Derek Strickland
Senior Gaming Editor - Florida, USA
Derek is absorbed with the intersection of technology and gaming, and is always looking forward to new advancements. With over six years in games journalism under his belt, Derek aims to further engage the gaming sector while taking a peek under the tech that powers it. He hopes to one day explore the stars in No Man's Sky with the magic of VR.
Editorial Responsibilities: news and games
Derek Strickland has written 7232 pieces of content
- February 2021
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake coming to PS5 with 60FPS, free next-gen upgrade
- Dragon Age 4 development timeline: All the major milestones so far
- EA gives BioWare permission to do what it does best: singleplayer RPGs
- Cyberpunk 2077 source code hack halts update development for weeks
- Halo TV show debuts 2022 on Paramount Plus streaming service
- Anthem reboot cancelled, game will stay as-is with no future updates
- HP buys Kingston's HyperX peripheral division for $425 million
- Cyberpunk 2077 won't be fixed on consoles until March
- Sony to reveal new PS5 games during State of Play stream this Thursday
- New runewords may come to Diablo II Resurrected post-launch
- Tony Hawk 1+2 coming to PS5, Series X with 4K 60FPS and 1080p 120FPS
- Report: PS5's God of War Ragnarok sequel delayed past 2021
- Sony breaks console exclusivity, launching big PS4 games on PC in 2021
- Gran Turismo 7 delayed to 2022 on PlayStation 5 due to COVID-19
- Next-gen PS5-powered PSVR headset announced, won't come in 2021
- Tencent raises $8.3 billion, may target big gaming acquisitions
- Diablo 2 remaster supports breakpoint builds even with uncapped FPS
- Diablo II Resurrected remaster hits beastly 8K uncapped FPS on PC
- Diablo 2 remaster won't support local couch co-op or cross-play
- Xbox's biggest advantage over PS5 just got better than ever
- Diablo 2 Resurrected remaster: Everything you need to know
- Konami may be done making its own Metal Gear Solid, Castlevania games
- New Silent Hill from Kojima? Sources say Japanese dev leading project
- Diablo 2 remaster lets you swap to classic visuals at any time
- Diablo II Resurrected remaster has ALL original D2 weapons and armor
- Diablo 2 remaster coming to consoles, Blizzard makes dreams come true
- Rumor: Layers of Fear dev making new Silent Hill reboot for Konami
- Report: Diablo 2 remaster is coming to consoles as well as PC
- Destiny coming to 'additional media,' TV show or movie possible
- Blizz North designed an expansion beyond Diablo II Lord of Destruction
- Bungie is now one step closer to publishing its own games
- EA now officially owns Codemasters, promises regular cadence of games
- Burning Crusade confirmed for World of Warcraft Classic
- Breath of the Wild 2 news coming sometime in 2021, Nintendo says
- Nintendo Direct February 2021: All the reveals and big announcements
- Kingdom Hearts comes to PC as Epic exclusive with $59.99 price tags
- Today's Nintendo Direct is the first main showcase in 533 days
- Axiom Verge 2 arrives on Steam eventually, but Epic Store comes first
- ZeniMax Online hiring for multiple unannounced games
- This 10-foot PS5 costs $70,000 and it actually works
- Xbox Series X vertical/horizontal orientation doesn't affect airflow
- More games to support Xbox Series X's Quick Resume soon
- Diablo, Warcraft, and Overwatch to get their own Warzone ecosystems
- Borderlands series sells over 60 million copies, generates $1 billion
- Report: Witcher 3, Cyberpunk 2077 source code auctioned for $7 million
- 2K Games to publish Borderlands 4 and other future Gearbox games
- Call of Duty earnings jump by 200%, helps Activision earn $3.9 billion
- Blizzcon 2021 has a 40-minute Diablo show, D2 remaster reveal possible
- Activision made $4.8 billion from mTX in 2020, 57% of revenues
- EA to sell senior shares to help pay for acquisitions, business costs
- Xbox Series X Review: Dream Machine
- EA R&D spending rises as it gears up for Battlefield 6, next-gen games
- EA could kill Anthem once and for all and free up BioWare devs
- Grand Theft Auto V sales hit 140 million worldwide
- Final Fantasy 14 on PS5: 4K graphics, boosted FPS, ultra-fast loading
- PlayStation 5 to launch in gaming's biggest region in Q2 2021
- E3 2021 will be 100% digital, ESA will stream event from June 15 - 17
- In just 40 weeks, Animal Crossing will soon be king of the Switch
- Nintendo Switch sold more games in holiday 2020 than EVER before
- Warzone will integrate three Call of Duty games in 2021
- Neither Diablo IV nor Overwatch 2 will release in 2021
- Switch sales conquer 3DS, now Nintendo's 5th best-selling console
- Diablo 2 remaster should release in 2021 alongside Diablo Immortal
- Activision made more money in 2020 than its ever made before
