‘It’s not player friendly’: EA boss says making The Sims 5 is ‘not a good idea for our community’ because players have over 10 years of spiritual, mental, and financial investment

EA continues to be rather confusing about what the future of The Sims looks like, but one thing remains clear: The Sims 5 ain’t happening, and the series as we know it now is going to become something very different. As spotted by GamesRadar, EA president Laura Miele hammered home the point in an interview … Read more

The first gaming benchmarks for AMD’s Ryzen Z2 Extreme show memory bandwidth is hobbling the full potential the new handheld chip

Ryzen Z2 Extreme vs Z1 Extreme Hands On Testing With SHOCKING Results! – YouTube Watch On At the start of 2025, during the annual CES event, AMD launched the successors to its popular Ryzen Z1 and Z1 Extreme APUs. These all-in-one CPU+GPU chips have been powering the very best handheld gaming PCs since they first … Read more

The latest version of Intel’s XeSS 2 now lets other GPUs run its AI-based frame generation system, throwing RTX 30-series owners a Team Blue-shaped bone

For what seems like a very long time now, the combination of the words ‘Intel’, ‘news’, and ‘good’ has been rarer than finding a four-leaf clover in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica. Well, cover me in honey and call me Susan, because Intel has released XeSS 2.1, and it’s tremendous news, as AMD and … Read more

Battlefield 6 isn’t going to choose between closed or open weapons at launch—the dueling rulesets will coexist

Earlier this month, EA made the unexpected call to let players have the classic “closed” weapons ruleset in next week’s Battlefield 6 beta, seemingly contradicting its “open” weapons vision for BF6 that lets any class equip any gun. The unprecedented decision to support two opposing rulesets at once begged a question: Come launch, which format … Read more

After 4 hours with Battlefield 6, I think Battlefield is really back this time

Four hours of Battlefield 6 multiplayer made one thing extremely clear: Battlefield was perfect just the way it was. I’m no Battlefield 2042 hater—in fact, I maintain it got really good—but it proved that the Battlefield formula doesn’t infinitely scale. Double the players was not automatically better, nor was its faux-class system that emphasized flashy … Read more