If you were lucky enough to bag a PlayStation 5 for Christmas but have been running into an issue then you’re not alone.

You’ve sat down after a long day in the office, you’ve made snacks, grabbed a drink and picked up your PS5‘s DualSense controller to get stuck into the latest stint of Hogwarts Legacy alas, you’ve barely made it close to the third round of Crossed Wands Dueling Club when an issue arises.

Your controller dies – and it’s always just as you get to that pivotal moment in the game.

It’s an all too familiar tale for a lot of PS5 players, and an experience that can make gaming feel far less seamless.

I mean, you can always plug in the PS5 controller and game away, but the majority of gamers would argue it’s a more enjoyable experience playing wireless.

Thankfully, there are two simple setting changes you can make to help provide a more enjoyable gaming experience.

The US Sun reveals there are some simple ways of boosting your DualSense battery life, and they couldn’t be easier to implement.

PS5 controllers sometimes run out of battery at the worst moment (Anusak Laowilas/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

First, set the controller to automatically switch off when it’s not being used. This can be done by heading into Settings, selecting ‘System’ and then ‘Power Saving’.

You can also ensure your mic is muted to stop it from constantly being on in the background and draining your battery.

While these two changes should make a significant difference to your controller’s battery life, you can boost it even further with one extra change.

Reducing the intensity of the haptic feedback will also help.

You can do this by heading to the Control Center, selecting ‘Accessories’ followed by ‘DualSense Wireless Controller’.

Then, select ‘Controller Settings’, followed by ‘Vibration Intensity’ and finally, ‘Trigger Effect Intensity’.

Two tweaks can help optimize your gaming experience (Emanuele Cremaschi/Getty Images)

While the PS5 console offers a brilliant experience regardless, altering your settings ever so slightly can make a big difference.

To have your games looking their absolute best, you can also change some settings on your console.

You’ll first need to understand whether your TV supports HGiG or not.

Tom’s Guide explains that if your TV does support it, it’s better to enable HGiG – which stands for HDR Gaming Interest Group – in order to ‘get the most accurate tone mapping in games that support the feature’.

According to Tom’s Guide, you can leave the setting on and it shouldn’t affect other games – i.e. ones that don’t support HGiG.

Once HGiG is enabled, you can then go to ‘Adjust HDR’. You’ll then need to follow the on-screen instructions to calibrate the HDR.

Sony has given gamers a glimpse of what the upcoming Playstation controller will look like.

Things have come a long way since the first iconic design for the original Playstation.

The controllers started with that signature battleship grey, before switching up to black for the sleeker new PS2 when the follow-up console was released.

For the PS3, things were still broadly the same – after all, why fix what’s not broken, right?

The third console was the first to make the controller wireless, rendering accidentally pulling the plug out in a moment of jubilation or frustration a thing of the past.

But it was at the PS4 that the design saw its first major overhaul.

Now, the older controller was given a sleeker new body designed to have a more ergonomic grip.

A touch pad was also added in the centre of the controller, which while sleeker, was still strongly reflective of the classic 90s look.

The PS5 controller consolidated on this, making an even elegant design for Sony’s latest iteration of the console.

The OG controller. (Robert Lachman/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Now, the corporation has offered a teaser for what the next console might look like.

Needless to say, it’s left gamers rather divided. Though, in fairness, you could say that about more or less anything in the world of gaming.

So what does this idea for a new controller look like?

Well, it seemingly takes inspiration from minimalism, to the point where it barely looks like there’s a controller at all.

Those classic buttons are still there, along with the joysticks.

But it seems that the new controller is missing a middle, with a large ring connecting the two sets of buttons to each other and leaving a hole in the middle.

But that’s not it, as the buttons themselves also seem to have gone, replaced instead with trackpads on either side of the controller.

The concept for the future controller. (Sony)

Needless to say, people had a lot of opinions and took to social media to share them.

One wrote: “This next gen rush is really bothering me, I’m getting old and needing the newest and best thing on the market is draining. Fomo Capitalism is draining. I just want a good system that plays amazing triple A’s for a decade, that doesn’t have overheating problems or cheap HDMI’s and disk drives.”

A second posted: “Bro we are taking about PlayStation which has had the exact same controller for nearly 30 years. They’re not going to replace the dpad lol.”

