Gaming

By Cat Ellis It might be Amazon Prime Day, but there’s no need to wait until 12pm for a great deal – other retailers are putting out their own offers to tempt you away If you’ve had your eye on an Xbox One X, AO has a special deal in its ebay store offering the…

By Andrew Williams HTC has demonstrated a feature expected in SteamVR 2.0: tracking of a virtual reality space across rooms. Current room-scale VR with an HTC Vive is designed for a simple area with a diagonal of up to 5m. HTC Vive President Alvin Wang Graylin posted a video on Twitter showing what we can…

By Gerald Lynch Football may not be coming home for English fans this year, but with a few more days left to fill that gaping football hole in our lives before the dramatic final between France and Croatia, football can still come home in a way, through the power of videogames. Whether you call Pong…

By Marc Chacksfield As World Cup fever can attest, football is in its prime at the moment. The matches have never been better (arguably), the players more famous or indeed expensive. But the beautiful game is facing an ugly problem: younger fans are being swayed elsewhere because of rising ticket prices and the changing face…

By Jon Porter,Michelle Fitzsimmons The best VR headset is not an easy thing to pin down in 2018, especially with so many new VR headsets coming to the market – and great deals on high-end headsets appearing all the time. Premium VR headsets for PC gaming are now much more affordable thanks to permanent price…

By Cat Ellis Finnish game developer Next Games and AMC have released a gruesome new mobile game that uses augmented reality (AR) to spread zombie hordes through the real world. The Walking Dead: Our World, first announced in August 2017, is available to download free for iOS and Android, and invites you to fend off…

By Marc Chacksfield Epic Games, the makers of Fortnite – the little known indie game that absolutely no one is playing – has revealed that its first proper esports tournament comes complete with a grand prize of $8 million. Now, $8 million is a lot of money. But it’s a mere dint in the $100…

By Stephen Lambrechts Though the Xbox One S and Xbox One X have supported the HDR10 format since their respective launches, the slightly more advanced Dolby Vision format has remained unsupported on all games consoles to date. However, that’s about to change, with an announcement on Xbox Wire revealing that Microsoft’s 4K-capable consoles are set…

By Nick Pino Nintendo Switch has been having a great few months – especially for its free-to-play players. Nintendo announced during E3 2018 that Epic Games would be bringing Fortnite to the console and Digital Extremes announced recently that it would do the same for its hit third-person shooter, Warframe. The difference between the games…

By Joe Osborne Nintendo has reportedly issued the first of its Nintendo Switch console units with at least one of the infamous Nvidia Tegra chip security flaws patched out. Noted game console hacker SciresM let loose the news via Twitter (seen below) and Discord, as spotted by a ResetEra forums user. Patching these hardware security…

By Joe Osborne In a major play to bring more popular contemporary multiplayer games to its service, Microsoft has added Rocket League to the Xbox Game Pass subscription. Microsoft teased the addition via Twitter overnight, with the switch made official on the Microsoft Store short after. Now, players who pay the $9.99 (£7.99, AU$10.95) monthly…

By Darren Allan Monster Hunter: World, the hit game which has sold amazingly well on consoles, has now popped up on Steam, with the PC version having a release date of August 9. In other words, you’ll be able to buy the game four weeks from this Thursday (July 12), so there’s not long to…

By Nick Pino If God of War’s transition to slower, methodical combat has you missing the glory days of the hack-and-slash genre, you’ll be pleased to know that the Darksiders series will be returning to consoles and PC later this year: Not only was a release date was announced for the game today, but THQ…

By Kevin Lee Nintendo has been raking it in with its ever-popular retro console revivals and it seems the company has plans for a GameCube Classic Mini as well. Nintendo has applied for three new GameCube trademarks in Japan related to video game programs and video game machines according to a Japanese Nintendo report. Supposedly…

By Brendan Griffiths With just one week to go before the Amazon Prime Day deals really come rolling in, Amazon just can’t help but release a few tempting offers early on. Today’s deals, like Prime Day itself, require you to be a member of Amazon Prime to enjoy these exclusive discounts. Already a member? Then…