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Next Tomb Raider Game To Be Announced At The 2025 Game Awards?

Marc Thomas — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 05:01:18 +0000

With all the turmoil surrounding the Tomb Raider franchise over the last few years, we had almost given up hope of a new adventure for Lara Croft. Layoffs at Crystal Dynamics and Amazon, Embracer, the owner of Crystal Dynamics, closing studios left, right, and centre, and the appalling TR spin-offs on Netflix and mobile phones. But now there’s a ray of sunshine, or so it seems…

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Two New Tomb Raider Games Revealed At The Game Awards

Marc Thomas — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 05:01:46 +0000

I’m so glad I stayed up to watch The Game Awards last night, which for me kicked off at 9.30 pm my local time, because two hours later, as I was about to hit the sack, a familiar silhouette appeared on the huge screen. Lara Croft had finally returned, toting her iconic dual pistols, and in the action trailer, it was revealed as Tomb Raider: Catalyst to be released in 2027. But wait…

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The Crew Video Game Is Finally Playable Again!

Marc Thomas — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 05:01:30 +0000

Back in May 2024, in You Don’t Own Your Video Games! I wrote that The Crew would no longer be playable because Ubisoft was shutting down its servers for the game on 31 March 2024. This was quite a scandalous move by Ubisoft because the company didn’t even see fit to offer an offline mode for single-player. This provoked an angry reaction from the community and even a class action lawsuit.

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This Is Why “Gaming” Adds So Much To The Price Of Hardware

Marc Thomas — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 05:23:40 +0000

Gaming is an expensive hobby, not only for the price of games but also rising costs of hardware. We are all aware of Microsoft’s questionable stance on Windows 11 requirements, and the same is happening in AAA games. For example, DOOM: The Dark Ages and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle require an SSD and a hardware-capable ray tracing GPU. I can understand the SSD requirement because everything…

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Xbox Rumours Persist Amid Huge Game Pass Price Hikes

Marc Thomas — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 04:54:30 +0000

Over the weekend, a Reddit user started a rumour that Microsoft had cancelled the next Xbox console, and the gaming community went into a tailspin. Microsoft then replied that things were not ‘up in the air’ and that the company is actively investing in its first-party consoles, etc. It takes a lot for a trillion-dollar company to make a statement refuting rumours, so read into that what you will.

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Great New Features Added To Steam

Marc Thomas — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 04:01:21 +0000

While all the other gaming platforms lag way behind in features, Steam continues to shine, constantly updating and improving itself. I’ve been using the FPS counter for years, along with hitting a function key to take a screenshot. I often wondered if more overlay features would be added, and it’s only recently that I discovered Performance Monitor and Game Recording, two great new features that I…

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Radeon RX 9070 XT vs RX 5700 XT Benchmarks

Marc Thomas — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 04:01:53 +0000

When I bought the Gigabyte Aorus Elite RX 9070 XT 16GB to replace my RX 5700 XT, I knew it would be powerful, but I didn’t expect it to be this good! As I mentioned in GPU Upgrade – Size Matters! I thoroughly researched the high-end GPU market, and I was hankering to go the Nvidia route. However, for price reasons, 12v HPWR burnouts, and Nvidia’s scrooginess over VRAM (GPU memory)…

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GPU Upgrade – Size Matters!

Marc Thomas — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 08:04:09 +0000

Four and a half years ago, I upgraded my graphics card from an AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB to a Radeon RX 5700 XT 8GB, which you can read about in this article: I Just Upgraded To The ROG Strix RX-5700 XT GPU. Four years is a long time in tech, and when it was launched in 2019, the RX 5700 XT was competing against the Nvidia RTX 2070Ti. I had been hankering for an RTX card for ray tracing…

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Is Tomb Raider Dead And Buried?

Marc Thomas — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:11:02 +0000

In September 2018, Shadow of the Tomb Raider was released – that’s nearly seven years ago – and in 2022, it was announced that a new Tomb Raider game would be developed by Crystal Dynamics and published by Amazon Games using the Unreal 5 engine. Since then, we’ve heard virtually nothing, except the release of some artwork of what Lara Croft may look like. Opinions are mixed as to Lara’s…

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Will GTA VI Be The Game We Hope For?

Marc Thomas — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 04:02:04 +0000

In May 2025, Rockstar Games confirmed that the much-anticipated GTA VI will be released on May 26, 2026. But there was no mention of which platforms it would be released on. One has to assume that consoles will be first, followed by PCs a year later, or possibly two, which is what happened with GTA V, which was released for consoles in 2013 and PCs in 2015. According to rumours it will be…

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Stop Killing Games’ EU Petition Reaches 1.4M Signatures

Marc Thomas — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 17:25:05 +0000

As outlined in You Don’t Own Your Video Games! and Ubisoft EULA Tells Gamers To Destroy Copies Of Games, a campaign to prevent games from disappearing was started by Ross Scott, aka Accursed Farms, spurred on by Ubisoft’s decision to shut down the servers for The Crew video game. As of 20 July 2025, over 1.4 million people signed the EU petition, which will now be verified before being taken to…

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Ubisoft EULA Tells Gamers To Destroy Copies Of Games

Marc Thomas — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 10:52:21 +0000

Not content with being lambasted by the gaming community for completely shutting down The Crew, which sparked the movement Stop Killing Games, Ubisoft has sneakily amended its EULA (End User License Agreement) with the following lines: Blah, blah…Who reads EULAs anyway? It seems that someone does. For some backstory, The Crew was launched by Ubisoft in September 2014 as an online-only…

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Forza Motorsport Hits The End Of The Road

Marc Thomas — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 04:01:23 +0000

Following Microsoft laying off more than 9000 employees recently, it’s emerged that Turn 10, the Microsoft-owned studio that produces Forza Motorsport (FM), has suffered badly from the hatchet with over 50% layoffs. The Forza Motorsport franchise was first launched in May 2005, with the latest version, FM8, launching in October 2023. I have both FM 7 and 8, and although they are more serious…

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ROG Xbox Ally Handheld Is A Game Changer

Marc Thomas — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 18:34:51 +0000

I’ve never used a game console, a handheld, or a controller, but the recent Microsoft reveal of the ROG Xbox Ally really piqued my interest. Neither am I an expert on handheld gaming devices, being a PC gamer, but we can’t ignore this new handheld from Microsoft. Developed in partnership with ASUS – hence the ROG (Republic of Gamers) in the name – this is set to be a game-changing device because…

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