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Alongside Halo and Forza, the Gears of War franchise stands as one of Microsoft’s flagship gaming franchises. The original trilogy earned widespread critical acclaim, with many considering the first Gears of War the Xbox 360’s killer app. Gears of War 4, while still a solid game, earned lower review scores than its predecessors, with many complaints targeting the campaign. It’s clear that The Coalition took those criticisms to heart with Gears 5, delivering the best Gears of War campaign to date, and the most content-rich game in the series period....

Gears of War: Ultimate Edition will require 44.42GB of storage space when it lands on Xbox One next month, according to the game’s Xbox.com listing. That’s around 7x bigger than the install size of the original Xbox 360 version. Gears of War: Ultimate Edition is a fully remastered version of the original Gears of War, featuring improved lighting, character models and environments, five additional chapters and 1080p/60fps multiplayer. If you want to see how it stacks up against the original, you can check out the latest screenshots through here....

An official Gears of War: Ultimate Edition Xbox One bundle is due to release next month, Microsoft has announced. Available from August 21, the £309.99 bundle includes a 500GB Xbox One console along with a digital copy of Gears of War: Ultimate Edition, early access to next year’s Gears of War 4 beta, a Superstar Cole multiplayer skin and 14-day Xbox Live Gold trial. The bundle actually releases one week ahead of Gears of War: Ultimate Edition, but the game won’t be playable until it launches on August 28....

Play a song, master the rhythm, and earn your rewards in another mini-game. Here’s our guide to help you with the Ballads of Breeze, one of the Festive Challenges in Genshin Impact‘s Windblume Festival/Invitation of Windblume. Note: For more information about the game, check out our Genshin Impact guides and features hub. You may also take a look at our version 1.4 overview and our main page for the Windblume Festival premier event....

Dirge of Bilqis is a quest chain in Genshin Impact. It’s a continuation of the Golden Slumber arc, where you’ll learn of Jeht’s adventures as part of the Tanit Tribe. It also takes you deeper into the Desert of Hadramaveth and its ruins. Here’s our Genshin Impact Dirge of Bilqis guide to help you with all the quest steps and related puzzles. Note: For more information about the game, check out our Genshin Impact guides and features hub....

The new Hangout Events Series I is available from the Genshin Impact 1.4 Invitation of Windblume update. These Story Quests are choice-driven and your dialogue choices will give you different endings. The Hangout Events available forever once you get the Ver 1.4 update. You need to finish prerequisite quests and reach the required Adventure Rank to unlock Hangout Events. So today let us look at how to unlock Hangout Events in Genshin Impact....

Genshin Impact’s latest update has not only added new characters and quests into the game but also added a couple of new gadgets. Since the game has not clearly mentioned the way to get gadgets in Genshin Impact, there are tons of players who have been wondering how to get Parametric Transformer. Before we explain the entire process of getting Parametric Transformer in Genshin Impact, let me tell you what does this gadget do....

Today HoYoverse released a new trailer for its super-popular action RPG Genshin Impact, focusing on the new character Nahida. The video leans mostly toward the cinematic, but like most “character demo” ones, is designed to give an impression of what you can expect from Nahida’s powers. Incidentally, it’s all fun and games, but toward the end, things get dark as they tend to do with Nahida. Nahida will be made available as a playable character with the newly-revealed version 3....

Asus have made some excellent laptops in recent years, particularly its Zephyrus line of sleek gaming powerhouses. This Zephyrus TUF F15 from Very keeps the same stylish design while adding durability and increased build quality that the TUF line is known for. It has so many features such as 16GB of memory and a fast IPS display, and it’s currently on sale for just £649 this weekend from Very. It even includes a TUF gaming backpack and a wired gaming mouse....

Sketch comedy is often at its best when it comes from an uncomfortable place that scrambles our perception of reality. Tim Robinson is a writer and comedian who is able to hold up a mirror to the world that reflects a universe that’s both darker and innocent. Robinson’s sketch and character work, whether it’s on Saturday Night Live, Detroiters, or his episode of The Characters, often presents humanity at its most unhinged and desperate....