- Bethesda founder and CEO Robert Altman passes away
- Good news for PS5 owners: Compression is shrinking game installs
- PS5 launch sales don't beat PS4 due to supply restrictions
- Embracer aka THQ Nordic now owns 244 IPs including Borderlands
- THQ Nordic buys Gearbox for $363 million with $1 billion bonus clause
- PS4 sales hit 115.5 million, drop astronomically by 77% in Q3'20
- EA's Star Wars games have made $3 billion, multiple new games in dev
- Battlefield 6: Spring reveal, 2021 launch, all-out military warfare
- Switch sales ignite holiday 2020 with third straight quarterly record
- Mass Effect remaster side-by-side comparison shows big console upgrade
- Blizzard lets you celebrate its 30th anniversary by buying a $60 pack
- Sonic the Hedgehog movie success leads to a new Blue Blur TV show
- Google no longer wants to invest into Stadia, kills first-party games January 2021
- Gran Turismo 7 won't be online-focused, to be traditional like GT1
- Starbreeze still hasn't secured a publisher for Payday 3
- Viewers watched over 1 TRILLION minutes of Twitch streams in 2020
- Crowd erupts into chaos from PlayStation 5 lottery
- Hitman 4 possible, and IO Interactive already 'looking to the future'
- Sea of Thieves now breaks huge FPS threshold on Xbox Series X consoles
- New mystery Halo Infinite equipment can send players flying off maps
- Roblox IPO delayed for 'some time' as SEC forces accounting change
- Hitman 3's massive success will help fund IO's new 007 Bond game
- Skyrim's 4K 60FPS mod trick won't work in Fallout 4, mod creator says
- Last of Us II has now won more awards than The Witcher 3
- U.S. Senator on GameStop stock shock: Wall Street system is broken
- How Control performs with ray-tracing on/off on PS5, Xbox Series X
- Xbox is about to make more money than it ever has before
- Tesla's new Model S refresh plays The Witcher 3
- AMD, Microsoft: Next-gen SoC supply will be 'tight' until mid-2021
- Why GameStop's stock has spiked 671% in a week
- PS5 version of 2019's best game is free on PlayStation Plus
- CD Projekt RED is late to the Cyberpunk 2077 modding party
- New 007 game may be less violent and show a more suave James Bond
- New James Bond game is IO Interactive's biggest project ever
- Epic Games just radically supercharged EA's business
- Runescape now backed by $230 billion investment firm
- Oblivion remaster Skyblivion mod shines in first gameplay footage
- Dragon Age 4's mainland setting confirmed, map may rival Inquisition
- Konami won't stop developing games, consolidating biz to be profitable
- This is the reason Konami doesn't make new Metal Gear Solid games
- Report: KOTOR 3 is happening, but BioWare nor EA are involved
- Report: Tencent raising billions to buy EA, Take-Two, or others
- GTA Online Cayo Perico heist breaks bank with highest earnings EVER
- Skyrim Oblivion overhaul mod Skybllivion looks AMAZING in new video
- Xbox redeems itself after alienating the entire games industry
- Cyberpunk 2077's big 1.1 patch fixes save glitch, reduces memory usage
- Tony Hawk developer helping Diablo II remaster, now a Blizzard studio
- Cyberpunk had biggest digital launch of ALL TIME, breaks sales records
- Xbox LIVE Gold gets big price hike, 6 months now same price as 1 year
- Capcom confirms Resident Evil 8 release date and free PS5 upgrade
- Resident Evil 8 Village demo available on PS5, features ray-tracing
- Valve's entire office won't move to New Zealand, just some workers
- Capcom is about to have an amazing year of earnings
- GabeN confirms more singleplayer games coming, hints at Half-Life 3
- New PUBG games: Mobile in 2021, console/PC sequel in 2022
- The world's most popular battle royale game is getting a TV show
- Rumor: Battlefront 3 is in development, but Battlefield 6 comes first
- PUBG dev's billion-dollar IPO may be biggest in South Korean history
- EA accidentally leaks Apex Legends' Switch release date
- The Medium PC spec requirements: minimum R9 390X for 1080p 30FPS
- Half-Life 3 from Last of Us II developer? Never say never
- Sumo Digital hints Crackdown 4 is in development
- Battlefield 6 may surprisingly come to these older consoles too
- GTA 6 could push CPUs to their limits with new next-gen NPC tech
- How to move Xbox screenshots to a USB stick automatically
- Elder Scrolls 6 is Todd Howard's main focus, not Indiana Jones
- New AC Valhalla patch fixes A Rivalry for the Ages quest and many more
- Xbox planning huge first-party game blitz for 2021, dev says
- Rumor: PS5 to get this legendary RPG in 2021 alongside PC release
- Cyberpunk 2077 director has this to say about recent allegations
- CD Projekt knew Cyberpunk 2077 had issues but released it anyway
- What was CD Projekt's original vision for Cyberpunk 2077?
