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Our quick take Dell XPS 13 - 5.0 / 5 Best laptop: All the top notebooks, 2-in-1s and ultraportables to buy today Delightful design Plenty of power Serious display Price point To recap Just take one look at it: the Dell XPS 13 is a stunning laptop with a smaller footprint than any 13-inch competitor on the market. That infinity screen paired with its significant 3200 x 1800 resolution goes beyond the current standard and is one of the more significant design features to arrive in a laptop for a number of years....

In 2008, a then-unknown video game developer named FromSoftware Games released a brutally arduous game called Demon’s Souls. While the initial reaction to the game was mixed, the game really gained traction and admiration when it was released in the west. Where most disliked the game’s unrelenting difficulty, its new players found adoration in it. Many players loved how difficult, and in turn, how rewarding the game was. On top of that, many also adored its attention to detail, immersive gameplay, and enemy design....

With Destiny getting ready to enter into its second year of life with The Taken King expansion, Bungie is planning a whole slew of changes to the game including a stronger narrative, a revamped leveling system, and new quest system. Outside of the increased vault space, the most exciting change may be the amount of new gear and weapons to find in the new expansion. While eagle-eyed fans have spotted a new sword class weapons in the previous livestreams, Bungie remained tight lipped on the topic leaving fans to speculate....

Destiny 2’s Season of the Drifter has only just begun but it appears that developer Bungie has big plans for the game’s next season, Season of Opulence. According to at least one member of the Destiny 2 community, Bungie will once again hold a community summit where it will gather feedback regarding the state of the game. More specifically, it sounds as though Bungie is looking to give community members a chance to play the content included with the Season of Opulence in May....

While plenty of players are just now diving into Destiny 2’s Forsaken expansion or waiting until the weekend and some free time, others are already deep into the grind. And with that grind comes a lot of mystery, as Bungie tends to only give clues when it comes to quest steps rather than outright explanations. One of the quests that is leading to a lot of confusion is the Cayde’s Will quest....

In the wake of Destiny 2’s announcement, the single piece of official art released appears to bolster previous evidence that the story may involve the Cabal invading the Last City. That popular theory has come from two sources primarily—Destiny itself and a leaked Mega Bloks set. First off, the art for Destiny 2 shows a Last City in turmoil. Fires glow and smoke bellows across the landscape of which players in the Tower have stared across for the past two and a half years....

Destiny 2 might still be in the midst of its first Season of Year 2 but that hasn’t stopped players from speculating at what is right around the corner. Players know that the Black Armory DLC is set to launch in December and with it is said to be new gear to collect and new activities to experience. Since Bungie is still trying to work all of the kinks out of Destiny 2: Forsaken’s main content, the studio hasn’t shed much light on what Black Armory will include....

Destiny 2 will mark the first time Bungie’s popular franchise will come to the PC. In light of that, one of the issues the developer will have to tackle is how to keep cheaters and hackers from affecting the game, which is a more prominent issue on PC over consoles. While putting the game into Blizzard’s app should help that, Bungie is taking even more precautions. Bungie says there are safeguards and security in place, but part of that has the negative side effect that some commonly used third party applications will not be compatible with Destiny 2....

Although Destiny continues to draw criticism from gaming journalists and fans alike – the negative press critiquing the hefty price value for the expansion known as The Taken King comes to mind – it’s arguable that the action-RPG’s popularity is almost unmatched when it comes to other console titles. For instance, Destiny was the fastest purchased and most played PlayStation 4 game during the week it went on sale. Plus, the game ultimately helped boost Sony’s PS4 hardware sales to the highest they had ever been since the previous Christmas....

The developers at Bungie patch matchmaking for Destiny yet again, and take steps to ensure the sci-fi shooter’s connection quality is a high priority. The most recent patch for Destiny’s matchmaking is currently live, and it brings about fresh settings into the action-RPG’s zone-capturing arena known as the Control mode. Bungie’s Community Manager David “DeeJ” Dague announced the update on the title’s official forums, and made fans aware that the changes in the settings have only been applied to the aforementioned mode in order to get players’ reactions to see if they should be added to other parts of the game....