Someone else highlighted a different problem, writing: “Most are playing PS4 games on the PS5. There’s not many proper PS5 games and yet they want to start talking about a new console?”

PlayStation 5 owners are being urged to make a tiny change to their settings in order to optimize their gaming experience.

While the console offers a brilliant experience regardless, altering your settings ever so slightly can make a big difference, and have your games looking their best.

And it’s really easy to do.

To make the change, you’ll first need to understand whether your telly supports HGiG or not.

Tom’s Guide explains that if your TV does support it, it’s better to enable HGiG – which stands for HDR Gaming Interest Group – in order to ‘get the most accurate tone mapping in games that support the feature’.

One game that supports this is Spider-Man: Miles Morales – and what a game it is. Not that the game needed any improvement, but if you can swing from building to building with the best quality possible, why wouldn’t you?

Tom’s Guide explains that you can leave the setting on and it shouldn’t affect other games – ie ones that don’t support HGiG.

Once HGiG is enabled, you can then go to ‘Adjust HDR’. You’ll then need to follow the on-screen instructions to calibrate the HDR.

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Another setting to change is VRR – aka Variable Refresh Rate – which is a new feature that lets the TV adjust its refresh rate in relation to the PlayStation’s frame rate output.

There are two options to toggle from – off and automatic. If your telly supports it, you can leave it on automatic, but if not, it’s best to turn it off.

VRR ultimately allows smoother playback, which will result in fewer lags.

According to Tom’s Guide, simply making these two adjustments should have your games looking their absolute best.

Just imagine playing Hogwarts Legacy with even better graphics?

Speaking of the popular game – which sold a whopping 22 million copies by the end of last year – gamers have started hearing whispers of a sequel.

Warner Bros. had hinted at more Harry Potter games, but had yet to officially commit to it.

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The next Harry Potter game is set to be Quidditch Champions – a title that has been in beta, but still has no official release date.

But in a new interview, Warner Bros. gaming boss, David Haddad, has shared some news.

“We don’t have any particular announcements on exactly how and when [the Quidditch game] is going to come to the market, but we are working to get it designed in a way just to delight fans,” Haddad told Variety.

He continued: “A very consistent message coming from the executive layer of Warner Bros. Discovery is the importance of franchise.

“There’s a unique and important role games have in keeping our franchises relevant, resonant and exciting because there’s plenty of fans and plenty of people consuming content where games are their starting point, it’s their preferred form of content.”

This sounds promising!

Users of Twitter have been urged to make a change to their account settings after the platform introduced a new feature.

In the past Twitter, which is also known as X, was mainly used for microblogging, tweeting small posts out as well as having direct message features, videos and suchlike.

But now the platform has introduced a new feature which allows users to actually call each other, like you might in WhatsApp.

However, this feature has already met with a pretty glaring problem which has concerned people, with many urging Twitter users to make a crucial change in their settings.

It’s actually rather important, as it’s a matter of staying safe while online.

The change that users have been urged to make is to go into their settings, then into ‘privacy and safety’, and finally into ‘direct messages’.

If you scroll down there, you will see a switch that says ‘enhanced call privacy’, that’s the one to check.

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The risk of the feature becomes very apparent from the description underneath the toggle.

This reads: “Enable this setting to avoid revealing your IP address to your contact during your call.”

For those who don’t know, your IP address stands for ‘Internet Protocol’, and is used for a number things online.

But a big thing that your IP address reveals about you is your physical location, and this is likely to be something that you don’t want to reveal to people online.

In fact, ‘doxxing’, or posting someone’s personal information publicly, often includes revealing a physical location.

Revealing an IP address via a call could pose a safeguarding risk, as well as risking users who are unaware of the feature unwittingly revealing their location.

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Many users piled into the comments to share their views on the feature.

One wrote: “Any of ya’ll call me from twitter, I’m blocking you LMAO. Who the hell gonna use twitter for phone/video calls, that’s akin to ordering Italian food at a Mexican restaurant.”

A second tweeted: “‘Enhanced call privacy’ more like ‘the literal bare minimum privacy’.”

A third wrote: “Amazing add a new feature. Immediately make it be able to dox you by default.”

Information on Twitter’s help centre described the feature, saying: “Enhanced call privacy is a new setting on X that helps protect your privacy. With this setting enabled, your IP address will be hidden from people you call and receive calls from.”

UNILAD has reached out to Twitter for comment.