the ship in the trailer below. It’s a different story for the free 40th Anniversary Edition update, however, which has been detailed in significantly more detail. Described as a “comprehensive celebration of the franchise”, it promises to pay tribute to the series’ past as well as introduce new aircraft types....

Heardle is a music game inspired by Wordle - where instead of guessing a word, you hear the opening of a song, with each failed guess extending the preview to help you solve the title and artist in question. If you fail to guess once you have heard the complete preview, then you’ll break your streak - which is why discovering today’s Heardle answer is so important for players, especially as some song intros are more elusive than others....

Saviors of Uldum will see the good guys working together to try and undo the work of the bad guys from April’s Rise of Shadows set. It’s all part of Blizzard’s desire to tell a full story across each year’s three expansions, so expect a jolly good fight when these worlds collide. There’ll also be a new keyword to play around with, new Quest cards to experiment with, and a new Plague type of card designed to disrupt the late-game....

Described as a first-/third-person shooter, Quantum Error - which Sony says is coming “soon” to PS5, although we also know it’s coming to other platforms, too - was first unveiled back in March 2020. You can check out the trailer below: “When the Monad Quantum Research Facility - 30 miles off the shore of CA - is attacked by an unknown entity, engulfing the complex in flames and putting it into a full containment lock-down, a distress call is sent for mutual aid to the Garboa Fire Dept in San Francisco, CA,” states the game’s description (thanks, TSA)....

Well, Zoe Delahunty-Light has carried out the very grim task of finding every single scene in which the protagonist, Jacob Lee (and a few others) gets unalived by the game’s blood-thirsty Biophage enemies. Do be warned though, if you do watch Zoe’s video (above), you will probably end up on a list somewhere, although at least Zoe will already be there to keep you company. If you are brave enough to watch it, let us know in the comments which one of the deaths in the video was your…um…favourite, I guess…?...

Digixart - the developer behind acclaimed World War 1 narrative adventure 11-11: Memories Retold is bringing its striking procedural road trip adventure, Road 96, to Switch later this year. Aerial_Knight’s Never Yield is a parkour-infused 3D runner set in an eye-catching, futuristic Tokyo - and to a “dope-tastic” soundtrack by Detroit artist Danime-Sama - that’s heading to Switch on 19th May, with an eShop demo available right now. The ever-reliable Annapurna Interactive has two titles coming to Switch....

Strap yourself in to hear Idris Elba as he takes on the role of Knuckles, who seems to initially be an antagonist for Sonic and Tails as they are faced with another world-ending threat from Jim Carrey’s Dr Robotnik. If you liked the first one and want a Marvel pop culture reference in the first two seconds, this is for you: Last month, Sega eagerly announced a third entry in the live-action / CGI movie series was also on the way, as well as an additional TV spin-off for Elba’s Knuckles....

Please note that there will be some spoilers for Hitman 3’s Ambrose Island map below. If you venture down from the Western Beach on Ambrose Island, you will come across a small nook in the coastline. Here, there is a gravestone set into the side of the cliff face. It may seem rather ordinary at first glance, but if you whip out 47’s camera and take a closer look at the gravestone you will see it reads “G Threepwood, Mighty Pirate” with a little skull and crossbones adorning it....

Developer IO Interactive has created a version of the neon-lit city which shows off Hitman 3’s shinier next-gen visuals. It all looks especially nice at night and in the rain, when drops dribble down the side of Agent 47’s bald head. PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and capable PCs will all run Hitman 3 at 4K and 60fps, with HDR support, IO said today. Chongqing joins two previously-revealed locations: Dubai, which features hundreds of on-screen NPCs at once, and Dartmoor, where 47 gets embroiled in an Agatha Christie-esque murder mystery....

The big joke of 47, of course, is that you can’t miss him. He stands out like, well, a menacing, chalk-white man with a barcode on his head. In the reboot trilogy, you can mingle with NPCs to throw off suspicious guards, and the impression is always of a fridge trying to blend into a flock of sheep - even the Terminator looks more natural in a crowd. Yet somehow, 47 is the ultimate shape-shifter, able to disguise himself as anyone from a celebrity DJ to a noodle chef....

MGM acquired the rights to the book proposal The Antisocial Network from author Ben Mezrich, Deadline reports. The book is set to tell the story of how investors, gamers and internet trolls on Reddit brought Wall Street to its knees, Deadline said. GameStop shares skyrocketed after investors on the Wall Street Bets subreddit worked together to combat hedge funds that had bet GameStop shares would fall. GameStop’s share price jumped an incredible 1700 per cent in a month - and now reddit’s attention is turning to other shorted stocks....

These new PS5 features will improve “dynamic resolution scaling on 60Hz” and target “a refresh rate between 60Hz and 120Hz”. A new “Balanced” graphics mode has also been introduced, offering 40Hz for supported displays. You can check out the new trailer for these features below. In addition to this, the latest Horizon Forbidden West update will continue to address a variety of the other smaller niggles and issues that some have found in the game....

Even if you have earned a lot of money and collected a lot of weapons in the main game, none of this carries over to GTA Online. Therefore, when you first start playing, you’re starting from scratch but fear not, there are some easy ways to speedily boost your rank. Here, we’re going to explain what RP is, how to track it, and how to use it to level up quickly....

The announcement was made at Summer Game Fest, with the ports being handled by Aspyr studio. The ports are set to release on 4th November. The game will also make a debut on Xbox Game Pass. Aspyr also announced Humankind’s second paid expansion pack: Cultures of Latin America. Like the first expansion, Cultures of Latin America includes six new cultures, six new wonders, nine independent peoples, 15 narrative events and over 30 new in-game music tracks....