Gaming

By Nick Pino Turtle Beach HyperSound Clear When the gaming audio gurus at Turtle Beach set out to design the HyperSound Clear Stereo System, they had to acknowledge some hard truths. The first? As much as we hate to admit it, we’re all getting older. We’re not the same kids we were 20, 30 or…

By Farrha Khan With people pondering whether E3 has lost its relevance following major game studios like EA, Disney and Activision dropping out of this year’s show, organizer Entertainment Software Association (ESA) may be looking to add public attendance to revitalize it. One of the key questions surrounding the debate is whether game studios are…

By Farrha Khan With people pondering whether E3 has lost its relevance following major game studios like EA, Disney and Activision dropping out of this year’s show, organizer Entertainment Software Association (ESA) may be looking to add public attendance to revitalize it. One of the key questions surrounding the debate is whether game studios are…

By Hugh Langley There’s something deeply unsettling about hearing the Chuckle Brothers order an assassin to mercilessly gun down a room of people, but here we are. In celebration for the launch of Hitman, Square Enix got the British comedy duo to play ‘Real Life Hitman’, guiding Agent 47 through a mansion in Devon and…

By Hugh Langley I’m not what you’d call “the greatest Rocket League player that ever lived”. Most of my goals come down to being in the right place at the right time, violently hurling myself at the ball and praying to the Gods of Physics and Geometry that it finds its way in. That occasionally…

By Cameron Faulkner YouTube Gaming, Google’s Twitch-like take on live game streaming, is coming to new countries. Gamers in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland now have access to the iOS and Android app, with more regions on the way soon. Since it launched in 2015, YouTube Gaming has introduced some unique and noteworthy features…

By Hugh Langley Sony’s PlayStation VR won’t be able to match the quality of Oculus Rift’s virtual reality tech, PlayStation executive Vice President Masayasu Ito has said. Speaking in an interview with Polygon, Ito said that PS VR won’t have the “high-end quality” of the Rift, but pointed out that Sony’s device is a different…

By Marc Chacksfield That clanging sound you heard today was embargoes lifting the world over on the latest Hitman game. You can read techradar’s review here, but if you aren’t happy that Hitman is coming out episodically, then you’ve got a long wait ahead: Hitman isn’t coming out in full-fat disc version until January 2017.…

By Dan Griliopoulos Hitman I’ve killed these men, many many times. With the decision to move Hitman to an episodic model and a huge array of mission types in each setting, players get to know each level intimately. Every character in this French palace is known to me, from the bickering chefs in the basement…

By Kane Fulton Zotac has proved that you don’t have to buy a hulking tower PC just to get into VR. The Macau-based computer maker has squeezed a desktop-class Nvidia GTX 980 graphics card into a small form factor PC that exceeds Nvidia’s minimum requirements for virtual reality gaming. Called the Magnus EN980, the muscular…

By Patrick Goss The BAFTA Games awards shortlists have been announced, with ‘Everybody’s gone to the Rapture’ picking up a huge 10 nominations from the British Academy. EGTTR’s narrative-driven gameplay was always likely to garner recognition following critical acclaim, and its nominations put it out in front ahead of the likes of Her Story and…

By Nick Pino E3 2016 Look, I’m not worried that EA, Activision, Disney and Wargaming aren’t attending E3 2016 – and I don’t think you should be either. Here’s what the fuss is about: four companies, the ones you see listed above, have decided against attending this year’s Electronics Entertainment Expo. Instead of everyone acknowledging…

By Nick Pino Remember the ColecoVision sequel that promised to bring cartridge-based gaming back into the living room? I’ve got some bad news: it’s dead. In a strange series of events today, the manufacturer of the Coleco Chameleon, Retro VGS, lost support from Coleco Holdings, a.k.a. the company that actually holds the rights to the…

By Hugh Langley Later today, Google’s DeepMind AI will take on Lee Se-dol, one of the world’s best players of the board game Go, in a showdown that’s set to last several days. The match will take place at the Four Seasons hotel in Seoul, South Korea, but will be live streamed over YouTube to…

By Nick Pino After a leak almost ruined the surprise earlier this morning, we now know that Overwatch will launch on Xbox One, PS4 and PC on May 24. A press release sent by Blizzard-Activision confirmed the release date and added information about the game’s beta, which it says will run from May 3rd through…