Gaming

By Stephen Lambrechts Though it had tremendous production values and a solid foundation at launch, many couldn’t shake the emptiness of Star Wars Battlefront – its paltry number of locations and gameplay options left many feeling short-changed with the end product. While the core game didn’t initially inspire much enthusiasm for its pricey season pass,…

By Stephen Lambrechts Though it had tremendous production values and a solid foundation at launch, many couldn’t shake the emptiness of Star Wars Battlefront – its paltry number of locations and gameplay options left many feeling short-changed with the end product. While the core game didn’t initially inspire much enthusiasm for its pricey season pass,…

By Dan Griliopoulos I’m creeping through the undergrowth in my deer-hide pants, my tamed wolf at my side, my owl flying somewhere overhead, congratulating myself on my unparalleled lethality in this Stone Age landscape. I have killed many cannibals, a few dogs, and even a wolf or two. I am a predator. I growl to…

By Dom Reseigh-Lincoln State of the Gaming Union Address – Xbox Our gaming experts all agree on one thing – 2016 is going to be one hell of a year to be a gamer. But which platform is going to have the best year? We’ve given our PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo and PC gaming experts a…

By Hugh Langley Nintendo has revealed a new Pokémon game for 3DS in which a Sherlock hat-wearing Pikachu solves crimes. We’re not winding you up. The game, titled Great Detective Pikachu: The Birth of a New Duo, will be released in Japan on February 2, and there’s a trailer showing footage of Pikachu in full…

By Dave James The Game Developers Conference is the biggest professional game dev event in the world and this year the main annual conference is devoting a huge amount of time to the growing gaming world of virtual reality. So much so in fact that it is running a Virtual Reality Developers Conference devoted to…

By Hugh Langley Sony has announced it is to spin off its PlayStation business into a newly-branded company. The new company brings Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. and Sony Network Entertainment LLC (responsible for running the PlayStation Network services) together to form Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC. That sounds like a lot of jargon, but Sony says…

By Louise Blain State of the Gaming Union Address – PlayStation Our gaming experts all agree on one thing – 2016 is going to be one hell of a year to be a gamer. But which platform is going to have the best year? We’ve given our PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo and PC gaming experts a…

By Joe Osborne The Witness Preview Since famed game designer Jonathan Blow released Braid – the platform-jumping puzzle game that helped put independently developed (or “indie”) games on the map – for the Xbox 360 in 2008, a lot has changed in the gaming world. A new generation of consoles has landed, all well-connected to…

By Kate Gray Sometimes I’d like to send people on the internet back to school. It’s usually when they’ve fundamentally misunderstood the meaning of a word: irony, feminism, censorship, funny. A lot of people seem to learn the alphabet, figure out how to put it together and then consider themselves sorted, because censorship is not,…

By Shashank Sharma & Nick Peers Introduction Note: Our most popular Linux gaming distros round-up has been fully updated. This feature was first published in May 2015. A gaming distro, by definition, is host not only to a large variety of games, or software that allows one to play games, but it also has drivers…

By Shashank Sharma & Nick Peers Introduction Note: Our most popular Linux gaming distros round-up has been fully updated. This feature was first published in May 2015. A gaming distro, by definition, is host not only to a large variety of games, or software that allows one to play games, but it also has drivers…

By Kane Fulton Introduction Sven Co-op: not a game featuring Swedish football manager Sven-Göran Eriksson, but a fast and furious multiplayer shooter based on Half-Life. The 17-year-old mod recently turned into a free standalone game on Steam, so you really have no excuse not to give it a go. Featuring levels packed with hivehand-armed alien…

By Kane Fulton Introduction Sven Co-op: not a game featuring Swedish football manager Sven-Göran Eriksson, but a fast and furious multiplayer shooter based on Half-Life. The 17-year-old mod recently turned into a free standalone game on Steam, so you really have no excuse not to give it a go. Featuring levels packed with hivehand-armed alien…

By Kane Fulton Introduction It’s much easier to identify a gaming laptop that matches your requirements these days. Nvidia’s GeForce 900 series of mobile GPUs now includes the GTX 950M at the lower end, followed by the GTX960M, GTX 965M, GTX 970M and GTX 980M. Which one you’ll need depends on your budget, how modern…