While most consumers are probably just happy to get their hands on any new Nvidia GPU, it’s still exciting to see the exotic options emerge. Gigabyte has announced its Waterforce lineup for the RTX 30 Series and it sounds like it will deliver excellent cooling options for the hot Ampere cards. The Waterforce lineup will also include some bells and whistles like custom RGBs and a leak-detection system so your GPU is both easy on the eyes and the mind....

In today’s giveaway, we’re handing out 75 Steam keys for giant robot strategy title Volta-X! Who here likes giant robots? What about kaiju? counts hands Yeah, I thought so. Well, you’re all in luck! The first 75 people who claim a key get to take a FREE Steam copy of giant robot/kaiju battler Volta-X! This strategy battle game puts you in control of giant robots as they fight one another and the likes of kaiju invaders....

Sony’s God of War notched up a chest-ripping $131 million in digital sales during its launch month, according to a report on SuperData Research. The site notes that there has been an increased interest in narrative-based video games over the past few years, something which God of War obviously delivers in spades. It also helps that Kratos’ beardy adventure is just a bloody amazing game in general. Sony previously confirmed that God of War had been a massive success, with over five million copies sold during its first month alone....

Learn how to Dig in Going Medieval so that you can build underground structures. You can dig into the ground to build complex structures as well as give your house a basement. Doing so will give you extra storage space as well as save you the hassle of building walls. So, let’s find out how to dig into the ground. How to Dig in Going Medieval First, look at the bottom right of the screen....

Warner Bros. Interactive has released a Gotham Knights gameplay trailer, featuring Nightwing and Red Hood. Check out the trailer below: The description reads: “In this first reveal of Nightwing and Red Hood’s official gameplay, get a closer look as these Knights seek to uncover the mysteries around the elusive Court of Owls while putting a stop to the various factions attempting to exert their own control over Gotham City. Through these Knights’ distinct abilities, fighting styles, traversal, and team up opportunities, how will you Step into the Knight?...

This Gotham review contains spoilers. Gotham Season 5 Episode 1 At long last, the grand finale of Gotham begins. Gotham has always been a throw it to the wall and see what sticks potpourri of madness and it looks like for the final season, all semblance of self-restraint is thrown out the window as Gotham plunges into the madness of No Man’s Land. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, because while comic purists have always wanted to play a connect the dots game with comic book continuity, Gotham has consistently gone its own way and presented its own, shall we say, unique take on the Batman legend (we’re looking at you Jerome and Jeremiah)....

Ah, yes. Here’s another franchise that was in dire need of a resurgence: Mr. Driller is back in town. In recent years, gamers have been coveting the return of old favorites just as much as they’ve been hankering for new titles. This isn’t a problem for certain developers and publishers, of course. There’s nothing more welcome than an opportunity to keep dining out on a popular title from yesteryear, right?...

The audio on offer here is well-balanced and warm, with good clarity and imaging, although the main draw of the Pulse 3D actually lies within the name of the product - the powers of its 3D Audio. This is something introduced with the PS5 as a form of spatial audio to offer a more immersive and realistic sound. This is available on a wide range of DF-recommended PS5 headsets, but you can tell that the feature was designed with this headset in mind....

Greedfall, a new colonial-fantasy RPG from Spiders Games, provides players with a classic RPG adventure in a unique setting to the genre. Greedfall offers a satisfying campaign, in part because it gives players a lot of options for how to navigate the world and build their characters. Greedfall lets players build their character based on Skills, Attributes, and Talents. The Skill, Attribute, and Talent Trees can be seen in the Character Development menu....

Rockstar Games announced the next update coming to Grand Theft Auto Online. Releasing December 15, The Contract features the appearance of Dr. Dre, as well as the return of Franklin Clinton. The Contract update for GTA Online features new missions set in Los Santos as you work for Franklin’s newly established “celebrity solutions agency.” Players will work alongside returning characters, and Dr. Dre himself, as they try to return his lost property....