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Nvidia recently updated some of its clutter of PC apps, including the GPU-controlling GeForce Experience, to a single Nvidia App. And while that makes for fewer icons in your system tray, it seems the new program’s AI features are potentially harming your gaming framerates. Live Forever in the Universe of ‘New World: Aeternum’ Tom’s Hardware investigated the issue itself, and in its testing of the new Nvidia App, found that it’s potentially reducing game performance...

Image: Hasbro / Mojang / 2K / Roblox / Apple / Hungry Studio / Sanrio / Kotaku / Pavlo Stavnichuk (Getty Images) Apple has released lists revealing the most downloaded and popular free and paid games on iPhone and iPad. The company also shared data on the most popular Apple Arcade games. Balatro sickos might be surprised! The end of 2024 approaches, which means we all look back at a bunch of lists and go...

Screenshot: Marvel / Kotaku Every hero shooter has characters players loathe to fight against. Marvel Rivals is no exception. Jeff the Land Shark has become an early love-to-hate hero because he literally eats his opponents (and allies) and then spits them off the map. I personally hate to see Hawkeye coming because I know his arrows will find their way right between my eyes, even when I’m in flight as Star-Lord. But Iron Fist has...

Image: Day of the Devs / Kotaku We used to only get a Day of the Devs showcase once a year during the summer. Now we get an encore during the holidays as well. This year’s Day of the Devs: Game Awards 2024 Edition didn’t disappoint either. Every time I think the heavily curated, very personal, extremely intimate showcase can’t possibly top the last one, somehow it still does. As the video game industry ping-pongs...

Guangyun “Guangguang” Chen, creative director behind Marvel Rivals, says that while many players have requested a role queue system, a matchmaking option to help create balanced teams, there are currently no plans to implement one in the free-to-play character shooter. Overwatch 2’s New Story Missions: Worth The Money? The free-to-play third-person hero shooter launched earlier this month and has quickly become one of the biggest games of the year, already hitting over 20 million players. And...

Image: Paramount / Disney Denzel Washington is joining the MCU. The veteran Hollywood star said Black Panther 3 is one of his upcoming projects, with director Ryan Coogler currently writing his role for the sequel to Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. “At this point in my career, I’m only interested in working with the best,” he said in a recent interview as part of his Gladiator 2 press tour. This Marvel Snap Deck Features A Devious,...

Another new showreel of Disney Plus’s upcoming shows has appeared, and alongside new glimpses of Daredevil, Ironheart and Alien: Earth, the first ever footage of Andor season 2 can be seen. Disney’s New Post-Apocalyptic Anime Proves The Mouse Has Good Taste Following the Marvel sizzle reel that appeared at the end of October, Disney Plus has released a bundle of clips of a lot of upcoming shows, and the most important thing is: we get...

Denzel Washington might only be wrapping things up with Gladiator 2 now, but he has a long list of projects on his hands, apparently including Black Panther 3. Right now Washington is on the press circuit for Gladiator 2, which is generally reviewing quite well, especially considering it’s a sequel to a film that came out more than two decades ago. As part of that press circuit, the actor made an appearance on...

Marvel’s What If…? finally has a trailer for its third and final season, and it’s likely one that’ll excite X-Men fans. It was D23 in Brazil over the weekend, so there’s been plenty of announcements coming out of the house of mouse, but yesterday Marvel finally shared the first trailer for What If…? season 3. Despite only running for eight episodes total, it looks like it’s packing in quite a lot. There’s a whole...

Fancy some quite brief looks at some upcoming HBO Max shows like Peacemaker season 2? You’ve got ’em, just make sure you don’t blink. HBO has a whole bunch of shows coming to its streaming service Max over the next year, and yesterday it shared a highlight reel with clips from a whole bunch of them. In terms of this year, it showed off brief bits from Dune: Prophecy, which is out this...