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Ahead of this weekend's epic Super Bowl clash between the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs, football fans have been given access to Madden NFL 24 as part of Xbox Game Pass. Available for the millions of Game Pass subscribers on Xbox and PC at no extra cost, Madden NFL 24 joins the service at the perfect time, with fans able to simulate the outcome of the big game before Sunday. If you want extra incentive to play the game over the next few weeks, then PC Game Pass or Ultimate members who login before March 8…

Apple's Vision Pro headset is now on sale after months of waiting since the June 5 unveiling at WWDC last year. The early Vision Pro reviews have been promising, if not universally great. If anything the headset gives observers a hint at what Apple wants the Vision Pro to become when more advanced technology is available. But you won't have to wait for a new version to play your favorite games — you can do that right now.The Vision Pro ships with the App Store and there are tons of visionOS and iPad apps available for…

Nvidia RTX 4080 Super MSRP $1,000.00 “The RTX 4080 Super offers a great balance of price and performance.” Pros Great 4K performance DLSS 3.5 Exceptional ray tracing performance Very power efficient $200 price drop Cons Little improvement compared to…

Yamaha has a new audio mixer for gamers and streamers. Nearly three years after the launch of the company’s first gaming-specific soundboard, the company’s new ZG02 adds a dedicated USB-C port for gaming consoles, a more streamlined profile and a lower price ($200 compared to the ZG01’s $300).Yamaha wants to establish its ZG line as more straightforward and accessible than offerings from rival audio companies with gazes similarly fixed on the Twitch and Discord sets (Rode and Roland also court gamers and streamers).…

Jacob Roach / Digital Trends AMD’s new RX 7600 XT graphics card isn’t off to a great start, at least according to sales data shared by 3DCenter. The new video card launched on Wednesday alongside Nvidia’s RTX 4070 Ti Super, and even with a relatively poor reception, Nvidia sold nearly 10 times as many graphics cards as AMD did in a sampling at a German retailer. There are a few caveats to that, however. 3DCenter takes data for the number of sales from Mindfactory, a German hardware retailer, 12 to 14 hours after…

A Call of Duty game sells. That’s what it does. And it usually tops the sales charts each year. Pretty much every year since 2009. Activision’s warfare simulations (we can just call them first-person shooters, right?) have mostly done just that. Last year’s a bit different: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III landed in second place.To convey the gravitational pull of CoD, when Microsoft was fighting to buy Activision Blizzard – makers of the game series — the Xbox maker had to make concessions and ensure the games would come…

Players will need to feel a fair bit more “comfortable” with the idea of subscription models and, to a greater extent, not actually owning anything they buy. This week, Ubisoft rejiggered its entire subscription model, but to sell players and the industry on its new move, one company exec misconstrued why gamers and developers might not be so keen to pony up monthly for their games.Who’s This Thing Actually for? | PlayStation Portal Hands OnUbisoft’s head of subscriptions, Philippe Tremblay, offered a fair few innocuous…

Ubisoft director of subscriptions, Philippe Tremblay, has spoken about how subscription services have caused players to become comfortable not owning games. In a new interview with GameIndustry.biz, Tremblay spoke about the new version of Ubisoft’s subscription service, Ubisoft +, and explained how he sees people coming to accept a streaming future eventually. “One of the things we saw is that gamers are used to, a little bit like DVD, having and owning their games. That’s the consumer shift that needs to happen. They…

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Audio cues can sometimes be crucial for success in games. Developers frequently design the sound environment for their experiences to be not only rich and immersive, but to also contain hints about approaching enemies or danger. Players who are hard of hearing can miss out on this, and it's not fair for them to be disadvantaged due to a disability. A product called Audio Radar launched at CES 2024 and it can help turn sound signals into visual cues, so that gamers with hearing loss can "see the sound," according to the…