- This amazing new feature makes Stadia much more competitive
- Bungie says goodbye to Halo forever by closing this piece of history
- Activision likely to beat $7.6 billion outlook on Call of Duty success
- U.S. gamers spent a record $56.9 billion on gaming in 2020
- CDPR's risky gambit paid off: Cyberpunk 2077 was #2 in U.S. sales
- CD Projekt now getting sued by THIRTEEN law firms for Cyberpunk 2077
- Ubisoft's Star Wars game: New relatable characters, story and lore
- Steam MAUs hit astronomical 120 million in 2020, up 26% year-over-year
- Capcom to show off new Resident Evil VIIIage gameplay on January 21
- CDPR has 'many more future plans beyond Cyberpunk,' maybe Witcher 4?
- Massive still working on Avatar game as it develops Star Wars project
- Cyberpunk 2077's PS4, Xbox glitches took CD Projekt RED by surprise
- Nintendo sold-in 1 million Switches in China, but that's not a lot
- New next-gen Harry Potter RPG Hogwart's Legacy won't release in 2021
- Jedi: Fallen Order now runs a lot better on PS5, Xbox Series X
- Cyberpunk 2077 coming back to PlayStation Store 'as soon as possible'
- Cyberpunk 2077 PS5, Series X upgrades may release in Aug/Sept 2021
- EA has a 'number of new Star Wars games' in development
- Ubisoft Star Wars: Live game possibly set in High Republic timeline
- Ubisoft making new Star Wars game, EA no longer has exclusivity
- Mass Effect remaster trilogy should release before EA's FY2021 ends
- Wolfenstein dev making new Indiana Jones game with 'original story'
- Lucasfilm Games is back, but it's still not developing games
- Square Enix's new Project Athia RPG won't be on Xbox until 2024
- Polish consumer protection agency is now investigating CD Projekt S.A.
- CD Projekt is now being sued by five law firms over Cyberpunk 2077
- Phison's new U18 controller brings 1.9GB/sec speeds to USB-C drives
- Stadia game streaming app coming to LG's smart TVs in 2021
- Xbox is making big power plays for RPG dominance
- Beat Dark Souls, Sekiro, Bloodborne? Try this Soulsborne for just $10
- Dying Light 2 writer might've left because the game is already done
- GTA V on PS5, Series X could use upgraded Red Dead Redemption 2 engine
- Switch sold 6.2 million consoles in Japan, made up 87% of 2020 sales
- Lenovo reveals Switch-like concept mini-PC, the LaVie Mini
- Sony might've killed the Killzone franchise, new games may not happen
- Epic Games buys gaming's most-used data compression technology
- Dragon Age executive producer shares new Dragon Age 4 concept art
- Roblox's value grows 700% to staggering $29.5 billion
- Twitch removes its best-known emote over political controversy
- Cyberpunk 2077 developer leak was entirely fake, CD Projekt RED says
- Nintendo literally LMAO'd when Microsoft tried to buy them
- Here's proof that Flight Simulator looks better than real life
- Fourth law firm suing CD Projekt S.A. for securities fraud
- Nintendo buys a new game studio for the first time in 13 years
- PS4 Pro no longer being manufactured in Japan, retired after 4 years
- Final Fantasy publisher's new dark sci-fi shooter Outriders delayed
- PS1 ninja classic Tenchu could rise from the shadows on PlayStation 5
- Prey 2 reboot sequel might be in dev, and Human Head might be involved
- What's coming to and leaving Game Pass in January 2021
- Mobile gaming made $79.5 billion in 2020, 71% of total app revenues
- Here's how to romance Judy Alvarez as male V. in Cyberpunk 2077
- Save your PS5 DualSense controller's battery life with this easy trick
- CD Projekt RED is getting sued by another law firm over Cyberpunk 2077
- Elder Scrolls 6 may be set in this region, Bethesda strongly hints
- Epic Games buys a MASSIVE 980,000 square feet shopping mall for new HQ
- PlayStation 5 launch sales disappoint in Japan, fall below PS3 numbers
- Xbox set to push new frontiers in 1-2 years, Phil Spencer teases
- Sony discontinuing multiple PlayStation 4 console SKUs in Japan
- This retailer is making custom PS5 consoles that look like PS2s
- Ubisoft Connect brings one of the best new features of console gaming
- Fallout 5 possibly in development alongside Starfield, Elder Scrolls 6
- Steam smashes 2021 with an insane 25 million PC gamers playing at once
- PUBG Mobile made $2.6 billion in 2020, smashes competition
- First 5 minutes of Hitman 3 showcases upgraded visuals and effects
- Waiting for Diablo 4? Try this epic Diablo-like action RPG for just $5
- Is your PS5 making strange noises like ticking or whining? This is why
