Gaming

By Kate Gray Old man 2015 is stumbling to a close, and you can almost taste the broken New Year’s Resolutions already. But the end of a year doesn’t just mean Christmas, frantic shopping and miserable weather – it’s also Game Of The Year time, the most magical time of all, when everyone gathers around…

By Kate Gray Old man 2015 is stumbling to a close, and you can almost taste the broken New Year’s Resolutions already. But the end of a year doesn’t just mean Christmas, frantic shopping and miserable weather – it’s also Game Of The Year time, the most magical time of all, when everyone gathers around…

By Mr Biffo Introduction What you are about to read has been written by Mr Biffo, the creative force behind the 90s Teletext videogames magazine Digitiser. He now runs the show at digitiser2000.com. Imagine a playground. In that playground is a see-saw. On one side sits Lara Croft. At the opposite end is Rico Rodriguez,…

By Mr Biffo Introduction Imagine a playground. In that playground is a see-saw. On one side sits Lara Croft. At the opposite end is Rico Rodriguez, the protagonist from Just Cause 3. As usual, Rico is drunk, and letting off fireworks. Balancing the two at the pivot point is no less a figure than Nathan…

By Nick Pino When Final Fantasy VII made its re-debut at E3 2015, people in the audience cried. Today Sony and Square Enix revealed a new trailer for the game, and while it wasn’t met with the same catharsis, the audience at PlayStation Experience clearly liked what they saw. As did we. Yes, it all…

By James Peckham and Hugh Langley The Telltale Games we’d like to see Telltale has getting yet another big franchise under its belt, with the storytelling game creator announcing its very own take on Batman. The developer has made a name for itself with episodic, interactive story games that focus on character development and narrative.…

By Parker Wilhelm This year’s Game Awards may have been about all about the trophies, but all the little reveals and surprises were what really stood out. We’ve already rounded up a collection of the trailers hyping us for 2016, but there were so many other good tidbits of info that we thought were too…

By David Nield Telltale Games has become an expert at publishing games as a running series of storybook-style chapters, and the company has previously created titles from such heavyweight franchises as Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead. Now the US software studio is turning its attention to the caped crusader: next year we’ll see…

By Hugh Langley Show me one person who doesn’t love Rocket League and I’ll show you a liar. Even I, having not the faintest interest in footy sport – aside from knowing that three goals equals a try, and three tries equals a jenga (that much is obvious) – have sunk hours and hours on…

By Joe Osborne The Game Awards are all about the trailers Hey, when the host feels the need to blatantly remind everyone that the awards are a key part of the show, chances are whether they are a key part of the show is in question. But hey, don’t let that stop the hype train…

By Nick Broughall and Stephen Lambrechts Is Uncharted 4’s multiplayer beta fun? My digital avatar’s body is riddled with bullets, but I’m not dead; at least not yet, anyway. I’m crawling around like an energetic infant, desperately searching for a teammate to bring me back to life. I press X on the PS4 controller to…

By Parker Wilhelm Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey announced Rock Band VR while on stage at this year’s The Game Awards. The project is a collaboration between Oculus VR and Harmonix Music Systems, set to release alongside the Oculus Rift in the beginning of 2016. The announcement was pre-empted with a rockstar training montage featuring Luckey…

By Nick Pino The Nintendo NX won’t be like any console the company has on the market, according to new Nintendo President Tatsumi Kmishima. In one of his first major public interviews since transitioning to President of Nintendo, Kimishima opened up about the Nintendo NX to Time’s Matt Peckham. “As far as NX goes, I’ve…

By Darren Allan BlueStacks has announced the launch of the second version of its platform, and also the fact that it has surpassed the 100 million download mark. In fact, it has now tallied 109 million downloads, with 220,000 new users joining daily on average, which is double the rate of growth seen at the…

By SJ Azar European Nathan Drake fans rejoice! You get an early preview as the Uncharted 4 beta launches early. The server doors will swing open from 5 PM GMT (12 PM Eastern) today, although the USA have to wait until Friday to get involved in the action. There’s one catch, you have to have…