Gaming

By James O’Malley Intro We’re only two years into the current console generation, and while the war is far from over the first battle clearly has its victor: Sony. Right now it’s estimated that the PS4 is outselling the Xbox One by about a 2:1 margin. That’s a significant difference. Microsoft knows it’s dragging behind…

By Nick Pino Minecraft in VR Full disclosure: I’m probably the absolute worst person you could pick to be one of the first people in the world to try Minecraft in virtual reality. For one, I’ve played a grand total of two hours of Minecraft in my entire life. Second, virtual reality – despite covering…

By Nick Pino Minecraft in VR Full disclosure: I’m probably the absolute worst person you could pick to be one of the first people in the world to try Minecraft in virtual reality. For one, I’ve played a grand total of two hours of Minecraft in my entire life. Second, virtual reality – despite covering…

By Stephen Lambrechts If you were expecting Mass Effect Andromeda to land in 2016, you may have to add another year to your cryo-sleep chamber, because EA’s chief financial officer Blake Jorgensen has revealed that the game will now be released next year. Speaking at Morgan Stanley’s Technology, Media & Telecom Conference, and picked up…

By Joe Osborne You shouldn’t care about Liam Burke. For all you know, he’s a lowly henchman in a video game, the muscle for a shadowy organization that’s front and center in Quantum Break, set to launch on Xbox One and Windows 10 on April 5. In any other video game, maybe Liam (seen above)…

By Parker Wilhelm The launch trailer for the upcoming Hitman is upon us, but don’t get too excited: just a portion of what you see will be playable when it releases on March 11. While the trailer features massive sandbox renditions of Paris, Sapienza and Marrakesh for Agent 47 to pursue his contracts in, only…

By Hugh Langley I’ll tell you what’s not “uncharted” – writing stories about Uncharted 4 getting delayed. Am I right? Sony has announced that the fourth major instalment in the Nathan Drake franchise has been pushed back once again, but only by two weeks this time. That gives Naughty Dog’s Uncharted 4 a new release…

By Nick Pino Palmer Luckey Interview Palmer Luckey is going to have a big year. The Oculus Rift is about to launch its first consumer version in a few weeks and today, he and Xbox Chief Phil Spencer announced that one of the biggest games on the planet, Minecraft, will be available on the Rift…

By Nick Pino The Xbox One update for March has arrived on time today, and that’s good news for gamers because it includes new backward compatible games and pushes the limits of party chat. This next iteration of Microsoft’s monthly software updates is rolling out right now, but only to members of the company’s Preview…

By Kevin Lee Consoles have classically set a static point in the gaming world with non-upgradable hardware, but that might all change with the Xbox One. Microsoft’s Xbox chief Phil Spencer hinted at possible “hardware innovations” for its home gaming console. While on stage, Spencer envisioned a future where the Xbox One could see numerous…

By Kane Fulton The PS4 is one step away from being able to stream games to Windows PCs or Macs remotely, a move set to bring Sony’s popular console into line with the Xbox One. Announcing the update on the PlayStation Blog, Sony held back from providing further information – only that you can “look…

By Richard Cobbett Introduction There’s more to games than eSports, you know. I don’t mean to disparage them, though I admit to having little interest in them myself. Even so, I do find it an odd and slightly depressing trend for every new multiplayer game to be almost knee-jerk rated based on the chances of…

By Stephen Lambrechts Though the announcement of its high pricing and shipping costs had thrown many for a loop over the last few days, it appears that HTC and Valve’s virtual reality headset, the HTC Vive, has proven too irresistible for VR enthusiasts to pass up. HTC’s Shen Ye has announced via Twitter that the…

By Hugh Langley Naughty Dog and Sony are planning to hold an open beta for Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End on PS4, a listing on the European PlayStation Store has revealed. The open beta will run this weekend, starting March 4 at 5PM GMT and running until March 6 (end time yet to be specified),…

By Hugh Langley Introduction It was in a time when you’d sooner ask your friend than Ask Jeeves. A time when Google was a meaningless word, unless you were talking about an actual ‘googol’, and unchecked rumours spread through the schoolyard like wildfire One interesting point about the first Pokemon games, Red, Blue and Green,…