In a random move yesterday, Capcom uploaded over 50 different game soundtracks to Steam for purchase. Among the list of notable OSTs comes Devil May Cry, Okami, and Dino Crisis. Devil May Cry is rocking a separate soundtrack for each game with individual selections for 5, Okami has five different volumes going for $6 each, and Dino Crisis is sitting alongside its sequel for a cool $8. A purchase from Steam will grant you MP3, FLAC, and AAC format files to take with you wherever you want to go....

Phobia Game Studios has announced they will release their reverse-horror game, Carrion, for the Nintendo Switch. As an indirect sequel to Phobia’s previous side-scroller, Butcher, Carrion puts you in control of a monstrous tentacle monster set loose in a vast industrial complex. The struggle is less about overcoming your fears and fighting through seemingly unbeatable odds than it is a sort of power fantasy where you stalk, maim, and consume those who imprisoned you....

At the recent press conference for its next console, Sony hyped that the PlayStation 4 will have major third-party publisher support like its predecessor, the PlayStation 3. But unlike the PS3, the PS4 is abandoning the Cell processor and adopting a PC-like architecture, making the device an even more attractive platform for outside development. As evidence of this, CD Projekt RED has confirmed that Sony fans will have their first opportunity to explore the world of Temeria with Geralt of Rivia when The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt releases in 2014....

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, or PUBG as it is more colloquially known, is attributed by many to be the title that spawned the surge in popularity of battle royale games when it debuted in 2017. Developed and published by PUBG Corporation, the game passed the notable milestone of selling over 70 million copies earlier this year. Throughout its three-year history, even in the days of early access, cheaters have been a constant presence in PUBG, causing frequent frustration for regular players and creating extra work for the game’s developers as they try to consistently catch and remove cheaters....

Every once in a while, there will be news of some group either getting sued by the streaming giant Twitch, or trying to sue Twitch. The latest person wanting to sue Twitch is a Christian evangelist streamer who goes by the name “DrWitnesser,” who may or may not have modeled his name as a response to Call of Duty streamer Dr Disrespect. Last summer, DrWitnesser was temporarily banned from Twitch for preaching in Fortnite, where the streamer essentially told a Muslim child that he would be going to hell....

Since that very first time two paddles hit the ball back and forth in Pong, legends and myths have rung throughout the video game community. Some stem from gaming oddities that players would discover, while others were unintentional creations by developers. One long-running legend discusses how the original Sid Meier’s Civilization turned renowned pacifist Mahatma Gandhi into a nuke-obsessed tyrant. Now the designer whose name prefaces the iconic grand strategy game is setting the record straight....

Playing video games with friends is one of the best features of the medium. You can be competitive, cooperative, or even share differing experiences of non-linear games. While I tend to favour single-player experiences, it’s always fun to sink my teeth into a new multiplayer game with some friends. This was a lot easier to do as kids, as we all had pretty much the same schedules, get home from school at 4ish, play games, have dinner, play more games, bed - easy....

JRPGs have a knack for having a unique and/or non-humanoid creature as part of the main party. JRPGs like Xenoblade Chronicles and Dragon Quest all have unique creatures that mingle with their typically human counterparts. Pokemon even made an entire franchise out of this idea, if that even counts. Of course, Final Fantasy is no different, with characters ranging from animatronic moogles with talking cats to an actual moogle, but Final Fantasy 7’s Red XIII and Final Fantasy 10’s Kimahri are some of the best party members from that criteria....

The mystery of the Counter UAV in Call of Duty: Warzone has been solved, and seems to have been added completely by mistake to the game. Following the Reloaded update to Modern Warfare, players saw a great deal of weapon balancing, shiny new cosmetics, and new maps to try out. Soon players began to find changes that were no documented anywhere in the update notes, notably the introduction of the Counter-UAV....

Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time is expected to be announced this coming Monday, June 22 at the Summer Game Fest Developer Showcase. However, some images of the game have leaked online ahead of time, potentially revealing a surprising playable character in the process. If the leaked Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time images are anything to go by, it seems as though antagonist Dr. Neo Cortex will be playable in parts of the game....