No, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla isn’t headed to Game Pass right now

Earlier this week, Assassin’s Creed fans equipped with Eagle Vision spotted a Game Pass logo on the Microsoft Store page for Viking adventure Valhalla. Microsoft typically confirms its latest Xbox Game Pass additions via fortnightly blog posts, but does sometimes like to spring surprises on fans. Alas, this is not one of them. Speaking to…

A Plague Tale: Requiem: PC analysis, optimised settings – and the performance boost from the new patch

We’ve already established that A Plague Tale: Requiem is a graphically demanding game – hence the move to a 30fps/40fps target for Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5, despite running at a native 1440p with temporal upscaling for a 4K output and often failing to maintain its performance target. In search of answers as to…

Next Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak update adds AI hunters for Master Rank

Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak’s next free title update is right around the corner, and it’s a good ‘un, adding new monsters variants, expanded uses for AI companion hunters, and a host of welcome tweaks and refinements when it launches next Thursday, 24th November. On the monster front, there are no brand-new additions in Title Update…

iPhone 14’s Emergency SOS via Satellite Feature to Expand to France, Germany, Ireland, and the UK Next Month

The iPhone 14 lineup’s Emergency SOS via satellite and Find My via satellite features will launch in four additional countries next month, Apple today announced. In its press release announcing that Emergency SOS and ‌Find My‌ via satellite for the ‌iPhone 14‌ and iPhone 14 Pro models will roll out later today, Apple mentioned that…

The Download: longevity for the uber-rich, and wrongful prosecutions of Chinese scientists

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Inside the billion-dollar meeting for the mega-rich who want to live forever Back in September, Jessica Hamzelou, our senior biotech reporter, traveled to Gstaad, a swanky ski-resort town in the Swiss…